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 %DIVERSE COMMUNITY GENERATE BROAD CONSENSUSES SAFE 080425
%VIRTUES RISKY INTIMACIES OPEN HONEST DIALOGUE GIVE 080425
%FOUNDATIONS PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRATIONS HONESTY 080425
%BALANCE MUTUALITY TRUST HOSPITALITY GENEROSITY SIN 080425
 %ALIENATIVE DOMINEERING BULLIES BEHAVIORS FAILURES 080425
%FUTILE INVULNERABILITY SECURITY DEFENSIVE FORTRESS 080425

In   our  diverse  communities  (geographic,    religious,
professional, work, corporate, school, family, tribe, city
and state) ---

We need to work on generating broad consensuses  regarding
what  are  Safe-Virtues which serve well to  balance   our
Risky-Virtues that lead us deeper into our:

Destructive-Tragic-sins,    Compulsive-Preoccupations  and
Encouragements-of our Tendencies-Toward ALIENATIVE:

Domination, Exclusivity,  Estrangement, and Concentrations
of:  Wealth, Power and Influence.

Overall  we  need to honor and facilitate  the  Generally-
Safe-Virtues  of:  Honest-Gracious-Dialogue,   Moderation,
Balance,   Humility,  Mutuality,  Cooperation,   Civility,
Reconciliation,    Meditation,   Thinking,   Integrations,
Integrities,  and Authenticity -- in Personal and Communal
contexts and relationships.

In Overall-Contrast there are many Risky-Virtues such  as:
Loyalty,  Patriotism,  Duty,  Purity,  Tenacity,  Courage,
Conviction, Certainty, Enthusiasm, Obedience,  Efficiency,
Rank-Ordering,       Hierarchical-Thinking,       Control,
Management, Forcefulness and Assertiveness.

The above suggestions can help us move toward  cooperation
and collaborations in discerning which virtues and  people
to  trust  and  believe most safely,  and  with  the  most
integrity.

Even  what we  regard as Safe-Virtues  can  be  taken   to
Dangerous-Extremes  in  the  absence   of  moderation  and
integrations with other Complementary-Virtues-and-Persons.
It  is dangerous to totally denigrate or  eliminate  honor
for any complementary virtues or person.

We also need to develop consensus about our most dangerous
vices,  such as:  Dishonesty, Pretentiousness,  Arrogance,
Self-Righteousness,  Hubris, Domination, Violence,  Greed,
Unilateralism,  Extremism,  Exclusivity,  Excommunications
Alienative-Conformity,  and Labeling-People as Inherently-
Good and/or Evil.

Honoring or trusting such vices as means to good ends will
regularly   lead  US  into  tragic   Personal-and-Communal
disintegrations.   We can avoid Tragic-Disintegrations  by
Honoring-and-Trusting    Safe-Clusters    of     Reliable-
Combinations  of  True-Virtues in  the  Balanced  Ways-of-
Shalom.

By  being well integrated persons and participants in well
integrated  communities --- True-Lovers are best  able  to
recognize  and  deal with dysfunctional  behaviors  within
themselves and within others --- and so to endure robustly
for longer than Domineering-Bullies do.

By being mostly Disintegrative-Persons in Contentious-Ways
Domineering-Bullies  are  NOT able to recognize  and  deal
with dysfunctional behaviors within themselves and  within
others --- and so Domineering-Bullies perish prematurely.

     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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