This-essay is a7709141.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 ========================================================== %INVESTMENT WITH MEANING 770914 Human meaning is not an objective reality, it is a subjective reality which is realized through individual and group decisions and actions. We invest, cloth, natural processes with human meaning. The vestments, clothing, with which we give objective processes some humans meaning often cover the objective reality so that we can not perceive it objectively---seeing instead the vestments of meaning as the essential aspects of the reality. Since meanings are subjective realities which are realized through individual and group decisions and actions---it follows that there may be conflict over the political decisions pertaining to the meanings of: personal associations, expressions of affection, sexuality, pornography, conception, abortion, birth, death, marriage, divorce, cohabitation, communal living, etc. The conflict in such instances pertains to the vestments of meaning, not to the objective reality. Many people do not recognize that we have freedom of choice with respect to what meanings we give to objective processes. They believe the meanings are objectively given by powers beyond our control. Such believers perceive the conflicts to be objective in nature. We must discover what meanings have been given to us and respect those meanings. They would seem to think that God named the animals in the Garden of Eden, rather than seeing Adam naming them---investing them with symbols of their meaning according to the primitive tradition of congruence between a creature's name and the creature's essence. Conflict about the meanings of natural objective processes is doubly difficult to resolve if there is conflict about the nature of the conflict itself. Conflict over WHETHER or not the conflict is objective or subjective in nature confuses the conflict resolution process. Each of us may choose which way we will perceive the conflict---and so settle the question in a definitive way to our own satisfaction---even though not to others' satisfaction. Those who choose to view the conflict as an objective process---may then try to force their view upon others, in keeping with their conception of the nature of the process. Those who choose to view the conflict as a subjective process---are not as likely to be violent, because they recognize the role of their choice in the perception. (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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