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**** Course Keys If we aspire to be True-Lovers --- helping others to mitigate-their-own- Alienative-Conflicts; then we need to Be-Aware-Of and Beware-Of the ways in which People-Who-Honor-Domineering-Bullies --- Become-Victims-in-Confusion regarding the inter-relationships among the following Realms-of-Reality; wherein Domineering-Bullies generate confusion to Advance-their-Own-Advantages --- by making other people more vulnerable: 1. Mysticism-and-Magic combined with Mystery-and-Ignorance; 2. Spirituality and Religiosity-within-Formal-Institutions; 3. Control-of-Cooperation among vulnerable people; 4. Addictive-Codependent-Supporters denigrating True-Lovers; 5. Irresponsible-Submission versus Speaking-Truth-to-Concentrated Wealth-and-Powers; 6. Destructive-Rebellions versus Creative-Integrations; 7. Essential-Mysteries versus the Realities-of-Domination; 8. True-Intimacies versus Sexual-Abuse and other Enforced-"Intimacies"; 9. Integrative-Simplicity versus Simplistic-Fools Being-Vulnerable in Tragic-Ways; 10. True-Complexity versus confronting Tragically-Willful-Over-Simplification. To Helpfully-Encourage-Others in their efforts to Mitigate-their-own-Alienative-Conflicts; we-will-do-well to point-out-to-them which of the following-kinds-of-realities have been most-helpful-to-us in our-own-efforts to mitigate-our-own-alienative-conflicts: 1. Essays such as these - - - and other like these, that have helped us to clarify the costs and benefits of our own responses to persons, conflicts, issues, etc. 2. Admirable-People and their Most-Admirable-Clusters of: ideals, values, hopes, principles, attitudes and approaches to challenging conflicts-and-dilemmas. 3. Admirable-People's Most-Helpful-Perspectives and Reflexive-Systems-Analyses --- as they are revealed; by how they work to help other people to Mitigate-their Own-Enduring- Alienative-Conflicts. 4. Ways of transcending Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception --- which None-of-Us can Win; because the games are-in-essence not-winnable. 5. Ways of helping people to assess and deal with the costs to them, and to other people whom they most care about --- of-continuing-to: admire, respect, support and tolerate the Life-Styles-of-Domineering-Bullies. 6. Open-and-Honest-Dialogue with Different-Other-People --- about which of the many kinds of alternatives that are open to us --- will most likely help us to Mitigate-the- Alienative-Conflicts which generate the most damaging alienation among the whole crew of our Astronomically-Tiny Space-Ship-Earth. 7. Open-and-Honest-Dialogue about the particular ways in which Ego-Centric: Values, Ideals, Concerns, Priorities, Perspectives, Ideologies, Doctrines, Attitudes, Virtues, Fears and Anxieties --- are central in the Alienative-Conflicts which we most need to Mitigate-as-True-Lovers.