This is http://www.essayz.com/b0303151.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.} ========================================================== %NATURAL LIMITS PROPRIETY TOOLS TECHNOLOGIES ABUSE+030315 %HELPFUL REVERENT OUTSIDERS MANAGE CONTROL PRIVATE+030315 %PRIVACY RIGHTS INDIVIDUAL RELATIONSHIPS RELIGIOUS+030315 %RELIGIOUS MORAL ETHICAL CULTURAL ETHNIC STANDARDS+030315 %GRACIOUS DIFFERENT COMPLEMENTARY COOPERATION WAYS+030315 %ATTITUDES BELIEFS CONVICTIONS DIALOGUE WRITINGS 030315 What are the natural limits of propriety as regards the tools which can be helpfully/reverently used by outsiders; to manage and/or control "private" aspects of people's lives with each other --- at the level of individual relationships and up to the level of relationships between identifiable: religious, cultural, geographic, political, ethnic and national groups of people? What are the most integrative/gracious standards upon which different people can agree in cooperative public ways --- with reverence toward all the people involved? (See Dr. Paul Woodruff's book "Reverence".) What are the practical and realistic limits, boundaries and impossibilities which we need to recognize and acknowledge as regards communal management and/or control of truly private: attitudes, dialogue, assumptions, writings, beliefs, readings, convictions, meetings, perceptions, secrets, experiences, rituals, discernments, devotions, visions, studies, dreams, experiments, fantasies, research, pleasures, creativity, relationships, coercion, friendships, demands, intimacies, violence, cooperation, addictions, ceremonies, collusions. What can we agree on about the roles of UNILATERAL- controls, dominance, coercion and violence IN ENGENDERING: alienation, addictions, estrangement, secrecy, anger, arrogance, rebellion, self-righteousness, distrust, disease/dis-ease, suspicion, evil-relationships, dishonesty, personal-disintegrations, pretentiousness communal-disintegrations, collusions, chaos/anarchy? What are the implications/suggestions of such agreements? (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================