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 %DISCERN PATTERN INTEGRATE HELPFUL COHERENT BELIEF+030120
    %SWEET SOUR FRUITS NATURAL CAUSE EFFECT RESULTS+030120
  %ALIENATION ESTRANGEMENT ISOLATION DEVILS SINNERS+030120
%PERFECTION PURITY ARROGANCE SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS GOD+030120
%MERIT HONOR RESPECT REVERENCE HOLY SACRED CEREMONY+030120
 %IDOLATRY FALSE FALLEN GARDEN EDEN IDEALISM VALUES 030120
                                                          
     In  what terms are we to discern the relative  merits
of  PATTERNS of belief which are in competition with  each
other?     Individual  beliefs usually are parts  of  some
overall PATTERN-OF-BELIEFS which are regularly  associated
with each other and supportive of each other as parts of a
PARADIGM, a whole way of feeling, thinking,  reasoning and
behaving.                                                 
                                                          
     What  considerations  may we most helpfully  have  in
mind  when seeking to discern the relative merits  of  the
diverse PATTERNS-OF-BELIEF which we might helpfully honor,
support   and hold with reverence --- because they help us
and others work  together   in   ways  which  engender and
facilitate:  honesty,  integrations,  healing, cooperation
and coherence?                                            
                                                          
     Artificial beliefs?      Authentic beliefs?          
     Misleading beliefs?      Helpful beliefs?            
     Recited beliefs?         Lived beliefs?              
     Dishonest beliefs?       Honest beliefs?             
     Fear-full beliefs?       Reconciling beliefs?        
     Pretentious beliefs?     Coherent beliefs?           
     Dis-integrative belief?  Integrative beliefs?        
     Formalized beliefs?      Informal beliefs?           
     Doctrinal beliefs?       Demonstrated beliefs?       
     Contentious beliefs?     Cooperative beliefs?        
     Domineering beliefs?     Liberating beliefs?         
     Extremists' beliefs?     Centering beliefs?          
     Militarists' beliefs?    Peacemakers' beliefs?       
                                                          
     We need to discern what kinds of people affirm the   
various PATTERNS-OF-BELIEFS.   Are particular individual  
beliefs demonstrated in the lives of people who are       
authentic, helpful, honest, reconcilers, coherent,        
integrative, cooperative, liberating and working to be    
peacemakers in Love?   OR, are particular individual      
beliefs characteristic of the lives of people who are:    
artificial, misleading, dishonest, fear-full, pretentious,
dis-integrative, contentious, domineering, extremists     
and/or militarists in character?   We may discern the     
natures of beliefs in TERMS OF THE FRUITS OF THE PEOPLE   
who live in terms of the beliefs.  It is IN THOSE TERMS   
that we can we can best discern the relative merits of    
PATTERNS of belief which are in competition with other    
PATTERNS of beliefs.   Discern the fruits of each PATTERN 
of  beliefs;  rather than contend over individual isolated
beliefs  ---  without regard for the PATTERN of  behaviors
within which the isolated belief is commonly found.       
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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