This is http://www.essayz.com/b0706181.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.} ========================================================== %COMMITTMENTS UNDERMINING MITIGATIONS ALIENATION 070618 %TRADITIONAL ULTIMATE CONCERNS ANXIETIES FEARS EVIL 070618 %DEVIL ENEMIES ATTACKS BATTLES CONTESTS COMPETITION 070618 %WINNER LOSERS IDENTIFICATION LABEL CASTE SUPERIORS 070618 %SLAVES OWNERS MANAGERS WORKERS CHIEF EXECUTIVE GOD 070618 %OPERATING OFFICER DOMINATION COMMANDS DEMANDS GOOD 070618 What are the most helpful meanings that can be found while reading the following texts? Literal meanings may not be the most helpful ones. Your responses may be more helpful than literal interpretations of the texts! While we are committed to Mitigating-Our-Alienation we need to be careful to avoid letting other traditional and/or tacit committments --- undermine how effectively we can work on Mitigating-Our-Alienation. Among such traditional and/or tacit committments are committments by us and/or our best supporters to: 1. Insure that our own team wins our conflicts. 2. Insure that our enemies are defeated/denigrated. 3. Punish our enemies --- for past wrongs. 4. Punish our enemies --- for being evil. 5. Eliminate our enemies --- because they are evil. 6. Satisfy our own emotional needs for revenge. 7. Maintain the integrity of collusive games of MSD. 8. Maintain a traditional pecking order/caste system. 9. Maintain our fiction of never making any mistakes. 10. Satisfy the desires/needs of our loyal supporters. 11. Honor our parents and ancestors for like service. 12. Maintain our long-honored traditional behaviors. 13. Transcend our limits of time, space and resources. 14. Transcend our limits of knowledge & understanding. 15. Transcend our limited ability to be in control. 16. Transcend nature's limits on exponential growth. 17. Achieve invulnerability through unilateral actions. The above list is, of course, incomplete. In any case sub-conscious committments can undermine our effectiveness in working to Mitigate-Alienation. We need to be clear about what such committments may be; and how they can work to undermine our effectiveness in working to Mitigate- Alienation. If we do not work to Mitigate-Alienation we may together destroy God's Whole-Village-Earth. There is no back-up copy of God's Whole-Village-Earth. Be aware and beware. Be Graciously-Together in the Many-Ways-of-Shalom. (c) 2007 by Paul A. Smith in "Search for Honesty and Integrity" (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================