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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9209051.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.} ========================================================== %COMPULSIVE FANATICAL FUNDAMENTALIST OBJECTIVITY+920905 %SHIFT PARADIGM GOD ULTIMATE CONCERN IDEAL VALUE 920905 When one discovers that one's paradigm, god, ultimate concerns, ideals, and values are in fact leading and motivating one toward attitudes, assumptions, beliefs, reasoning, perceptions, decisions and actions which undermine personal and communal integrity----then it is a time for the shaking of the foundations of one's courage to be; and to be willing to become a new being with fear and trembling. (See books by Paul Tillich.) It is exceedingly hard for us to transcend our ultimate concerns---especially when our ultimate concerns are the cause of our personal and communal disintegration. It takes a level of courage and honesty which is beyond human power; to accept such a conversion, revelation, redemption, salvation and transformation---so most wise peoples have developed traditions of attributing the source of such courage and honesty to powers which transcend human understanding, manipulation and control. It is disintegrative to presume to make claims which run fundamentally counter to such wise traditions. In their arrogance those who make such claims blind themselves and others. No matter how confident we are that our ultimate concerns are appropriate, we need to keep in touch with the realities of our daily experiences; and the realities of the daily experiences of the least among our brothers and sisters on planet earth. If we are out of touch with such realities, we cannot tell when we have lost touch with the truths which we presume to represent. When we are out of touch with such truths, we are likely to play collusive games of mutual self deception which lead to personal and communal disintegration. Then our ultimate concern should be to regain touch with reality, with truth, and with the least of our brothers and sisters on planet earth. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================