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The  Spring 2008  issue of UUWORLD,  The Magazine  of  the
"Unitarian   Universalist  Association  of  Congregations"
included  an  article  on pages 26   through  33  entitled
"Prophetic  Nonviolence"   with  the  subtitle  "Toward  a
Unitarian Universalist theology of war and peace".

Readers  of  many  of  the essays here  in  this  web site
http://www.essayz.com  are   encourage  to   consider  the
following  observations about the essays offered here  ---
as  compared  to the approach of Paul Rasor in  the  above
noted article.

                   The essays offered here:

 1.  Do not start with,   nor do they focus much upon, the
Traditional-Questions  which are the focus  of  the  above
noted article.

 2.  Focus instead  upon  efforts  to DESCRIBE-ACCURATELY,
REFLEXIVELY-UNDERSTAND,   and  involve people in Open-and-
Honest-Dialogue about  ---  the roots of human generations
and  experiences  of  the  following  REALITIES  which  we
MITIGATE-or-AUGMENT   BY-HOW-WE-BEHAVE:

alienation, estrangement, fear, anxieties, defenses;

greed, domination, controls, arrogance, polarizations,

conflicts, coercion, violence, ideologies, ideals, plans;

virtues, vices, dichotomies, doctrines, rituals, hubris;

sympathy, empathy, sensitivity, generosity, hospitality;

demands, commands, prescriptions, proscriptions, taboos;

rewards, punishments, bribes, enslavements, collusions;

dishonest-collusive-games-of-mutual-self-deception;

authenticity, integration, integrities, coherence, health;

institutions, organizations, formalities, systems, laws;

successful-computations of superiority vs weak-fools;

rules, regulations, procedures, governance, rulers;

successful-centralized-governments vs failed-informality;

agreements, disagreements, contracts, penalties, profits;

successful-distributive-injustice vs failed-hospitality;

shalom, friendship, intimacy, cooperation, collaboration;

successful-domination-systems vs weak-true-lovers in LOVE;

rights, wrongs, violations, morals, ethics, judgments;

successful-profitable-corporations vs poor-true-lovers;

economies, concentrations-of-wealth-powers-and-rights ---

3.  Do  not flow naturally from focusing upon the  central
concerns of the above referenced article.

4.  Do  not  respond  in  any clear  way  to  the  central
concerns of the above referenced article.

5.  Are  unlikely to please either Domineering-Bullies nor
those who seek to Defeat-Domineering-Bullies.

6.  Are unlikely to help settle any competitions over  who
should win,  lose,  or otherwise be ranked in any spectrum
of honors and/or degradations.

7.  Do  not  conform  to the  standards  of  traditionally
honored leaders in:  religion, theology, philosophy,  law,
ethics,   science,   engineering,   mathematics,    logic,
morality, politics, or any other recognized profession.

     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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