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 %MERIT REVERENCE AWE WORSHIP RESPECT HONOR SUPPORT+030216
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     Which  of  the following kinds of realities ---   are
the  kinds  of  realities which merit  our:     reverence,
awe,   worship;   respect,  honor and/or support ---   all
within what kinds of contexts:

     1.  Complex technological tools?

     2.  Simple ways of doing things?

     3.  Purity in everyday living?

     4.  Practicality and efficiency?

     5.  Profitability in investments?

     6.  Gracious and healthy human relationships?

     7.  Well controlled and proper relationships?

     8.  Reliability and predictability?

     9.  Mutuality and balance in relationships?

    10.  Motivations which are free of dominance?

     In regards to the above,  how  are  we to discern the
differences between prudent respect on  the one hand,  and
disintegrative idolatry?  Many of us fall into ideological
traps by pretending that we can be absolutely certain that
we,   and  we  alone,  are right in how we answer  such  a
question.    There is no one truth which trumps all  other
truths;  no one person who helpfully trumps all other less
domineering  persons.    Beware  of persons  who  show  no
reverence toward other persons!

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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