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We cannot with integrity - - - learn how to Mitigate-Our-Own-Alieantive-Conflicts - - - so long as we are trapped in preoccupations with the following questions: 1. Who will be the winners? 2. Who will be the losers? 3. Who will be defeated? 4. Who will gain the most powers? 5. Who will gain the most wealth? 6. Who will gain the most honor? 7. Who will lose the most honor? 8. Who will lose all honor? 9. wHO will be most privilaged? 10. Who will be most secure? 11. Who will be invulnerable? 12. Who will be dominant? 13. Who will most submissive? We cannot learn how to Mitigate-Our-Own-Alieantive-Conflicts - - - so long as we fail to acknowledge and make clear to each other; that the above Questions are all Traps-Which-Imprison US. We cannot learn how to Mitigate Our-Own-Alieantive-Conflicts - - - so long as we Cling-Onto-Our-Favorite-Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception; with Grim- Determination to WIN Every-One-Of-Them! In similar perverse ways; it is {Under the-above-conditions) Impossible for US to: GET-to-YES Get-Past-NO Get-Together Be-Together in Shalom's-Sanctuaries Love-OUR-Neighbors Love-OUR-Strangers Love-OUR-Chosen-Enemies Love-OUR-Identfied-Enemies Transcend-OUR-Doubts Love-OUR-Identified-Evil-People Trancend-OUR-Arrogance Trancend-OUR-Violence Transcend-OUR-Evil-Relationships TRANSCEND-OUR-PREOCCUPATIONS-WITH: Dominance Violence Killing Eternal-Life Certainty Fears-of-Intimacy Fears-of-Love Fears-of-God Fears-of-Vulnerability Avoiding-Listening Avoiding-Dialogue Avoiding-Intimacy Wanting-More-of-What-we-Have Fearing-Less-Tomorrow Being-Sure-We-ARE-RIGHT! Being-Sure that we KNOW-ALL! Not-Making-any-Mistakes!