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  %DISCERN TRUE OPEN SANCTUARIES AUTHORITIES PRAYER 070503
 %BEING INTIMATE RISKS AUTHENTIC TRULY LOVERS AGAPE 070503
%HOSPITALITY SEXUALITY CREATIVE BEINGS ALIVE GIVERS 070503
%TOLERANT DIPLOMATS PEACEMAKERS RESOLVING CONFLICTS 070503
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%COLLUSIVE GAMES MUTUAL SELF OTHER DECEPTION HONEST 070503

    True-Authority has never been an Objective-Reality, is
not now an Objective-Reality,  and cannot in the future be
an  Objective-Reality ---  because Authority  pertains  to
Reflexive-People's   Reflexive-Most-Intimate-Relationships
and to the Risks-Entailed-Therein ---  in relationships of
trust, respect and taking risks.

    True-Granted-Authority  is  the Foundation for  Truly-
Resolving   our   most   enduring   Personal-and-Communal-
Conflicts.

    Truly-Granted-Authority is Granted-Reflexively within
Intimate-Personal-Relationships.

    True-Authority  is  not created or determined  by  any
Domineering-People or Authorities-Whom-Poor-People Do-Not-
Trust.

    True-Authority does Not-Dominate people who are  Poor,
Thirsty,  Hungry,  Sick,  Homeless,  Vulnerable,  Rejected
and/or homeless.

    Beware of Pretentious "Authorities"  who pretend  that
the above statements to not point to important truths!

    We cannot be   Detached-From   Questions-About    The-
Legitimacy of Each-form-of-Authority.

    We CANNOT be "Objective" about Authorities --- through
"Objective-Detachment"  in  "Disinterested-Ways" about the
ways  in  which  "Authorities"   Effect-And-Affect  US  as
Reflexive-Humans.

    We   CAN  be  Objective  about  OBJECTS    --- through
Objective-Detachment  in   Disinterested-Ways   about  the
ways in which    Dead-Objects    Effect-And-Affect  US  as
Detached-Humans  who are  Alive  and treating OBJECTS with
indifference to those OBJECTS':  feelings, affects, wills,
desires,   hopes,  aspirations,  emotions,   expectations,
hopes, fears, anxieties, ideals, values, principles, joys,
frustrations, etc. --- for "they" do NOT EXIST.

    TRUE-AUTHORITY is  granted  to  AUTHENTIC-ALIVE-BEINGS
With-Whom We-Are-Engaged in Truly-Reflexive-Relationships.

    TRUE-AUTHORITY  is  NOT granted  to DOMINEERING-PEOPLE
acting as: isolated,   alienated,  estranged,  unilateral,
hubristic, violent and demanding: CONTROLLERS, COMMANDERS,
DICTATORS and/or EMPERORS, EMPIRES, NATIONS, INSTITUTIONS,
RELIGIONS, COALITIONS, COLLUSIONS, CONSPIRACIES, etc.

    Discern-in-Meditation what is/not True-Authority.

    Be Graciously-Together in the Many-Ways-of-Shalom.

    Be Graciously-Together in the Many-Open-Sanctuaries.

    Share with All-Others the Freedom-to-be-Vulnerable.

                         (c) 2007 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)

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