This is http://www.essayz.com/b0801270.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 ========================================================== %TRANSCEND DOMINEERING PEOPLE MANIPULATE CONTROL IT 080127 %I THOU ID BUBER TILLICH SHAKING FOUNDATIONS BEING 080127 %ACCEPT ACCEPTANCE BLASPHEME HOLY SPIRIT FORGIVE ME 080127 %COLLUSIVE GAMES MUTUAL SELF DECEPTION GIVE US MORE 080127 %CONCENTRATE POWERS WEALTH WITHOUT CORRUPTION GOODS 080127 %DANCE DEVIL EVIL DYSFUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS GOOD 080127 Domineering-People try to manipulate and/or control all kinds of "things": 1. People, 2. Weapons, 3. Bombs, 4. Defenses, 5. Truths, 6. Scripts, 7. Scriptures, 8. Authors, 9. Authorities, 10. Evidence, 11. Perceptions, 12. Perspectives, 13. Understandings, 14. Attitudes, 15. Desires, 16. Hopes, 16. Expectations, 17. Responses, 18. Thoughts, 19. Analyses, 20. Coalitions, 21. Objectives, 22. Subjects, 23. Victims, etc. The Manner-of-Manipulation is adjusted as Needed/Desired. We cannot RESIST such manipulation if we do not recognize and acknowledge the expansive breadth of all the kinds of realities which Domineering-People try-to-control --- and the diverse Manners-of-Manipulation. Key questions about the Manners-of-Manipulation include: 1. How do they generate alienation? 2. Are they Perversely-Sudden or Cleverly-Concealed? 3. Are they Honest-or-Pretentious? 4. How-Just-Are-They and Just-How-are-They-Conceived? 5. Do they preserve Distributive-Justice? What might be the nature of Comprehensive-Global-Idealism? Naive-Simplistic-Idealism leads to Horrible-Tragedies! In Many-Mutually-Complementary-Ways-of-Shalom Might-We? 1. Truly-Enjoy Comprehensive-Global-Idealism? 2. Envision-and-Enjoy Integrations-of-All-of-our-Ideals? 3. Transcend Conflicting-Ideals-that-Generate-Tragedies? 4. Integrate-Ideals crossing all Realms-of-Exclusivity? 5. Mutually-Understand-Together Our-Paradoxical-Truths? 6. Integrate our Diverse-Forms of Love-Integrations? 7. Transcend Dichotomies between Love-and-Rationality? 8. Integrate Sexual, Fraternal, and Agape --- LOVE? 9. Transcend Personal-Conflicts in our GOD-CHATTER/TALK? 10. Transcend Arrogant-Dominant-Theological-CHATTER? 11. Transcend Prescriptive-Proscriptive-Scripts-Ideals? 12. Be Together-in-Dialogue about Limited-Resource-USes? 13. Understand-Together the Consequences of our Greed? 14. Understand-Together the Consequences of our Hubris? 15. Understand-Together the Consequences of our Arrogance 16. Understand-Together the Consequences of our Pretenses 17. Integrate Friendships, Intimacies, Humane-Sexuality? 18. Integrate Poetry, Mathematics, Music and Dancing? 19. Integrate Complementary-Clusters-of-True-Virtues? 20. Transcend Contentious-Clusters of-Alienative-Vices? 21. Transcend Greed, Hubris, Arrogance, Pretense, Risks? 22. Transcend Unilateral Invulnerability and Security? 23. Transcend Tragic-Formulations of God-Talk-Theology? 24. Transcend Particular Alienative-Descriptions of God? 25. Transcend Our Favorite-Technologies of Domination? 26. Let Go of Our Favorite-Technologies of Domination? 27. Understand ALL-LOVE in Truly-Integrative-Ways SHALOM! 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) ==========================================================