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%BLESSINGS 770910
It is a blessing when one person with love and
justice affirms another person's doing that which brings
that person pleasure, satisfaction, and a sense of
personal meaning. They are doubly blessed when the
relationship is reciprocal through mutual awareness and
understanding. The blessings are not POSSESSIONS which
are owned, maybe with ownership transferred. The
blessings are realized only in mutuality and become as
nothing when an effort is made to possess and control.
Blessings are imperfect when they involve injustice--
-when one or more people are violated in the affirmed
action which brings pleasure, satisfaction, and a sense of
personal meaning. Stealing is not a blessing; neither is
rape, embezzlement, murder, torture, war, cheating,
ridicule, shunning, excommunication, monopolism, slavery,
etc.---regardless of how much personal pleasure,
satisfaction, and a sense of personal meaning such an
activity may bring to any one or more persons. Meaningful
blessings do not involve injustice---because the more
fully all affected persons affirm the doing, the more
meaningful to all is the blessing.
Technocrats seek to achieve blessings as if they were
goals to be realized through manipulative techniques. The
objective procedure in which technocrats tend to
specialize---exclude the possibility of all-around
subjective justice. Justice defined in exclusively
objective terms is injustice which weighs against the
possibility of blessed relationships between people. Thus
the technocrat's way will not achieve states of
blessedness. Real pleasure, satisfaction, and personal
meaning are not goals achieved through the use of
techniques which are exclusive.
POSSESSIVE societies enjoy few blessings because
their focus is upon POSSESSIONS---rather than upon the
affirmation of meaningful dialogue between people. The
competition for POSSESSIONS tends to undermine reciprocity
and mutuality. Compulsive competition for POSSESSIONS
occasions injustice which undermines blessedness.
POSSESSIVE societies tend to be exclusively objective and
so unable to enjoy the integrity of I-Thou relationships.
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