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 %DESCRIBE ANALYZE REAL PERSON RELATE VIOLENCE LOVE 920903

     To  describe,   analyze and cope-with  realities  and
situations  in  terms of an exclusive language and set  of
categories  which are inappropriate to the  realities  and
situations;  is  to  do  violence  to  the  realities  and
situations.  For example,  it does violence to persons and
personal relations to judge/accept/reject them exclusively
in  terms of some legalistic/logical system  of categories
and analysis.

     The  varieties of languages and categories which  may
be   inappropriately/violently  used  in  describing   and
dealing with situations may be associated with particular:
cultures,  professions, institutions,  historical periods,
geographic   regions,    ethnic   minorities,     academic
disciplines, religious   groups,   business   communities,
political movements, etc.

     Many   highly   educated   people  who   are   highly
specialized,   lack self-esteem and self-confidence;   and
seek  to  bolster their lacks with fanatical beliefs  that
their mode  of specialization and exclusion somehow  makes
them superior to other people. They are prone to think and
feel  that their ways of describing,  analyzing and coping
with realities and situations are superior to others;  and
apply  to all kinds of realities and situations.  They are
prone  to describe,  analyze and cope-with  realities  and
situations in terms of their exclusive language and set of
categories,    which  are  inappropriate  to  many   other
realities and situations---and so do violence to the other
realities and situations,   and  to  the other  people who
participate in them.

     It does violence to people and their relationships to
describe,    analyze   and  cope   with   their   intimate
relationships exclusively in terms of  objective/numerical
scientific languages and categories;  whether the intimate
relationships are overtly sexual, or not.

     It does violence to people and their relationships to
describe,    analyze   and   cope  with   their   intimate
relationships exclusively in terms of sexual languages and
categories;  whether  the sexual relationships  are  truly
intimate relationships or not.

     It does violence to people and their relationships to
describe,    analyze   and  cope  with   their   spiritual
relationships exclusively in terms of  objective/numerical
scientific languages and categories; whether the spiritual
relationships are overtly religious, or not.

     It does violence to people and their relationships to
describe, analyze and cope with their religious activities
exclusively   in  terms  of  institutional  languages  and
categories;  whether the religious activities are  overtly
institutionalized, or not.

     Exclusivity  does  not  promote  either  personal  or
communal integrity.

     A  pattern  of  using  languages  and  categories  in
describing  and  coping with realities and  situations  to
which  the languages and categories are inappropriate---is
likely to lead to conflict and violence.  The conflict and
violence   are   unlikely   to  be   reduced   until   the
inappropriate pattern is transcended, and a wider range of
languages and categories are used in describing and coping
with the wider range of realities and situations.

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