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%PREOCCUPIED OPPOSITION DEVIL EFFORTS PEOPLE WRONG 041230 %EMPOWER ENEMIES SETTING THEIR/OUR PRIORITIES TRUTH 041230 %COMPLEMENTARY COHERENT INTEGRATIVE COOPERATION GOD 041230 %WARS TERRORISM TERRORISTS NATIONS FUNDAMENTALS 041230 %INSIGHTS PRINCIPLES IDEALS VALUES META PARADIGM ID 041230 %GRADUAL SMOOTH TRANSITION STAGES GROWTH LEARNING 041230 What are some insights and principles in terms of which we can with integrity distinguish between truly- integrative-efforts on the one hand --- and tragically- disintegrative-efforts to unilaterally-resolve: human conflicts, contentious-debates, coercive-actions, violent- domination and dictatorial-take-overs? The following may help: Truly-Integrative-efforts often involve: 1. Gradual step-by-step progresses which involve honest-respect for whole: contexts, situations, and complementary --- people, ideals, values, insights, paradigms, views, perspectives, experiments, experiences, authorities, etc. 2. Authentic committments to: honesty, openness, transparency, civility, hospitality, kindness, balance, mutuality, sharing, generosity, distributive-justice, due- process, cooperation, collaboration, etc. --- demonstrated by coherent-words-and-actions. 3. Clear efforts to clarify the meanings and/or implications of: concepts, questions, images, responses, languages, words, phrases, actions, cosmologies, myths, paradigms, beliefs, faiths, rituals, traditions, etc. 4. Efforts to clarify the origins of dysfunctional human behaviors in the effects of: bacteria, viruses, prions, molds, protesoa, DNA-defects, micro-biological processes, trauma, injuries, violence, coercion, addictions, co-dependency, collusions, unfounded-fears, paranoia, mental-illness, misleading-concepts, confusion, attacks, alienation, excommunications, cult-religions, fundamentalism, exclusivity, arrogance, self- righteousness, etc. 5. Good-will in efforts to integrate the insights, perspectives, views and attitudes of objective-scientists, gracious-peacemakers, mystics, and diverse spiritual- leaders. 6. Dispositions to trust well-integrated and gracious role-models --- more than the purity of ideal- forms, formulas, formalities, and forms-of-conformity. 7. Dispositions to trust well-informed and well- trained NON-VIOLENT-RESISTORS --- more than trust domineering people who are motivated, guided and rewarded by: COLLUSIONS, "The Domination System", "The Military- Industrial-Complexes", "Economic-Hit-Men", "Nationalistic- Security-Agencies", "Corpor-Autocracies", "Multi-National- Corporations"; violence, terrorists, terrorism, coercion, nuclear-weapons, mutually-assured-destruction, ICBM's, etc. With a little bit of imagination it is easy to make reverse statements pointing to misleading concepts, dispositions, foci-of-trust, etc. Usually NEGATIONS and OPPOSITION are not as helpful as are positive affirmations and integrative efforts. When we become compulsively preoccupied with IDENTIFYING, LABELING and OPPOSING evil-individuals --- we tend to be destroyed by our own EVIL-RELATIONSHIPS with the people whom we have IDENTIFIED, LABELED and OPPOSED as EVIL-INDIVIDUALS in-isolation from how we are RELATING to them in OUR: alienations, estrangements, excommunications, sin, prejudices, ignorance, exclusivities, judgementalism, arrogance, self-righteousness, etc. When we are blindly preoccupied with being in OPPOSITION, we have given our OPPONENTS the power to set our agenda; we have surrendered to our OPPONENTS --- because they can yank us around at their will by their constantly changing their agenda while we are blindly committed to opposing whatever they chose to focus their attention upon. We can get out of the trap we laid for ourselves only by becoming clearly focused upon consistently making POSITIVE AFFIRMATIONS which are intentionally COHERENT, INTEGRATIVE, OPEN, HONEST, and free of preoccupations with being righteously opposed to anything. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================