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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!