This is http://www.essayz.com/b0003092.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.} ========================================================== %METHODOLOGICAL DILEMMA PROVE DOMINATION SYSTEM SIN+000309 %OBJECTIVE SUBJECTIVE REFLEXIVE REALITY RELIABLE+000309 %SCRIPTURAL INTERPRETATION SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH KNOW 000309 There is a major methodological dilemma when it comes to assessing overt and covert claims and counter-claims about realities such as: "The Domination System", "Collusive Games of Mutual Self Deception", "Addictions" and "Codependent Relationships": 1. To what extent are they "objective", "subjective", "reflexive", "spiritual", etc? 2. Can consensus be reached among diverse persons in regards to them? 3. Are there unbiased ways of finding out what is true about them, and what of all that is said about them is misleading or false? 4. How can one identify people who are free of bias about such realities? 5. How can one identify scriptures, interpretations- of-scriptures and institutions which are free of bias in regard to such realities? 6. How can we free ourselves of any tendencies towards bias, prejudice and domination which may flow from any such "realities" which are really real --- apart from our own conceptions, imaginations, wishes, hopes and fears? 7. In what ways, if any, do such "realities" manage to discourage, repress, suppress, confuse and/or pervert our healthy/integrative personal relationships which might be or become contexts for feared open-and-honest: revelations, articulations, talk and dialogue. The latter might, after all, subvert the "integrity" of the "realities". Supporters of the "realities" cannot permit any such subversion --- no matter what it costs to prevent any such subversion. 8. Are supporters of "The Domination System" more responsible for occasions of coercion, violence, conflict, deception, seduction, entrapment, exclusivity, rejection, alienation, and excommunication --- than are true lovers? 9. Do supporters of "The Domination System" act in ways which discourage, inhibit, undermine, repress, and/or conceal healthy relationships between true lovers --- which are integrative and worthy of honor, encouragement and support? 10. Can supporters of "The Domination System" or true lovers truly be helpful by passing judgment upon each other and suggesting or calling for appropriate punishments which fit their crimes, trespasses, sins, etc? (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================