This-essay is a7901261.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 ========================================================== %MEANINGFUL MYSTERIOUS RELATIONSHIPS 790126 The meanings of our lives do not flow out of relationships which we fully understand and control. The meanings of our lives come from that which transcends us, not from that which we control with deliberation. In a figure of speech we may say that the meanings of our lives come from "within" us; yet we are not thereby saying that we understand and control the source of the meaning of our lives. That which is "within" us may meaningfully transcend our understanding and control. We do not understand and control all that is "within" us. If we concern ourselves only with relationships which we can understand and control, we will tend to live meaningless lives; even though they may be sophisticated, complex, busy, cultured, respectable, religious, honorable, etc. Conventional criteria for good living tend to promote conventional living, not creative loving. Loving is mysterious at its best. Sophisticated technology does not form the basis for meaningful human relationships and living, not even when the technology is mysterious. Technology grows out of human understanding and manipulation, out of human control. Technology does not transcend us, we create it, and it may become our idol. The idolatry of technology is not the basis for meaningful mysterious relationships between us. Sophisticated technology does not free us to have meaningful human relationships. Technology does not cast out the fear of meeting in mystery, it intensifies the fear of meeting in mystery where there is no understanding through control, and vice versa. The kind of self-understanding which is provided by the sciences is not the basis for meaningful mysterious relationships. The sciences do not seek to live in meaning within mystery. The sciences seek to measure, classify, and bound; not to find meaning in contexts and subjective/reflexive intimacy. The mysteries of science are those of ignorance, not those of intimacy and its kinds of knowledge. The mysteries of science are dispelled by acquiring knowledge. The mysteries of intimacy are deepened through the kind of knowledge which comes through union. The knowledge of science does not dispel the fear of union, only love does. (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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