This is http://www.essayz.com/b0304271.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.} ========================================================== %LIMITATIONS LIMITED CONTEXTUAL TRUTHS WISDOM LOVE+030427 %COMPLEMENTARY HUMILITY REVERENCE JUSTICE+030427 %MERCY GIFT ADBOLUTIZE PARTIAL BITS+030427 %IDOLATRY EXCLUSIVE DIALOGUE 030427 Most truths are relevant only within limited contexts. Most truths are relatively irrelevant within some contexts. It is dangerous to absolutize any partial bit of truth; for such absolutization leads to idolatry --- and leads to paying inadequate attention to complementary partial truths which are highly relevant and important in contrasting situations. People who believe that they have identified "ABSOLUTE TRUTH" are not wise in all situations. They often find themselves in new situations where their "ABSOLUTE TRUTH" is irrelevant; and the partial truths which are most relevant in those situations, are complementary to what they have previously identified as their "ABSOLUTE TRUTH". Such people cannot make wise and prudent decisions within new situations with which they are not familiar. Beware of their advice! Be-aware-of and beware of domineering people who try to coerce you into reciting their limited bits of truth as if they are the whole of truth. They conceal much of the truth because they fear that the whole truth will expose their lack of integrity, coherence and honesty --- because they have sacrificed integrity, coherence and honesty in their futile efforts to control what mortals cannot control. They are playing collusive-games-of- mutual-self-deception. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================