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                             %CHOOSING WHAT IS REAL 870316

     Are  objects more real than our experiences?    Which
realities are more important to us?   Is the answer to the
question  to  be  found in objective  reality  or  in  our
experiences?    Is  the answer an objective reality or  an
existential reality?   How can we know?  Choose?   Decide?
Discover?

     Regardless of which way we choose to regard the above
questions;   how  do  we proceed to view  our  choices  as
reasonable, acceptable, wise, integrative?  Are those ways
themselves reasonable,  informed, integrative; or are they
part of games of mutual self deception?

     If  we choose to regard the most  important  ultimate
realities   to  be  physical  objects  whose  essence   is
independent  of our choices;  why do we make such choices?
In  terms of what realities are we to  most  integratively
understand our own behavior?   In terms of our choices can
we make sense of our choices?  If not, why not?  If we can
not understand our  choices  within  the  context  of  the
affirmations  made  by  our  choices,   how  can  we  with
integrity regard ourselves as  having  integrity?    If we
lack  integrity  does  it make sense to claim  to  have  a
coherent  conception  of  the universe with our selves  as
part of the universe?   Can we objectively understand  our
selves as part of the  objective  universe,  doing so with
objectivity appropriate to our  conception of the universe
as an objective reality?

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