This is http://www.essayz.com/a9811132.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %SHALOM PEACE DEFENSIVE MILITARY SECURITY ACHIEVED+981113 %RELAXATION CONTENTION CONFLICT DISHONESTY SECRET 981113 "Security" and "peace" which are "achieved" through manipulative maneuvers, military might, violence and the threat of violence --- are not shalom, true security, or true peace. The latter entail the freedom to be safely vulnerable in personal relationships with different kinds of people. The former entail efforts to avoid the risks which are involved in being open and honest with people who are "different." The former entails participation in collusive games of mutual self deception. The latter involves people in efforts to transcend collusive games of mutual self deception --- efforts which strike terror into the hearts and minds of those who seek to achieve "security" and "peace" through manipulative efforts. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================