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We  need to be careful in HOW we use words.   HOW  we  use
words can: hurt, alienate, and destroy others and US.   It
is  not  the "words"  themselves that hurt,  alienate  and
destroy.     It  is HOW-We-Use-and-Abuse our  words  which
Hurt, alienate and Destroy others and US.

HOW  we use our words can generate:   confusion,   messes,
anxiety,  terror, evil-relationships, violence,  coercion,
resentment,   desires for revenge,  etc.    In  particular
HOW  we  use our words can lead us and others  to  believe
FALSELY THAT:

 1.  It is individual-alienated-PEOPLE who are where EVIL-
RESIDES;   RATHER-THAN-WITHIN  Dysfunctional-Relationships
among Alienated-People Wherein EVIL-RESIDES.

 2.  It  is within  individual-isolated-AUTHORITIES  where
EVIL-RESIDES;   RATHER-THAN-IN  DYFUNCTIONAL-Relationships
among Alienated-People Wherein EVIL-RESIDES --- as some of
the  Alienated-People  abuse their own  authority ---  and
abuse   other  forms  of  authority  while   engaging   in
Alienative forms of behavior.

 3.  Authority  resides  in  SUPERIOR:  scripts,    texts,
scriptures, rituals, doctrines,  laws, commands,  demands,
violence, coercion, powers, force, technologies,  beliefs,
etc. --- RATHER-THAN-IN:  Authentic-Personal-Relationships
which affirm through words,  deeds, behaviors and presence
what  Clusters-of-Virtues  demonstrated  in  the  Ways-of-
Shalom Truly-Merit: Respect, Honor, Support, and Reverence
for  the  equivalent  ways in which  they  facilitate  and
promote    ALL   Personal-and-Communal   Integrations-and-
Integrities.

In  thinking about and talking about what Words-Can-Do  in
comparison to what Sticks-And-Stones can do;  we need  to
be   careful   to  focus  upon  the  differences   between
Objective-Consequences  like  BROKEN-BONES; and REFLEXIVE-
CONSEQUENCES like  PERSONAL:  Alienations,  Estrangements,
Exclusions,  Banishments, Excommunications,   Resentments,
Revenge, and Cycles-of-Violence through Recycling-Violence
through Seven-Generations and more.  How can we respond to
the  latter  Alienative-Behaviors ---  in  ways which will
mitigate the LATER Alienative-Behaviors?

We cannot Helpfully-Respond to any Alienative-Behaviors by
using Words or any other Tools-Technologies in Alienative-
Ways  which  undermine any  form  of  Personal-or-Communal
Integrations-or-Integrities.

We need to ALWAYS be focused upon what  Forms-of-Behaviors
AUGMENT or MITIGATE ALIENATION between US-and-OTHERS.

We cannot do that if we IGNORE and-or are  IGNORANT-OF the
ways in which WE are ALIENATED from others --- or the ways
in which THEY are ALIENATED from US.

     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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