This is http://www.essayz.com/a9812101.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.} ========================================================== %META LANGUAGE CONSIDERATIONS ANALYSIS ASSUMPTIONS+981210 %ATTITUDES CONVICTIONS BELIEFS ABOUT SELF OTHER SIN+981210 %IDEALS VALUES PRINCIPLES IDEAS GOALS DESIRES EVIL+981210 %FRUITS OUTCOMES CONSEQUENCES BITTER SWEET NEEDS+981210 %REFLEXIVE OBJECTIVE SUBJECTIVE RELATIONSHIPS FAIL 981210 The outcome of any set of close/intimate interactions between objects/people will depend upon the natures of the objects/people --- including the diverse reflexive considerations which are operative within/among them as the relationships and interactions begin and progress. Among such diverse reflexive considerations are likely to be many which are suggested by the following words and/or phrases: NEEDS DESIRES ASSUMPTIONS FEARS ANXIETIES BELIEFS IDEALS VALUES PRINCIPLES DOGMAS CONFESSIONS DECEPTIONS AVERSIONS DIVERSIONS CONVERSIONS EXCLUSIONS INCLUSIONS INTIMACIES FRIENDSHIPS CONFLICTS COOPERATIONS ALIENATIONS RECONCILIATIONS EXCOMMUNICATIONS ETHICS MORALITIES DISCIPLINES DUTIES TABOOS PREOCCUPATIONS CLIQUES MARRIAGES COMMUNIONS COMMUNITIES ENEMIES TRAITORS PARADIGMS REQUIREMENTS EXPECTATIONS The ability of participants in any pattern of interactions to discern the nature of their relationships and the ways in which the above reflexive considerations engender the outcomes/fruits of their interactions --- depends critically upon the above kinds of considerations. Within many communities of participants the participants are not free to share openly and honestly many or any of their most intimate considerations. Estrangement, alienation, prejudices, and confusion may make it impossible for participants to be reflexively open and honest with themselves/others about their most basic and important considerations. It may be contrary to their basic principles/ideals to so share. They may be so full of fear that they cannot conceive of the possibility of openly and honestly sharing their most important and basic considerations. These reflexive considerations play important and basic roles within many contexts suggested by the following notes: 1. Religious communities; and their relationships, doctrines, rituals, governance, and evolutions. 2. Business communities; and their transactions, exchanges, mergers, splits, rituals, laws, adjudications, regulations, and evolutions. 3. Scientific communities; and their transactions, discoveries, publications, technological developments, understandings, and interactions with other communities. 4. Intimate/sexual relationships; including how participants view each other and each other's involvements in various levels of associations, friendships, and intimacies --- because of diverse basic/important considerations, ideals, values, ideas, principles, etc. 5. The extent to which participants in one set of intimate interactions view participants in other sets of intimate interactions as: cohorts, cooperative, trustworthy, reliable, integrative; or as enemies, contestants, untrustworthy, unreliable & disintegrative. 6. Cosmic considerations regarding the natures of the possible beginnings, processes of, and endings of the universe; including our understandings of them within diverse communities of mutual understandings and mis- understandings. 7. Analytic considerations regarding the nature of the most elementary parts of, beginnings of, interactions between, and endings of the fragments of all that we can be aware of, know about, and interact with. 8. Our attempts to transcend in ultimate ways all that is pointed to by these considerations in this and other essays. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================