This is http://www.essayz.com/b0309072.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.} ========================================================== %LET GO EVIL EARNESTNESS INDIVIDUAL RELATIONSHIP+030907 %RESPECT HONOR SUPPORT TRUE LOVERS DEADLY ARROGANCE+030907 %TECHNOCRATIC PROBLEM SOLVERS DILEMMAS TRAGIC GOOD+030907 %UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES THEORIES NATURAL LAWS FALL+030907 %NARROW MINDED EXCLUSIVE COVER INSECURITY DOUBT SIN 030907 True lovers know that not all earnestness is worthy of respect, honor or support. True Lovers know how to let go of earnestness which is: deadly, technocratic, compulsive, manipulative, domineering, intrusive, etc. We need to let go of earnestness which fails to consider the full range of consequences of our exclusive beliefs, convictions and theories about what is good and what is evil. Unintended tragic consequences often flow from narrow minded thinking, beliefs, convictions and theories. Such narrowness is often accentuated by "certainty" which is a cover for insecurity, doubts, and fears. Such a cover prevents the recognition of the full range of consequences of particularly firm beliefs, convictions and theories about what is good and what is evil; and about where evil resides --- in individual people and/or in the relationships among people. How we deal with human dilemmas related to misleading earnestness --- depends greatly upon where we believe evil resides, and upon what can be done to mitigate the consequences of evil --- wherever it resides. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================