This is http://www.essayz.com/b0712100.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.} ========================================================== Click on WELCOME for a quick tour of essayz.com ========================================================== %LAYING DOWN ESSENTIAL FOUNDATIONS FOR PERSONAL AND 071210 %COMMUNAL MANY MUTUALLY COMPLEMENTARY WAYS SHALOM 071210 %BEING TOGETHER PILGRIMS COOPERATIVE COLLABORATIVE 071210 %PEACEMAKERS RECONCILING CONTENTIOUS TERRORISTS GOD 071210 %PREPARING WEAPONS NUCLEAR BOMBS MUTUALLY ASSURED 071210 %GLOBAL DESTRUCTION ESSENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL LIFE IS 071210 WE GET INTO DEEP-TROUBLES WHENEVER we have NOT been, are not regularly IN, and/or do not plan to be regularly IN: Meditation, Systems-Analysis-Procedures, Prayer, Dialogue and other like/related activities WHICH-FOCUS-UPON: 1. Budgeting-and-Committing reasonable portions of our wealth, powers, attentions, influence, etc. --- to Integrative-and-Reconciling-Activities. 2. Acknowledging, Clarifying, Affirming, and Publicly- Committing ourselves to Demonstrations of Coherent- Clusters-of-True-Virtues. 3. Acknowledging, Clarifying, Unmasking, Exposing, and Revealing the Communal-Costs of Vices-which-Engender- Alienative-Behaviors. 4. Setting-Aside-Regular-Time-Intervals to review and complete particular regular-duties --- and to regularly carrying through on them. WE GET INTO DEEP-TROUBLES WHENEVER we have NOT been, are not regularly in, and do not plan to be regularly in laying of the above kinds of foundations for being ready to respond to DOMINEERING-PEOPLE'S alienative behaviors wherein they affirm and demonstrate Vices-as-Virtues in order to Concentrate-into-their-Hands additional: Wealth, Luxuries, Powers and Influences which create Systemic- Patterns-of-Distributive-Injustices. When we have not intentionally make adequate preparations to RESIST VIOLENT-ALIENATIVE-BEHAVIORS in Non-violent-Reconciling- Ways-of-Shalom --- we fail to Mitigate: Domination, Violence, Alienation, Arrogance, Pretense, Self- Righteousness, Controls, Prescriptions, Proscriptions, Taboos, Exclusivity, Invulnerability, Defenses, Wars, Military-Industrial-Complexes, Dominant-Corporations'- Greed; and Violations-of-our-Universal-Declarations-of- Human-Rights. In all of the above it is wise and prudent to give attention to each person's own: 1. Existing-Appropriate-Firm-Commitments/Promises. 2. Talents, Trainings, Disposition, Perspectives, etc. 3. Connections, Positions-of-Power, Ways-of-Influence. 4. Opportunities, Invitations, Foundations, etc. 5. Patterns of Insight and Understanding. 6. Patterns of past accomplishments and reputations. 7. Visions, Yearnings, Hopes, Aspirations, Desires, etc. 8. Extended Supportive Family-and-Network. In the above Be-Aware-of and Beware-of Domineering-People of the Past, Present and Future who Seek-to-be-in-Control of patterns of Concentrations of Wealth-and-Powers in Unilateral ways that engender Tragic-Patterns-of- Alienation and Disintegrations. 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) ========================================================== Click on WELCOME for a quick tour of essayz.com ==========================================================