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   %EXISTENTIAL PERSONAL TRUTH EXPERIENCE RELATIONS 920812

     When  we are dealing with personal existential truths
we  need  to  be  cautious  not to make our  own  personal
generalizations  into  what we regard as absolute  truths.
What   has  been  generally  true  in  our  own   personal
experiences   and  relationships  probably  has  not  been
generally   true   in   the   personal   experiences   and
relationships  of   other persons.   Personal  existential
truths  are  true  to  each  person;   but  they  are  not
necessarily true in general, or in any objective, absolute
or transcendent way.

     Whether  people in any given community is found to be
friendly or cold,  depends greatly upon how the person who
makes  the  finding  approaches the members of  the  given
community.

     Whether a  person is found to  be trustworthy depends
upon  the manner in which the person  making the  judgment
relates to the person being judged.

     Whether  students  are  seen  as  fast  learners  and
creative depends  greatly  upon the teacher's expectations
of  the students;  and how the teacher has related to  the
students as persons.

     Whether  a political leader is a person of  integrity
depends  greatly  upon  the expectations of  the  leader's
constituents.

     Whether  children left at home alone are  trustworthy
depends  greatly  upon  the nature  of  the  relationships
between the children and the parents who are away from the
home.

     Relatively  few of the important truths in our  daily
lives are purely objective truths.  Most of the  important
truths   in   our  daily  lives  are  in  fact   reflexive
existential  truths;  and we need to share them with  this
fact in mind. We need to keep this fact in mind when other
persons share their reflexive existential truths, and when
they  over  generalize   their  own  reflexive existential
truths---treating them as absolute truths.

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