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%CELEBRATIONS RITUALS COMMUNAL ACTIVITIES FOCUS GOD 080106
%GET GOT GETTING LETTING GO GOOD THINGS POSSESSIONS 080106
  %CONSUMERISM LIMITED RESOURCES EXPONENTIAL GROWTH 080106
  %PEAK OIL COAL NATURAL GAS URANIUM FISSION ATOMIC 080106
 %BOMBS TERRORS TERRORISTS TERRORISM GLOBAL WARMING 080106
 %HUMAN FINITUDE MORTALITY LIMITS LIMITATIONS GREED 080106

Celebrations  are communal activities which usually  focus
more   attention  upon  Affirmations-of-Successes   and/or
Honored-Processes --- than upon practical-considerations.

Celebrations  may  lead  to  Augmentations of  and/or  the
Diminishment of  Personal-and-Communal  Integrities and/or
Integrities.    Participants may not realize which is  the
case  in any given Celebration ---  because of  Collusive-
Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception  which  are  being   played
during the Celebrations.

     Many Celebrations have focused upon:

 1.  Defeating another tribe, village, city, state, etc.
 2.  Dominating another such group.
 3.  Being Superior to another such group.
 4.  Trumping another such group in some great success.
 5.  New levels of luxuries enjoyed locally.
 6.  Various kinds of exponential growth in an economy.
 7.  Various kinds of exponential growth in a community.
 8.  Rituals of consumption of limited resources.
 9.  Rituals of domination over natural processes.
10.  Rituals of domination and invulnerability.

     Be-Together in the Many-Gracious ways of Shalom.

                         (c) 2008 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)

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