RETURN TO recent.htm ESSAY-HYPER-LINKS To Be-Truly-Humane in Shalom's-Ways-of-LOVE we must learn-together how to Share-our-own "Grounds-for-Hope" Letting-Go of our Domineering-Bullies' Life-Styles with their Dishonest-and-Disintegrative "Grounds-for-Hope" CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING GROUNDS FOR HOPE: Being-Invulnerable Being-Secure Being-Safe Being-In-Charge Being-Forcefully-United Being-Charged-Up Being-Excited Being-Enthusiastic Being-Committed Being-In-Covenants Being-Sure Being-Absolute Being-Tenacious Being-Self-Confident Being-EGO-Centered Being-Domineering Being-In-Control Being-Invulnerable Being-Superior Being-Pure Being-Conformed Exponential-Growth More-Than-Enough Hoarding-More Assumptions Prejudices Biases Being-Resolute Being-Determined Building-Forts Fortresses Luxuries Excesses Thoughtlessness Greed EGOtism Self-Centeredness Violence Wars Terrorists Individualism Isolationism Alienative-Conflicts Arrogance Hubris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ As-True-Lovers-Do, SO ALSO we need to learn how to Openly-and-Honestly share our own TRUE: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Feelings Desires Needs Vulnerabilities Fears Anxieties Repressions Depressions Assumptions Approaches Expectations Anxieties Terrors Repressions Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception USED To-Conceal-our-lack-of-Love. Being-Together-In-Communal Sanctuaries for-ALL who are interested in exploring Being-There. Open-and-Honest-Dialogues WHILE Being-Together-in-All-Kind-Kinds of Intimate-Relationships. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Consider below the kinds of realities suggested on the left, and on the right. Within each different kind of community - - - and ask-yourself the following three related QUESTIONS: 1. Is it LIKELY that the realities suggested on the LEFT will occur in CLOSE-ASSOCIATION with-each-other? 2. Is it LIKELY that the realities suggested on the RIGHT will occur in CLOSE-ASSOCIATION with-each-other? 3. Is it LIKELY that the realities suggested on the LEFT will occur in CLOSE-ASSOCIATION with ones on-the-RIGHT? Kindness Domination Reconciliation Torture Integrations Destruction Intimacies Brutality Tolerance Conformity Diversity Uniformity Creativity Purity Imagination Obedience Honesty Pretense Openness Secrecy Dialogues Monologues Liberations Controls Affirmations Negativity Unifications Polarizations Integrations Dichotomizations Colaboration Contentiousness Humility Hubris Modesty Pretense Patience Impatience Tolerance Intolerance Cooperation Unilateral-Actions Hospitality Exclusivity Generosity Greedy-Hoarding Conflict-Mitigations Conflict-Augmentations Augmentation-of-Communications Augmentations-of-Contentiousness Open-and-Honest-Dialogues Playing-TO-WIN-Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception What do the LIKELY and UNLIKELY CLOSE-ASSOCIATIONS suggested above - - - say about: Us Being-Truly-Humane in Shalom's-Ways-of-LOVE?