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                      %NEED FOR ANALYSIS & JUDGMENT 860810

     There are often situations which call for analysis an
judgment;   e.g.,  when a technical piece of equipment  is
malfunctioning and needs repair.   It  is important to  be
able  to  understand how the components should function in
relationship to each  other,  discover which component  is
not properly functioning,  and to make  judgment as to how
to proceed in making corrective repairs.

     Do all situations call for analysis and judgment? Are
there  situations  in  which  analysis  and  judgment  are
inappropriate,  tending to  lead  to the disintegration of
personal  and  communal  integrity.     Analysis   may  be
irreversible,  leaving  that which is  analyzed apart,  in
parts,  disintegrated.   When people are involved judgment
may  leave  people  alienated,   a   community  in  parts,
disintegrated.

     Analysis  and  judgment  are  often  inappropriate as
responses to that which  has essential  integrity  and  is
holy.   Respect, appreciation, reverence and enjoyment may
be more appropriate  than analysis and judgment. Genuinely
holy people  have  integrity which threatens conventional,
conformal,   people.    Conventional people will  tend  to
analyze the behavior of holy people and find that is  does
not conform to traditional expectations. Such analysis may
be well intended,  but it tends to be disintegrative.  How
are conventional people to know and respect the difference
between behavior which does violence to helpful laws,  and
behavior which in integrative ways transcends conventional
laws where they can not be helpful?

     Holy people may violate laws,  but they  do  not   do
violence to personal or communal integrity; they do not do
violence  to  people as whole  beings  or do  violence  to
communities of whole people in dialogue.   Laws are worthy
of respect to the  extent  to which they promote  personal
and  communal  integrity.   There are some  situations  in
which holy people  transcend  the law to promote  personal
and communal integrity.   Legalists tend  to  condemn holy
people for violating the law in such situations,   because
they do not see the law as a means to  an end,  but rather
see it as the end in and of itself.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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