This is http://www.essayz.com/b0709150.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.} ========================================================== %SYSTEM ANALYSIS CAUSES CONSEQUENCES ALIENATION GOD 070915 How much effort has there been on the part of theologians, scholars, scientists and philosophers to systematically describe the causes and consequences of human alienation of diverse kinds? Upon what assumptions, attitudes, beliefs, and existential evidence --- have such efforts been founded? How firm a foundation and structure --- has withstood the storms of challenges to what has been built? Within the context of the above --- what has been helpfully articulated about: 1. Myths of redemptive XXXX --- such as: Violence, Coercion, Force, Commands, Demands, Religions, Institutions, Persons, Communities, Tribes, Cities, States, Nations, Corporations, Theologies, Philosophies, Sciences, Scripts, Scribes, Scriptures, Crusades, Coalitions, Inquisitions, etc. 2. Catastrophes, Tragedies, Scientists-Descriptive- Laws, Causes, Effects, Robustly-Confirmed Descriptive- Theories, Objectivity, Reflexive-Relationships, etc. 3. Arrogance, Self-Righteousness, Pretensions, Pride, Certainty, Doubts, Humility, Generosity, Hospitality, Civility, Appreciation, Thanks, etc. 4. Wars, Revenge, Battles, Attacks, Duels, Cooperation, Teams, Colaborations, Armies, Navies, Air-Forces, Mutually-Assured-Destruction, etc. 5. The Inter-Relationships among All-Of-The-Above. 6. Where the beginning of wisdom is found. 7. What preoccupations lead to Alienations? 8. What preoccupations lead to Reconciliations? 9. Unexamined and Untested: Assumption, Attitudes, Beliefs, Virtues, Traditions, Coalitions, Preoccupations, Addictions, Vices, Ideals, Values, Principles, Religions, Institutions, Certainties, Doubts, Laws, Demands, etc. 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) ==========================================================