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Orthodoxy v Orthopraxis

Yogi Berra said:
In theory there is no difference from practice.
In practice, there is

Applying this to communication theory:
In nonviolence theory
there is no difference from practice
of win/win compassion.
Yet, in Business as Win/Lose Usual
Patriarchal political monoculturing practice
and Capital monopolistic economic intent
there are no virtues calculated for compassionate communication,
for merciful bipartisan political views,
and co-redemptive forgiveness
for matricidal sins 
of our StraightWhite Patriarchs

Ignorant about healthy polycultural,
resilient,
therapeutic, 
synergetic relationships
in response to systemic trauma.

Nonviolent communication orthodoxy
enlightens every thing
but nothing merely pleasant prevails.
Compassion's transparent and vulnerable win/win practice
unveils every healthy peak relationship
becoming crown/root 
mind/body
co-empowered
but no one self-contained person 
knows why silent wisdom
feels more comprehensive
than voiced knowledge
as verb action choices
feel more committed
than nouned voices
of love.

In our Earth-Healing lab,
nonviolent verbal theory
and compassionate nonverbal practice
are bicamerally combined:
nothing win/lose prevails
and every resilient relationship
co-passionately feels why
not 1 AND not 0 theoretical 
universal convex AND unitarian concave
bilateral communication assumptions
do not not positively comply
with Earth's Whole Open EcoSystemic
virtuously therapeutic multicultural practice
of avoiding viciously competitive 
1-DominantYang v 0-RecessiveYin
colonizing practices
for lack of sufficiently inclusive
warm and boundless
peak passion/pleasure gratitude

Positive fore-given-nest 
EarthTribal
renouned verb-alive-able 
1/0 co-empathic ecstatic 
win/win polypathic attitude.

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