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%NATURE NURTURE ESSENTIAL EVIL RELATIONSHIP GOD SIN 070115
%INTERACTIONS RELATIONS DESCRIPTIONS PATTERNS AGAPE 070115
%LOVE SEXUALITY FAMILY RELATIVES RELATIONSHIPS GOOD 070115
 %GOODS DEVILS SPIRITS PRINCIPALITIES FALLEN POWERS 070115
%CONCENTRATE WEALTH LUXURIES ENERGY ENTROPY CORRUPT 070115
%CORPORATIONS CAPITALISM PERSONAL RIGHTS CONSTITUTE 070115

     1.  Evil-Resides in Relationships-of-Alienation,  and
in Alienation-which-Minimizes Relationships-of-Intimacy in
Agape-Love.

     2.  Relationships   of   Estrangement,    Separation,
Rejection,  Excommunication, Banishment, and Isolation ---
Are-Evil-Relationships  to  the  extent that they are  NOT
Truly-and-Freely  Affirmed-Chosen  by  the   Participants-
Therein.

     3.  Evil-CAN-be-Mitigated Only-Through such processes
as: Reconciliations, Healings,  Integrations, Hospitality,
Civility,  Honest-Dialogue,   Safe-Intimacies,    and  the
Building-and-Maintainance of  True-Sanctuaries wherein the
Mitigation-of-Evil-Relationships is Normal-in-the-Ways-of-
Shalom.

     4.  Evil-CANNOT-be-Mitigated   through:   Alienation,
Injury,  Rejections,  Threats,  Attacks,  Contentiousness,
Pretentiousness,  Terror,  Arrogance,  Self-Righteousness,
Invulnerability, Attacks,  Threatening,  Terrorism,  Wars,
Unilateral-Actions,    Domination,   Controls,   Coercion,
Superiority,  Power-Concentrations, Wealth-Concentrations,
etc.

     5.  Evil-CANNOT-be-Mitigated   while  believing  that
Evil-Can-be-Mitigated  through  the  processes  pointed-to
just-above  and/or  while  trying to avoid  the  processes
Within-Which Evil-Can-be-Mitigated  --- in  the  Gracious-
Ways-of-Shalom.

     6.  We CANNOT  Mitigate-Evil  while  trying to Avoid-
Addressing-Our-Complicity-In-Our-Own-Evil-Relationships.

     7.  We CANNOT  Mitigate-Evil  while pretending  to be
Free-of-Evil-Relationships  within  our   Real-Communities
which   are  Always-Imperfect-Communities;   e.g.,   while
pretending to be Superior-to-Evil-People Who-are-Inferior-
to-US.

     8.  We    cannot   helpfully   Mitigate-Evil    while
conceiving     Evil-to-be-an-Essentially-Objective-Reality
Apart-from-Our-Own-Evil-Relationships.

     9.  Evil-as-we-experience-Evil is not Essentially-an-
Objective-Reality Apart-from-Our-Own-Evil-Relationships.

     10.  If we Conceive-Make-Real-Evil as an Essentially-
Objective-Reality Apart-from-Our-Own-Evil-Relationships; we
are complicit therein by Participating-in-Collusive-Games-
of-Mutual-Self-Deception within Our-Own-Evil-Relationships
---   as  we are Dishonest-with-Ourselves  and  With-Each-
Other.

     11.  If  we   perceive   Evil  Primarily-in-Isolated-
Individuals  as  Isolated-from-Us and so  as  Residing-in-
Isolated-Others --- we are trapped in Our-Collusive-Games-
of-Mutual-Self-Deception; we are trapped in  our Own-Evil-
Relationships which blind us in our complicity within such
Alienative-Games.

     Beware of Any-Way of regarding "Evil" which:

     1.  Fails  to  help us understand how we can  be  and
often  are  ---   unknowingly-complicit in generating  and
maintaining  Evil-Relationships which entail:  alienation,
estrangement, violence, coercion, enforced-separation-and-
isolations,  disintegrations, confusion, incoherence, dis-
honesty,  pretense, arrogance, self-righteousness,  greed,
hoarding,   wealth-concentrations,   power-concentrations,
etc.

     2.  Fails  to helps us understand what we can  do  to
Mitigate-Evil ---  in Gracious-Ways which have-been,   and
can-be,  Demonstrated-to-be-Effective.

     3.  Fails to  help us get beyond:   (a)  Blame-Games,
(b)  Guilt-Trips, and (c)  Projection-Enterprises.

     4.  Leaves "Evil"  an abstract reality about which we
can do very  little or nothing ---  and regarding which we
have no-responsibility as cynical-fatalists.

     5.  Does  NOT  address in-any-way  our-responsibility
to:
         (a)  Sympathize  and  empathize  with  victims of
              whatever "Evil" is,

         (b)  Respond to whatever "Evil"  is in ways which
              mitigate whatever "Evil" is,

         (c)  Learn from our tragic mistakes which augment
              whatever "Evil" is, and

         (d)  Grow in our understanding of What-Augments,
              and What-Mitigates whatever "Evil" is.

     6.  Leaves us free to be indifferent-about,  cynical-
about, and detached-from Our-Own Evil-Relationships.

     Be Graciously-Together in the Many-Ways-of-Shalom.

                         (c) 2006 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                   (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)

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