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    %WORDS LANGUAGES TEXTS SCRIPTURES APPROACH EVIL+980524                                       
  %ASSUMPTION ATTITUDE EMOTION ROOTS CONFLICTS SINS+980524                                              
   %SHOULD OUGHT DUTY EXPECT REWARD PUNISH GRACIOUS+980524                                                                     
 %LOVE CONTROLS CONTENTIOUS HOLY WARS EXPECT ALIENS 980524                
                                                                                                                               
      Some words are perceived, interpreted and understood        
in  contrasting ways by different people  --- who approach      
the  words in speech and text with  different assumptions,                                     
attitudes and emotional luggage.    Often different people                                     
are  quite unaware of the roots of their  differences  and                                     
their contrasting ways of approaching such words. Consider      
the words "should", "ought", "duty" "expect", "reward" and                                                                     
"punish":                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                               
     Some   gracious  people  approach  the  above   words                                                                    
primarily  as descriptive words ---  which carry with them                                                                     
no  connotations  of any call upon them to be  preoccupied               
with issues of control.    The words to not beckon or call                                                           
them  to try to be in control of what they cannot control.                                                           
The words do not suggest to them that they should have the                                                                     
duty, right or privilege of exercising any form of control       
over other people.                                                               
                                                                                                                               
     Some contentious people approach the above  words  as                
prescriptive  words  ---   which  carry  with  them  clear                                                                     
connotations that all people need to  be preoccupied  with                 
issues  of control.   The words indicate to them that they                                                           
and others should act in  ways  to encourage, assure,  and      
guarantee  that  others  will  behave  as  they  "should",                                                       
"ought" and/or are expected to behave --- in the light  of                                                       
their "duty" and likely  "rewards" and/or "punishments".                                                                       
                                                                                                                               
     Such contrasting people may read the same texts; e.g.                                                           
in  scriptures which they share in  common,   and perceive        
contrasting if not contradictory meanings and calls.   For                                                           
some people  the texts containing such words are literally                                                                    
a  clear  and  definitive "Call to arms  in  an  Holy  War                                                                     
against  Evil!   For other people the very same texts  are                                       
received  and  welcomed as "calls  to  gentleness,   love,                                           
repentance, reconciliation, dialogue and cooperation."                                                                         
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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