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To maintain our bodily and economic health and well-being --- we need to do periodic checkups
about the vital-signs-of-balance as regards: diet, exercise, weight, vision, hearing, bank-balances,
investments, spending-allocations, giving, etc.

In Like-Manner, to maintain our personal-and-communal integrities-and-integration-processes; we 
need to do periodic checkups about the vital-signs-of balance as regards our personal-and-communal
affirmations in Words-and-Deeds of:

 1. Mutually-Complementary-Clusters of: Virtues, Ideals, Values, Principles, Hopes, Aspirations,
Explorations, Expectations, Goals, Plans, etc.

 2. Cautions about: Imbalance, Extremism, Arrogance, Self-Righteousness, Domination, Distributive-
Injustice and other Pervasive Vices-and-Excesses.

 3. Integrative-Ideologies and Patterns-of-Cooperation.

 4. Cautions about Disintegrative-Ideologies and Economic-Systems that guide our setting of 
priorities primarily through computations which are guided by: Greed, Arrogance, Self-
Righteousness, Pride, Domineering-Bullies, Maximizations-of-Profits, and Mimizations-of-our-
Costs/Risks.

 5. Focusing upon promoting the Common-Good in our Human-Environments within God's Astronomically-
Tiny Space-Ship-Earth --- Seen-as-a-Whole --- in the Long-Term of overall processes within our:
Solar-System, Milky-Way-Galaxy, Local-Cluster-of-Galaxies, and the Cosmos-as-a-Whole.