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   %HUMANE VISIONS DREAMS DESIRES NEW RELATIONSHIPS 030824
 %MERIT RESPECT HONOR SUPPORT PLEASURE SUCCESS GOOD 030824
%RELIABLE DESCRIPTIVE NATURAL LAWS THEORIES CONFIRM 030824
%EXPERIMENTAL PROOF AUTHORITY KEPLER GALILEO NEWTON 030824
%EINSTEIN RELATIVITY TRANSCENDENT RESPECT REVERENCE 030824
 %SACRIFICE HONESTY DIALOGUE INTIMACY MEANING TRUTH 030824

     Humans  often have visions/dreams/desires to do  what
has  not been done before ---  feeling that doing so  will
merit high levels of respect, honor, support and pleasure.
Sometimes  they  succeed.   Often they fail  to  reap  the
levels  of respect,  honor,  support and/or pleasure which
they envisioned.  Why so?

     1.  Often  humans  fail to respect the reliable  laws
and  theories   of  physics which  reliably  describe  how
processes and events unfold within the cosmos;  e.g.,  the
laws and theories  of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton,
Maxwell, Einstein,  Plank,  Schroedinger,  Dirac, Hawkins,
etc.   (Physicists theories are thoroughly tested, proven,
substantiated and integrated hypotheses.)

     2.  Often  humans fail to show respect for  how  much
must  be sacrificed in human,  natural,  and environmental
resources to accomplish that which they: envision,  dream,
fantasize and desire; e.g.,  creativity,   honesty,  time,
integrity,  intimacy,  money,   order, energy,   minerals,
purity, water, air,  etc. --- perhaps expecting to be able
to  sacrifice  more  of  them  than   is   available   for
human sacrifice!

     3.  Humans often fail to  acknowledge their inability
to reliably understand, plan, engineer, coordinate, manage
and   control  systems  of  unimaginable  complexity   ---
especially those processes which entail the  participation
of  many  diverse  human  beings  with diverse  and  often
contradictory   conceptions  of their proper roles in  the
whole complex process.

     4.  The   inability  of  religious   leaders   WITHIN
splinter  groups WITHIN the major religions traditions ---
to  agree  with  each  other  on what  are  the  essential
foundations  for both personal and communal integrity  ---
is an indication  of  the major dilemmas facing any effort
to facilitate world-wide cooperation on any global venture
which  will tax the resources of Space-Ship-Earth;   e.g.,
interstellar  space travel and the growing  energy  crisis
and population explosion.

     5.  The   inability  of  religious   leaders   WITHIN
splinter  groups WITHIN the major religions traditions ---
to agree on guidelines/boundaries for expressions of human
sexual desires, relationships and pleasures --- is another
related indication of the major dilemmas facing any effort
to  achieve world-wide cooperation in  any  global venture
which  will require high levels of  openness  and  honesty
about:    sexuality,    birth,    adolescence,    bonding,
reproduction,  child-rearing, aging, decline,  death,  and
ALL the dilemmas related to human sexuality.

     The more successful  humans are in the development of
fast  international travel,  communication,  trade,    and
disease  transmission ---  the more important will be  the
kinds  of cooperative global ventures which are  mentioned
above --- and the more important will be the transcendence
of human arrogance.

     It  is the splinter groups within the major religious
traditions   which  are  presumably most  homogeneous  and
well positioned  to  agree on controversial issues.     If
such   homogeneous   religious  groups  cannot  agree   on
controversial  issues   ---    what  hope is   there   for
larger   and  less homogeneous   religious    groups    to
agree   on    those controversial issues? 

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