This is http://www.essayz.com/b0206192.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.} ========================================================== %TRUE WEALTH COHERENCE INTEGRITIES HEALTH MEANING+020619 %REGULATED HUMAN BEHAVIOR COERCION VIOLENCE LAWS+020619 %CODES RULES REGULATIONS FORMALITIES COMMANDMENTS+020619 %TOOLS MEANS ENDS GODS IDOLATRY DOMINATION SYSTEMS+020619 %TAKE ADVANTAGE POOR PEOPLE DISEASE SICK POWERS SIN+020619 %REDEEM SALVATION FALL SECURITY SAFELY VULNERABLE 020619 Often human behavior is regulated coercively in terms of laws, codes, rules, regulations, commandments, etc. --- which are much tools which domineering people use as often means by which to control, abuse and take advantage of people who are less powerful, wealthy, secure and self- confident. We may become liberated from such legalism and domination by shifting our attention to some basic facts of life: 1. Possessions, wealth, knowledge, and the symbols of superiority are of no value in the absence of a well integrated community which gives meaning to possessions, wealth, knowledge and symbols of superiority. 2. To the extent that communal integrity and civility are absent --- possessions, wealth, knowledge, and the symbols of superiority are without value and meaning. 3. It makes no sense to sacrifice communal integrity and civility in efforts to acquire possessions, wealth, knowledge, and the symbols of superiority --- because doing so will undermine the value and meaning of all that is gained. 4. Personal and communal integrity, civility, meaning, and worth; are all essential parts of a coherent- whole. Thus no essential part of the whole can be sacrificed in any successful effort to augment another part of the coherent-whole --- for just ourself or your favored few. To the extent that we do not share the coherent-whole there is nothing worth having in any meaningful way. 5. Dominant individuals/groups cannot own, control or unilaterally manage the coherent-whole in any meaningful or worthwhile way --- just because of the nature of the coherent: whole, value, and meaning. 6. Coherence, integrity, value and meaning cannot be owned or controlled unilaterally by any dominant individuals/groups --- no matter how hard they try; and no matter what they are willing to sacrifice in their efforts to achieve coherence, integrity, ownership, control and/or dominion. 7. These are not prescriptions which are mandated by any person, group or dominant powers that be. Rather, they are descriptions which point to the nature of all humane realities which are: coherent, whole, valuable and meaningful. 8. To the extent that personal and communal integrities are absent --- to that extent there is nothing which is coherent, whole, valuable and able to give meaning to having anything else; no matter how wonderful it might be to have it within the context of communal and personal integrities which are absent. 9. True wealth is shared and enjoyed only within well integrated personal and communal relationships. 10. True wealth slips out of the hands of people who cling possessively to things, power, control and/or dominion --- at the expense of personal or communal integrities. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================