This is http://www.essayz.com/b0708060.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.} ========================================================== %IDOLS ALIENATIVE PERSONAL COMMUNAL EVIL RELATIONS 070806 %IDOLATROUS DYSFUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS AMONG IDEAL 070806 %PEOPLE COMMUNITIES IDEALS VALUES PRINCIPLES GOODS 070806 %POSSESSION POWERS WEALTH CONCENTRATIONS DOMINATION 070806 %PRIVATE INTIMACIES AMONG PERSONS RIGHTS RITES GOOD 070806 %JUDGEMENTS JUDGEMENTALISM ARROGANCE RIGHTEOUSNESS 070806 Human relationships between/among two-or-more people have: objective, subjective, reflexive; public, private; official, unofficial; formal, informal; humane, inhumane; integrative, disintegrative and many other ASPECTS --- which may or may not be: coherent, incoherent; consistent, inconsistent; rational, irrational; inhumane, humane; alienative, reconciling; irreverent, reverent, etc. It is an alienative mistake to treat any such ASPECTS as ABSOLUTE, to the exclusion of any other such ASPECTS being: real, relevant,important, significant, meaningful, and/or mutually-complementary; etc. Each of the above ASPECTS of human relationships between/among two-or-more people is perceived by others in ways which depend as much upon the perceivers and their relationships --- as upon the ASPECTS which are perceived- and-realized. How each ASPECT is perceived-and-realized depends upon what-reflexive-realities each perceiver brings to their own processes of perception; e.g. their own personal and communal: assumptions, attitudes, desires, hopes, aspirations, expectations, experiences, training, fears, anxieties, preoccupations, persona, articulations, publications, positions, perspectives, etc. It is arrogant for any person-or-group to regard their own perceptions-and-realizations of ASPECTS as ABSOLUTE, to the exclusion of other perceptions/realizations --- no matter how firm-and-sure their consensus of any kind may- be. Such arrogance is bound to be alienative --- no matter how dominant it may be. No one can be truly sure that their own personal or communal perspective, perception, and/or realization is God's own. To do so is idolatrous and alienative. Be aware and beware! Be-Together in the Many-Gracious ways of Shalom. (c) 2007 by Paul A. Smith in "Search for Honesty and Integrity" (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================