This is http://www.essayz.com/b0610151.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.} ========================================================== %THINKING OUTSIDE THE REWARD AND/OR PUNISHMENT BOX 061015 %PRIMARY QUESTION EXCLUSIVE PARADIGM BIAS PREJUDICE 061015 %WHO WORTHY UNWORTHY RIGHTEOUS EVIL DEVIL IMMORAL 061015 %HEAVEN HELL PURGATORY DELAYED REWARD PERSONAL GOOD 061015 %ISOLATED RIGHTEOUSNESS COMMUNAL INTEGRITY SHALOM 061015 %PERSONAL COHERENCE COOPERATE COLLABORATION HEALTH 061015 Some people seem unable to conceive of the possibility of Thinking-Outside-the-Box of Reward/Punish. Their PRIMARY-QUESTION is "Who-merits-Rewards and Who-Must-be-Punished". Questions which are not related to rewards and punishments -- are for them Non-Questions to which No-Time-May-Be-Given. All-Time must be focused upon questions which focus on Rewards-and-or-Punishments. All-Other-Questions Are-Taboo because some other questions might Break-Open-the-Box! People who are trapped inside the Box-of-Rewards-and- or-Punishments are Playing-Collusive-Games of Mutual-Self- Deception. It-is-Taboo to Stop-Playing Their-Games-of- Mutual-Self-Deception. The Games-is-Never-Stopped because of: Self-Deception, Dishonesty, Pretense, Arrogance, Self- Righteousness, Confusion, Bias, Prejudice, Failures, Hopelessness, Greed, Corruption, Etc. See page 42 of the November 2005 issue of Scientific American for a related article by Jeffrey D. Sachs which is entitled "Welfare States, beyond Ideology" with the sub-title: "Are higher taxes and strong social "safety nets" antagonistic to a prosperous market economy? The evidence is now in." An expanded versions of this essay is available at:www.sciam.com/ontheweb Be Graciously-Together in the Many-Ways-of-Shalom. (c) 2006 by Paul A. Smith in "Search for Honesty and Integrity" (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================