This is http://www.essayz.com/a9801071.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.} ========================================================== %LAW PROHIBITION PRESCRIPTION TABOO LOVER SIN EVIL+980107 %PURPOSE MOTIVATE FACILITATE UNDERSTAND COOPERATE+980107 %INTERPRET MEANING SELF OTHER ACCEPT REJECT APPEAR+980107 %GUIDE COERCION VIOLENCE SECURITY DIALOGUE OPEN+980107 %HONEST CREATIVE RECONCILIATION CONFLICT RESOLUTION 980107 The purposes of both laws and Love are to motivate and facilitate mutual understanding and cooperation. It is evil, therefore, to interpret the meanings of laws and Love in ways which make self appear to be more worthy and acceptable than other persons. The purposes of both Love and laws are to motivate and guide people to work together towards personal and communal integration. It is evil, therefore, to behave in ways which threaten and undermine either personal or communal integrity. The common purpose of both laws and Love is to bring people together into cooperative communities with integrity. It is evil, therefore, to seek to interpret laws and Love in ways which separate people into many states of alienation. The common purpose of both Love and good laws is to encourage and facilitate both people and communities in real dialogue which is known and felt to be increasingly open, honest and intimate. It is evil therefore to interpret Love and laws in ways which discourage and inhibit open and honest dialogue which is known with confidence to be secure. The common purpose of both good laws and Love is to encourage and promote creative mutual understandings, order and endeavors. It is evil therefore to interpret laws and Love in ways which inhibit creativity, mutuality, understanding, order, and endeavors. The common aims of both Love and good laws are reconciliation and conflict resolution. It is evil therefore to interpret them in ways which engender the beginning and continuation of contentious and alienative conflicts. The common purpose of good laws and Love is communal unity which liberates people from the alienations systematic coercion, deceptive conformity, and rebellious violence. Both laws and Love have failed when people think and behave in alienative ways which are coercive, deceptive, secretive, dishonest, rebellious and/or violent. God is Love and Loves all people in ways which fulfill the purposes of Love. We are commanded to love God and love our neighbors as our selves. When we do not obey this commandment we and our communities disintegrate. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================