This is http://www.essayz.com/b0306221.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.} ========================================================== %OBSERVE DESCRIBE DIVERSE RELATIONSHIP VIRTUOUS GOD 030622 %AUTHORITY PRESCRIBE PROSCRIBE COMMAND DEVILS GOOD 030622 %SCRIPTURAL INTERPRETATION READINGS PROFESSIONS SIN 030622 %ISOLATED ALIENATED EXCOMMUNICATED JUDGMENTS COURT 030622 %POINT ABSOLUTE TRUTH HONESTY AUTHENTICITY LOVERS 030622 %CIVILITY HOSPITALITY REVERENCE RIGHTEOUS INTIMACY 030622 As we observe and seek to DESCRIBE the diverse RELATIONSHIPS among people around us --- we need to seek to identify the differences between virtuous-RELATIONSHIPS and evil-RELATIONSHIPS. The focus here is upon DE-scriptions --- not upon PRE-scriptions and/or PRO-scriptions. Also, the focus here is upon RELATIONSHIPS --- not upon isolated-individuals. The focus here is upon the many words and concepts which can be helpfully-used to point to the differences between virtuous-RELATIONSHIPS and evil- RELATIONSHIPS. The focus here is upon the MANY different (but inter- related) ways in which virtuous-RELATIONSHIPS contrast with evil-RELATIONSHIPS. It is inadequate to focus upon just a very few of the MANY ways in which RELATIONSHIPS differ. Virtuous-RELATIONSHIPS Evil-RELATIONSHIPS involve: involve: Honesty Deception Authenticity Pretentiousness Humility Arrogance Civility Dominance Hospitality Demands Tolerance Controls Assistance Perfectionism Service Puritanism Support Requirements Generosity Greed Creativity Conformity Envisioning Standardization Cooperation Formalization Intimacy Formalities Invitations Impositions Reverence Revenge Healing Injuries Health Dis-ease Shalom Addictions Inclusion Exclusivity Balance Extremism Peace Terrorism Peacemaking Militarism Safe-vulnerability Defensiveness True-security Invulnerability True-sanctuaries Fortresses Gifts Weapons Courtships Commandments Covenants Double-binds Lovers Colluders Integrators Violators Healing Violence Conflict-resolution Winning-battles Sharing Accumulating Fellowship Technologies Communities Technocracies Dialogues Authorities Listening Broadcasting Listeners Preachers Forgiveness Attacks The words above contrast with each other horizontally across between the two sides. However, important contrasts are not limited to horizontal contrasts; and the horizontal contrasts are not always "clean-cut" contrasts. What is important is the overall contrast between the PATTERN of what the words on the one side point to --- in contrast to the PATTERN of what the words on the other side point to. We are likely to be IMPOTENT (neither potent nor important) if we fail to recognize and acknowledge the overall pattern of contrast. In the absence such recognitions and acknowledgments --- we are likely to become entrapped in efforts to be dominant. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================