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 %JUDGEMENTS FACILITATE BOTH PERSONAL COMMUNAL LOVE+020408
%INTIMACY INTEGRITY CIVILITY CIVILIZATION COOPERATE+020408
   %CONFORMITY IDEAL FORMS ABSOLUTE RIGHT RIGHTEOUS+020408
 %DISEASE ILLNESS HEALTH ACCEPTABLE CONFORMITY SINS+020408
  %RIGHTEOUS SALVATION HISTORY DESTINY MEANING SAVE 020408
                                                          
     There are times in life when it is essential to  make
judgements  to  facilitating both personal  and   communal
integrity.    Yet,  such judgements are  ill  founded  and
engender  illness,  being ill-at-ease,  dis-ease;  and  so
engender medical and mental disease.                      
                                                          
     Ill-founded  judgements are often founded upon and/or
guided by:                                                
                                                          
     1.    Beliefs that humans should all conform to  some
ideal-forms of: right, righteous, proper, acceptable, etc.
The  assumption   is that there are ideal forms  to  which
humans should/must  con-form.  Then judgements have to  do
with comparing actual humans with the ideal-forms to which
all humans should conform themselves.                     
                                                          
     2.  The  belief/fear  that "different"   humans are a
terrible threat to "normal" humans "like-us".             
                                                          
     3.  The  sense  that it is good to be in control, and
that  good people are in control;   so that to be good one
must be in control of other people who are inferior to us.
                                                          
     4.   The sense that human history,  destiny, meaning,
etc. are subservient to, made significant by, and/or under
the  control of ---  mysterious forces,   powers,   and/or
presences  which  somehow   transcend  the   direct  human
knowledge  and experience  of common people.      We  must
depend   upon   the  very  few  un-common people  who  can
apprehend  that  which transcends us; and gives meaning to
our   lives,  tribulations,  and efforts. Of  course, only
such  people can  identify  themselves with certainty!  We
must  trust them  and their judgements  without  question.
They   are  immune  to   the corrupting   effects  of  the
concentration of great amounts of power in any one  place!
Trust them fully!                                         
                                                          
     5.  We could not survive a direct encounter with God,
so He has appointed others with whom we can survive direct
encounters  ---    to act on His behalf and in  His place.
They announce to us who they are in utterly reliable ways.
They  announce to us what are the foundations  for  making
reliable  judgements  ---   except as regards  them,   and
their guidance and use/abuse of us!                       
                                                          
     Helpful  judgements  are founded  upon  understanding
the nature of the  essential foundations for both personal
and communal integrity  ---  as written about elsewhere in
these essays.                                             
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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