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                   %COOPERATIVE REALITIES INTEGRITY 860617

     Most    human   realities   survive   through   human
cooperative agreements.

     Some  human realities survive for a time even  though
they  do  violence to truth and human  integrity.    Given
sufficient   determination   humans   can   cooperate   in
maintaining  false  disintegrative realities for a limited
amount of  time.   Such   creations   of  human  will  and
cooperation are fundamentally disintegrative, however, and
eventually it becomes  clear  that the cost of maintaining
them is excessive and better alternatives become apparent.

     Some human realities do not survive for long for lack
of  human determination and cooperation to maintain  them,
even though they could be true and integrative.  Realities
need confirming dialogue to affirm their importance,  else
they wither for lack of confirming affirmations.  Plymouth
Rock  as  an important rock is  maintained  by  confirming
dialogue  regarding its symbolic value.   Its integrity as
an objective rock has been assisted by the maintenance  of
its  symbolic  value  which  has  led  to  human  physical
maintenance  against natural tendencies for  the  rock  to
disintegrate.

     Rocks  have  a  level of objective reality  which  is
independent   of  human  will  and  cooperation.     Human
relationships   are  realities  which  are  entirely   the
creations  of human will and cooperation.   The reality of
human relationships depends primarily upon human  dialogue
which  confirms what is real through affirmations of  what
is  real and valued.   In the absence of relevant dialogue
there can be no certainty as to what is real,  and whether
what is perceived to be real is shared as important.

     The reality of some realities resides essentially  in
their   relational   aspects,   in  the  nature   of   the
relationships  which are  real.   A DNA molecule's reality
exists  by virtue of the relationships among the atoms  of
the molecules.  A reflexive relationship  may  be mutually
confirming/affirming  to varying degrees;  and the reality
thereby  be  real to varying degrees;  e.g.  as  in  human
marriages.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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