This is http://www.essayz.com/b0703241.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.} ========================================================== %SHIFTING TRANSITIONS REPENTANCE FUNDAMENTALISM NEW 070324 %FOCUS ROOT SIMPLISTIC IDEOLOGICAL PARADIGMS VICES 070324 %VIRTUES GOOD PEOPLE EVIL COALITION ENEMIES STRANGE 070324 %LOYAL ARMIES NAVIES AIR FORCES MISSILES BOMBS GOOD 070324 %MUTUALLY ASSURED NUCLEAR DESTRUCTION WINTERS WATER 070324 %RISING OCEANS STORM POLLUTION CONFUSION PREJUDICES 070324 Many of our tragedies flow from how we Misplaced-Our- FOCUS upon items on the Left-Below; rather than put our focus upon items on the Right-Below: Conflicts-among-Persons Conflicts-among-Ideals Conflicts-among-Coalitions Conflicts-among-Values Conflicts-among-States Conflicts-among-Principles Conflicts-among-Nations Conflicts-among-Goals Conflicts-among-Corporations Conflicts-among-Desires Conflicts-among-Military-Forces Conflicts-among-Views Conflicts-among-Dichotomies Complementary-Integrations Conflicts-among-Polarizations Complementary-Integrities Achieving-Unanimous-Support Being-Together-in-Shalom Eliminating-Evil-People Reconciling-with-Strangers Enforcing-Conformity Celebrating-Creativity People Negating Others People Affirming Others People in Conflicts People in Collaborations We may pretend that we are focusing on items on the right above; while our real concern is with items on the left above. We can MITIGATE tragedies, violence, alienation, etc. by focusing in Affirmative-Ways upon Ideals, Values, Principles, Goals, Desires, Views --- rather than upon any Persons-or-Coalitions-of-Persons engaged in contests over the CONCENTRATIONS of: powers, possessions, things, wealth, controls, technologies, reputations, respect, honors, idols, reverence, 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) ==========================================================