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 %WISE PRUDENT GRACIOUS FEAR RECOGNITION ASSESSMENT 070323
%DESCRIPTIONS MUTUAL MANAGEMENT GUIDANCE BYWAYS GOD 070323
%PILGRIM PROGRESS SHALOM'S WAYS POSSIBLE IMPOSSIBLE 070323
%PROBABLE DICHOTOMIES POLARIZATIONS EVIL ALIENATION 070323
%RELATIONSHIP EXCOMMUNICATION ESTRANGEMENT STRANGER 070323
%DOMINATION TRAGIC MISLEAD POWER WEALTH CONCENTRATE 070323

    There  is  a spectrum of consequences which  can  flow
from  fear;   from tragic ones to beneficial  ones.    Our
challenge is to manage what we fear and how we respond  to
occasions  of prudent fear,  occasions of imprudent  fear,
and knowing how to distinguish between them.

    Domineering   people   may  encourage   us   to   fear
imprudently  in ways which will  generate  profits  to the
manipulative domineering people;  e.g.,  leading us to buy
forms  of insurance that we do not really need --- such as
expensive  flood insurance when  the probability of floods
is exceedingly low in our situation.

    More generally, domineering people may cause us to  be
fearful  and  anxious ---  so that they  can  more  easily
manipulate  us by leading us to be constantly motivated by
fear --- more than by love.

    Domineering people may lead us to Fail-to-Fear what is
most  likely  to  compromise  our  personal  and  communal
integrities.

    We  NEED-TO-FEAR each of the following;   but  may  be
encouraged to FAIL-TO-FEAR each of the  following; because
our FAILING-TO-FEAR them --- may engender profitable gains
in Wealth-And-Power for those who so encourage to FAIL-TO-
FEAR some of the following:

 1.  Collusive games of mutual self deception.
 2.  Divers forms of addiction and codependency.
 3.  Extreme forms of independence & self-sufficiency.
 4.  Arrogance, Self-Righteousness, Hubris.
 5.  Insensitive Unilateral-Actions.
 6.  Concentrations of Wealth and/or Powers & Corruption.
 7.  Ignorance of Warning-Signs-of-Disintegrations.
 8.  Ignorance of Warning-Signs-of-Alienation-to-Come.
 9.  Confusion about other items in this list.
10.  Reality-Denial about other items in this list.
11.  Placing False-Hopes in Magical-Solutions That-Fail.
12.  Pretending that we are Invulnerable, when we are not.

    We  need  to gain wisdom and prudence in how to manage
our fears to promote ALL of  our own and of our neighbors'
Personal-and-Communal      Integrations-and-Integrities in
Robust-Ways ---  long into the future.  This requires that
we be:  open,  honest,  engaged-in-dialogues,  hospitable,
generous,  gracious, patient, tolerant,  etc.   Only fools
who  are  simplistic contend otherwise ---  as  they  seek
success  through  domineering  efforts   to  Get-Ahead-of-
Others.

    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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