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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9510071.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.} ========================================================== %PRIORITY ULTIMATE IDEALS VALUES IDOLATRY GOD FOCUS+951007 %ULTIMATE CONCERN HOLY SACRED RELIGIOUS INTEGRITY+951007 %PERSONAL COMMUNAL MOTIVE GUIDE BEHAVIOR RELIABLE 951007 It is important for us to recognize that many ideals and values which motivate and guide human behavior are often disintegrative---they are not ultimately reliable. Some ideals and values are more reliable than others. The fact that people are often motivated and guided by a particular ideal or value and so engage in tragically disintegrative thoughts and behaviors---is a clear indication that that particular ideal or value is not worthy of ultimate concern; it is not an ultimate basis for setting priorities. Ultimately important ideals and values will not lead to personal and communal disintegration. DISCIPLINE is not an ultimately reliable ideal or value---because being disciplined by a dictator, tyrant, addict or codependent manipulator leads to personal and communal disintegration. OBEDIENCE, FAITHFULNESS and LOYALTY are echoes of DISCIPLINE---not ultimately reliable for the same reasons. LAWS, COMMANDMENTS, RULES, REGULATIONS, PROHIBITIONS, PRESCRIPTIONS, PROSCRIPTIONS and TABOOS are not ultimately reliable guides because in real life they regularly lead people into patterns of thought and behavior which are judgmental, condemnatory, alienative and so are disintegrative of personal and communal integrity. PERFECTION and STRIVING FOR PERFECTION are not ultimately reliable ideals and values---because they lead people to be dishonest about their achievements and so into disintegrative collusive games of mutual self deception. HOLY SCRIPTURES and interpretations of them are not ultimately reliable ideals and values---because there have been many "holy wars" engaged in by disintegrative people who have focused intently upon them. RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS are not worthy of ultimate concern and respect---because they have regularly been corrupted when they have been held up as worthy of ultimate respect and because of the concentration of great amounts of unrestrained power within them. SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY and their EXPERTS are not worthy of ultimate concern and respect---because they have led the world to the brink of global disintegration. No focus of human attention which leads people to be indifferent to the personal and communal integrities of diverse individuals and communities---is worthy of ultimate concern, respect, worship or attention. Any such focus is bound---by how it focuses attention upon narrow concerns and away from integrative considerations---to lead to personal and communal disintegration. No such focus is worthy of ultimate concern, respect, worship or attention. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================