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   %LIVE LIFE TRUE LOVERS TAKE PRUDENT RISKS MANAGE 030817
  %OUTCOMES CONSEQUENCES CONTROL NATURAL LAWS CHAOS 030817
 %HUMANE DECISIONS PRIORITIES BALANCE MUTUAL SHARES 030817
 %HONESTY VULNERABILITY IGNORANCE ALIENATE STRANGER 030817
    %ENTROPY DISORDERED ENERGY MIXTURES INTEGRATION 030817
  %SECOND LAW THERMODYNAMICS CHANGE GROWTH CREATIVE 030817

     To live  is  to take risks;
       and to try to manage which kinds of risks we take;
        and often to try to manage the outcomes
         of the risks that we do take.

     We can never be fully in control of
       the outcomes of the risks that we do take.

     We can decide which kinds of risks to take,
       and learn to chose to take prudent risks,
         rather than to take the risks of ignorance/
           dishonesty.

     There are risks involved in being honest, as well
       as  risks involved in being dishonest.    Dishonest
         people risk ignorance which flows from
           dishonesty.

     There are risks involved in being in Love, as well
       as risks involved of being alienated/estranged.
         Alienated people risk being ignorant of
           the consequences of different kinds of risks.

     There are risks involved in participating in
       intimate relationships with few or may people;
         e.g., risks involved in being separated from
           intimate relationships and from
             being with many people.

     If we play collusive games of mutual self deception
       in efforts to minimize the pains of knowing
         the true nature of the risks we are choosing;
           we increase the risks of being ignorant-
             fools who do not know what we are doing.

     If we choose to be intimately involved with many
       people --- to enjoy the pleasures of healthy love;
         we increase the possibilities of being
           disappointed with each other's failures to
             fulfill our fantasies, hopes and
               expectations.

     If we choose to be separated from intimate relations,
       to avoid the possibilities of disappointment ---
         we increase the possibilities of enjoying-no-
           pleasures and being bored-to-death without any
             stimulation.

     Well educated scientists know and understand that all
processes  in the cosmos entail the generation of  entropy
which is concentrated in locations of great:  temperature,
density, mixing,  confusion  and  chaos;  while being less
concentrated  within  locations  of:   near-absolute-zero-
temperature, dilution,  purity, simplicity and order.  The
work  which  is  done  to  produce  the locations  of  low
concentrations  of entropy ---  generates huge volumes  of
space where there  are  increases in entropy --- resulting
in a total increase in entropy;  e.g., within huge volumes
of   space  out  between  all  the  distant  and  receding
galaxies.   Nothing can  happen  without the generation of
more  entropy in our expanding cosmos  --- which  is  much
larger than we can imagine, and is getting even larger.

     There are many ways in which we may generate: orders,
commandments,    prescriptions,  proscriptions,     order,
stability, traditions,  being-cool,  dilution, purity, and
simplicity   ---    in   order  to  minimize   the   local
concentration of entropy/chaos --- but they all entail the
generation of more entropy/chaos somewhere else.

     We cannot honestly chose to reduce all entropy/chaos.
Pretending  otherwise  generates  disintegration  and   so
creates more overall entropy/chaos.

     We  can  with  integrity  chose  to work honestly  to
create  and  enjoy  many processes-of-integration  and  so
create many  diverse-integrities  which  elicit reverence,
honor  and respect within healthy  communities.   Yet,  we
cannot  with  integrity  be  in control of  all  processes
around  us  within  the cosmos.   We  can  with  integrity
influence  many  processes around us in ways which promote
the  enjoyment  of healthy relationships  within  our  own
communities and daily interactions.

     We can learn to understand the  possible consequences
of  the risks we take,  and choose  to  take risks   which
promote  and  facilitate  integrations --- and respect for
integrative-relationships.    We  can chose to  avoid  the
risks entailed in:  dishonesty,  alienation, estrangement,
separations,   excommunications,  ignorance,   collusions,
arrogance, self-righteousness, pretentiousness, anger, sin
and contentiousness within evil-relationships.

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