This is http://www.essayz.com/b0707081.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.} ========================================================== %DIFFERENT MUTUALLY COMPLEMENTARY PERSPECTIVE SEE 070708 %VICINITY CONTEXT ALL MOUNTAIN ABSOLUTE TRUTH RIGHT 070708 %EXCLUSIVE SUPERIOR TOP TRAINED INDOCTRINATED VIEWS 070708 %PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE SCIENTISTS THEOLOGIANS GOOD 070708 %MILITARISTS DOMINEERING LEADERS UNILATERAL ACTION 070708 %FREE LIBERATED DOUBTS INDECISION HESITENCY WARS 070708 Different-People in Different-Places in the vicinity of a tall mountain --- on plains below the mountain --- see the mountain from different perspectives, through different telescopes offering different fields-of-view and magnification. No one perspective is more True-or-Right than any other perspective. No-Perspective-is-Superior to other perspectives --- except as judged in terms of some Pre- Determined Specific-Purpose. No Absolute-Exclusive-Truth can be discerned from some Superior-Perspective --- to the exclusion of any other Complementary-Truth --- discerned from a Complementary- Perspective; maybe with different Telescopic-Aids. Each person near the top of the mountain will have slightly different perspectives when looking at the viewers on the plains --- in different positions around the mountain; depending in part on what we telescopic equipment they use in each circumstance. Mountains and their Geographic-Environments are obviously Objective-Realities. The Available-Visual-Perspectives of mountains depend in Objective-Ways upon the Available- Geographic-Positions around the mountains. What different people discern from those different perspectives --- range from objective views to reflexive and subjective views --- with few clear boundaries separating the different patterns of discernment. Mountain-Top-Experiences within Reflexive-Inter-Personal- Relationships --- are rarely, if ever, clearly objective realities. However, many of the kinds of observations made above --- can also be made about different people's perspectives --- of various kinds. 1. People's-Perspectives depend upon where people are in their landscapes of realities: objective, environmental, cultural, religious, scientific, nationalistic, patriotic, military, corporate, reflexive, spiritual, sexual, intimate, collusive, and other Realities --- about which they may, or may not, be in Open-and-Honest-Dialogue. 2. It is dangerous to assume that our own descriptions of our own perspectives based upon our own experiences --- are somehow superior to other people's own descriptions of their own perspectives based upon their own experiences --- especially in the absence of any independent evidence that they are engaged in demonstrable patterns of: dishonesty, deception, pretense, mis-representations, arrogance, greed, domination, etc. 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) ==========================================================