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This piece brings together a wide variety of voices reflecting on a Unitarian-Universalist controversy. For the non-UU reader, it might help if you have some idea what the 7th and 8th Principles referenced in this piece hold us as cultural values.  The 7th principle, is a statement of respect for the interdependent web of sentient beings on Earth.  The 8th principle was a proposed addition that expresses a strong desire to "dismantle" systemic trauma as exemplified by racial oppression, in particular, but not intended to exclude other forms of economic and political suppression, repression, and underlying neuropsychological depression, negative xenophobic impressions, fears and anger related to chronic and critical anxiety events, emotional neglect, climate anxiety, etc.  This piece proposes that the 7th principle invites a systemic therapeutic worldview, and the proposed 8th principle represents the antithetical  competiitive trauma that tears at the cooperative fabric of resiliently compassionate relationships.  

Impressive values, like love, claim resources that liberally breed ecological natural physically happy health and conservatively feed emotional spiritual mentally glad wealth. Oppressive disvalues like homophobia and racism and sexism and ageism and ableism and monoculturing disregard for threats of global anthro-supremacist ecocide, express what we are against because these are sources of sadness, bad health suppressions, sad impoverishing depressions, even mad disrepairing retributive repressions, investments in revenge, apartheid demands for militarized retribution, negative win/lose 0-sum closed system reparations repeating historical-monocultural entrenched distrusted dissociations Continuing viciously recycling straight white patriarchal injustices rather than positive win/win restorations of positive herstorical virtue circles, polyculturally spacious inclusive webs of EarthMatriarchal Peace. The proposed 8th prime principle does not positively promote therapeutic justice. Decontextualized focus on what we are against betrays giving full mindful 4th Principle witness to our disvalue shadows against economically exploitive monopolies, colonizing monocultural trauma, white patriarchal monotheistic supremacy, straight cisbinary monotony, monochromatic anthroprivileged risk overwhelming Earth's resilient therapeutic opportunity. Our health and environmentally safe wellness values for compassionately mediating our 7th positive principle breed universal health and feed unitarian wealth of sacred EarthMother's unconditionally warm working web playing interdependently win/win games promoting resonantly sentient love lives, resources, seeds, nonviolent wombs polyculturing sacred communion Like 8th Principle sperm universally purposed to conjoin EarthTribe's unitarian green/blue 7th Principle egg. Our 7th Principle declares our positive joy for healthy natural life and wealthy spiritual love embedded in sacred EarthMother's empowering web valuing co-invested AnthroPeace Warriors co-infested Muses co-passionate Sages. Do we need and want an 8th Principle taking a bold unprecedented revolutionary further step to explicitly articulate what we actively disvalue as the ecological antithesis of Earth's sacred systemic 7th Principle of a polyculturally inclusive EarthTribe restoring our sacred green/blue indigenous communion? I believe our positive principles of therapeutic health, happiness, empowering a wealthy sacred win/win web of polycultural beauty, enlightened Earth/Anthro balance, grows non-violently profound neurosystemic peace, culminating in peak experiences of our most recent 7th Principle. And I believe in the synergetic completion of perfectly pitched 8 octaves for articulating MuseTherapy Resilience. When the first photograph of Earth's revolving green-blue living egg-womb was broadcast back to Earth, anthro-privilege could physically see Her sacred healthy wealth of profound eco-political value, in Her health-wealthy prime 7th unitarian value of PolyCultural Communion. Now, in this new post-millennial Anthropocene, we already begin to feel threats of EarthSystemic oppression, neurosystemic chronic trauma, EarthTribe depression, anxiety, onset of anthrosupremacist remorse, rabidly defensive denial of rapaciously incorporated overpopulation, despair that Win Universal Earth and Win Unitarian Anthro healthy 7th Principle Consciousness of herstorically positive indigenous intent for whole-systemic thrival too quickly fades, foreshadowing today's 8th Principle dispassionate discernment. If we would dismantle sacred Earth's historical-monocultural systemic trauma Oppressors of organic regenerators recreating love-life's multigenerational PolyCultural Communion, Then we might choose to restore 7th Principle EarthJustice by letting go of less resilient traditional win/lose anthrosupremacist images breeding neurosystemic dissociation and feeding toxic disvalues of patriarchal monotheistic colonization, monoculturing cisbinary predation, capital economic monopolization of therapeutic EarthMother sacred healing values choosing regeneratively felt win/win universally open, transparent and unitarian holistic, vulnerable ecotherapeutic webbed, nonjudging nonblaming nonshaming systems for restoring PolyCulturing Communion Thereby dismantling 8th negative anti-trauma disvalues confronting Anthropocene privileged systems of history's monotheistic imaged patriarchal natural capitalistic maninfested destiny, a win/lose devolutionary privileged assault and dispassionate battery overpowering EarthTribe's restorative peace ecotherapeutic resources. Can Earth's monotheistic major force of retributive injustice nature grieve and repent and commit to restore 7th Principle panentheistic wisdom peace for this, and the next 7 sacred millennia? Bicamerally indigenous compassionate minds want wealth conserving hearts and need health liberating bodies to wisely know life-loving neurosystemically intelligent Win/Win 7th Principle therapeutic opportunities for EarthTribe sacred healing AND Monoculturing AnthroSupremacist Win/Lose 8th Principle trauma warnings against further EarthMother dissociative harm Against impressive values, reconnecting love, reclaiming 7th Principle resources that liberally breed ecological natural physically happy health and conservatively feed emotional resonance spiritual resilience, mentally glad wealth.

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