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 %RELIGION PHILOSOPHY LIFE PARADIGM TRAGEDY FORTUNE 960701

     Each  person and community functions in terms of some
philosophy of life,  religion,  or other form of  paradigm
which in one way or another seeks to make sense of:

     1.  Misfortunes
     2.  Fortunes
     3.  Catastrophes
     4.  Successes
     5.  Failures
     6.  Mistakes
     7.  Tragedies

     Making sense often entails some of the following:

     1.  Blaming others
     2.  Fate
     3.  Personal merit
     4.  Personal imperfections
     5.  God's will
     6.  God's impotence
     7.  God's non-existence
     8.  An irrational cosmos
     9.  A chaotic cosmos

     Often  attempts  to  make sense  of  experiences  are
disintegrative  of persons and communities.   The  efforts
may   engender  disintegrative  attitudes,    assumptions,
beliefs, conflicts, values, ideals, principles,  rules-of-
thumb.

     We need to examine the patterns of consequences which
flow  from  various attempts to make sense of  undesirable
experiences.  By their fruits we may come to know them.

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