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   %AFFILIATION JOIN MEMBERSHIP RELIGIOUS POLITICAL 031030
 %ACADEMIC SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS ORGANIZATION FELLOWS 031030
%PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS ENCOURAGED FACILITATED GOOD 031030
%PROMOTED ACCEPTED REJECTED INSIDE OUTSIDE BELONGED 031030
   %ATTITUDES FEELINGS EMOTIONS FORMAL DECLARATIONS 031030
   %PROMISES CONTRACTS REQUIRE SCRIPTURE LAWS RULES 031030

    When  considering  affiliations  with  any   religous,
political,  academic, scientific, business,  or other kind
of  organization/fellowship  it is important to  ask  what
kinds of personal RELATIONSHIPS  between/among  people are
in daily practice:  encouraged, faciliated,   and promoted
within  the organization/fellowship;   and  between  those
within and outside of the organization/fellowship.

    Here  RELATIONSHIPS are not to be considered primarily
in formal terms.   RELATIONSHIPS have  as  much to do with
the   attitudes  and  feelings  which  people  have   when
considering each other;   as  with  formal:  declarations,
promises, arrangements,  contracts,  requirements,  rules,
etc.

    Personal   relationships  may  be  characterized   by:
alienation,  estrangement, misunderstandings,  prejudices,
ignorance,   resentment,   contentiousness and  conflicts;
and/or  by:   reconciliation,  friendships,    intimacies,
intimate  dialogue,  hospitality,  civility,   cooperation
and colaboration.

    RELATIONSHIPS  may  helpfully be characterized by  the
extent to which ALL participants  within the relationships
find  fulfillment,  meaning,  joy,  satisfaction,  and the
freedom  to  be  safely  vulnerable  in  open  and  honest
dialogue  ---   as participants within the  relationships.
How  well  do  participants  ALL enjoy  such  benefits  of
participation     within     the     RELATIONSHIPS?   Such
characteristics are not the  direct result of  any formal:
declarations,  promises,  requirements,  standards,  laws,
prescriptions,   proscriptions,  contracts,  arrangements,
etc.    Beware  of domineering people who seek to  achieve
such benefits through formal coercive procedures.

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