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   %THEOLOGY GOD SPIRIT TALK PERSONIFICATION EMBODY+940707
    %ARROGANCE ALIENATE EVIL RELATIONSHIPS DESCRIBE 940707

     It  is  difficult to accurately represent (in  formal
language)    what  we  can  know  about  reflexive   human
relationships  among  humans  and  with  other  creatures.
There are various responses to the difficulty:

     1.  Don't  try  to offer any representation;  pretend
that reflexive human relationships do not merit attention.

     2.  Seek  to  represent what we can know;  by way  of
stories which indirectly offer insights.

     3.  Develop myths about life in which stories play  a
major role.

     4.  Develop theologies in which the focus is upon the
nature  of  a  personal God and what God  has  done  in  a
personal way about creation, creations, and humans.

     5.  Develop  philosophies  of life which  focus  upon
abstractions and sayings which point to what we can know.

     6.  Describe   particular  human  relationships   and
generate generalized descriptions which summarize patterns
that  are  observed  in the course  of  developing healthy
human relationships.

     Some  people insist that their chosen way of  dealing
with  the  difficulties of representation is the  one  and
only  true  way of dealing with the  difficulties.    They
usually  alienate themselves from other humans.   They  do
not  listen to others who differ from them.   They do  not
communicate effectively with others who differ from  them.
They  do  not  deal  effectively  with  the   difficulties
entailed in human differences because they think that they
are the only people who truly  know how to deal with those
difficulties.   Their arrogance is disintegrative of  them
and others.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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