This is http://www.essayz.com/a9805241.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.} ========================================================== %EQUIVALENT AFFIRMATIONS DIFFERENT PEOPLE LANGUAGE+980524 %SIMILAR ATTITUDES APPROACHES RELATIONSHIPS LOVES+980524 %CONFLICT RESOLUTION RECONCILIATION COOPERATION 980524 Equivalent affirmations for different people and cultures lead them to similar attitudes, approaches and relationships in love, conflict-resolution, reconciliation and cooperation. Equivalent affirmations are not literally equal or the same in the sense of translations from one language/culture to another --- whether literally in a word-for-word translation or more generally in terms of meanings of successive sentences. Equivalent affirmations may take different forms: stories, poetry, songs, dramas, readings, essays, scriptures, exhortations, videos, dances, music, theses, rituals, sermons, etc. People who are seeking to make equivalent affirmations are often in conflict with each other --- because they do not recognize that their affirmations are equivalent to each other and/or are complementary to each other. All too often people who are making equivalent affirmations --- regard each other as making contradictory affirmations; and seek to advance their own affirmations through the denial of each other's affirmations. They often embroil themselves in coercive conflicts and violence --- which contradict the equivalent affirmations which they were originally seeking to make. We will do well and be well when we seek to ascertain the ways in which our diverse affirmations are in truth equivalent affirmations and/or complementary affirmations. We will be ill-at-ease and diseased when we are suspicious of each other and seek to discover in each other's affirmations --- some evidence which proves that others affirmations are designed to undermine our own equivalent and/or complementary affirmations. Our defensiveness will lead us into insecurity, coercive conflicts and violence --- which will contradict our own affirmations. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================