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The following common inter-related false beliefs, attitudes and perspectives - - - undermine the possibilities of
our enjoying True-Shalom, security and peace:

 1. Unilateral-Invulnerability is the essential key to Security-and-Peace.

 2. Only the Strongest-People can defend the weak against attack and provide true security through unilateral-
    invulnerability behind perfect-defenses.

 3. Weakness invites attacks and defeat.

 4. Each kind of Vulnerability invites attacks and defeat.

 5. Security is best maintained by experienced Domineering-Bullies and Mobbing-Mobsters.

 6. Eternal-Vigilance is essential to Maintaining-True-Security and Peace.  Never let your guard down! Never-Relax!

 7. In case of doubt, do not trust any stranger; be always fearful, terrified and ready for action.

 8. Strive for certainty in perfection and being unilaterally invulnerable as a team!

 9. Never reveal your points of vulnerability and doubt!

10. Never trust True-Lovers to defend you.  That is Ultimately-Risky in War-Times!

The above beliefs fail to lead to toward true: Security, Shalom and Peace - - - because the beliefs lead people to
behave in ways which Augment-Alienative:

Conflicts    Pretentions     Dishonesty   Prejudices    Biases      Injustices   Violence            Coercion

Oppression   Repression      Depression   Slavery       Genocides   Isolation    Excommunications    Banishments

Exclusivity  Shunnings       Arrogance    Self-Righteousness        Military-Industrial-Congressional-Complexes

Greed and Hoarding           Always-Wanting-More        Distributive-Injustice   Worshipping-Exponential-Growth

Concentrations-of-Wealth-Powers-Luxuries  Consumption of Scarce-Resources-within-Astronomically-Tiny-Space-Ship-Earth

Acting as if Extra-Essential-Material-Resources can be  loaded  into Space-Ship-Earth from nearby-planets-and-stars.

Acting as if Exponential-Growth in Human-Activities Can-Endure-Forever within  Astronomically-Tiny-Space-Ship-Earth.

Acting as if the reliable descriptive laws of physics and be changed by Legislative-Action regarding Global-Warming.

Pretending that there is some objective economic system that makes capitalism sustain the "common-good-of-all".

Pretending that the   Market-Place   of   Individualistic-Self-Interest   will Weed-Out people Corrupted-By-Greed.

Pretending that Lobbies for Wealthy-People are More-Reliable-Guides than Scientific-Research-and-Open-Publications.

Pretending that Global: Warming, Climate-Changes, and Oceans-Rising-into-Most-Huge-Cities are not OUR-NEW-REALITIES.

Pretending that Winning-Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception will FIX the above - - - Residual-Global-Challenges.