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     There are many kinds of "truths":

     1.  Objective "truths" which we claim exist out there
apart  from  us---in spite of the fact that they  are  our
sweet  fruits of our efforts to discover them  in  keeping
with our paradigm's assumptions,  approaches, convictions,
methodology, etc.

     2.  Reflexive  "truths"  which have grown out of  our
own  experiences---but  which we do not claim as  our  own
because to do so would make us un-safely vulnerable to the
judgements  and condemnations of those who might  perceive
our  claim  and  report us to the "truth squads"   of  our
communal collusive games of mutual self-deception.

     3.  Communal  "truths"   which  have  been  generated
within our  collusive games of mutual  self-deception  and
which  maintain internal conflicts within us as we  vainly
try  to  integrate  our  reflexive  truths  with  communal
"truths" which originate in communal games of mutual self-
deception.

     4.  Integrative  truths which together we discern  on
our journeys in search of personal and communal integrity.

     5.  Truths about personal and communal disintegration
which  we  only  regretfully acknowledge  after  too  many
experiences which demonstrate and point to those truths.

     6.  Truths about the finite physical resources  which
are  available to us in our solar system---which is but  a
tiny and resource-isolated part of the cosmos.

     7.  Truths  about  the finitude of our  own  physical
lives  as individual persons in a physical cosmos which is
far  more  extensive  in time and space than  we  dare  to
imagine.

     8.  Truths about the limited understandings which  we
have about ourselves as inter-related creatures with views
of  ourselves  as individuals ---  and as a species  which
casts us in very special roles within the cosmos which  we
do not really understand in any unbiased way.

     9.  Truths  about  our alienated relationships  which
flow from our unhealthy pride,  arrogance,   presumptions,
convictions and collusive games of mutual self-deception.

     10.  Special   truths  which  we  maintain  by  being
careful not to be too intimate with people whom we suspect
would not help us to maintain our special truths.

     11.  Special  truths which we maintain  condemnations
and  excommunications  of those who denied,   require  our
special truths --- make no sense to them in terms of their
own personal experiences and integrity.

     12.  Personal  truths  and knowledge about  ourselves
and each other which we discern only as we give and accept
true  gifts of security known as the freedom to be  safely
vulnerable  in balanced ways in each other's unpretentious
and intimate presence.

     13.  Truths  which  we discern only  in  articulating
them fearlessly ---  because we feel no fear  in  bringing
them  out  into the open within our secure communities  of
love.

     14.  Truths    which   we   discern    without    any
articulations  when  we  are together with each  other  in
intimate ways which convey truths which we know not how to
articulate.

     15.  Truths which we suspect may exist,  but which we
do  not  discern,  (and may never discern)   because  they
transcend our bounded abilities to discern and accept them
as true.
                                                                                                                               
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