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This is http://www.essayz.com/b0401162.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.} ========================================================== %SIMPLISTIC DOMINEERING LEADERS VIOLENCE COERCION 040116 %COLLUSIONS GAMES MUTUAL SELF DECEPTION POWERS LAW 040116 %LITERAL WORDS GODS SCRIPTURE INTERPRETATION LOVER 040116 %SEXUAL ABUSE TRUTHS PERSONAL DESCRIPTIONS ADDICTS 040116 %MENTAL DISEASE SICKNESS ILLNESS CONFESSIONAL BOXS 040116 %COSMIC EGGSHELLS PRISONS LIBERATION HEAL FORGIVEN 040116 The ability of each community (geographic, religious, political, scholarly, scientific, cultural, etc.) to respond wisely and prudently to major environmental changes (geographic, religious, political, scholarly, scientific, cultural, objective, subjective, reflexive, etc.) is tragically undermined (in the sense of Greek tragic dramas) by domineering leaders who are simple- minded and/or simplistic in their ways of dealing with the absence of coherence/integrity in their random collections of favorite: scriptures, laws, prescriptions, proscriptions, taboos, cosmologies, mythologies, traditions, teachings, stories, descriptions, parables, similes, theories, hypotheses, beliefs, doctrines, and required confessional statements. The tragedies pointed to above flow from: 1. The inability of simple-minded/simplistic people to deal openly, honestly, wisely, graciously, and prudently with complex: people, situations, relationships, conflicts, systems, analyses, interactions, cause-and-effect patterns, ecosystems, languages, mathematics, etc. 2. Treating that which is complex --- exclusively in terms of either/or questions/responses; i.e., in dichotomous terms. 3. Domineering and simplistic leaders promoting and facilitating dishonesty --- by forcing wise and prudent members of the community (who are well educated and inFORMed) to conFORM their thought and behavior patterns to the simplistic thought and behavior patterns of the simplistic leaders; e.g., by demanding that wise and prudent people publicly recite incoherent religious doctrines and "beliefs-statements" which they do not truly believe. 4. Domineering and simplistic leaders abusing the powers-of-elective-offices to promote and facilitate the creation and maintenance of: collusive-games-of-mutual- self-deception, addictive-codependent-relationships and other diverse "fallen-powers-that-be" as described by Walter Wink in his book "The Powers That Be". To deal wisely and prudently with the tragedies pointed to above --- we must transcend simplistic: leadership, thinking and behavior-patterns. We must select and elect gracious leaders who are competent to deal openly and wisely with the complexities of humane relationships and living. Such leaders will be dedicated to facilitating and promoting both personal and communal integrities; rather than to facilitating and promoting simplistic patterns of: arrogance, self-righteousness, domination, and dishonesty. To enjoy peace/shalom we must now select/ elect leaders, means, tools and technologies that demonstrate peace and shalom. We cannot ever enjoy peace/shalom if we continue to select/elect leaders, means, tools and technologies that now demonstrate: arrogance, self-righteousness, terrorism, war, guns, bombs, coercion, violence, dishonesty, exclusivity, domination, dichotomous-questions, dichotomous-responses, excom-munications, alienation, confusion, ignorance, prejudice, etc. Peace is a way of life/living, not a destination or goal we intend to achieve in ways which are not peace-full. True- Lovers in-Love demonstrate peace/shalom. Domineering leaders in-Fear demonstrate dishonesty, coercion and violence by sacrificing the essential foundations for personal and communal integrities. Idolatry is not the way to true peace. Idolaters exclude from their lives many complementary people, ideals, values, principles and experiences --- which cry out for gracious integration into the fearful lives of domineering idolaters. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================