--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.carpenoctem.tv/cons/haarp.html A discussion with a technically competent frind about the "substance" of the focus of the above-web-page - - - led through subconscious processes to the following evolution from the already written next paragraph. THEN, in the course the day during which this essay was being prepared for upload to www.essayz.com - - - - the writer happened to come across and watch, a wonderful TV presentation of the opera "Armida" which is quite relevant to the contents of this essay; as this essay offers ways to transcend being stuck in eternal-alienative-conflicts between JUST-TWO ULTIMATELY IMPORTANT and Mutually-Exclusive-ALTERNATIVES - - - Upon-Which-People-MUST-FOCUS much-attention. Look at the two links below pertaining to the opera Armida - - - at the very bottom of this web page. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Domineering-Bullies advance their Egocentric-Efforts to Concentrate-Powers-and-Wealth in many ways - - - including the use and abuse of written: Rules, Regulations, Laws, Doctrines, Confessions, Rituals, Routines, Traditions and Demands. Domineering-Bullies' Primary-Missions are INCOMPATABLE-WITH: Creative, Imaginative and Integrative Individual-Differences - - - between/among True-Lovers, Loving-Neighbors and/or Other-Different-People who are COMMITTED-TO: Mitigating Their-Own Alienative-Conflicts and - - - by Graciously-Facilitating: Cooperations, Colaborations, Coordinations, Communications and Reconciliations within the Gracious-Sanctuaries of SHALOM in LOVE. Thus, such "inconvenient" Individual-Differences are Ignored and/or are Suppressed By-Domineering-Bullies - - - in order FOR-THEM to deal more adequately with THEIR-PRIMARY-GREEDY-MISSIONS of: Concentrating-Powers-and-Wealth without any evident corruption - - - to avoid any evident Augmentation of Alieantive-Conflicts - - - by Preparing-to-WIN-ALL Collusive-Games-of-MUTUAL-SELF-DECEPTION. ( Just-Hope that you have all of the above clearly-in-mind-now! ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following are potential KEY-QUESTIONS about What/Who should be trusted as Key-Leaders-and-Motivators of all Long-Term SUSTAINABLE-GLOBAL-CIVILIZATIONS - - - within God's Astronomically-Tiny and Essentially-Isolated Spherical-Space-Ship EARTH - - - traveling through the Cosmic-Voids which are Unimaginably VAST-and-COLD and pervaded by Near-Speed-Of-Light Sub-Atomic Cosmic-Ray-Bullets which can easily penetrate the thin-shells of Astronauts'-Space-Ships planned for "Economical-LONG-DISTANCE-ROUND-Trips which will always INVOLVE-FOUR VERY-COSTLY MAJOR-ESSENTIAL-ACCELERATIONS within Traveling-Mortal's Life-Times of Coherent-Cooperative-Behaviors! ALIENATIVE-VICES In the following text, the word "Reflexive" points to realms-of-relationships between/among people who are involved in Alienative-Conflicts between/among their conceptions of important: desires, wants, ideals, values, principles, virtues, and grounds for hope. Such realms are outside of the realms which are the traditional foci of objective/quantiative scientists and and engineers - - - - who manipulate inanimate objects and the non-intentional- interactions between/among inanimate-objects including the elementary-constituent-particles which are found within inanimate objects. Which among the following List-of-Reflexive-Realities - - - are ALIENATIVE-VICES THAT-ARE ABSOLUTELY NOT among the Most-Universally-Reliable-and-Trust-Worthy REFLEXIVE-VIRTUES - - - that are suited TO-SERVE-LONG-TERM as TRULY-SUSTAINABLE Reflexive-Ideals in LONG-TERM Integrative-forms-of-Idealism? What additional REFLEXIVE-Realities - - - - - - - - - are also ALIENATIVE-VICES THAT-ARE ABSOLUTELY NOT among the Most-Universally-Reliable-and-Trust-Worthy REFLEXIVE-VIRTUES - - - that are suited TO-SERVE-LONG-TERM as TRULY-SUSTAINABLE Reflexive-Ideals in LONG-TERM Integrative-forms-of-Idealism? ALIENATIVE-VICES Greed? Hoarding? Violence? Coercion? Arrogance? Egocentrism? Pretentions? Dishonesty? Secrecy? Domination? Confidence? Purity? Competition? Excellence? Superiority? Enthusiasm? Loyalty? Great-Wealth? Great-Power? Influence? Efficiency? Energy? Certainty? Absolutes? Popularity? Prevelance? Loyalty? Control? Defenses? Deception? Technology? Invulnerability? Science? Authority? Scholarship? Games? Addictions? Collusions? Unilateralists? Winning? Alienation? Suspicions? Distrust? Cynicism? Skepticism? Sneering? Denigrations? Negations? Ignorance? Confusion? Polarizations? Dichotomies? Attacks? Threats? Punishments? Excommunications? Shunnings? Banishments? Exclusivity? Purifications? Segregation? Robbing? Stealing? Mobbing? Raping? Demands? Repressions? Submissions? Suppressions? Vulnerability? Vicimizations? Profitability? Stability? Traditions? Objectivity? Doctrines? Rituals? Emperors? Presidents? Proscriptions? Sexuality? Religion? Politics? Drugs? Exponential---Growth? More? Pleasures? Laws? Rules? Regulations? Orthodoxy? Commands? Conformity? Obedience? Prescriptions? CEOs