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Healthy living includes regular acknowledgement of
finitude rituals. In the absence of such rituals the
natural human tendency is to engage in contradictory
rituals which entail claims of transcendence of finitude
in collusive ways. Such collusive games of mutual self
deception about human finitude do not lay the foundation
for wise decision making, and in reality do quite the
reverse, they undermine the possibility of healthy living
which includes regular acknowledgment of finitude rituals.
Healthy religion includes corporate worship services
which acknowledge the finitude of the participants via
focusing worshipers' attention upon the transcendence of
God relative to the finitude of the worshipers. The
natural unhealthy human tendency is to engage in the
pretense that humans are like God in ways that humans are
not. Dishonest pretense of omnipotence, omnipresence,
eternalness, etc. undermine the possibility of wisely
coping with the realities of human finitude. People who
exercise great power, science, presence and endurance are
more prone to engage in such games of mutual pretense and
deception than are people who are impotent, ignorant,
embarrassed and weak. Humility is a difficult virtue for
the former, an easier virtue for the latter. However
humility may be compromised by being proud of being
humble.
The acknowledgement of finitude entails the
acceptance and affirmation of the value and importance of
essentially mysterious aspects of healthy living. To
compulsively seek to dispel all mysteries is to engage in
contradictory rituals which claim the transcendence of
essential mysteries in collusive ways. People dedicated
to the creation and preservation of knowledge are
especially prone to yield to this temptation; e.g.,
scientists and scholars in search of omniscience as a
means to omnipotence and eternity.
People who are able to acknowledge their finitude in
personal and corporate prayer do so and seek personal and
corporate integrity in honest ways which seek to transcend
the taboos and collusions which deny human finitude. They
seek to power to accept their own acceptance by the power
who accepts them as finite creatures in search of
transcendence over their finitude.
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