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    %INDEPENDENT REALITY HUMAN ISOLATION DETACHMENT 960824

     If we have ultimate faith that we live embedded in an
ultimate reality which is essentially separate from  us---
and  from which we must remain detached to understand  it;
then we are bound by faith to be isolated,  alienated  and
disconnected  from the most important aspects of  what  we
perceive   to  be  "out there".     We will (through   how
we  detach   from  reality)  confirm the validity  of  our
ultimate faith.

     If we  have  ultimate faith that we  live  within  an
ultimate reality in the spirit of that ultimate reality---
and in communion with all aspects of it; we are free to be
true  to  ourselves and each other in regards to  what  we
perceive to be the most important aspects of our lives and
relationships.     We will (through how we seek to  be  in
open  and   honest  dialogue with  personal  and  communal
integrity) confirm the validity of our ultimate faith.

     Neither kind of ultimate faith disproves the validity
of  the contrasting kind of ultimate faith.   Each kind of
faith  leads  toward the confirmation of the focus of  the
faith---even  though the confirmation may not be complete.
Neither kind of ultimate  faith has the power to undermine
the contrasting kind of ultimate faith.    Ultimate faiths
are  not  undermined  by  any  form  of  coercive:  proof,
argumentation,  reason,  logic, science,  experimentation,
etc.

     Some  personal incarnations of integrative faiths (do
through    their   personal   and   communal    integrity)
attract others  who  admire  what  the  see  and  so  come
to   be  additional  incarnations of such  an  integrative
faith.

     Most personal  incarnations of disintegrative  faiths
demonstrate   to   perceptive  people  the   futility   of
disintegrative  faiths   and  so courage  many  perceptive
people  to  shy away from disintegrative faiths.

     The  kinds  of  lives which we  and  our  communities
experience  depend   much   upon our  conceptions  of  the
nature  of  the ultimate reality in which we are embedded.

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