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 %RECOGNIZE NAME DESCRIBE FUZZY PARADIGM BOUNDARIES+960819
   %UNIFY LOVE PRESENCE GOD PRINCIPLE IDEALS VALUES+960819
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     Each paradigm has its range of propriety,  relevance,
competency  as  regards situations,  contexts,   elements,
relationships,  territory,  etc.    The boundaries between
often  overlapping paradigms are fuzzy boundaries which we
need to recognize, name,  describe and talk about---for us
to  learn  the proper range of propriety for each  of  the
many paradigms pointed to by inter-related words below:

ASTROLOGY       ARITHMETIC      GEOMETRY      ASTRONOMY

PHILOSOPHY      PLATO           ARISTOTLE     MEDIEVAL

ECONOMICS       PHYSICS         MILITARISM    POLITICS

ALCHEMY         MEDICINE        CHEMISTRY     BIOLOGY

OLD-TESTAMENT   NEW-TESTAMENT   KORAN         SIDARTHA

BUDDHA          ZEN             SHINTOISM     TAO

CONFUCIUS       INTIMACY        SEXUALITY     SPIRITUALITY

PSYCHOLOGY      SOCIOLOGY       BUSINESS      MANAGEMENT

     Paradigms  have   evolved   throughout   history   in
interactive  ways as proponents of various paradigms  have
sought to perfect their respective paradigms and claims of
dominance over the territory enclosed by the boundaries of
their  declared paradigms.   Territorial people have often
come    into  conflict  regarding  overlapping  and  fuzzy
boundaries which territorial people often see as sharp.

     Territorial people  are  not  only  likely  to   seek
dominance over their claimed territorial turfs;  they  are
likely  to  try to extend the range of  their  territorial
claims.  Thus proponents of various paradigms are prone to
try  to extend their claims of relevance and propriety  as
regards the efficacy of their paradigm.   As their  claims
come  to  overlap there are bound to be conflicts  at  the
fuzzy boundaries.  The territorial combatants get bound up
in  conflicts  which  originate in,   are  guided  by  and
motivated  by  conflicting  ideas,   ideals,   values  and
principles.    In  seeking to fulfill their commitments to
conflicting  ideas,   ideals,  values and  principles  the
combatants see each other as being "evil" because of their
failures  to  live  up to what seem to  be  the  "obvious"
requirements   of   their   own   respective   conflicting
paradigms.    Vague  calls  for  all  to  be  faithful  to
"family values",    "God",    "moral principles"    and/or
"ethical principles"  are not helpful---for the combatants
have  not articulated  in  open  and honest   ways   their
respective  paradigms   so  as  to make clear the  LIMITED
ranges  over which they are pertinent.

     Each paradigm  has a LIMITED range of  propriety  and
even  within each LIMITED range each paradigm has  LIMITED
competency.    Conflicts  are  bound to arise  when  fuzzy
crossing boundaries are not  clearly described in mutually
satisfactory   ways.       Combatants  get  bound   up  in
territorial  disputes---regarding who is most competent to
deal with particular situations,  contexts,  issues,  etc.
and who is incompetent to deal with particular situations,
contexts, issues, etc.

     Conflicts  between paradigms and  their  incarnations
can be resolved only  in  the presence of  open and honest
dialogue  about integrative desires,   pleasures,   ideas,
ideals and principles.   Dichotomies  are  not transcended
through  battles  but  through open and  honest  dialogue.
Conflicts are not terminated by one side winning,   but by
both sides seeking to  develop  an eternal dialogue  about
their   respective paradigms,     beliefs,    experiences,
pleasures,    desires, fears, apprehensions, hopes, fears,
etc.

     Conflicts between  the  incarnations  of  conflicting
paradigms  can  be  resolved only by people  dedicated  to
promoting     personal    and   communal    integrity   by
working  cooperatively   at  the  boundaries  of   various
paradigms' ranges of propriety.   Through such cooperation
discoveries  can   be  made of the natures  of  the  fuzzy
boundaries  of  the ranges of propriety of each  paradigm.
Often more than one paradigm  will  be  appropriate within
a  given  context, situation,  or conflict over particular
issues.  Exclusive territorial tendencies need to be dealt
with  in  charitable  ways  in the instances  of  properly
overlapping    ranges   of  propriety   of   "conflicting"
paradigms.     There may be  no universe  valid  paradigm.
The  conflict  may  be rooted  in  territorial  tendencies
on  the  part  of  the incarnations  of paradigms---rather
than  in  any   essential  aspects  of  the  "conflicting"
paradigms.

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