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This is http://www.essayz.com/b0701123.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.} ========================================================== %DOCTRINES TEACHINGS DOGMA MYTHS PARABLES SIMILES 070112 %RIGHTS WRONGS ETHICS MORALITY RELIGION GOD HEAVENS 070112 %EMPHASIZED PRIORITIES ISOLATED PARTICULAR PERSONS 070112 %REQUIRED FORBIDDEN SANCTIONED SANCTIONS REWARDS IT 070112 %THOU INTIMATE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS SEXUALITY SIN 070112 %PERFECTION SUPERIORITY INFERIORITY REJECTED FALLEN 070112 Teachings regarding: ethics, morality, rights, wrongs, good, evil, religion, God, heaven, hell, etc. --- have often emphasized Isolated-Particular: actions, rituals, beliefs, etc. which are to be required or forbidden; either/or --- with Sanctions-and-Rewards Prescribed-in-Great-Detail. The above ways of approaching our need for some regulation of extremes of human behavior --- tragically encourage some of the extremes of human behavior among those people who try to regulate the extremes; e.g.: domination, controls, micro-management, excommunications, crusades, addictions, perfectionism, purifications, polarizations, dichotomies, etc. We Would-Do-Better and More-Often Enjoy-Shalom- Together --- were we to Seek-to-Mitigate The-Extremes-of- Our-Human-Behaviors in terms of Less-Sharply-Drawn: guidelines, boundaries, suggestions, role-models, demonstrations, principles, values, ideals, . . . . which would Point-US-Toward: attitudes, desires, hopes, beliefs, expectations, concerns, anxieties, fears, warnings, perspectives, view-points, . . . . Which-Merit- Joint-Sympathetic: consideration, meditation, dialogue, honor, and perhaps even reverence --- and Point-US-Away- From Those-Which-Entail Great-Dangers. We need to be Warned-About-The-Dangers-Inherent in: 1. Arrogance, 2. Self-Righteousness, 3. Alienations, 4. Excommunications, 5. Airs-of-Superiority, 6. Implications-of-Inferiority, 7. Unilateral-Actions, 8. Hubris, 9. Domination, 10. Polarizations, 11. Dichotomizations, 12. Concentrations-of-Power, 13. Concentrations-of-Wealth, 14. Concentrations-of-Luxuries, 15. The formation of Political-Coalitions, 16. The formation of Religious-Coalitions, 17. The formation of Corporate-Coalitions, 18. Trusting-Technologies-and-Technocrats, 19. Trusting-Absolute-Truth(s), 20. Trusting-Well-Known-Gods, 21. Patterns of Exclusivity, 22. Patterns of Manipulations, 23. Patterns of Segregation, 24. Simplistic-Judgementalism, 25. Invulnerability, 26. Technocratic-Security, 27. Technocratic-Certainty, 28. Total-Objectivity, 29. Total-Subjectivity, 30. Avoiding-Reflexivity. We need to be warned about how the dangers inherent in the above are ALL Inter-Dependent with each other. We need to have pointed out to us how the advantages inherent in complementary-virtues are ALL Inter-Dependent with each other. We need to have pointed out to us how the advantages and dangers inherent in ALL-OF-THE-ABOVE are Inter- Dependent upon each other --- in complex ways which simpletons cannot perceive with any clarity --- an additional hazard which we need to cooperate with each other to deal with in adequate ways. Be Graciously-Together in the Many-Ways-of-Shalom. (c) 2006 by Paul A. Smith in "Search for Honesty and Integrity" (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================