This is http://www.essayz.com/b0709120.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.} ========================================================== %CONFUSED REPENTANCE DIZZY DOMINATION CONTROL GOOD 070912 %KNOWLEDGE WHO DEVIL IS EVIL GREED NEED TURN AROUND 070912 %ENEMIES TRAITOR DISLOYAL CONFORMISTS PRESCRIPTIONS 070912 %PROSCRIPTION SPEAK TRUTH POWERS THAT BE GREEDY SIN 070912 %SELF RIGHTEOUS ARROGANCE HUBRIS UNILATERAL GETTING 070912 %HAVING POSSESSIONS TERRITORY OWNERSHIP CORRUPTIONS 070912 If "Repentance" is worthy of honor, respect and support; then what is the "Essence" of "Repentance" and how can we tell who it is that "needs" to "Repent"? At the word "penitence" in Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary the inter-related meanings implied in the word "penitence" and "repentance" are traced. Implied is the idea that people stray from paths that are worthy of honor, respect and support; paths that are "right", "righteous", "good", "proper", "moral", "ethical", etc. Implied is that there is confusion about paths that are "right", "righteous", "good", "proper", "moral", "ethical", etc. --- and that it is possible to transcend such confusion and return to the paths that authentically are "right", "righteous", "good", "proper", "moral", "ethical", etc. What might we helpfully call the process of "straying" from "right", "righteous", "good", "proper", "moral", "ethical", etc. paths? The process of "straying" is just as much a process of "reversal" as is the process of "repentance". Both processes involve a figurative "turning-around". Why would anybody engage in the process of "straying"; i.e., the processes of confusing what are the paths that are worthy of honor, respect and support; paths that are "right", "righteous", "good", "proper", "moral", "ethical", etc. Why??? Observe and meditate honestly upon the behaviors of Domineering-People who are Playing-Collusive-Games-of- Mutual-Self-Deception. They are generating confusion about just which of our many different/contrasting paths are "right", "righteous", "good", "proper", "moral", "ethical", etc. Why do Domineering-People behave in such confusing ways? --- TO ACHIEVE tragic Dominance; Control, Gain, Wealth-Concentrations, Power- Concentrations, in the view of others who WANT-and-HONOR such: Dominance; Control, Gain, Wealth-Concentrations, Power-Concentrations! The source of the motivation and guidance is: Greed, Avarice, Covetousness, Acquisitiveness, Avidity, Cupidity, Greed, etc. People who demonstrate Greed, Avarice, Covetousness, Acquisitiveness, Avidity, Cupidity, Greed, etc. work to make their own behaviors appear to be truly worthy of honor, respect and support; paths that are "right", "righteous", "good", "proper", "moral", "ethical", etc. Such "appearances" are confusing in ways which serve their "special-interests" tragic: Dominance; Control, Gain, Wealth-Concentrations, Power- Concentrations, in the view of others who WANT-and-HONOR such: Dominance; Control, Gain, Wealth-Concentrations, Power-Concentrations make us all Dizzy and out of Balance and without Mutuality! The above processes of "Turning-Around" get us dizzy and confused; and we cannot truly tell which ways are authentic in the Many-Gracious-Ways-of-Shalom --- that are Mutually-Complementary and Worthy of Compliments. To Stray-from-the-Paths that are truly authentic in the Many-Gracious-Ways-of-Shalom is literally to Repent-from- the Many-Gracious-Ways-of-Shalom and compete for Dominance; Control, Gain, Wealth-Concentrations, Power- Concentrations; Making us all Dizzy and out of Balance, without Mutuality! See the following essays for more related considerations. 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) ==========================================================