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   %HUMAN LIMIT FINITE POWER RESOURCE TIME GOD IDOL 930113

     We  as  humans and  our:   families,   organizations,
professions, businesses, cities, states, nations, cultures
and other creations are all finite,  limited. It is useful
to  consider  the various kinds of ways in  which  we  are
limited;  and to respect all our limitations. If we do not
do so, we become idolatrous and disintegrate.

     We are  TIME limited:   We cannot actually do as much
in  a span of time as we can imagine doing;  and we  exist
only for a limited amount of time.

     We are RESOURCE limited:  On our planet there is only
a finite amount of fuel,  energy,  minerals of  each kind,
area,  air, water, etc.  We can imagine doing things which
would  require  more  of  one or more  of  these  than  is
available to us now or ever.

     We  are POWER limited:   the rate at which we can  do
things,   the  speed  with which we can work,   is  always
limited.   We can imagine getting tasks accomplished  much
more  rapidly  than  is  possible  at  the  time  of   our
imaginations.  This truth is never changed by any increase
in how fast we can work.

     We  are  IMAGINATION limited:   While we can  imagine
much more than we can do;  we often are frustrated because
we cannot imagine doing much which we could do, if only we
had the imagination, will, desire, and freedom to do so.

     We  are  LANGUAGE  limited:    Our  vocabularies  are
limited  in  size  and the scope of  realities,  concepts,
relationships,   and  powers  to which we  can  point  and
regarding which we can communicate.  Because we are finite
creatures in finite time/space this will always be so.

     We  are COLLUSION limited:   Our collusive  games  of
mutual   self   deception,    our   addictions   and   our
codependencies  imprison  us; and keep us from  imagining,
dreaming, desiring and doing much which we could otherwise
do.

     We  are KNOWLEDGE limited:   We can deal with only  a
finite number of facts,  data,  relationships, statements,
etc.

     We are PERCEPTION limited:   We are sensitive to only
a   tiny  portion  of  the  electromagnetic  spectrum  and
insensitive  to other kinds of  radiation through which we
might become aware of portions of the universe. Only a few
specialists can  make  use of technologies to expand their
awareness of such radiations.

     We  are  TECHNOLOGY limited:   Only a few people  can
have  access to the most advanced forms of  technology  by
which  to  try to overcome many of our limitations.   Many
forms of  technology have not yet been  developed,  and we
have only a finite amount of time in which to develop more
advanced technologies.

     We  are  UNDERSTANDING  limited:    Our   levels   of
understanding  are  limited  by  the finite sizes  of  our
bodies, brains, and sensory systems.

     We  are EXPERIENCE limited:   In finite lifetimes  we
can  have  only a finite amount of experience in terms  of
which to develop knowledge, skills, and understanding.

     We  are  COOPERATION limited:    Many  goals  can  be
achieved only  through cooperation,  and not all of us are
skilled and willing in cooperation.

     We are CONTROL limited:   There is much which we  may
wish  to control, which is by its essence beyond the range
of  what  we as finite creatures can control.   We  cannot
suspend/repeal the "laws of nature".

     We are CULTURE limited:   We are born,  grow up,  and
die   within   a  particular  culture  with  its   limited
paradigms.  We may  in part transcend  cultural  limits by
travel, reading,  and conversations;  but time limitations
still operate.

     If  we pretend that we are not limited in any of  the
above  ways,   or in other ways in which we  are  in  fact
limited,    then   we  are  participants   in   idolatrous
collusions---and   disintegrate   both   personally    and
communally.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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