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This is http://www.essayz.com/b0705060.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.} ========================================================== %CLEARLY SEEING SHALOM'S MANY WAYS PATHS GOD HEAVEN 070506 %PILGRIMS PROGRESS STORIES PARABLES SIMILES SCRIPT 070506 %SCRIPTURES EPIC EXPLORATORY JOURNEYS EXPERIMENTS 070506 %SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH REPORTS DESCRIPTIONS REPORTS 070506 %NEW FORMS INTIMACY SEXUALITY INTEGRATIONS PROPER 070506 %CONFORMITY IDEAL FORMS PERFECTION ACCEPTABLE GOOD 070506 Is it possible that the following questions might point to some features/aspects of how some people "think"? In what follows quotation marks are often used to suggest the presence of truly-confused-thinking --- as in collusive-games-of-mutual-self-deception. In "light" of some generally accepted myths about "redemptive": violence, coercion, controls, alienation, estrangement, excommunication --- many people believe that there are some occasions when Ritualistic-and/or-Magical: violence, coercion, controls, alienation, estrangement, excommunication --- must come before: gentleness, liberation, education and/or educement, reconciliation, liberation, and/or honest-dialogue? Must we sometimes destroy a foreign country's village to save the village --- as in Vietnam? Must we sometimes destroy our own ghetto-communities in order to magically redeem those ghetto-communities? Must we sometimes excommunicate each other to make our reconciliation possible --- as in religious communities's forms of official-ritualistic excommunications? Must we sometimes alienate ourselves from each other - -- in order to magically make it possible for us to work together to resolve our ideological-conflicts --- as in isolationists' forms of "Nationalistic-Diplomacy" where visiting and being in dialogue with "evil-enemies" is TABOO? Must we sometimes Alienate-Ourselves from professional scientists and engineers --- as fundamentalists have sometimes done --- in order to deal "realistically" with Truly-Objective-Problems wherein we cannot See-Clearly to Sort-Out-The-Differences between our Truly-Objective- Problems and our Truly-Tragic: dilemmas, predicaments, quagmires, addictions, confusions, "religious" wars, addictions, mental-illnesses and collusive-games-of- mutual-self-deception? (Tragedies are most often rooted in simplistic ideological-conflicts!) What kinds of people are best qualified to help us get-out-of and/or escape-from our Persistent-Cyclical- Patterns of: violence, coercion, controls, alienation, estrangement, excommunication, violence, coercion, controls, alienation, estrangement, excommunication --- with their Tragic-Feed-Back-Loops of Alienative- Augmentation? Might demonstrations of the following qualities and/or virtues --- point toward the kinds of people who are best qualified to help us in the above Healing-Efforts: Gentleness Liberation Mutuality Tolerance Kindness Peacemaking Diplomacy Dialogue Listening Balance Patience Flexibility Cooperation Colaboration Team-Work Honesty Authenticity Clarity Love Transparency Be Graciously-Together in the Many-Ways-of-Shalom. (c) 2007 by Paul A. Smith in "Search for Honesty and Integrity" (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================