This is http://www.essayz.com/a9606064.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.} ========================================================== %SIMPLE CREATURES GOD DOCTRINES DOGMAS MORAL LAW+960606 %COMPLEX RELATIONSHIPS COMMUNITIES HONEST REALITY 960606 The world would be a simpler place if God had created fewer kinds of plants, animals and people. If all people were alike there would be less disagreement about beliefs, doctrines, dogmas, rituals, moral codes and life styles. One size would fit all o.k. Simple minded people seeking the simplicity which God did not create---have a difficult time dealing with God's different complex people, relationships and communities. One size does not fit all satisfactorily. Simple minded people find it hard to be honest about how complicated the reality which God did create really is. Being dishonest about complexity does not simplify our lives; instead it makes life more complicated. Dishonesty breeds many complicated dishonest ways to hide dishonesty via collusive games of mutual self deception. The richness of God's world flows from all the different ways in which different people and other creatures inter-relate. If people were all alike they could not inter-relate in so many different ways; and life would not be so rich with variety. There would not be so many possibilities for creating complementary ways. Life would be dull and boring. It is a pity that so many different people are so busy trying to make other people be alike; i.e., in the the image of the busy people who cannot tolerate variety among people. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================