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%THE LIMITING VOCABULARY OF ABSOLUTE CERTAIN YES/NO 080502

Many of the most Tragic-Patterns-of-Alienation are  rooted
in   Domineering-Bullies'  Compulsive-Preoccupations  with
Reducing-All-Questions to those  which  must  be  answered
with a Simplistic-Yes/Simplistic-No in search of CERTAINTY
and ABSOLUTE-TRUTH.   The Tragic-Consequences/Bitter-Fruit
of Domineering-Bullies' Compulsive-Preoccupations include:

 1.  Not-Getting-Close  to  Strangers/Foreigners  who  are
True-Lovers;  because  YOU-CANNOT  BE-SURE  what  kinds of
people  they  are  and  how dangerous they are ---  from a
distance.   When-in-Doubt Stay-Away and do not get to know
them up close in intimate personal ways and relationships!

 2.  Not-Getting-Close  to  Different-Ways of  Looking  at
Virtues-and-Vices  that are  Clustered-in-Unfamiliar-Ways;
because  YOU-CANNOT BE-SURE what kinds of things they  are
and  how  dangerous they are from a distance.     When-in-
Doubt  Stay-Away and do not examine them up close  and  in
person.

 3.  Not-Getting-Close to  Different-People  living within
Different-Life-Styles   which   Do-Not-Draw   just   Thin-
Straight-Lines between: Right/Wrong, Good/Evil, Mine/Yours
and  Yes/No.   (Domineering-Bullies cannot deal with fuzzy
lines which are curved and/or  tangled in many imaginative
and complex ways ---  within open,   honest  and  intimate
relations.)

 4.  NOT-EXAMINING  New-and-Creative Conceptual-Frameworks
for  understanding the WHOLE-COSMOS of:  Expanding  Space-
Time,  Galactic-Clusters,  Colliding-Integrating-Galaxies,
Star-Dust-forming-New-Stars-and-Planets,   Truly-Communal-
Integrations-and-Integrities and The Transcendence-of-Bias-
and-Prejudices Stuck-in-Ignorance and Traditional-Ruts.

5.  NOT Letting-Go-of-Certainty about Who-is-Good and Who-
is-Evil APART from their Relationships-with-US; i.e.,  IN-
ISOLATION-from-US due to Original-Sin for which they  bear
no  responsibility  since  they  had no chance to PREVENT-
Original-Sin.   Domineering-Bullies'  God-Talk == Theology
is  Tragically-Misleading  in  CERTAIN-ISOLATION  from the
many    Mutually-Complementary    Ways-of-Shalom!      The
vocabulary of only YES-or-NO is a deadly vocabulary.

     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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