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 %ABILITY KNOWLEDGE CERTAIN ABSOLUTE TRUTH RELIABLE 050228
%INTERACT COMMUNICATE COOPERATE ALIENATED ESTRANGED 050228
%BLOCK BETWEEN INHIBIT REPRESS SUPPRESS GUIT SHAMED 050228
%TABOO LANGUAGE CULTURE CONCERN FEAR ANXIETY SEXUAL 050228
 %INTIMACY VULNERABILITY OPENNESS HONESTY AUTHENTIC 050228
  %FRIENDSHIP LISTEN DIALOGUE NEGOTIAATE COMPROMISE 050228
      
           Our  ability  to know each other with any  degree  of
      reliability  depends  upon how reliably we  can  interact-
      with, communicate-with, and cooperate-with each other.  If
      we  are alienated-from,  estranged-from and communication-
      is-blocked by something  "within" or "between"  us ---  we
      cannot know each other with any degree of reliability.
      
           Inhibition   of   knowledge  about  each   other   is
      occasioned by:
      
           1.  Not knowing each other's language(s).
           2.  Not understanding each other's culture(s).
           3.  Misunderstanding each other's culture(s).
           4.  Not being sensitive to each other's concerns.
           5.  Wearing perception-filters to keep ignorant.
      
           Our ability to know about the cosmos within which  we
      live depends upon how sensitive we are to what is, and has
      been,  happening  around  us.   Are  we  sensitive  to the
      countless kinds of signals which are arriving now from the
      near and far reaches of the cosmos via:
      
           1.  Each possible electromagnetic signal wavelength?
           2.  Each possible gravitational signal wavelength?
           3.  Protons, deuterons and helium atoms?
           4.  Electrons, positrons and other elementary things?
           5.  Tenuous clouds of interstellar dust and gas?
      
           Our  ability  to know about the cosmos  also  depends
      upon  how  honesty and coherently we can think and  be  in
      dialogue about the signals which we receive, recognize and
      give  attention to.   We are totally insensitive  to  most
      signals and are incapable of giving much attention to most
      of those which we become dimly aware of.   As  short-lived
      mortals  we cannot know a large fraction of all that might
      be known about the exceedingly long history of the cosmos.
      
           We do not even know for sure, what we will be able to
      agree upon  in the long-term, about what knowledge is  and
      will become most:
      
           1.  Reliable,
           2.  Enduring,
           3.  Helpful,
           4.  Coherent,
           5.  Integrative,
           6.  Reconciling,
           7.  Conciliatory,
           8.  Reassuring,
           9.  Healthful,
          10.  Hopeful.
                               (c) 2004 by Paul A. Smith in
                            "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                          (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)
      
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