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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9611161.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.} ========================================================== %DISAGREE DICHOTOMY CHOICE PRIORITY INTEGRATIVE 961116 Often people insist that we either agree or disagree with them when they have made a dichotomous choice or assertion. They insist that we either accept or reject their whole pattern of assumptions, attitudes, perceptions, beliefs, values and ideals. They insist that we either join them or oppose them. If we do not thoughtlessly join them, they view us as opposing them. Their pattern of attitudes, thoughts and behaviors generates conflicts and so is disintegrative. The essential question to ask about each alternative pattern of attitudes, thoughts and behaviors is whether it will contribute to personal and communal integration; or to personal and communal disintegration. The essential question is not whither the choice is right/wrong, good/evil, friendly/unfriendly, moral/immoral, acceptable/unacceptable, of-us/of-them, spiritual/secular, scriptural/profane, idealistic/pragmatic, etc. All such dichotomies cons thinking and choices. To ask whether a choice is likely to contribute to personal and communal integration; or to personal and communal disintegration---is not constraining in the same way. Personal and communal integrity are not pre-defined in limiting ways having to do with issues of control and conformity. Instead they are realities which are responsive to the growing unique characteristics of people and communities. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================