This is http://www.essayz.com/b0702181.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %BEING AUTHENTIC OPEN HONEST INTIMATE VULNERABLE 070218 %GODS RISKS CROSS DOMINEERING PEOPLES CONCENTRATION 070218 %POWERS WEALTH KNOWLEDGE WHO GOOD EVIL ENEMY WRONGS 070218 %SUPREME ULTIMATE KNOWLEDGE BEING TOGETHER SHALOM 070218 %RIGHT ATTITUDES ASSUMPTIONS MOTIVATIONS LIFE STYLE 070218 %ORTHODOX PROPER CONFORMITY BELIEFS DOCTRINES RITES 070218 Being Authentic, Open-and-Honest and Intimate in any way --- entail taking risks by being vulnerable. Being Dominant, In-Control and Alienated in any way entails taking risks of sacrificing Personal-and-Communal Integrations-and-Integrities. The above are two contrasting ways; of Shalom & War. The attitudes, assumptions, motivations & life-styles of the above two ways are generally mutually exclusive. We cannot be coherent, united, or demonstrate Personal-and-Communal integrities while trying to take Both-of-the-Above-Ways in Carefully-Calculated ways. ================================================= Trying to mix the above two ways --- leads to incoherent destructive patterns of behaviors and into Tragic-Evil-Relationships. Tragic-Evil-Relationships are the breeding grounds of all that we are tempted to recognize, name and label as "EVIL" and so are to be: avoided, rejected, banished, destroyed; thereby creating more Evil-Relationships. ================================================= Trying to mix the above two ways --- leads to sacrifices of: Healthy-Relationships and sacrifices of the Integrities of: Persons, Families, Homes, Tribes, Neighbors, Neighborhoods, Cities, Nations, and Space-Ship- Earth. Such systematic sacrifices entail the elimination of all we have that is worthy of honor, respect and reverence. ================================================= Trying to mix the above two ways --- leads to sacrifices of the ESSENTIAL-FOUNDATIONS of Personal-and- Communal Integrations-and-Integrities such as: Honesty, Humility, Hope, Hospitality, Hospitals; Cooperation, Collaboration, Communication, Community; Mercy, Mutuality, Mobility; Reconciliation, Healing, and Conflict-Resolutions; Generosity, Grace, Giving, Receiving, Appreciation ================================================== No ISOLATED-INDIVIDUAL-OR-GROUP can In-Isolation resolve the tension/conflict between the above two ways. Only as Small-Groups and then Larger-Groups RESOLVE- in-COVENANTS to RESOLVE the tension/conflict between the above two ways --- will we discover the Gracious-Ways-of- Shalom within which to resolve the tension/conflicts between the above two way. Only as Small-Groups and then Larger-Groups RESOLVE- in-COVENANTS to resolve the tension/conflict between the above two ways --- will we discover the Gracious-Ways to build Truly-Liberating-Sanctuaries through Communal- Integrations --- within which it will become possible to grant to the Most-Vulnerable-Persons-Therein --- the Freedom-to-be-Safely-Vulnerable within Truly-Intimate Healthy-Relationships within which to Regularly- Demonstrate TRUE: Honesty, Humility, Hope, Hospitality, Hospitals. Cooperation, Collaboration, Communication, Community. Mercy, Mutuality, Mobility. Generosity, Grace, Giving. ================================================= So-Long as individuals and groups of all sizes are trying In-Isolation-From-Each-Other To-Achieve Security- Through-Invulnerability-Technologies --- So-Long will individuals and groups of all sizes ALIENATE-THEMSELVES In-Isolation-From-Each-Other creating EVIL-RELATIONSHIPS between/among All-of-Them --- without: Honesty, Humility, Hope, Hospitality, Hospitals. Cooperation, Collaboration, Communication, Community. Mercy, Mutuality, Mobility. Generosity, Grace, Giving. ================================================= What each of the above two ways requires --- entails the mitigation of what the other requires. ================================================= Successful-Domination cannot Tolerate-Intimacies. True-Intimacies cannot Thrive-Within-domination. ================================================= True-Intimacies undermine Successful-Domination. Successful-Domination undermine True-Intimacies. ================================================= True-Intimacies invite Successful-Domination. Successful-Domination inhibit True-Intimacies. ================================================= True-Intimacies create Risky-Vulnerabilities. Avoiding Risky-Vulnerabilities Kills-Intimacies. ================================================= Seeking Sure-Invulnerability Augments-Violence. Augmenting-Violence Kills-True-Intimacies. ================================================= Killing-True-Intimacies Augment-Violence. Augmenting-Violence Augments-Vulnerabilities. ================================================= Augmenting-Unwanted-Vulnerabilities Destroys-Hope. Destroying-Hope Augments-Violence-and-Dishonesty. ================================================= We need Hope to Mitigate Our-Cycles-of-Violence. ================================================= Most of the above realities depend more critically upon the natures of our inter-personal-relationships --- than upon the natures of individual-persons-in-isolation. Knowing about individual-persons-in-isolation --- offers very little grounds for knowing how individual- persons are likely to interact within inter-personal- relationships. ================================================= Knowing about individual-persons-within-communities and within-inter-personal-relationships -- offers reliable grounds for knowing how those persons will be likely to interact within other communities and within other inter- personal-relationships. ================================================= The more we know about what virtues-and-vices individual persons honor through coherent-articulations and coherent-demonstrations --- the more likely it is that we will have grounds for reliably anticipating how those individual persons will be likely to participate in and demonstrate integrations- and-integrities of people-and-their-communities; Rather than in: Domination-Systems, Un-repentant-Fallen-Powers-that-Be, Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception, Addictive-Codependent-Networks-of-Dependency, Military-Industrial-Complexes, Destructive-Insensitive-Corporations, Alienative-Technocracies with Leading-Technocrats, Concentrations-of-Wealth, Concentrations-of-Powers, Alienative: Religions, Corporations, Politics, etc. ================================================= 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) ==========================================================