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It is difficult for people who are trapped in honoring the Life-Styles of:

   (A) Domineering-Bullies, 
   (B) Mobbing-Mobsters,
   (C) Concentrators of Wealth-and-Powers, 
   (D) Complicit-Beneficiaries of the above, and
   (E) Winners-of-Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception;

To Let-Go of what seem to them to be the Sure-Tools for Achieving:

 1. Invulnerability,
 2. Security,
 3. Safety,
 4. Comfort,
 5. Viability,
 6. Salvation,
 7. Redemption,
 8. Adequate-Defenses,
 9. Success,
10. Heaven.

The Sure-and-Essential-Tools for the above  - - Include  ALIENATIVE:

Pretensions	Dishonesty	Violence	Controls	Standards

Moral-Codes	Ethical-Codes	Taboos		Shunnings	Excommunications

Banishments	Being-Superior	Arrogance	Hubris		Macho-Postures

Threats		Domination	Loyalty		Purity		Purifications

Prisons		Polarizations	Dichotomies	Objectification	Quantification

Computations	Measurements	Predictions	Expectations	Demands

Commandments	Laws		Policing	Judgements	Enforcements

Rejections	Rewards		Exclusivity	Rank-Ordering	Hierarchies

Caste-Systems	Perfection	Superiority	Conflicts	Winning

Defeating	Negativity	Negations	Denigrations	Genocides

Terrorism	Wars		Terrors		Destructions	Exponential-Growth

More-of-Above	Traditions	Tenacity	Sacrifices	Endurance

Persistence	Toughness	Macho-Posturers	Collusive	Self-Deception	

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Just as ALIENATIVE-INVULNERABILITY is central to the Life-Styles of Domineering-Bullies
and Mobbing-Mobsters - - - 

So-Also the following are central to the Life-Styles of True-Lovers-in-LOVE within
the Many-Gracious-Ways-of-Shalom:

VULNERABILITY	GENEROSITY	HOSPITALITY	DIPLOMACY	HEALING

WELCOMES	ACCEPTANCE	RESPECT		TOLERANCE	INCLUSIVITY

NON-VIOLENCE	RESISTANCE	RISKS		COSTS		BENEFITS

DISTRIBUTIVE	JUSTICE		PERSISTENCE	TENACITY	OPENNESS

HONESTY		HUMILITY	MEEKNESS	AUTHENTICITY	INTEGRATIONS

INTEGRITIES	COHERENCE	INCLUSIVITY	PARADOXES	MUTUALITY

COOPERATION	COLLABORATIONS	LISTENING	CONFIRMATIONS	SENSITIVITY

EMPATHY		SYMPATHY	KINDNESS	CONSIDERATION	RECEPTIVITY

TRANSPARENCY	RESPONSIBILITY	RESPONSIVENESS	ACCOUNTABILITY	RECIPROCITY

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In tragic ways Domineering-Bullies and Mobbing-Mobsters are terrified by how the above
realities threaten the survival of the essential aspects of their Life-Styles which are
not sustainable in the Long-Term --- because those essential aspects are destructive.