RETURN TO recent.htm ESSAY-HYPER-LINKS COURSE KEYS ****To be truly together in Shalom's-Many-Gracious-Ways --- we need to focus often upon developing and maintaining true consensuses about RELIABLE-GUIDELINES-TO-LEAD-US TOWARD:
1. Healthy desires, behaviors, thoughts and pleasures. 2. Open-and-Honest-Dialogues about our truly essential humane needs. 3. The Mitigations of Our-Own Tragically-Alienative-Conflicts. 4. The Transcendance of our Collusive-and-Tragically-Prevalent Games-of-Mutual- Self-Deception. 5. Acknowledging and describing the Differences-Between Sustainable-and-Unsustainable Behaviors. 6. Where there is Integrity --- and AWAY-FROM where there is a lack of Honorable-Values. 7. Where there are Honorable-Values --- and AWAY-FROM where there is a lack of Honorable-Values. 8. What is worthy of True-Reverence --- and AWAY-FROM what is not worthy of True-Reverence. 9. What is Long-Term-Sustainable --- and AWAY-FROM and what is not Long-Term-Sustainable. 10. What is Holy --- and AWAY-FROM what is not Holy. 11. Where there is True-Wealth --- and AWAY-FROM where there is no True-Wealth. 12. Where there is True-Power --- and AWAY-FROM where there is no True-Power. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Where there is NO TRULY-DESCRIBED-VISION - - - there is NOTHING-OF-VALUE. To be truly together in Shalom's Many Gracious Ways - - - we need to FOCUS-OFTEN upon developing and maintaining consensuses about reliable-well-integrated-guide-lines; AND-AVOID-FOCUSING-COMPULSIVELY-UPON: 1. ALIENATIVE: Desires, Pleasures, Relationships and their foundations. 2. Unwinable Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Decpetion --- regarding our truly essential needs-and-means. 3. Our Destructive-addictions: Patterns of Domination and Concentrations of Alienative Wealth, Powers and Influence. 4. The Formation-and-Augmentations of Coalitions that can succeed only by Defeating-Each-Other in efforts to Concentrate: Wealth, Power and Influence. 5. Pretentious-Unsustainable "Virtues" and Denigrations-of-Truly-Sustainable Real-Virtues. 6. Prevailing through Domination; because there is no Pervasive-Integrity there. 7. Prevailing through Coercion; which destroys honorable: Values, Virtues, Ideals, Visions, Hope and Integrity. 8. Any isolated "ABSOLUTE-TRUTH" which destroys the Integrities of Truly-Well- Integrated Paradoxical-Partial-Truths; favoring instead ABSOLUTE-ALIENATION in pathetic-idolatry and tragic-outcomes. 9. Maintaining traditional Patterns-of-Exponential-Growth; that in the Long-Term will destroy all Integrities within God's-Astronomically-Tiny SPACE-SHIP-EARTH. 10. Maintaining traditional Patterns of: Arrogance and Self-Righteousness. 11. Maintaining traditional Patterns of: Knowing-Who-Is-Evil, Knowing-Who-is-Good, Knowing-Who-is-Superior, Knowing-Who-is-Inferior and Knowing-God's-Will. 11. Concentrating-WEALTH in Alienative-Ways that are guided by: Greed, Envy, Ignorance, Prejudices, Terrors, Arrogance, Self-Righteousness, etc. 12. Concentrating-POWERS in Alienative-Ways that are guided by Greed, Envy, Ignorance, Prejudices, Terrors, Arrogance, Self-Righteousness, etc.