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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8812062.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %LIBERAL THREAT REJECT EMBARRASS COMMUNE INTEGRITY 881206 Each culture is characterized by the threats its members experience as threats of rejection and/or excommunication. Each culture is characterized by the experiences, thoughts, feelings, opinions, perspectives, and assumptions which make leading members of the culture so embarrassed as to fail to be open and honest in opportunities for dialogue. Such instances have to do with the culture's failure to integrate the occasions of embarrassment into the intellectual, religious, ritualistic and mythic lives of the members of the community. The embarrassment flows from the lack of integration. The failure to integrate flows from the embarrassment. Each occasions the other in a vicious cycle of disintegration through a destructive feed-back loop. In each culture some members of the communities succeed in offering liberation from the embarrassments of the culture by creative acts of personal integrity. They succeed in being whole persons with integrity in the presence of those embarrassments which often lead to failures to be open and honest in dialogue. Through their personal integrity in the face of traditional embarrassment they point the way towards integration of the occasions of embarrassment into the life of the community. Such liberation involves intellectual insights, but intellectual insights are not the essence of the liberation. The essence resides in the integrity of persons being themselves in the presence of what others have found to embarrass them to the point of the disintegration of their communication skills. Within such personal presence there is personal acceptance which is not the same as approval; but rather the opposite of rejection and excommunication. The personal acceptance has to do with continued open and honest dialogue; rather than with permission, approval, judgement, or justification; all of which the acceptance transcends. In the presence of such personal acceptance being whole with integrity becomes possible, and integration of what has been embarrassing leads to the reduction of occasions of embarrassment which undermines open and honest dialogue. The acceptance is personal. Its essence is not an objective fact, intellectual statement, a legal adjudication, a rational proof or an experimental verification. The latter cannot substitute for the personal acceptance which liberates people from disintegrative embarrassment. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================