Punishments usually fail to produce Net-Long-Term Gracious-and-Honorable Results - - -
 
whenever the pattern of punishments:

 1. Are legislated    by:  Domineering Bullies and/or by Mobbing-Mobsters of any kind whatever. 

 2. Are adjudicated   by:  Domineering Bullies and/or by Mobbing-Mobsters of any kind whatever. 

 3. Are administered  by:  Domineering Bullies and/or by Mobbing-Mobsters of any kind whatever. 

 4. Are imposed by: In-Power Coalitions of Wealthy-and-Powerful-People upon: poor,  weak,  thirsty,  sick,  younger,  hungry, 

    uneducated, injured,  disadvantaged  and/or  confused people.

 5. Involve: violence, coercion, repressions, threats, and related violations of Internationally-Formulated Basic-Human-Rights.

 6. Generate:    more   alienation   and   alienative-conflicts  - - -  than  they  Mitigate  in  the  Gracious-Ways-of-Shalom.

 7. Are parts of: habitual traditions, rituals and/or liturgies that are insensitive to and indifferent regarding the patterns 

    of Alienation Created and/or Augmented by those habitual traditions, rituals and/or liturgies.

 8. Demonstrate the ABSENCE of:  Empathy     Sympathy      Generosity   Hospitality     Humility    Modesty        Thoughtfulness   Patience  

    Tolerance   Balance          Mutuality   Cooperation   Kindness     Creativity      Integrity   Authenticity   Listening        Dialogues 

 9. Are guided by: the Demands of Military-Industrial-Congressional-Corporate-Complexes: That are attempting to generate Invulnerability for   

    themselves - - - in the Exclusive/Alienative   Ways-of-Greed - - - in  Isolation-from-their-Victims.  

10. Are Motivated-and-Guided  by:  people who claim to be  Superior-People  with  Superior-Rights-and-Privileges to use Superior-Power/Wealth.

11. Are Imposed by: winners-of-Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception.

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BEWARE

In the ABSENCE of   coherent-well-integrated-conceptual-frame-works  for Recognizing: 

(1) WHOM  We-Can-Most-Safely-Trust - - - and

(2) WHAT  Ideologies,  Affirmations,  Habits,   Traditions,  Life-Styles,   Assumptions,

          Attitudes,   Moods,         Values,   Principles,   Virtues,       Grounds-for-Hope


- - - - - ARE TRAGICALLY NOT-SUSTAINABLE   IN-THE    LONG-TERM - - - - -

(3) AND we will be likely to  Punish-Ourselves-and-Each-Other

    In ways that lead  US  Tragically   Toward-the-Collapse   of  God's-Global-Civilization   within

    God's   Astronomically   Tiny-and-Isolated    Blue-Spherical   Space-Ship-Earth    Traveling with

    One-Average-Star         Upon-Which           The Whole-Crew   of Space-Ship-Earth   is  Utterly-Dependent for ESSENTIAL-GLOBAL-WARMING

    Within     God's         UNIMAGINABLY:    VAST        COLD         VOID       LACED-WITH    sub-atomic   COSMIC-RAY-BULLETS   traveling

    every   -   which  -  way   -  at  -  speeds  -  close  -  to     the    ultimate    speed     of    light-particles  <===>  gamma-rays

    OFTEN WITH   SUFFICIENT-PENETRATION-POWERS   TO PASS STRAIGHT-THROUGH   DENSE-THICK    SPACE-SHIP-WALLS   and through human bodies.



    Venturing   FAR-IN-IGNORANCE   of such realities  - - - -    IS    NOT   PRUDENT!

 

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THINK   GRACIOUSLY-TOGETHER   in  SHALOM'S  WAYS!

Be-Together    within  Shalom's Sanctuaries    DISCERNING    Through-Open-and-Honest-Dialogues - - -

What-IS    and What-is-NOT    ESSENTIAL-TO-CIVILITY   AND  TO  ANY  LONG-TERM  SUSTAINABLE-CIVILIZATION!