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                            %EMOTIONS AND DECISIONS 730921

     Within the academic and the religious communities  it
is  common to feel that if and only if one knows  what  is
good---will one decide to do the good.   The focus is thus
often  upon analysis of what constitutes goodness because,
it is assumed,  it will follow as a  natural  consequences
that  people  will decide in favor of goodness---once they
know what it is.

     Some  may  object,   saying  that  academicians   and
religious leaders talk of the fallen nature of man, and of
evil,   and  of  other related topics.  This  pointing  to
reality  should  not  be denied.   The  helpful  question,
however,  is:  What do academicians and religious  leaders
say  through their decisions and actions?   Talking is but
one  among the many  channels  of communication.   Through
decisions   and  actions  a  person  may  offer  disparate
messages which contradict their own verbal communications.
The helpful question is:   Do  leaders acknowledge through
their decisions  and actions a mutual awareness of,  and a
mutual understanding of the  sources of  motivations which
lead to others'  decisions and actions?    Do the academic
policies  of  colleges and universities  acknowledge  what
theologians    and psychologists know of human nature?  Do
religious  leaders  lead  in  ways which  acknowledge  the
realities which  are pointed  to  in  the  text  books and
lectures of the sociologists, theologians,  psychiatrists,
physicists,  astronomers,   etc?   Do these teachings have
carry-over value?

     Any existentially aware self knows (not  objectively)
that  decisions and action do not flow from knowledge,  so
much  as from emotion and human relatedness,  or  lack  of
relatedness.    Knowledge  by  itself  does  not  generate
motivation.   Many know of the tragic consequences of  the
use of heroin,  alcohol,  sexuality,  or excessive energy.
Yet, many who know the tragic natural consequences of such
use---systematically   engage  in  the  use  which   leads
directly  to  the  tragic  consequences which  they  might
honestly anticipate.

     To engage  in  being helpful it is  essential  to  be
mutually   aware  of  the  central  role  which  emotional
security  within  a  fail-safe  context  plays  in  making
possible   creative   motivation---leading   to   creative
decisions  and  actions.   If this reality and  those  who
point  to  it are not accepted,  the natural  consequences
will be tragic.
                         (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in
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