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%CLEARLY SEEING SHALOM'S MANY WAYS PATHS GOD HEAVEN 070506
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    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)

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