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   %META PRETENSE DISHONESTY TOLERATE CONFLICT EVIL+930110
  %KIND REALITY RELATIONSHIP SELF OBJECT OTHER EVIL 930110

     There  are  various kinds of  realities  and  various
kinds  of relationships among realities.  We may,  or  may
not,  ourselves consider these various kinds of  realities
and relationships. We may, or may not, be reflexive.

     At  the least there are objects,  elementary parts of
objects, people as whole beings, other kinds of animals as
whole  beings;   and various kinds of relationships  among
these kinds of realities.

     We  may observe objects and the  relationships  among
objects;   and as people who behave as scientists,  we may
seek to understand the objects and their relationships  in
detached objective ways.

     We  may  observe objects and seek to  understand  the
nature  of objects and their  inter-relationships  through
analysis  of  objects  into their  elementary  constituent
parts and into the relationships  among  those  elementary
constituent parts; as elementary particle scientists do.

     We   may  observe  people  as  objects  and  seek  to
understand  the nature of people as objects  and  seek  to
understand  their inter-relationships through analysis  of
the people and their elementary constituent parts,  and of
the  relationships  among  those  elementary   constituent
parts; as compulsively objective social scientists do.

     We may  observe  and  relate to each other  as  whole
persons,  and seek  to  understand  each  other  as  whole
persons interacting in webs of social communities in which
the  parts  are created by and create  the  contexts;   as
wholistic social scientists seek to do.

     We  may  focus our attention upon our sensory  organs
and  how it is that we as whole people are aware of  other
people and objects in the universe, and seek to understand
how we interpret our awareness of other people and objects
in  the universe  through  cognitive processes  rooted  in
sensory data.

     We may become focused primarily upon our own internal
considerations,   and/or upon other people's own  internal
considerations; giving little attention to primary sensory
data---as philosophers and theologians and others of their
kind often do.

     We  may  become focused primarily upon how groups  of
people interact with each other.

     There are many different ways in which  people  focus
their lives.

     Some people become so narrowly focused in their lives
that  they lose sympathetic contact with  people  who  are
quite different from themselves;  they become out of touch
with different people and do not respect them. Their being
out of touch may be through neglect: or it may be out of a
conviction that exclusivity is inherently good;  if it  is
their kind of exclusivity.

     We will do well to consider whether there is any kind
of  exclusivity which is good in any kind of context.   It
may well be that  all  kinds of exclusivity are inherently
disintegrative; evil.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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