This is http://www.essayz.com/b0711250.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.} ========================================================== %CONTROL FUTURE WEALTH HEALTH WELL BEING SECURITY 071125 %VULNERABILITY INVULNERABILITY LUXURIES HOUSING CAR 071125 %REPUTATION RESPECT HONORS PRESTIGE SUCCESS PRIZES 071125 %WINNING COMPETITIONS CONTESTS RANK ORDERING CASTES 071125 %RANK ORDERING ADVANCEMENT PROMOTION ADVERTISING IT 071125 %DOMINATION PREVAIL ENDURE DEFEAT ELIMINATE STRANGE 071125 Domineering-People hope to control their futures by controlling combinations of the following realities: 1. What people know about them, and what people do not know about them. 2. The impressions which people have of them, regardless of what their real character-traits are. 3. What personal attributes are honored, and what personal attributes are viewed as not worthy of honor. 4. The accepted images which people have of virtues and of vices. 5. The Tacit-Rules which govern the Faithful-Playing of Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception. 6. Concentrations of Wealth-and-Powers. 7. Contractual-Human-Relationships. 8. Conceptions of what Behaviors are: Essential, Required, Expected, Tolerable, Permissible, Unexpected, Intolerable, Illegal, Taboo, Unthinkable, etc. 9. Systemic-Patterns of Advertisement, Entertainment, News, Talk-Shows, Contests, Competitions, etc. 10. Pay-Scales for different kinds of work which have different levels of honor/prestige associated with them. 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) ==========================================================