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%BECAUSE UNILATERALLY MUTUALLY AGREED UPON BELIEFS 040310 %ESSENTIAL FOUNDATIONS COOPERATION COLABORATION GOD 040310 %TRAGIC RIGHTS WRONGS TRUTH FALSEHOOD RIGHTEOUSNESS 040310 %OWNERSHIP DESIRES NEED EXPERIENCES PERCEPTIONS SEX 040310 %UNDERSTANDING OBJECTS REFLEXIVE REALITIE MORALITY 040310 %EXCLUSIVE ALIENTATION ESTRANGEMENT EXCOMMUNICATION 040310 Tragically often people behave as if "right", "wrong", "truth", "falsehood", "righteousness", "evil", etc. --- 1. ARE externally determined apart from their own desires, needs, experiences, perceptions, understandings, etc. 2. SHOULD be externally determined apart from their own desires, needs, experiences, perceptions, understandings, etc. 3. ARE determined unilaterally by "proper" and/or "powerful" "authorities" --- apart from their own personal desires, needs, experiences, perceptions, understandings, etc. 4. SHOULD be unilaterally determined by "experts" who know far more than they themselves can know --- because of their own limited/misguided personal desires, needs, experiences, perceptions, understandings, etc. Under the above tragic kinds of circumstances there is little hope that human RELATIONSHIPS can be full of hope, joy, meaning, fulfillment, mutual-understanding, balance, civility, hospitality --- because the RELATIONSHIPS are founded upon misleading assumptions, beliefs, convictions, determinations, dominations, controls, etc. If our RELATIONSHIPS are imperfect, contentious, violent, disintegrative, and alienative --- we need to learn to cooperate in examining our misleading assumptions, beliefs, convictions, determinations, dominations, controls, etc. upon which our RELATIONSHIPS have been built --- and agree to try to build new RELATIONSHIPS upon new and different assumptions, beliefs, convictions, and determinations --- which are mutually agreeable and found to offer far more hope, joy, meaning, fulfillment, mutual-understanding, balance, civility, and hospitality than before --- because we have together agreed to work together for such realities within OUR FUTURE RELATIONSHIPS. If we begin together by assuming/believing that our lives will be EXTERNALLY and UNILATERALLY determined --- THEN our mutually-agreed- upon: assumptions, beliefs and convictions will be fulfilled --- because we have in advance agreed upon them --- even if without any meaningful thought being given to them. To enjoy MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIPS we must in timely ways LET-GO of the foundation assumptions, attitudes, beliefs and convictions of our present DYSFUNCTION RELATIONSHIPS --- by working cooperatively to identify what those misleading foundations have been in the past. We cannot cooperatively transform our dysfunctional RELATIONSHIPS unless we cooperatively collaborate upon determining what have been the tragic and often thoughtless: assumptions, attitudes, beliefs and convictions which we have agreed upon --- as the foundations for our tragic RELATIONSHIPS. If we compete with each other over who will be dominate, we cannot cooperate with each other upon transcending our dysfunctional RELATIONSHIPS. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================