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%BEST PATH FORWARD THROUGH RECONCILIATION WITH THEM 080304
 %LABELED STRANGERS FOREIGNERS ALIENATED TERRORISTS 080304
%DILEMMAS VERSUS TECHNICAL PROBLEMS COLLUSIVE GAMES 080304
%MUTUAL SELF DECEPTION DISHONESTY PRETENTIOUS DEVIL 080304
%SELF RIGHTEOUS RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALS INSTITUTIONS 080304
%CONCENTRATING WEALTH POWERS THAT BE ALIENATIVE SIN 080304

For  our communities to survive  in Ways-which-are-Healthy
and Demonstrate both Personal-and-Communal:  (a)   Health,
(b)  Integrity, (c)  Authenticity, (d)  Sustainability and
(e)  Robustness within Changing-Environments ---

Our Communities  must  evolve  Authentic-Consensuses about
Essential-Clusters of True-Virtues and Tragic-Vices.

Such   Authentic-Consensuses   may   be   expressed    and
demonstrated  in  Diverse-Mutually-Equivalent-Ways;    but
ESSENTIALS Must- Not-Be: (a)  Ignored, (b)  Neglected, (c)
Absent,  (d) Forgotten, (e) Sacrificed, (f) Repressed, (g)
OR Repressed.

It  is  usually  more  helpful  to  Affirm-and-Demonstrate
Reconciling-Behaviors    and   True-Virtues   which    are
ESSENTIAL;    than   it  is  to  Negate-and-Denigrate  ---
Alienative-Behaviors and Tragic-Vices that are Destructive
and/or Disintegrative.

Our-Dilemma  is  to  find  Gracious-Ways  to   Affirm-and-
Demonstrate In-Adequate-Ways   -------   ALL-ESSENTIALS in
Satisfactory    Simple-Ways     -------    without   being
Theoretically-Simplistic as Simplistic-Fools  who  remain:
Ignorant, Prejudiced, Provincial, Arrogant, Self-Righteous
and Thoughtlessly-Bonded-to-Tragic-Vices.

Our-Dilemma  is that our  Dysfunctional-Relationships  are
more complex than they seem to be to us ---  while we  are
Earnestly-Play  our Tragic-Collusive-Games of Mutual-Self-
Deception ---  Trying-to-Win  fools-Games-which-Cannot-be-
WON.

Our-Dilemma is to develop Liberating-Consensuses about how
Best-to-LET-GO   of  the  Tragic-Vices  to  which  we  are
Tragically-Bonded by:    Greed,  Futile-Fears,  and Myths-
about-Redemptive-Violence with their Demanding-Servants of
Alienative-Technologies-and-Technocrats.

Our-Dilemma  is  NOT  a  TECHNICAL-PROBLEM  that  can   be
"SOLVED" with MORE: Power, Determination, Tenacity,  Will,
Energy,   Controls,  Discipline,   Planning,   Coalitions,
Servants, Technocrats, Slaves, Supporters, Loyalty, etc.

Our-Dilemma is NOT a CONFLICT with an  Adversary-who-Must-
Be-Defeated.

Our-Dilemma  is  to  find the best ways  to  move  forward
through:  RECONCILIATIONS with people whom We-Have-Labeled
as: Strange, Foreign, Fools, Unreliable, Misguided, Aliens
and Essentially-Evil-and-Isolated-Terrorists ---  Whom-We-
MUST-AVOID no matter how much our     Alienation-Costs-US.

It  is Tragically-Futile to Try-To-Prove-To-Strangers that
our way  of  Presenting-Our-Consensus about What-Is-Truly-
ESSENTIAL --- Is-SUPERIOR to their way of presenting their
Equivalent-Consensus about What-Is-Truly-ESSENTIAL!

     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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