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Alienative-Conflicts originate-in the few INCOHERENT:
Assumptions, Attitudes and Approaches to Each-Other-Person ---
that are thoughtlessly and completely trusted by each Insecure-
Person; for example, some among the following:

 1. Life-is-Competition,
 2. Life-is-Conflict,
 3. To-Be-Secure, Get-More ---
 4. To-Be-Secure, Become-Invulnerable ---
 5. To-Be-Secure, Avoid-Risky-Intimacy --- 
 6. To-Be-Secure, Enforce-Taboos-with-Alienation --- 
 7. To-Be-Secure, Excommunicate-Each-Other --- 
 8. To-Be-Secure, Be Coercive-and-Violent ---
 9. To-Be-Secure, Be Certain and Self-Confident ---
10. To-Be-Secure, Play-to-Win Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception.

Alienative-Conflicts are Mitigated by True-Lovers who Accept-Each
Other As-There-Are and engage in Cooperative-Coalitions So-As-To 
Transcend the THEIR-OWN alienative: assumptions, attitudes and 
approaches to each other --- and to invite all others to join them
in such efforts.

What-Our-Lives-Are - - -
 
Flow from our versions of the above processes, and their fruits.

How we respond to each other's versions of the above processes.

How preoccupied we are with the two questions: "Who-is-Good?" and "Who-is-Evil?"

How faithfully we cooperate-with-each-other in Being-Together-in-Shalom's-Ways.

How well we Accept-Each-Other-into-Open-and-Honest-Dialogue.

How well we work together to mitigate our own alienative: Assumptions, Attitudes, 
Approaches, Arrogance, Self-Righteousness, Demands, Commands, Coercion, and Violence.

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