This is http://www.essayz.com/b0704071.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.} ========================================================== %GROUP COMMUNAL INTIMACY RISKS DEMONSTRATE SHALOM 070407 %WAYS PATHS INTEGRATION INTEGRITIES ONLY EXTENT IT 070407 %ALL PARTICIPANTS TRULY FREE WITHDRAW NOT SAFE LOVE 070407 %MOST VULNERABLE FRIEND SEXUAL BUSINESS POLITICAL 070407 %CLASS SCHOOL GREED COLLUSIVE GAMES SELF DECEPTION 070407 Group/Communal activities which entail Intimacy/Risks demonstrate Shalom's-Ways, Integrations and Integrities -- Only-to-the-Extent that All-Participants are Moment-by- Moment Truly-Free-to-Withdraw --- if they feel that their level of Intimacy/Risk is not safe for them --- or for another person who is Excessively-Vulnerable and Likely- to-be-Dominated. The above is true for most kinds of Group/Communal activities. It is dangerous to thoughtlessly take it for granted that it is not true in any particular kind of activity; e.g., without consulting some of the most vulnerable people who are involved in that kind of activity; e.g., friendships and personal intimacies, sexual activities, business activities, political activities, classroom activities, vacation activities, etc. The presence within a Group/Community of Domineering- People, Greed, Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception, Concentrations of Wealth/Power, Mental-Illness, Medical- Illnesses, Provincialism, Isolationism, Ignorance, Confusion, Terror, Terrorism, Violence, Controllers --- all heighten the importance of understanding the above with empathetic and sympathetic hearts and concerns. 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) ==========================================================