This is http://www.essayz.com/b0706241.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.} ========================================================== %OBJECTIVE SUBJECTIVE REFLEXIVE TRUE FREEDOM CHOICE 070624 %DECIDE CHOOSE INITIATE RESPONSE THINK FEEL ACTIONS 070624 %ALTERNATIVES QUIETNESS MEDITATION PRAYER DIALOGUES 070624 %ASK DEMAND COMMAND TRAPPED COLLUSIVE GAMES MUTUAL 070624 %SELF DECEPTION DOMINATION MILITARY INDUSTRIAL SIN 070624 %COMPLEX EVIL RELATIONSHIPS ENTROPY CONFUSION ALIEN 070624 Philosophers and/or Theologians have sometimes framed the question: "Do humans have true freedom of choice in deciding what they will think, feel, decide and do?" Perhaps it will be more helpful for us each to frame questions of the following kinds, and in quietness seek our own answers to each such question of the form: Am I trapped: 1. Playing some collusive game of Mutual Self Deception? 2. In some pattern of Addictions and/or Codependence? 3. Within a Military-Industrial-Complex of Corporations? 4. In Affirmations of the Myth-of-Redemptive-Violence? 5. In Affirmations of the Myth-of-Redemptive-Coercion? 6. In Affirmations of the Myths-of-Redemptive-X? 7. In a Myth-of-Redemptive-Invulnerability? 8. In a Myth-of-Redemptive-Power/Wealth-Concentrations? 9. In a Myth-of-Redemptive-Self-Confidence? 10. In a Myth-of-Redemptive-Unilateral-Actions? 11. In a Myth-of-Redemptive-Arrogance/Hubris/Pride? 12. In a Myth-of-Redemptive-Religious-Self-Righteousness? 13. In a Myth-of-Redemptive-Coalitions? 14. In a Myth-of-Redemptive-Dichotomies/Polarizations? 15. In a Myth-of-Redemptive-Criticisms/Negativities? 16. In a Myth-of-Redemptive-Rejection?/Excommunications? 17. In a Myth-of-Redemptive-Perpetual-Thoughtless-Action? 18. In a Myth-of-Redemptive-Unilateral-Salvation/Rescues? 19. In a Myth-of-Redemptive-Eternal-Traditional-Ruts? 20. In a Myth-of-Redemptive-Being-Stuck-in-Proprieties? 21. In a Myth-of-Redemptive-Being-Stuck-in-Doctrines? Be Graciously-Together in the Many-Ways-of-Shalom. (c) 2007 by Paul A. Smith in "Search for Honesty and Integrity" (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================