This is http://www.essayz.com/b0201201.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.} ========================================================== %KNOWING KNOWLEDGE BITTER SWEET FRUITS EXPERIENCE+020120 %LEARNING CAUSE EFFECT CONSEQUENCES FEED-BACK LOOP+020120 %KINDS UNKIND ANCIENT ABSOLUTE TRUTHS IDOLATRY SIN+020120 %CONFUSION CHAOS AMBIGUITY PARADOX CERTAINTY DEVIL+020120 %MISLEADING LOCAL ISOLATED ESTRANGED ANALYSIS GOOD+020120 %DOCTRINE SCRIPTURES CONFESSIONS RITUALS TRADITION 020120 It has been said that "You shall know them by their fruits." What/who are "them" and "their fruits"? There are many possibilities --- including: "Them" REJECTIONS INCLUSIONS CONDEMNATIONS COMMENDATIONS ARROGANCE HUMILITY CONTENTIOUSNESS COOPERATION EXCLUSIVITY HOSPITALITY COERCION CIVILITY PURIFICATIONS INTEGRATIONS EGOCENTRISM COMMUNAL-INTEGRITY COMMUNISM PERSONAL-INTEGRITY DAMNATION CONSUMMATION SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS HEALTHY-RELATIONSHIPS PERFECTIONISM HEALTHY-HUMOR ADDICTIONS HEALINGS CODEPENDENCY INTER-DEPENDENCY UNILATERAL-RESCUES COOPERATIVE-WORK CONTROLLERS ROLE-MODELS DOMINATION LIBERATION TECHNOCRATS INTEGRATIVE-LOVERS MILITARISTS PEACE-MAKERS JUDGEMENTALISTS INTEGRATORS PRETENDERS AUTHENTIC-PEOPLE COPY-CATS CREATIVE-INVENTERS DEMANDERS FACILITATORS COMMANDERS DEMONSTRATORS Fruits War Shalom Alienation Reconciliation Destruction Construction Ill-will Good-will Dis-ease Being-at-ease Disease Being-healthy Fragmentation Integration Anger Good-will Revenge Hospitality Blindness Visions Pain Mutual-pleasures Anxiety Tranquility Battle-fields Sanctuaries Depression Joy Repression Liberation Suppression Expression Legalisms Creativity Judgementalism Tolerance Extremism Balance Terrorism Shalom It is often not easy to distinguish "them" from their fruits! "They" and "their-fruits" are cyclic; feeding each other for good or ill! Bitter fruits contain the seeds of the trees and plants which bear bitter fruits. Sweet fruits contain the seeds of the trees and plants which bear sweet fruits. If we desire bitter fruits, we plant the seeds of our bitter fruits. If we desire sweet fruits, we plants the seeds of our sweet fruits. The tragedy is that some of us have not know sweet fruits, having known only bitter fruits. Some of use have been so confused that we have confused bitter and sweet fruits; and plant the wrong kinds of seeds --- and maintain our tragic confusions --- and confuse many others. Some of us are so confused that we resent others who seek to help liberate us from our confusion, pain and loved bitter fruits. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================