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    %JOINT MEANING SATISFACTION COMPLEMENT CONFLICT 890729

     We  find  meaning  and  satisfaction  in  our  mutual
interactions  to the extent that we manage to cooperate in
discovering  how our diverse assumptions  and  experiences
can  complement  each other in making honest sense of  our
interacting lives.

     We   find  frustration  and  despair  in  our  mutual
interactions  to  the  extent that we try to  manage  each
other in attempts to control/dominate each other in  terms
of  our own assumptions and experiences which we regard as
being of ultimate importance and validity.

     Our interactions become meaningful to the extent that
we learn how to resolve the apparent conflicts between our
complementary experiences and points of view.

     Our  interactions  become frustrating to  the  extent
that  we  learn how to satisfy our own apparent  needs  at
each other's expense.

     We  live  together on a finite planet in  an  immense
void.   The amount of space and substance here is limited;
we  must make do with what we have to work with  together.
Ultimately  what each of us does will affect  each  other,
because  we live together on a finite planet in an immense
void.  To pretend that it is otherwise is to play games of
mutual  self deception and to undermine the possibility of
wise decision making.

     In  a closed finite system no component of the  whole
system  can control the whole system.  All  finite  closed
systems are interactive and parts of a whole.  No one part
can  be  in  control of the whole because  all  parts  are
ultimately reflexive in that what happens to any one  part
ultimately  reflects back upon all other parts.  The  more
power any one part has to influence other parts,  the more
powerful are the reflexive interactions. When any powerful
part  pretends otherwise,  there is a destructive delusion
out  of touch with the reality of the finite system  as  a
whole.

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