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 %IMPERFECT SITUATIONS RESPONSES COMMANDMENTS RULES+040205
 %LAWS PRESCRIPTIONS PROSCRIPTIONS FORMALITIES GOOD+040205
   %DEVILS LABELS INDIVIDUALS ENEMIES RIGHTEOUSNESS+040205
     %JUDGMENTS SCRIPTURES POSSIBILITIES ALIENATION+040205
 %ALIENATION ESTRANGEMENT ANGER RESENTMENT DISTRUST+040205
  %FORMALITIES IDEALS VALUES PRINCIPLES SUGGESTIONS 040205
                                                          
     Before  we  respond to an imperfect situation we need
to ask  what kinds of alienation may flow from our various
possible imperfect responses to our imperfect  situations.
Imperfect  responses  to  imperfect situations do not turn
imperfect situations into perfect situations.   Too  often
we are prone to judge situations and responses in terms of
pre existing:  laws,  gods,  commandments,  prescriptions,
proscriptions,  scriptures, etc.  Too rarely do we seek to
judge   situations   and  responses  in   terms   of   the
possibilities  for future increases  in  alienation and/or
reconciliation.  On what basis can we wisely and prudently
judge such future possibilities?                          
                                                          
     Traditional   laws,    commandments,   prescriptions,
proscriptions and scriptures provide  few  guidelines  for
discerning  the  probabilities of  increases in alienation
and/or reconciliation ---  because they have usually  been
written  by domineering people  who have understood little
about  what  promotes  increases   in  alienation   and/or
reconciliation.     This  is because the authors  of  such
texts have rarely been dedicated to  the facilitation  and
promotion of personal and communal integrities.           
                                                          
     Before  we pass judgments upon imperfect situations, 
responses and people ---  we would do well to  acknowledge
the  imperfections in our own foundations for passing such
judgments; e.g.,  imperfect:  understandings,  knowledge, 
ideals, values, principles and conceptions of what are the
natures  of good and evil human  RELATIONSHIPS.    We  are
prone to "find"  evil  outside of  ourselves, and goodness
inside of ourselves ---  whereas evil is usually inside of
our   imperfect   RELATIONSHIPS   within  which   we   are
participants.                                             
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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