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  %MANIPULATIVE KNOWLEDGE ALIENATION EVIL IGNORANCE 940524

     Manipulation  plays  an essential role  in  achieving
manipulative knowledge---and in generating the alienations
which stand in the way of enjoying true intimate  personal
knowledge.

     We  gain objective knowledge by manipulating  objects
and observing, measuring and computing their consequential
trajectories through  space-time.   We  say  we understand
objects   when  we can compute  and predict how they  will
behave for a short time as a consequence of how they  have
been manipulated.

     We  seem  to  gain  short  term  objective  knowledge
through  deliberate separation (through  distance,   time,
attitudes,  assumptions, beliefs, approaches, alienations,
etc.)---and through such deliberate separations we let  go
of and/or fail to apprehend and  enjoy knowledge within I-
Thou   relationships   which  are  subjective,   personal,
intimate,  reflexive, spiritual, and sexual.

     We  often  fail to recognize or admit the  extent  to
which   our  "successful"   ways  of  seeking  to  achieve
manipulative knowledge are ill-suited to the  apprehension
and enjoyment of intimate personal knowledge.    Not  even
our costly patterns of personal and communal illnesses and
disintegrations make much of an impression upon us.  We do
not  recognize  or  admit  that  our  illnesses  might  be
pointing  to  how  ill-suited  our  manipulative  ways  of
"knowing"   are to  the   apprehension  and  enjoyment  of
intimate personal and communal knowledge and integrity.

     Many  scientists have moved so far out of  touch with
the nature of intimate personal knowledge---that they seek
to know the nature of God and of His Lawful and Successful
Management of the sequences of events in time and space---
through   violent human   manipulations of   objects   and
human quantitative perceptions  of  them.     Manipulative
technocrats,    religious  leaders  and  scientists   have
provided    us   with  many  clever  tools    of   violent
manipulation which we have  been  taught  to regard as the
means to our salvation.   In our addictions we fixate upon
such  manipulative tools and find it unthinkable  that  in
restful stillness and  gentleness  we might come  to truly
know ourselves,  each other and God in secure intimacy and
vulnerability.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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