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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8801081.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %SOCIAL MEANING OF MYSTERIES 880108 We can control only limited aspects of our lives and environment. We may feel that we should be able to exercise control over more aspects of our lives and environment than we can, and so we may feel a sense of failure or disappointment over our inability to exercise control. Our limited ability to exercise desired control is likely to be related to our limited understanding and power to predict the outcome of certain circumstances; and to the inherent paradoxes present when self conscious reflexive people try to understand, predict and control their own behavior and consciousness---including the development of their own attitudes, emotions, ideals, values and goals. In a social setting control is not always possible. Mysteries will exist. The integrity of the community depends in large measure upon how the community integrates mysteries into the fabric of meaning within the community. A total failure to integrate mysteries into the fabric of meaning within the community will ultimately lead to communal disintegration, for such a failure will be part of a collusive/addictive attempt to deny truths about the limitations of the members of the community; i.e., to deny the truths that they have only limited knowledge and powers to gain understanding, prediction and control pertaining to their lives and environment. A community can not enjoy personal and communal integrity if the members of the community are unable to be themselves in open and honest dialogue regarding the mysteries of their lives, including the mysteries of why they fail to live up to their values, ideals and aspirations. A community can not enjoy personal and communal integrity if the members of the community are unable to be true to themselves in open and honest dialogue regarding the experiences which they have, which most profoundly challenge their understandings of themselves and each other. Such experiences include those experiences having to do with their violation of cultural norms, expectations and taboos; whether explicitly articulated, or implicit in covert taboos and collusions. Thus the integrity of a community and its members depends greatly upon what traditions persist regarding failures to live up to communal ideals and expectations. If those traditions lead to the communal integration of what can be learned through the interpretation of the failures, the community will enjoy integrity. If those traditions lead to alienation, the community will disintegrate. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================