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We have no reliable grounds for real hope that we can play a significant role in
helping people to Mitigate-their-Own-Alienative-Conflicts if we:

 A. Have any significant thoughts of resolving or Settling, Arbitrating, Resolving, 
    of Mitigating their conflicts For-Them.

 B. Have any significant thoughts  of concentrating any wealth and/or power in any
    of the above ways of being involved in their Alienative-Conflicts.

 C. Have NOT received from them appreciative confirmations that we have paraphrased
    in accurate and gracious ways - - - their perspectives of, attitudes about, 
    beliefs about, convictions about and fears related to - - - their Alienative-
    Conflicts.

 D. Focus our thoughts upon the comparative levels of: Good, Evil, Righteousness,
    Salvation, Redemption, etc. - - - of people who are participants within and/or
    victims of relevant Alienative-Conflicts.

 E. Are preoccupied with our own: perspectives, ideals, values, duties, virtues,
    fears, hopes and expectations - - - to the exclusion of focusing our attention 
    upon the like realities of the people being affected in diverse ways - - - by 
    their Alienative-Conflicts - - - which we may be complicit in perpetuating! 

 F. Have only one primary concern, not a balanced list of complementary concerns 
    that focus in gracious ways upon diverse people's basic needs - - - to Be-Together
    in Shalom's Diverse-Gracious-Ways.

We can have reliable grounds for real hope that we can play a significant role in
helping people to Mitigate-Their-Own-Alienative-Conflicts- - -  ONLY TO THE EXTENT
that we Clearly-Articulate and Have-Confirmed-For-Us by Participant/Victims; Visions-
of what We-Might-Do With-Them in Collaborative-Ways - - to Help-Them in their efforts 
to Mitigate-Their-Own-Alienative-Conflicts.    

Doing this will-of-necessity-include Collaborative-Efforts to:

 1. Clarify the diverse ways in which Shalom  Graciously-Heals-the-Damages done in 
    Alienative-Conflicts.  The Gracious-Healing takes place through the Cooperative-
    Building and Maintaining of Communal-Sanctuaries where it is safe for people to
    be engaged in Open-and-Honest-Dialogues about all people's most-basic-needs,
    and how they can all be satisfied through cooperative/collaborative efforts of 
    all the members of the Crew of God's Astronomically-Tiny-Space-Ship-Earth which
    is Essentially-Isolated from all Extra-Terrestrial-Supplies of  Pure Material-
    Resources needed to sustain our modern communities and environments for any long
    time.

 2. Let-Go of the Alienative-Live-Styles of Domineering-Bullies with their Futile-
    Attempts-to-WIN Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception - - - at each other's
    and at their own expense.

 3. Invest-Graciously-and-Helpfully in Building-New-Economies founded upon principles
    of: Distributive-Justice, Fair-Play, Hospitality, Generosity, and Honest-Health-
    Care-for-ALL - - - without any Obscene-Concentrations of Powers-and-Wealth for any
    few Greedy-People and/or Domineering-Bullies.

 4. Mitigate-Our-Own Alienative-Conflicts by Graciously-Speaking Truths-to-Our-Own-
    Concentrations of Powers-and-Wealth - - - While Being-Together in Shalom's Many-
    Gracious-and-Mutually-Complementary-Ways of LOVE.

 5. Doing Gracious-and-Disciplined Comprehensive-Reflexive Systems-Analyses of Our-
    Own-Reflexive-Relationships with-each-other-as-persons - - - and of Our Own-
    Own-Reflexive-Relationships with   Our-Own   and   Each-Other's   Systems of:

    a. Ideals, Ideas, and Ideologies.
    b. Concentrations of Powers-and-Wealth.
    c. Being Successfully-in-Control.
    d. Addicts, Addictions and Codependent Supporters of them.
    e. Hierarchies and Subservient-Servants and/or Slaves.
    f. Tragic Alienative  Techniques, Technologies and Technocrats.
    g. Technological Servants-and-Slaves.
    h. Thoughtless-and-Insensitive Decision-Making-Managers without Empathy/Sympathy.
    i. Insensitive evaluators of what it means to Be-Successful.
    j. Winning-Battles, but Not-Ever Winning Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception.
    
 6. Enjoy-Sharing-Together  Enough-RESOURCES  to meet each other's truly-essential-
    basic-needs - - in sustainable-ways - - - In-the-Absence-of ALL-OF-The-Following:

    a. Exponential-Growths in wastes, luxuries and resource-consumptions,
    b. Greed and Covetousness,
    c. Alienative-Concentrations of Wealth-and-Powers,
    d. The Pretentious-Knowledge of Who-is-Evil and Who-is-Good,
    e. The Pretentious-Knowledge of God's-Will for Isolated-Individual-Persons,
    f. Domination of Inferior-Individuals   by   Superior-Isolated-Individuals,
    g. Alienative:   Demands,  Commands,  Techniques  and  Technologies;
    h. Alienative Patterns of Imposed:  Conformity,  Rituals  and  Traditions;
    i. Alienative-Myths Affirming-Redemptive:  Violence,  Coercion  and  Domination;
    j. The Worship of any Isolated:  Priority,  Ideal,  Value,  Virtue or Principle;
    k. The Pretentious-Transcendence of  Appropriate:  Reverence  and  Awe;
    l. Clinging to any Alienative:  Desires,  Greed,  Hoarding or related Behaviors;
    m. Admiration of the Fruits of Alienative forms of "Success" and "Superiority";
    n. Complicity in  and/or  enjoying:  Concentrations  of  Wealth  and/or  Powers;
    o. The Worship of:  Purity,  Unity,  Peace,  Loyalty, Perfection  OR  any  other 
       ISOLATED:    Virtue,  Vision, Dream,   Hope,    Ideal,    Image,  Perspective, 
       Script,      Text,    Plan,   Scripture,        Structure   or    Ideology.