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               %CONTEXTUAL MEANING AND SIGNIFICANCE 870324

     All  important  meanings and significances depend  in
large   measure  upon  contextual  considerations.     The
meaning/significance   of  any  symbol,   signal,    word,
statement,  ritual,  action,  gesture,  doctrine,  person,
community, culture, nation,  etc. depends in large measure
upon its temporal and spacial  contexts. Each depends upon
its relationships with  the  whole  for  its  meaning  and
significance.    No  part  of a whole can define  its  own
meaning  and significance without respect for the whole of
which it is a part.

     To  the  extent  that a part is unrelated to and  not
integrated within a whole it tends to be an  insignificant
part,   making no important difference to the rest of  the
whole.    To make a difference there must be some kind  of
interaction and relationships.

     Interactions  may  be  interactions  of  frustration,
alienation,  estrangement, rejection, violence,  coercion,
control,  etc.   Such interactions may be significant, but
they  are not welcomed in a positive way.   Disintegrative
interactions  are  protests  against  the  lack  of   more
significant integrative  interactions.   A  total lack  of
interaction is more  feared than is the terror of negative
interaction.   Indifference is sometimes more feared  than
hostility,   and  hostility  is sometimes generated  as  a
defense against defense against indifference.   People are
not  indifferent  toward violent people,  so  some  people
choose   violence   as  the  way  to   escape   from   the
disintegrative   consequences   of  being   treated   with
indifference.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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