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%TOLERATE ACCEPT AFFIRM SUPPORT LIKE+790716
%LOVE COMMUNICATE DIALOGUE PERSON 790716
We may affirm people without liking them or what they
stand for. We may affirm people without liking or
approving their behavior. To affirm a person is to accept
their reality at a profound level, to respect their
reality. To-love and to-affirm have much in common if
both are understood in non-manipulative ways which relate
to open communication. Both involve positive action.
Toleration may be passive.
Affirmation may be and often is a non-cognitive act.
Affirmations may be entirely non-verbal. To affirm a
person is not the same as agreeing with the person, or
supporting what the person supports. To affirm a person
is to acknowledge being in a common condition of being
human with the person. The essence of a personal
affirmation can not be captured in words and manipulated
with logical clarity and precision. The essence of
personal affirmations are known subjectively by subjects,
not objectively by objective analysts. Affirmations are
not propositions, declarations, pronouncements, statements
of truth, etc. It is not reasonable to disagree with a
personal affirmation, any more that it is reasonable to
disagree with a personal affirmation any more than it is
reasonable to disagree with a smile.
To affirm is to be in dialogue in some way which is
profound---possibly in disagreement which is profound and
mutually respectful. We often affirm people by the manner
in which relate to them in disagreement. To coldly ignore
a person involves more disaffirmation than to violently
and even uncharitably disagree with the person. To
maintain dialogue involves affirmation, even if the
dialogue is contentious. Love is the power which
maintains dialogue in spite of the demands of other values
that dialogue be compromised for manipulative purposes.
Affirmation confirms the person-hood of the other.
Disaffirmation calls into question the person-hood of the
other. We relate as equals to those persons whom we
affirm. We seek to relate as superiors to those people
whom we disaffirm. Arrogance, elitism, excommunication,
exclusivity, and the like are inconsistent with the
affirmation of persons.
To affirm a person is different than to affirm a
proposition, truth, belief, truth, fact, etc. While there
are significant similarities, there are also important
differences due to the differences in the nature of that
which is affirmed. To ignore those differences is to
disaffirm people.
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