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This-essay is a9902062.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %PRIORITY DOMINANT EXCLUSIVE VALUE IDEAL PRINCIPLE 990206 Our conflicts are often rooted in unresolved tensions between complementary values, ideals and principles. We like to simplify things by choosing some one or very few values, ideals, and/or principles as being worthy of ultimate concern, loyalty and support. There is no one value, ideal or principle which is worthy of such worship. It is idolatrous to elevate anything which can be contained or delivered in words to the status of ultimate concern and worship. Healthy living is entails constantly balancing complementary ideals, values and principles --- with no one or select few dominating others in exclusive ways. Unhealthy living often entails people adopting some one or few ideals, values and/or principles --- as their favored god(s) worthy of ultimate concern, devotion and service --- to the exclusion of other complementary ideals, values and/or principles. Exclusivity usually leads to alienation and disintegration. There are many signs which can tell us that exclusivity it at work in generating alienation and disintegration: 1. Indifference toward complementary values, ideals, and principles. 2. Indifference toward the suffering of weak and vulnerable people. 3. Preoccupation with issues of control, power, superiority, perfection and imperfections. 4. Being tempted and/or yielding to the temptation to be misleading, deceptive and dishonest --- as means toward the accomplishment of highly valued goals. 5. Focusing attention in increasingly narrower and narrower ways---upon fewer and fewer people, issues, values, ideals, concerns, and/or principles. 6. Increasingly greater and greater attention being focused upon technologies, tools, and manipulative skills. 7. Increasingly greater and greater attention being focused upon laws, orders, commandments, disciplines, rules, regulations, prohibitions, prescriptions, and proscriptions --- to the exclusion of focusing attention upon the importance of gentleness, meekness, grace, love, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, humility, and mercy. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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