This is http://www.essayz.com/b0803125.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 ========================================================== %RECOGNIZE ACKNOWLEDGE DESCRIBE RESPOND GRACIOUSLY 080312 Alienative-Behaviors Augment-Alienation Between-and-Among both Healthy-and-Unhealthy-People. In-Contrast: NON-Inherently-Alienative-Behaviors may Augment-Alienation Between-and-Among Mentally-Ill-People-&-Dominant-Bullies. In-Contrast: It-is-Normal for Normal-People to become Alienated-from People who engage in Inherently-Alienative-Behaviors --- because Inherently-Alienative-Behaviors Undermine-the- Essential-Foundations for Personal-and-Communal- Integrations-and-Integrities. It-is-Normal for Normal-People to become Suspicious-of- and-Doubt-the-Integrity of People-who-Often-Engage-in- Alienative-Behaviors. Such Suspicions-and-Doubts are both Prudent-and-Proper --- for such Alienative-People do in fact LACK both Personal-and-Communal-Integrity. It is Dishonest-and-Disintegrative to pretend otherwise. Our-Dilemma is how to Respond to the Alienation which flows naturally from the Inherently-Alienative-Behaviors of Alienative-People. We are DOOMED to both Personal-and-Communal Disintegrations ----- if our responses to Alienative- Behaviors are themselves More-Alienative-Behaviors. The only way to avoid being thus DOOMED to both Personal- and-Communal Disintegrations --- is to do that which is UNUSUAL and MIRACULOUS; to WORK-THOUGH FULLY/INTENTIONALLY to MITIGATE Alienative-Behaviors by: 1. Letting-Go of Preoccupations with Alienative-Actions. 2. Focusing-Upon Affirmative-Reconciling-Actions. 3. Affirming-and-Demonstrating Reconciling-Actions. 4. Being Graciously-Intolerant of Alienative-Actions. 5. Being-Graciously-Together in Shalom's-Many-Ways. 6. Being Generous-and-Hospitable in Unpretentious-Ways. 7. Engaging in Training-to-RESIST-Non-Violently. 8. RESISTING Violence in Non-Violent-Reconciling-Ways. 9. Letting-Go of the Myths-of-Redemptive-Violence. 10. Letting-Go of the Myths-of-Redemptive-Controls. 11. Letting-Go of ALL Myths-of-Redemptive-Alienative-Acts 12. Letting-Go of ALL Myths-of-Redemptive-Invulnerability 13. Letting-Go of ALL Myths-of-Redemptive-Unilateral-Acts 13. Doing Systems-Analysis of the Roots of Alienation. 14. Analyzing of the the-Net-Costs-of-Knowing WHO is EVIL 15. Analyzing of the the-Net-Costs-of-Knowing WHO is GOOD 16. Analyzing the Net-Costs of Labeling WHOEVER is EVIL 17. Analyzing the Net-Costs of Labeling WHOEVER is GOOD Actions-which-Lack-Integrity; by People-and/or-Communities that Lack-Integrity --- Cannot-Reasonably be expected to Generate-Integrity-or-Redemption. Thus, it is reasonable to WORK-THOUGH FULLY/INTENTIONALLY to MITIGATE Alienative-Behaviors by engaging in the above seventeen kinds of Gracious-Behaviors which affirm and demonstrate both Personal-and-Communal-Integrity. See a related essay following right after this essay. 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) ==========================================================