This is http://www.essayz.com/b0708080.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.} ========================================================== %RECOGNIZING ACKNOWLEDGING IDENTITIES VIRTUES VICES 070808 %SORTING DESCRIBING ALIENATIVE CONSEQUENCES ALIENS 070808 %EVIL RELATIONSHIPS DYSFUNCTIONAL INTERACTIONS SINS 070808 %EXCLUSIVE ARROGANCE SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS SUPERIORITY 070808 %SURVIVING SUCCESSFUL WINNERS DESTROYED LOSERS GODS 070808 %EXCLUDED EXCOMMUNICATED POOR HUNGRY SICK HOMELESS 070808 It is often healthy-and-helpful to perceive the words and phrases shown below as suggestive of Virtues and Vices --- which are Helpfully-Integrative and/or un-Helpfully-Disintegrative depending upon IF they are Graciously-Demonstrated-by-True-Lovers --- or, in contrast, IF they are Meanly-Demonstrated by False-Domineering-People leading to Alienation-Estrangement-and-Ignorance. ---------------------------------------------------------- The Words-and-Phrases and The Virtues-and-Vices toward-which-they-point and/or which-they-suggest --- are most helpfully perceived in GRACIOUS-COMBINATIONS --- rather than in CONTENTIOUS-ISOLATIONS-OR-COMBINATIONS. ---------------------------------------------------------- The-Bottom-Line in considering the Words and Phrases Virtues and Vices Clearly-Implicit-Within-Them --- are most Helpfully-Perceived in terms of their following: Reconciliations and Alienations Integrations and Disintegrations Creations and Destructions Communications and Ex-Communications Dialogues and Monologues Colaborations and Unilateral-Behaviors most-frequently-associated-with-them. ---------------------------------------------------------- Alternate lines below focus on related virtues-and-vices. ---------------------------------------------------------- HONEST-AUTHENTICITY COHERENT-OPENNESS TRUE-DIALOGUE PRETENTIOUS-DUPLICITY CONTENTIOUSNESS FALSE-PREACHING SYMPATHETIC-EMPATHY TRUE-COOPERATION TRUE-COLABORATION MEAN-INDIFFERENCE MEAN-COALITIONS MEAN-TECHNOLOGIC LOVING-NEIGHBORS TRUE-HOSPITALITY GRACIOUS-SHARING SUSPICIOUS-ALIENS FALSE-APPROACHES GREEDY-HOARDING TRUE-SANCTUARIES NEIGHBORLY-SERVICE MUTUAL-ACCEPTED SECURE-FORTRESSES OPPRESSIVE-DEMANDS EXCOMMUNICATIONS INCLUSIVE-VISIONS COMMON-WELFARE COMMUNAL-HEALTH EXCLUSIVE-PLANS SPECIAL-LUXURIES ENDURING-WARS PEACEMAKING-LOVERS CONFLICT-RESOLUTION TRUE-INTEGRITY WAR-PLANNING CONTENTIOUS-ACTIONS POLARIZATIONS TRUE-AFFIRMATIONS POSITIVE-INITIATIVES GRACIOUS-ACTS FALSE-NEGATIONS NEGATIVE-INITIATIVES GREEDY-ACTS TRUE-PARADOXES COMPLEMENTARY-IDEALS INCLUSIVITY FALSE-IDOLATRY EXCLUSIVE-IDEALS EXCLUSIVITY ---------------------------------------------------------- When we Respond-Affirmatively to the calls of True-Virtues that lead US all into Personal-and-Communal Integrations- and-Integrities --- we choose LOVE-and-LIFE for US all. When we Respond-Negatively-in-Alienative-Ways to the calls of False-Vices that lead US all into Personal-and-Communal Dominations-and-Disintegrations --- we choose Decay-and- Death for US all. Conformity to Habits-and-Traditions may not be our best. True-Virtues and True-Lovers often call us to do better. Be-Together in the Many-Gracious ways of Shalom. (c) 2007 by Paul A. Smith in "Search for Honesty and Integrity" (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================