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This is http://www.essayz.com/b0801292.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.} ========================================================== Click on WELCOME for a quick tour of essayz.com ========================================================== %DETERMINING MEASURE REALITY AUTHENTICITY COHERENT 080129 %DEBATE DIALOGUE AGREE DESCRIBE PRESCRIBE PROSCRIBE 080129 %PERSONAL COMMUNAL SCIENTIFIC ECONOMIC POLITICAL IT 080129 %RELIGION SPIRITUAL SCIENTIFIC ENGINEERING MILITARY 080129 %BUSINESS CORPORATE CORPORATIONS PERSONS TRUE LOVER 080129 %GREED GENEROSITY HOSPITALITY CIVILITY AUTHENTICITY 080129 Can something be important and worthy of discussion if it is not-real? How can we decide that something is real; or is not real? If that decision cannot be made reliably, can we know with confidence that we are discussing all important realities that are worthy of discussion? The following are possible questions related to whether some reality is real: 1. Can many different people see, hear, touch, feel, taste and/or smell the reality and agree on what they have experienced of the reality --- through shared descriptions? 2. Has the reality been described many times in oral and/or written stories, accounts, news articles, poems, etc. 3. Have skeptics about the reality often been convinced that it is real? 4. Have measurements be made in reliable ways to quantify the nature of the reality; and confirm that its nature is enduring? 5. Have people agreed upon the that ways in which the reality behaves under specified conditions? 6. Does the reality play an important role in the daily lives of a significant number of people? 7. Has the reality been a persistent presence to people who have tried to be rid of it? 8. Are there other realities and processes which cannot be understood and/or dealt with --- without taking seriously that the questioned reality is authentically what it is said to be? 9. Is there a large body of evidence from people all around the world that the questioned-reality is authentically what it is said to be? 10. Can we cope effectively while persistently claiming that a "Questioned-Reality" is actually not real? With the above questions in mind; discuss whether the following are real; and if so, in what ways are they real? 1. "Forces-of-History"? 2. "Economic-Forces"? 3. "Moral-Forces"? 4. "Moral-Laws" that determine consequences of actions? 5. "Inherently-Evil-People"? 6. "inherently-Good-People"? 7. Heaven? 8. Hell? 9. Purgatory? 10. Boundaries around the cosmos? 11. A unique location of God? 12. A personal God with whom we can be in dialogue? 13. God with knowable characteristics? 14. A destiny for the cosmos? 15. Forces which give meaning to human lives? 16. Meanings of particular persons' lives? 17. Meanings of particular communities? 18. Meanings of particular events/relationships? 19. Personal lives after personal deaths? 20. Communal lives after communal deaths? 21. Means to salvation and/or redemption? 22. Means to insure communal/personal integrities? 23. Means to prevent tragedies? 24. Means to prevent catastrophes? 25. Means to eliminate risks? 26. Means to achieve invulnerability? Be-Together in the Many-Gracious ways of Shalom. (c) 2008 by Paul A. Smith in "Search for Honesty and Integrity" (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================