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 %HUMANE COMMUNITY LANGUAGE DIFFICULTIES TABOO LOVE 040804
 %ROOTS EVIL RELATIONSHIPS INADEQUACIES GRAMMAR SEX 040804
  %INTIMATE OPEN HONEST DIALOGUE INTEGRATIONS UNITY 040804
    %COMMON WORDS COMMUNICATE COMMUNNION COLLUSIONS 040804
 %COHERENCE LOVERS STABILITY BALANCE CIVILITY DEVIL 040804
    %HOSPITALITY COVENANT BOND MUTUAL GOD RELIGIOUS 040804

    Each humane community is likely to have  difficulties
which  are  rooted  in the  inadequacies  of  its  common
language which serves as a  means to communicate  in ways
which promote and facilitate:  integrations, integrities,
coherence,  love,  stability, balance, unity,  community,
intimacy, civility,  hospitality,  agreements, covenants,
bonding, mutuality, etc.

    The  words-which-we-use point to realities which  are
not-all-of-like-kind.    Some  realities which we try  to
point to are objective realities.  Other realities we try
to point to are subjective realities,  and yet others are
reflexive and/or spiritual realities.   Etc.

    Some  members of a community may not be aware of  the
DIFFERENT  ways in which the community's words  are  used
to:  name, point-to, call-attention-to,  reveal,  expose,
describe,   reference,  etc.  those:   objects,   things,
relationships,  persons, beings, spirits, virtues, vices,
ideals,  ideas,  motivations, beliefs, faiths,  etc.  ---
which are important and central in their lives.

    The words we  use  may name and/or point to realities
which we regard as:  holy,  sacred, ultimate,  spiritual,
transcendent,  integrative, Godly, wonderful,  and worthy
of  reverence.   But not all  uf us use our words in  the
same-ways  with  the same-understanding of how and why we
are  using  the words as we do.

    We  conventionally-regard  the-words-which-we-use  as
playing-grammatical-roles as:  nouns,  verbs,  adjective,
adverbs, prepositions, etc.  Some-of-our-confusion comes-
from using-the-same-sounds-and/or-combinations-of-letters
in-many-ways  which-are different;  as:   nouns,   verbs,
adjectives  and/or adverbs.   How can we tell=discern  or
tell=say-to-each-other the-manner  in-which each-word-is-
being-used  in-each-instance?   With what intent?    With
what    effect?     Leading   to   what   message   being
received/discerned?   How can we know for sure?   How can
we  say for sure just what it  is  that we know for sure?
In  such efforts ---  are  big words  better than  little
words?  How are we to measure bigness and littleness? How
are  we  to understand and work with each  other in  ways
which are in-love?    How  was "love"   just  used  here?
Justly?  Rightly?  Clearly?  Properly?  Indiscriminately?
Transcendentally? Carelessly? Falsely? In an evil way?

    Some  people  act  as if  all  realities=things   are
objects;  or at least  exist within our four-dimensional-
space-time-continuum in the same way as non-alive objects
exist  therein.    Where does God exist?   How  does  God
exist?  Like an object within a particular volume=portion
of our four-dimensional-space-time-continuum?   Somewhere
within   our  Space-Ship-Earth,   solar-system,   galaxy,
cluster-of-galaxies, or cosmos?   During what interval of
time?

    Other  people  acknowledge the reality  of  concepts,
ideals,  values,    subjective-realities,      reflexive-
realities, spiritual-realities,  objective-relationships,
faiths, personal-relationships,  spiritual-relationships,
truths,       abstract-relationships,       quantitative-
relationships,     love-relations,     gods,      sexual-
relationships, spirits, angels, devils, intimacies, evil-
relationships,   atoms,  electrons,  protons,   neutrons,
molecules, nuclei, bosons, pions, leptons, etc.  Which of
these words name  or  point-to "things" which are really-
real?  How can we communicate reliably if we cannot agree
on how we are using and/or should be using our words?

    What happens when we encounter people who are using a
different  language  as  used  by the: French,   Spanish,
Italians,   Russians,  Arabs,  Greek,  Indians,  Chinese,
Japanese, Buddists, Muslims,  Hebrews, ancient Egyptians,
modern-scientists,   ancient-astrologers,  etc?   How are
they  to  communicate with us?   We with them?     Be  in
dialogue reliably?   Who can say?   God?   Is God a True-
Lover?    How are we to obey the commandment to Love  God
and our Neighbor?  Who can say for sure?  Have words here
been used properly?   Clearly?   Lovingly?  In evil ways?
What  realities can be evil?   What realities  cannot  be
evil?  Who can know for sure?

    What-can-we-do-responsibly-and-gracefully  when what-
we-know has-been-made taboo-to-say  openly-and-publically
within-the-community; so there are no generally-accepted-
ways  of saying-what-we-know?  What if the-language-does-
not-permit   saying-what-we-know;    much-less-facilitate
saying-what-we-know!   What if the-culture-makes-it-taboo
to be-involved-within-intimate-relationships where it-is-
safe-to-say-what-we-know?   What if such-sanctuaries-are-
taboo?
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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