This-essay is a7608292.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 ========================================================== %FRIENDSHIPS 760829 Friendships facilitate insights which place institutions in a light which makes evident their imperfections. Friendships free isolated individuals from meaninglessness. Friendships involve a few people, especially if the friendships are intimate. Friendships are relationships which create persons. Friendships are not relationships between unchanging elements, the individuals involved. Friendships thus call into question legalistic systems of ethics and morality which would program people into being unchanging elements---interacting according to some fixed program. For this reason, large institutions do not value friendships because the survival of large institutions depends upon programs which promote stability, rather than novelty. Jesus said that where two or three were gathered together "in his name", there he would be also. This has to do with spirit rather than with the word "Jesus". People may gather together in the spirit of Jesus without ever having heard the word "Jesus". People who gather together using the word "Jesus" often do so in a spirit which is contrary to the spirit of the historical Jesus. Jesus had very few close friends. This is the human condition. He did not seek to found any institution. He sought to promote friendship and love, open communication. Institutions are ill-suited to fulfill his mission. He clearly suggested that his mission would be served by two or three gathering together in his name; i.e., a few close friends, not a congregation of strangers. Friendships depend upon privacy. Repressive institutions and individuals who seek to control people thus are prone to invade privacy as a way of preventing friendships; for friendships may undermine the security of the repressive agents. (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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