Often we begin by falling into the traps, prisons and Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception
that flow from accepting:

Each of the following suggest where to look for evidence about the level of health/integrity of
a community and of its participants:

 1. The range of sensitive topics, conflicts and patterns of alienation which are the foci of open
and honest dialogue; and of times of sharing in vital communal sanctuaries --- open to all who 
are willing therein to be in open and honest dialogues. 

 2. The number of, frequency of, regularity of, dynamic-stability of, and the extent of Letting-Go
of --- patterns of domination and concentrations of Wealth-and-Power within the Crew of God's
Astronomically-Tiny Space-Ship-Earth.

 3. The degrees to which participants within and vi tims of Alienative-Conflicts --- intentionally
gather together in the above kinds of Open-and-Honest occasions of dialogue --- to Mitigate their 
own Alienative-Conflicts in Mutually-Agreeable-and-Enjoyed Ways-of-Shalom.

 4. The extent to which the above communal activities graciously and truly do mitigate within
Space-Ship-Earth's-Crew --- the over-all levels of:

conflicts,  coercion, contentiousness,  negativity, denigrations,  polarizations,  dichotomies,

violence, domination, distrust, suspicion, defensiveness, secrecy, repressions, supprresions,

rebellions, resentments, punishments, punishments, constraints, imprisonments, wealth-concentrations,
 
power-concentrations, environmental-degridations, destruction, terrors, fears, anxieties,

confusions, ignorance, biases, prejudices, segregations, excommunications, banishments, shunnings,

etc. --- within God's Astronomically-Tiny-Space-Ship-Earth. 

                         (c) 2009 by Paul A. Smith in      
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