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This-essay is a8506011.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 ========================================================== %ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF FINITUDE 850601 Healthy living includes regular acknowledgement of finitude rituals. In the absence of such rituals the natural human tendency is to engage in contradictory rituals which entail claims of transcendence of finitude in collusive ways. Such collusive games of mutual self deception about human finitude do not lay the foundation for wise decision making, and in reality do quite the reverse, they undermine the possibility of healthy living which includes regular acknowledgment of finitude rituals. Healthy religion includes corporate worship services which acknowledge the finitude of the participants via focusing worshipers' attention upon the transcendence of God relative to the finitude of the worshipers. The natural unhealthy human tendency is to engage in the pretense that humans are like God in ways that humans are not. Dishonest pretense of omnipotence, omnipresence, eternalness, etc. undermine the possibility of wisely coping with the realities of human finitude. People who exercise great power, science, presence and endurance are more prone to engage in such games of mutual pretense and deception than are people who are impotent, ignorant, embarrassed and weak. Humility is a difficult virtue for the former, an easier virtue for the latter. However humility may be compromised by being proud of being humble. The acknowledgement of finitude entails the acceptance and affirmation of the value and importance of essentially mysterious aspects of healthy living. To compulsively seek to dispel all mysteries is to engage in contradictory rituals which claim the transcendence of essential mysteries in collusive ways. People dedicated to the creation and preservation of knowledge are especially prone to yield to this temptation; e.g., scientists and scholars in search of omniscience as a means to omnipotence and eternity. People who are able to acknowledge their finitude in personal and corporate prayer do so and seek personal and corporate integrity in honest ways which seek to transcend the taboos and collusions which deny human finitude. They seek to power to accept their own acceptance by the power who accepts them as finite creatures in search of transcendence over their finitude. (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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