This is http://www.essayz.com/b0206261.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.} ========================================================== %DEEP PROFOUND DIFFICULTIES DIFFERENCES IMPERFECT+020626 %IDEALS VALUES PRINCIPLES GUIDELINES COMMANDMENTS+020626 %LAWS JUDGEMENTS CONDEMNATIONS COMMENDATIONS LOVE+020626 %SCRIPTURES BOOKS ORDERS PRESCRIPTIONS PROSCRIPTION+020626 %SCRIPTURES INTERPRETATIONS READINGS PREACHING GOOD+020626 %DIFFERENT ASSUMPTIONS ATTITUDES BELIEF CONVICTION 020626 There are some deep/profound difficulties in our dealing with IMPERFECTIONS which we encounter in in our lives: 1. The concept of "IMPERFECTION" entails DIFFERING assumptions, attitudes, convictions, agreements --- about what "SHOULD": "be", "exist", "occur", "happen", "be achieved", etc. 2. Because of how DIFFERENT people view such DIFFERENCES in DIFFERENT ways --- there are conflicts between DIFFERENT people regarding such DIFFERENT assumptions, attitudes, convictions, agreements --- regarding what "SHOULD": "be", "exist", "occur", "happen", "be achieved", etc. 3. Some people believe --- that some of such DIFFERENCES are in fact IMPERFECTIONS; and treat them accordingly --- in conflicting ways which make it hard for them to --- understand-each-other, cooperate-with- each-other, tolerate-each-other, be-civil-with-each-other, etc. 4. Relatively few people recognize the many complexities, ambiguities, and uncertainties which are involved in all of the above; and so, many people respond to them and each other --- with convictions that "things" are simpler, clearer, and more certain than such "things" really are. Such confusing DIFFERENCES make it hard for people to --- understand-each-other, cooperate- with-each-other, tolerate-each-other, etc. 5. To the extent that most people do not clearly understand-each-other, cooperate-with-each-other, tolerate each-other, etc. ===> they are likely to find themselves engaged in many unresolvable: conflicts, coercions, violences, dis-eases, being-ill-at-ease, and being-at- war-over-differences. 6. People DIFFER in regards to what they believe that SHOULD do about people who are so DIFFERENT; e.g.: reject, improve, punish, change, accept, ignore, love, hate, condemn, criticize, expose, listen-to, complement, work-with, understand, be-in-dialogue- with, attack, destroy, approach, fight, avoid, excommunicate, etc. THEM? 7. People DIFFER in regards to how to sort-out all of the above confusing DIFFERENCES. What are some reliable beginning points upon which people of integrity can agree; based upon INTEGRITIES WHICH ENDURE? (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================