This is http://www.essayz.com/a9406251.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %CONFLICT VIOLENCE BATTLE WAR DISINTEGRATION SIN+940625 %DEVIL UNBALANCED RESPECT PARADIGM MUTUAL EXCLUDE+940625 %PARADIGM QUESTION ANSWER PEOPLE SPIRIT OBJECTIVE+940625 %TECHNOCRATIC SCIENCE RESOLUTION ELIMINATE OPPOSITE 940625 The probability of conflict/violence and the level of probable conflict/violence are heightened whenever people give unbalanced respect and support to paradigms which are mutually exclusive in dichotomous ways---reducing questions to those with yes or no answers; reducing people to good people or evil people, reducing reality to impersonal objects/elements or inanimate spirits/gods. Such unbalanced respect/support reduces the possibilities of creative conflict resolution, and reduces all conflicts to attempt to eliminate the incarnations of the complementary point of view. Compulsive objectivists seek to eliminate all awareness of non-objective realities through reductionism and through collusive games of mutual self deception which eliminate knowledge of or acknowledgement of reflexive realities which cannot honestly be reduced to objective elements and their interactions. Compulsive objectivists are dedicated to the task of eliminating awareness of all that they cannot reduce to manipulable elements, atoms and particles. Thus they set themselves up to be in eternal conflict with people who seek to resolve conflicts violence through open and honest reflexive relationships which cannot be reduces to manipulable elements, atoms and particles. Compulsive objectivists fear reflexive openness, honesty, intimacy and sexuality---for through them will be exposed all collusive games of mutual self deception and attempts to be in unilateral control. People who focus attention exclusively upon objects and objective knowledge do so in efforts to eliminate knowledge of reflexive realities and acknowledgment of the significance and meaning of reflexive realities. For them, true living becomes insignificant and meaningless, and not worthy of consideration or respect. Arms races towards global destruction then makes sense to them in glorious preparations for the ultimate conflict between the forces of good and the forces of evil. They and their opponents in their paradigmatic conflicts join forces in supporting the development of weapons of global disintegration to eliminate all the enemies in the world. Such people have motivated and guided the arms races of the world. The probability of conflict/violence and the level of probable conflict/violence are heightened whenever people give unbalanced respect and support to paradigms which are mutually exclusive in dichotomous ways---reducing questions to those with yes or no answers; reducing people to good people or evil people, reducing reality to impersonal objects/elements or inanimate spirits/gods. Such respect/support reduces the possibilities of creative conflict resolution and reduces all conflicts to attempt to eliminate the incarnations of the complementary point of view. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================