This is http://www.essayz.com/b0707073.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.} ========================================================== %HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS PEOPLE INVOLVED PARTICIPANTS 070707 %INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS COOPERATIONS PARTS ASPECTS 070707 %EVIL ISOLATED ALIENATED EXCOMMUNICATED PEOPLE LOVE 070707 %GOOD GOD SHALOM WAYS BEING TOGETHER SANCTUARY EVIL 070707 %ALIENATIVE LABELING DOMINATION CONDEMNATION REJECT 070707 %EXCLUSIVE CLUBS RELIGIONS FORTRESSES FORTS DEFENSE 070707 Healthy-Relationships usually involve Relationships-Among- Healthy-People and vice versa; i.e., Healthy-People are usually involved in Health-Relationships. This is true because the usually understanding is that Health-in-People has to do with the kinds of internal: communications and cooperations among the internal parts/aspects of people's bodies --- likewise for Health-in-Relationships. Can we safely say the same things about EVIL-Relationships involving Relationships-Among-EVIL-People and vice-versa. NO! This is because the usual understanding is that EVIL- People are EVIL because of some inherent aspect of them being who they are; they are regarded as Essentially-EVIL and there is no way for them to stop being EVIL-People. It is best to destroy EVIL by destroying EVIL-People. The above lack of symmetry flows from Domineering-People manipulating the Concept-of-EVIL so that it helps them to be Successful-at-Domination --- by labeling some people as EVIL-People without any clarity about the aspects of their EVIL-Relationships and just why their Relationships are EVIL-Relationships. Domineering-People try to divert attention away from Their-Own-EVIL-Relationships-of-Alienation; by focusing attention upon people whom they have in Alienative-Ways Labeled as being Essentially-EVIL --- at the core of their Being-Whom-they-Are as Isolated-Individuals. Some EVIL-Relationships are generated by Labeling-People As-Essentially-EVIL-People. EVIL is an aspect of Relationships among People; not an aspect of any isolated persons. It is misleading to attribute "EVIL" to any isolated person; because no person in-isolation can be "EVIL"; as no person in-isolation can be "heavy" far away from any other large mass. "Weight" is the force of gravitational attraction between two objects. Weight is an aspect of a relationship between two objects. No object by itself can have any "Weight" or be "Heavy"; no matter how great its mass is. Likewise no person by herself-or-himself can be an "EVIL" person; without being in some kind of relationship with another person. "EVIL" is an aspect of personal- relations; rather than an aspect of an isolated person. "EVIL" is the responsibility of the people who are together in an EVIL-Relationship; not the responsibility of any Isolated-Person who has been labeled as Being-an- Essentially-EVIL Isolated-Person. EVIL-RELATIONSHIPS entail Absences-and-Presences as follows: Absences-of: Presences-of: Honest Dialogue & Intimacy Alienation & Estrangement Cooperation & Mutuality Animosity & Resentment Mutual Respect & Honor Polarizations & Conflicts Generosity & Hospitality Attacks and Retaliations Sympathy & Empathy Insensitivity & Meanness Mutual-Understanding & Care Mutual-Mis-Understandings Mutual-Sharing & Support Mutual-Denigrations Mutual-Affirmations Mutual-Negations Transparency & Clarity Masks and Confusion Integrations & Integrities Dis-Integrations & Chaos Coherence and Colaboration Incoherence & Conflict The Presence of above: The Absence of above: The Foot-Notes at the bottoms each column above are suggestive of what is Present-In and Absent-From HEALTHY- Relationships as noted above each Foot-Note. To the extent that in some personal relationship --- there are Presences-Of and Absences-Of those realities noted above each Foot-Note; to such an extent the personal relationship is a HEALTHY-Relationship. Note that the word "Good" was not used here as an aspect of persons; just as "Evil" was not accepted as an aspect of persons. The word "HEALTHY" is the word to use; better than "GOOD", because "HEALTHY" suggests internally-coherent relationships among the parts of a HEALTHY-Person's body; just as "Healthy" suggests internally-coherent relationships among the participants in a HEALTHY- Personal-Relationship involving two or more persons. 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) ==========================================================