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This-essay is a7810221.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 ========================================================== %FEELINGS AS ULTIMATES 781022 Often we feel so strongly about what is normal, natural, proper, most real, etc.---that we take our feelings to be a completely reliable indication of ultimate reality; if you will, of God's view. Our feelings can be so definite that we can not intellectually conceive of any other way of feeling about the matter. Rational, logical, intellectual analysis does not offer us any alternative approach---so we take our feelings to be final arbiters in the matter. Our domination by our feelings as ultimate arbiters of reality is the more complete if we, by collusive games of mutual self deception, play out our lives as if feelings were not important---thinking that the convictions which flow from our feelings are the result of rational, logical, and intellectual processes. We may rationalize our feelings so thoroughly as to be unaware of the origin of our convictions---and be unaware of the role which our emotions play in guiding our convictions. In such circumstances we are thoroughly enslaved by our feelings, emotions, affections, etc.---because we deny their reality even as they dominate our lives. By denying their reality we make it difficult, if not impossible, for us to consider and wisely choose between alternatives relating to feelings, emotions, affections, etc. We are then dominated by such realities as chance brought to us, and are unable to discriminate between them and make wise choices relating to them. By denying their reality and importance, we become victims of their dominion, and act out a drama of cause-and-effect according to deterministic patterns. Wise use of our rational, logical, intellectual, analytic, objective, and similar faculties depends upon us accepting our feelings, emotions, affections, and similar aspects of ourselves---and integrating them into a life of integrity. Efforts to achieve perfection through specialization, are efforts which generate perversions and enslavement to the rebellions of the denied realities. Human perfection does not come through specialization. Human perfection has more to do with wholeness, than with lack of defect under any criteria of judgment. (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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