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 %TRAGIC MISLEADING DISTRACT FALSE ISSUES QUESTIONS 071007
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There are  various forms of activities which  distract  us
from  being  engaged in the  Healthy-Activities  of Being-
Together in The-Many-Gracious-Ways-of-Shalom:

 1.  Passively watching television or  live  entertainment
which  is motivated primarily by the profit motives of the
providers;  e.g.,  through advertisement and  brainwashing
venues.

 2.  Uncritically/Thoughtlessly   watching  television  or
listening to radio "news" programs which make no effort of
truly-informing-listeners  to  stimulate helpful  critical
understanding of truly-news-worthy events and processes.

 3.  Getting emotionally  worked-up and/or  distressed  by
Attending-To more "Calls-to-Action" than we can respond to
with Personal-Integrity while Maintaining-our-Health.

 4.  Immersing ourselves  in various forms of  stimulation
(sounds,   sights,  smells,  tastes,  touching,  exercise,
sexual adventuress)  to keep  us from having to  face  the
realities which we fear --- whatever they may be for us.

 5.  Immersing    ourselves   selectively/exclusively   in
communal settings  which  affirm  our  exclusively-narrow:
perspectives, assumptions, attitudes, prejudices, beliefs,
approaches, expectations, hopes, desires, wants,  demands,
etc. --- protecting us from having to deal with how out of
touch we  are with realities which  are  truly  important,
meaningful and significant.

 6.  Busying  ourselves  to make sure that we do  not have
time to think,  meditate,  pray, relax,  reconcile,  heal,
etc.

 7.  Compulsively focusing on a tragically framed question
or  issue  ---   as if we can thereby resolve  that  which
cannot  be  resolved  with  either  personal  or  communal
integrity; because there are  tragically misleading and/or
false:     assumption,     attitudes,     presuppositions,
convictions,  etc. built into how the questions/issues has
been framed.   We busy ourselves to avoid dealing with the
dishonest   which  is  built  into  the  framing  of   the
questions/issues.

      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)

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