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We cannot Be-Together in Shalom's-Gracious-Ways ---To the extent that we are ALL-THE-TIME:

 1. On-High-Alert,
 2. On the Defensive,
 3. Hyper-Active,
 4. Suspicious
 5. Pretentious,
 6. Arrogant,
 7. Unilateralists,
 8. Domineering,
 9. Militants,
10. Colluders,
11. Secretive,
12. Distrustful.

We cannot truly-and-fully help other people to graciously Mitigate Our-Own Alienative-Conflicts;
or Mitigate the Bitter-Fruits of Our-Own Alienative-Conflicts ---

So long as we ourselves are Complicit in Doing-Harm or Profiting-From Anyone-Doing-Harm ---

By   Honoring; Tolerating and/or Reverencing:

 1. Extreme Concentrations of Wealth-and/or-Powers;
 2. The Pretentious Life-Styles of Domineering-Bullies,
 3. The Pretentious Life-Styles of Mobbing-Mobsters;
 4. Incoherent/Misleading/Alienative Ideologies, Doctrines, Rituals or Paradigms;
 5. Efforts to Win Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception;
 6. Economic-Systems that Undermine-Communal-and-Personal Integrative Processes and Integrities;
 7. Military-Industrial-Complexes,
 8. Corporations concerned Only-With-Maximizing their Investors'-Alienative-Profits.
 9. People who presume to know Who-is-Evil-and-Expendable;
10. People who presume to know Who-is-Good-and-Favored-by-God;
11. People who presume to know God's-Will and try to Help-God Fulfill-Her-Will.
12. People who presume to know God-as the Most-Powerful Domineering-Bully.


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