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This-essay is a7703053.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %CONFESSIONS 770305 Confessions are testimonials of lessons learned through personal experiences---often because of mistakes or blunders. Because confessions are first-hand accounts, they are more convincing than are generalizations and abstractions. Confessions are more convincing because they are richer in humane details --- than are moral lessons which tend to inhibit the confessions which might better inform people about real living. Confessions offered primarily to justify a moral lesson or a legalistic system --- are misleading confessions. Such confessions tend to lead hearers to attend to a moralistic or legalistic system with ultimate concern. Such confessions are often devoid of the humane details which make true confessions enlightening and convincing in creative/helpful ways. Moralizing confessions tend to serve the purpose of bolstering the power of judgmental people; thereby promoting alienation-- -and so promoting further mistakes to be made and confessed in a moralizing way, etc. For this reason it is dangerous to confess mistakes in a legalistic/moralistic environment. To do so usually involves accepting judgments and guilt as made by the self-righteous keepers of the moral code---and all that such acceptance of judgment and guilt entails. For the above reasons it is better to confess mistakes and intimate lessons learned in small private gatherings of a few close friends, rather than in public places where the confessions will empower the scribes and pharisees to maintain their coercive traditions. Confessions are best shared with those few who live by faith in love, rather than with those many who justify themselves by their own laws. Confessions shared in a spirit of love edify the small community in a way which is not possible to those who seek to regulate behavior through legalism. In this way legalists cut themselves off from the renewing power of loving communities---and so live and die in hell, alone with each other in crowded ways. It is they who are alone in the crowded ways of their lives. Legalists fear to have anything to confess---and so seek to avoid temptations in intimate situations which might prompt them to transcend required conformal behavior. Their fear of unique personal involvement thus augments their mutual alienation and increased dependence upon systematic behavior patterns and techniques for defining and solving human problems/dilemmas in objective ways which inhibit confessions. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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