Taxes? Savings? Investments? Bonds? Promises? Covenants? Constitutions? Idols? Reverence? Trust? Respect? Admiration? Administrations? Judgements? Justice? Ditributive-Justice Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception Helpful-Alieantive-Conflicts? Absolute-TRUTH? Given any List of Nominated ALIENATIVE-VICES; ask people to OBJECT-TO about 20% of the Tentative List of VICES; - - - because of explicitly-stated-assumptions-reasons-and-logic; e.g., to SHOW that the items Objected-To ARE INSTEAD - - - among the most-universally-reliable-and-trust-worthy FOCI for truly SUSTAINABLE Ideals-and-Idealism? Record the Objections and Reasons-for-Objection. Such reasons can lay foundations for later Open-and-Honest-Dialogues about differences within the participants in this process. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GRACIOUS-RECONCILING-VIRTUES Create a list of nomineers for the MOST-UNIVERSALLY-RELIABLE-AND-TRUST-WORTHY RECONCILING-VIRTUES; with which to support LONG-TERM-SUSTAINABLE Reflexive Ideals-and-Idealism! Given the above List of Nominated RECONCILING-VIRTUES; ask people to OBJECT-TO about 20% of the Tentative List of RECONSILING-VIRTUES - - - because of explicitly-stated-assumptions-reasons-and-logic. Given List Of NOMINATED-TRUSTWORTHY- VIRTUES - - - ask people to object to the inclusion in list the Nominated-Trust-Worthy-Virtues - - - of up-to 20% of the nominees in the list of Nominated-Trust-Worth-Virtues - - - - because of explicitly-stated- assumptions-reasons-and-logic; e.g., that those nominees are (because of explicitly-stated-assumptions-reasons-and-logic) qualified to be generally supported within the list of Alienative-Vices above. Such reasons can lay foundations for later Open-and-Honest-Dialogues about differences within the participants in this process. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With the above information available, two additional and potentially very helpful lists can be creatred: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUPPORTIVE-ALIENATIVE-VICES ~~~ That are TREATED-AS-VIRTUES Ask for nominations of "Reflexive-Realities" which are treated by many people as VIRTUES - - - but which in practice serve as supporters of ALIENATIVE-VICES; e.g., SUPPORTING: (1) Efforts to WIN Collusive-Games-of-Mutual- Self-Deception, (2) Addictions, (3) Codependent-Support-Networks FOR Addicts, (3) Military-Industrial-Congressional-Complexes, (4) Efforts to CONCENTRATE-POWERS-AND-WEALTH, (5) Efforts to Conceal-Consequent-Corruption, (6) Reconciling-Forms-of-Violence, (7) Reconciling-Forms-of-Coercion, Reconciling-Forms-of-Domination, Reconciling-Forms-of-Mobbing, Reconciling-Forms-of- Excommunications, Reconciling-Forms-of-Exclusivity; (8) Saving-People-from-Inferior-Religions, (9) Perfecting-Impure-Defective- People, (10) Unilaterally-Rescuing people from Damnation. COMPLEMENTARY-VIRTUES to-serve-with INADEQUATE-ISOLATED-INCOMPLETE-VIRTUES Ask for nominations of "Reflexive-Realities" which can serve Graciously-and-Helpfully to COMPLEMENT-VIRTUES which often mis-lead people into behaving in Tragically-Alieantive-Ways; because of Arrogant-Presumptions that the VIRTUES can-stand-alone as Utterly-Reliable and Worthy-of-Reverence and Idolotrous-Absolute-Trust. We need to be prudently-cautious about which "VIRTUES" we-trust-in-isolation - - - within "RISKY-CONTEXTS". We need to be prudently-cautious about which combinations-of-similar "VIRTUES" we-trust-within-"RISKY-CONTEXTS". We need to be prudently cautious about what-and-whom we-trust when our-environments-change around-us. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Later within the contexts of Open-and-Honest-Dialogues about the above lists; it may be helpful to engage in various forms of PRIORITY-VOTING to find which Realities have both YES/NO MAJORITY-SUPPORT and HIGH Priority-Support for being in the list of items where they are found. Having BOTH YES/NO MAJORITY-SUPPORT and HIGH Priority-Support is very significant! Be-Safely-Together In-Open-and-Honest-Dialogues Within Shalom's Gracious-Sanctuaries! Mitigating Our-Own Alienative-Conflicts -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Click on the following link for a 2010 review of the Opera "Armida" by Rossini - - - which does a skillful job of pulling the viewer through the ambiguities and flaws of many of the traditional injunctions in the Unresolved-Alienative-Conflicts among Domineering-Bullies, True-Lovers, Gracious-Conflict-Mitigators and Mobbing-Mobsters. The Rossini Opera "Armida" is about Our-Own-Many Un-Mitigated Love <---> Revenge Alienative-Conflicts Click on the following link for an article in Wikipedia about the Opera "Armida" by Rossini: Wikipedia article about the Opera "Armida" by Rossini.