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     %COMBINATIONS ELEMENTS PERSONAL COMMUNAL LIVES+950304
   %UNDERSTAND RESPOND REALITY MATERIAL SPIRIT SOUL+950304
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     %IDEAL VALUE PRINCIPLE ASSUMPTION BELIEF TRUTH 950304

     The  qualities  of our individual and communal  lives
depend greatly upon COMBINATIONS of:

     1.  How we choose to perceive, understand and respond
to  the  realities  in  our  environment  as:   objective,
reflexive,  material, spiritual, individual,  communal and
other kinds of realities.

     2.  What  implicit  and explicit goals  drive  and/or
guide   us   in  our   efforts:    analytic-understanding,
manipulative-understanding,      prediction,      control,
appreciation, friendship, enjoyment, service, love, power,
justice, . . .

     3.  What  individual objective elements/relationships
play major,  minor  and/or  excluded roles  in  our lives:
strings,   quarks,  leptons,  mesons,  baryons,   protons,
neutrons, nuclei,   electrons,  atoms,  molecules,  cells,
organs, organisms, communities, ecosystems, planets, solar
systems,   galaxies,  galactic clusters,  galactic  super-
clusters or the universe as a whole.

     4.  What reflexive elements/relationships play major,
minor and/or excluded  roles in our  lives:  parent/child,
teacher/student,   employer/employee,   preacher/believer,
husband/wife,  doctor/patient, seller/buyer,  body/spirit,
mind/brain, soul/body, God/creature, . . .

     5.  The kinds of people who play major,  minor and/or
excluded  roles  in  our lives:  men,   women,   children,
adolescents,   young parents,  middle age,  aged,  whites,
blacks,  browns,   colored,  ethnic  minorities,   devoted
religious,   agnostics,   evangelicals,   fundamentalists,
scientists, professionals, laborers, politicians, . . .

     6.  The   particular  ideals,   values,   principles,
beliefs,   truths,  assumptions,  attitudes,   principles,
rules,  regulations, prohibitions,   taboos,  injunctions,
visions,  images, systems, plans, intentions, expectations
which  play  major,   minor and/or excluded roles  in  our
lives.

     What  is important is the COMBINATIONS of  the  above
which  play  major,   minor and/or excluded roles  in  our
lives.   Some  COMBINATIONS  are integrative,   and  other
COMBINATIONS are  disintegrative.    It  is  not  just the
individual  realities in isolation  which matter;  it  the
COMBINATIONS which matter much more  than  the  individual
realities in isolation.

     It  is not only what COMBINATIONS play major roles in
our  lives;   it  is  also  the  permutations  of relative
priorities which make a a great deal of difference.   Also
it makes a difference just  how we regard  people  who are
different from  us  in these regards; and so on whether or
not we reject,  excommunicate and/or  banish those who are
different from us.

     The  qualities of our individual and  communal  lives
thus depend greatly upon the COMBINATIONS of the above  in
our  individual  and communal lives;  not  upon  just  the
isolated and  un-related presence of any one or few of the
above in our lives.  We need to attend to the consequences
of COMBINATIONS which we find, make, respect, and/or focus
upon---as well as on the merits of isolated elements.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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