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If we have no sense of the essential foundations of a future civilization with civility
- - - - - we have no hope of navigating any viable path from where we are now, to 
where we may reasonably hope to be in the future.

Any wise-transition from where we are now, to where we hope to be-together in the 
many-ways-of-shalom - - - becomes virtually impossible, if we become-blind and cannot-
imagine in any way - - - what it would be like to be-together in the many-ways-of-
shalom.

The-Transition is not the same thing as Being-Together-in-the-many-ways-of-shalom.
We will fail, if we assume that the two realms can be alike.  We must acknowledge
that there must be differences between the two realms.  We need to protect the 
integrity-of-the-vision of the nature-of-a-hopeful-and-gracious-process of being-
together in the Gracious-Ways-of-Shalom.

Being-Compulsively-Preoccupied with the practicality-of-the-transition-process - - -
can undermine-the-integrity-of-the-vision - - - and so blind-the-leaders-of-the-
transition - - - - - to the nature of the destination.

We need to respect visionaries who focus upon describing openly-and-honestly the 
natures of various possible visions of what it would be like to be authentically 
present-with-an-authentic-presence - - - in being-together in the Many-Gracious-Ways-
of Shalom.  We cannot help visionaries by asking them to attend to the practical
problems of the transition.  It is the visionaries-responsibility to clarify how we
can best be-together after-we-have-made-the-transition - - - so that we can navigate 
from here to there and know-when-we-have-completed-that-transition.  Otherwise, we
will be likely to keep moving - - - - - as we pass through the destination that we 
do not know how to recognize.