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  %SIMPLE FUNDAMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS COMPLEX REALITY+951027
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     If  our   experiences,   relationships,    languages,
vocabularies, categories and concepts are limited---we are
bound to perceive reality through simplifying filters  and
be  unaware of the richness and complexity of the  world's
realities and relationships.

     As   our  experiences,   relationships,    languages,
vocabularies,   categories and concepts expand  we  become
able  to perceive reality more fully and  accurately---and
able  to  articulate and share our perceptions more  fully
and accurately.

     Our abilities to experience,  perceive and articulate
the  nature of the world's realities and relationships can
grow  as  we  build  progressively upon  our  earlier  and
simpler     perceptions,     relationships,     languages,
vocabularies, categories and conceptions.

     If we insist that the world must be simple and insist
on reducing it to its fundamentals---we cannot grow in our
ability to experience,  perceive and articulate the nature
of  the  world's realities and relationships---and so  are
limited  in how well we can share with each other in  open
and honest dialogue.

     Fundamentalists  who  insist  upon  the  world  being
simple   and  upon  it  being  understood  in   terms   of
dichotomous  categories   such  as:   yes/no,   good/evil,
right/wrong,  friend/foe,  ally/enemy,  saved/dammed---are
often alienated from  themselves  and others  because they
cannot   deal   honestly  with  the  richness   of   human
experiences  and relationships.   They often  insist  upon
simplifying   their  reports  of  their  experiences   and
relationships---to  the point  of  being  dishonest  about
them.    Their simplistic dogmatic theories are inadequate
to  the  task  of dealing with  reality  both  openly  and
honestly---and so  they alienate themselves and  others in
their worship of their simplistic dogmatic theories.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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