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%FEARS CHAOS UNKNOWN HEALTHY ORDER LEAD PEOPLE LOVE+960106
%ACCEPT OPPRESSIVE ORDER IMAGINE TRUE HONEST SAFETY 960106

     Fears  of  chaos and fears of unknown  healthy  order
often lead people to accept oppressive order and orders.

     It  is  hard  to  imagine the  possible  benefits  of
healthy order  which has never been  experienced---because
it  has never been  experienced.  Instead;  misleading  or
confusing order and orders may have been experienced.

     In  the  face of our fears of the  unknown---we  will
often prefer to continue with known terrors, suffering and
foolishness.

When  we  are  in the presence  of  familiar  chaos,
confusion, oppressive order(s),  terrors and fears---it is
easy  to  be  convinced that true love  is  an  impossible
dream; rather than true love being a real miracle which is
known and enjoyed by many healthy people around us.

     To  intelligent  people  who  are  ignorant  of   the
possibilities  of true love which we  cannot  control---it
seems  risky  in  the extreme to trust the  leadership  of
honestly   insecure  love,   over  trusting  the  apparent
security of clever technical defenses which we  seem to be
able to control what is feared.

     The  lessons  of  the  tragedies of  our  clever  but
misguided  attempts to control our  futures---are  lessons
which can lead honest people to see  secure ways to accept
the  guidance  of true love  through the tricky  paths  of
meaningful  intimacy  and vulnerability---which we  cannot
control.

     On  the other hand,  our experiences of the tragedies
of  our  clever  but misguided  attempts  to  control  our
futures---are   experiences  which  are  likely  to   lead
dishonest   people  to  try  even  harder  to  reach  some
imaginary  security  through  the  paths  of   meaningless
controls  and  defenses---which  we believe we can  be  in
charge of, because we are so smart and logical.

     The  true  hope  which honest love  brings  us  seems
insubstantial  and  non-consequential in the face  of  our
substantial defenses, technologies and determinations. Why
give  up  all that we are so sure of---for that  which  we
cannot  control  and be sure of in advance?   How  can  we
answer such a question?

     Do  all of our experiences taken together as a  whole
really  justify  our  being so sure of  our  abilities  to
achieve   meaningful   security  by  means  of   our   own
defensiveness  and  clever technologies---or is  our  self
confidence  based  only upon fantasies which are not  well
grounded  in honest reflections upon our  own  experiences
honestly described to each other in intimate dialogue?

     It  is  only when we relax and stop clinging  to  our
thorny technological treasures viewed as the means to full
control of our futures---that we can find the true ways in
which  true  love  can guide us to make meaningful use  of
such  thorny  treasures---using  them as tools  which  are
truly useful only when we are honestly in love.

     The principles which are congruent with true love are
not  purely technical in nature.   Pure  logical  research
often  leads us towards purely technical manipulations and
and  technical   controls  which  have  unforeseen  tragic
reflexive  consequences.    In  the absence  of  reflexive
vision---tragic consequences are unanticipated.

     Purely  objective  considerations  cannot  anticipate
most reflexive consequences.  This is why pure science and
scientists  do not have and cannot manufacture the keys to
salvation  and heaven---even if they do have and cling  to
theories  of everything which is objectively real.    Such
pure theories are not  the  basis  for wisely manipulating
everything which is objectively real,  no matter how smart
we are, and no matter how hard we try to make them be such
a  basis.   Our preoccupations with such  theories lead us
away  from  reflecting  upon  their inadequacies  and  the
tragic  consequences  of  our  preoccupations---for   such
reflexivity is not  objective.    How can the tragic feed-
back loop be transcended?

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