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%HUMANE DIFFERENCES WHOLE LIVES FULLY OPENS HONESTY 040607
%HIGH IDEALISM MORALITY PURITANICAL PERSPECTIVE SIN 040607
%FAILURE FULFILL SUPERIOR THEOLOGY MYTHOLOGY COSMOS 040607
%ASTRONOMICAL REALITIES PROCESSES EVOLUTION BIOLOGY 040607
%PERFECTION CHAOS ARROGANCE SELF-RIGHTEOUS EXTREMES 040607
  %SELECTED SCRIPTURES INTERPRETATIONS DISCERNMENTS 040607

      People  differ as regards which parts of their whole
lives  they are fully-open-and-honest,  and which parts of
their whole lives they fail to be fully-open-and-honest.

      1.  People  who are explicit about their own-"high"-
ideals  ---  are  rarely fully-open-and-honest about their
failures-to-fulfill their own-"high"-ideals.

      2.  People  who are explicit about their "superior":
theological,   mythological,   cosmological,   moralistic,
ethical and/or puritanical systems ---   are rarely fully-
open-and-honest about the consequences of them as regards:
estrangement,    alienation,   self-esteem,     prejudice,
arrogance,         self-righteousness,          extremism,
excommunications, fundamentalism, terrorism, crusades, and
wars.

      3.  People  who are explicit about their ability  to
pass "good"  judgments  regarding other people's  failures
to fulfill specified standards for "good" behavior --- are
rarely fully-open-and-honest about their own  failures  to
fulfill specified standards for "good" behavior.

      4.  People who  are explicit about  incoherencies in
daily  living ---  are rarely fully-open-and-honest  about
the existing and widely shared human understandings of the
roots-of-those-incoherencies --- or about  known  ways  to
transcend-such-lacks of personal and communal integrity.

      Most  mortals  find it personally convenient  to  be
fully open-and-honest only about what they regard as their
"strengths"   ---   and  to be defensive,   secretive  and
pretentious  about  realms  surrounding  their  points  of
vulnerability.    Domineering people are especially "good"
at  encouraging such patterns of incoherence ---  even  as
they work to try to "make"  people conform to their "good"
rules,   regulations and commandments ---  which are often
roots  of  estrangement,    alienation,   low-self-esteem,
prejudice, arrogance,    self-righteousness,    extremism,
excommunications, fundamentalism,  terrorism,  terrifying-
crusades, and wars.

      It is difficult to articulate-and-present a coherent
sense  of  what  are  the  essential-foundations-for-both-
personal-and-communal-integrities  ---   and  then  it  is
perhaps even more  difficult  to be  fully-open-and-honest
about  imperfections in  living-up-to-the-ideals-inherent-
in-such- a-presentation.   Where we fail to be fully-open-
and-honest is often a clue as to where the presentation is
incoherent.

      People    who    have   informal    and/or    formal
responsibilities  for  helping their community  deal  with
threats   to   personal  and  communal   integrities   and
integrations  --- need  to   keep  the  above   kinds   of
observations  in mind ---  in order to provide appropriate
levels   of    risk-management  with   sufficient "safety-
factors."   Engineers  who  design  and  build bridges and
other physical structures commonly make them two  to-five-
times-as-strong as is usually needed ---  to  be ready for
possible-times-of-natural-testing;  e.g.,  during  floods,
storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, crashes, fires, etc.

      Similar "safety-factors" need to be provided for:

      1.  Medical  and counseling services in the face  of
major-tragedies,  new-diseases, plagues, terrorism,  wars,
economic  down-turns,   energy-crises,   pollution-crises,
water-crises, garbage-crises, etc.

      2.  Instances  of major down-turns in the quality of
public-education   because  of  the   economic-drains   of
prolonged times of terrorism,  wars,  economic-down-turns,
energy-crises, etc.

      3.  Instances  of  many people becoming  uninformed,
un-educated,   mis-informed,   and  mis-guided extremists-
and/or-fundamentalists  who  are prone  to  blame  "other-
factors"  and/or "other-people"  for what is happening  in
the  world ---  and so failing to take any  responsibility
for promoting continued personal and communal integrities.

      4.  Instances in which people have failed to be well
informed about what IS-POSSIBLE, and what IS-NOT-POSSIBLE,
in terms of what has been  proven and is confidently known
by thoroughly honest and competent/successful: scientists,
engineers, and corporate managers.

      The initial set of items numbered explicitly 1, 2, 3
and  4 at the beginning-of-this-essay  contain suggestions
of  considerations which need to be  kept  in mind ---  in
order to properly provide for prudent  safety-factors   in
support  of  both  personal  and  communal integrities and
integrations.

      Prudent risk-management entails anticipating various
levels  of risk,  the costs of being prepared  in  various
ways  for various challenges,  and ways to balance against
each  other the costs of preparations and the costs of not
making preparations of various kinds.

      The  following  negative  realities never contribute
positively to prudent risk management: dishonesty,  blind-
optimism, ignorance, prejudices,  collusions,  addictions,
codependent-relations,   alienation,   greed,   injustice,
enmity, alienation, depression, dis-ease, contentiousness,
arrogance, self-righteousness,  etc.  Failing to deal with
such  negative realities  never  contributes positively to
prudent risk management.

      In  each  circumstance and situation there are  some
foci of attention which are inappropriate;  and other foci
of  attention which are highly appropriate ---  and a full
spectrum of possibilities in between.  Which each focus is
in the full spectrum  depends  upon  the  circumstance and
situation --- and upon how the focus is combined with each
other focus with or without integrity.  Among the foci may
be found realities such as:

      Fears, anxieties, concerns, preoccupations;

      Concepts, ideals, hopes, aspirations, goals;

      Priorities, authorities, leaders, judgments,

      Standards, rules, laws, commandments;

      Prescriptions, proscriptions, descriptions; etc.

      We  all  need to give careful consideration  to  how
each   other  person  deals  with  the  above  situations,
circumstances  and  issues.   It is dangerous  for  us  to
dismiss    another   person   without    giving    careful
consideration to how the other person deals with the above
situations, circumstances and issues.

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