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  %ESSENTIAL NONESSENTIAL CONFORMITY HELPFUL ALIENS 070405
 %STRANGERS ENEMIES EVIL PEOPLE TRUE LOVERS HEALERS 070405
  %TRULY DIPLOMATIC CONFLICT RESOLUTION PEACEMAKERS 070405
%HOSPITALITY HOSPITALS FORGIVE RECONCILIATIONS EVIL 070405
 %RELATIONSHIPS EXCOMMUNICATIONS BANISHMENTS REJECT 070405
%CRUCIFY BANISH EXCLUDE TRASH GARBAGE ENTROPY FEARS 070405

    Conformity-Within-a-Community  regarding what Side-of-
the-Road-people-Drive ---  IS-ESSENTIAL to  the Continued-
Integrity of the Community-And-its-Members.

    Conformity-Within-a-Community regarding the Colors-of-
Clothing  worn  ---   IS-NOT-ESSENTIAL  to  the Continued-
Integrity of the Community-And-its-Members.

    The   Continued-Integrity  of  Each-Community-And-its-
Members   Depends-Day-by-Day   upon   Pervasive-Agreements
Within-the-Community-And-its-Members regarding what Kinds-
of-Conformity   ARE  and/or  ARE-NOT  ESSENTIAL   to   the
Continued-Integrity of the Community-And-its-Members.

    Consider   the   following  pointers   to    Kinds-of-
Conformity and consider whether each Kind-of-Conformity IS
or  IS-NOT SUPPORTIVE of  the Continued-Integrity of  EACH
Community-And-its-Members.  IS:  The pattern in which they
are offered a  coherent pattern? The pattern in which they
are offered an incoherent pattern??

     Is CONFORMITY-regarding EACH of the following GOOD?

     Under what circumstances?  Always?  Never?  Mixed?

     Beware of proceeding below without careful thinking!!

 1.  The colors of the clothing which people wear?
 2.  The side of the road on which people drive?

 3.  The kinds of bread which people eat?
 4.  The meanings of colors of lights in stop-lights?

 5.  The colors of hair which people wear?
 6.  The meanings of words which people speak/use?

 7.  The gender which people attribute to God?
 8.  The value which people attribute to alienation?

 9.  The literal meaning of traditional scriptural texts?
10.  The metaphorical meanings religious traditions?

11.  What Specific-Religious-Rituals are Mandatory.
12.  That Certain-Behaviors are usually Alienative.

13.  People being intolerant True-Lovers'-Intimacies.
14.  People being intolerant of Acts-of-Domination.

15.  People Affirming the Myths of Redemptive-Violence.
16.  People Affirming the Myths of a Redemptive-God.

17.  People Affirming the Myths of Redemptive-Dictators.
18.  People being intolerant of Pervasive-Exclusivity.

19.  People being intolerant of New-Forms-of-Exploration.
20.  People being Tolerant of New-Forms-of-Exploration.

21.  People being intolerant of Wealth-Concentrations.
22.  People treating Power-Concentrations as alienative.

23.  People being intolerant of people labeled as evil.
24.  People reconciling with people labeled as evil ones.

25.  People  being  intolerant of universally  cooperative
1s.
28.  People being tolerant of universally cooperative 1s.

27.  People being tolerant of universally contentions 1s.
26.  People being intolerant of universally alienative 1s.

     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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