This is http://www.essayz.com/b0507122.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %WAY OUT OF ALIENATION ULTIMATE QUESTION MANDATORY 050712 %FRAME ISSUE CONFLICTS DOMINATION COERCION VIOLENT 050712 %COMPLEMENTARY OTHER SELF HUMANE RELATIONSHIP GOOD 050712 %EVIL ARROGANCE SELF RIGHTEOUS NARCISSIST HUBRIS 050712 %SPAN THE SPACE LINEAR VECTORS ALTERNATIVE OUR OWN 050712 %ROBUST HUMILITY MEAK WEAK SERVANT SLAVE KIND LOVER 050712 1. By what procedure, paradigme, tradition, authority or other means can we discern which traditional questions are misleading questions? 2. In the Nature-of-Things are there any questions which are truly Mandatory-Questions? 3. Why might any question be Mandatory? 4. What/Who might make a question Mandator? 5. Is there any Dominant/Overriding reason that any particular question would merit our Ultimate-Concern? 6. Might it be Idolatrous to be Ultimately-Concerned about some Particular Question? 7. If some Particular Question is In-a-Cosmic-Sense Properly-Our-Ultimate-Concern; what would be the Ultimate-Consequence of Ultimately-Ignoring-It? 8. Is it Ultimately-Impossible for us to demonstrate Highly-Robust Personal-and-Communal Integrations-and- Integrities ---- without ever Framing-Asking-or-Attending to such a presumably Ultimate-Question? Why? 9. Might some Combination-of-Questions in Complementary-Ways "Span-the-Space" of such a Presumably- Ultimate-Question without Misleading-Some-People in the Tragic-Ways that the Presumably-Ultimate-Question Has-in- The-Past Tragicly-Mislead some people who Truly-Need-Some- Different-Questions. 10. Might the concept of "Spanning-the-Space" found within the "Theory-of-Linear-Vector-Spaces" be relevant here? That is to ask: Might Some-Collection of Mutually- Complementary Alternative-Questions Be-Better for some Different-People --- than the Presumably-Ultimate- Question has been for Some-People? 11. If Your-Belief that Your-Ultimate-Question must be All-Other-People's Ultimate-Question Is- Ultimately An-Ultimately-Alienative-Belief --- What-Then? 12. Is it helpful for anybody to demand that other people accept and attend to your way of framing The-One- Question which Ultimately-Concerns-You --- if doing so is Ultimately-Alienative; i.e., makes it Ultimately- Impossible for You-and-They to participate in Open-and- Honest-Dialogue? Is it Ultimately-Important that You- and-They NOT-BE-IN-DIALOGUE? Which of the following are helpful questions which merit much of our attention, honor and reverence? 1. Who is best and who is superior? 2. Who can be trusted without qualifications? 3. What book or text can be trusted totally? 4. What paradigm is best and can be trusted totally? 5. What ideal, goal or principle is superior to all? 6. Who is most inferior, evil? 7. Who can never be trusted at all? 8. What paradigm is worst, never to be trusted? 9. What ideal, goal or principle is inferior to all? 10. Who is without flaw, ultimately good? 11. What technology is most universally useful? 12. What is the key to being really successful? 13. How can I compete and win more often? 14. How can I maximize my sales and wealth? 15. What products can I buy to be more desirable? 16. Who are the most evil people in the world? 17. How can we rid the world of Evil? 18. How can we makes ourselves invulnerable? 19. How can I more successfully get what I want? 20. How can wea stop evil people from doing evil? Shalom Is-The-Way Out-of-Alienation. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in "Search for Honesty and Integrity" (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================