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If you have some negative judgment aimed directly at me, I prefer, in fact require, expect, demand you verbally and directly confront me and only me with that distancing blame, assaulting my ignorance and failures of compassion, too active dispassion, furthering Earth's emerging win/lose dissonance, violence, toxic climates and egocentric narcissism; Or, informed more fully by nonviolent communication I am feeling sad, disappointed in our relationship, shut down, angry because I want our mutual compassion, my vulnerability to you, and yours to me, our cooperatively-held trust, to invite your directly communicated curiosity, your hypothetical questions, your transparency honesty integrity when you observe some message from me that feels like it carries negative energy, lack of compassion, too assertive past a tipping point of aggression, a potential trigger for past win/lose stress, traumatic experience, miseries of unfortunate events, dissociation, cognitive/affective dissonance, the momentary despair of not being fully listened to with compassionate appreciation, as we each deserve within this interdependent web of win/win polypathic polyphonic polyculturing ego/eco-political life.

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