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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9301132.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.} ========================================================== %HUMAN LIMIT FINITE POWER RESOURCE TIME GOD IDOL 930113 We as humans and our: families, organizations, professions, businesses, cities, states, nations, cultures and other creations are all finite, limited. It is useful to consider the various kinds of ways in which we are limited; and to respect all our limitations. If we do not do so, we become idolatrous and disintegrate. We are TIME limited: We cannot actually do as much in a span of time as we can imagine doing; and we exist only for a limited amount of time. We are RESOURCE limited: On our planet there is only a finite amount of fuel, energy, minerals of each kind, area, air, water, etc. We can imagine doing things which would require more of one or more of these than is available to us now or ever. We are POWER limited: the rate at which we can do things, the speed with which we can work, is always limited. We can imagine getting tasks accomplished much more rapidly than is possible at the time of our imaginations. This truth is never changed by any increase in how fast we can work. We are IMAGINATION limited: While we can imagine much more than we can do; we often are frustrated because we cannot imagine doing much which we could do, if only we had the imagination, will, desire, and freedom to do so. We are LANGUAGE limited: Our vocabularies are limited in size and the scope of realities, concepts, relationships, and powers to which we can point and regarding which we can communicate. Because we are finite creatures in finite time/space this will always be so. We are COLLUSION limited: Our collusive games of mutual self deception, our addictions and our codependencies imprison us; and keep us from imagining, dreaming, desiring and doing much which we could otherwise do. We are KNOWLEDGE limited: We can deal with only a finite number of facts, data, relationships, statements, etc. We are PERCEPTION limited: We are sensitive to only a tiny portion of the electromagnetic spectrum and insensitive to other kinds of radiation through which we might become aware of portions of the universe. Only a few specialists can make use of technologies to expand their awareness of such radiations. We are TECHNOLOGY limited: Only a few people can have access to the most advanced forms of technology by which to try to overcome many of our limitations. Many forms of technology have not yet been developed, and we have only a finite amount of time in which to develop more advanced technologies. We are UNDERSTANDING limited: Our levels of understanding are limited by the finite sizes of our bodies, brains, and sensory systems. We are EXPERIENCE limited: In finite lifetimes we can have only a finite amount of experience in terms of which to develop knowledge, skills, and understanding. We are COOPERATION limited: Many goals can be achieved only through cooperation, and not all of us are skilled and willing in cooperation. We are CONTROL limited: There is much which we may wish to control, which is by its essence beyond the range of what we as finite creatures can control. We cannot suspend/repeal the "laws of nature". We are CULTURE limited: We are born, grow up, and die within a particular culture with its limited paradigms. We may in part transcend cultural limits by travel, reading, and conversations; but time limitations still operate. If we pretend that we are not limited in any of the above ways, or in other ways in which we are in fact limited, then we are participants in idolatrous collusions---and disintegrate both personally and communally. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================