This is http://www.essayz.com/b0710102.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.} ========================================================== %ASKING TABOO QUESTIONS ABOUT LETTING GO CONTROLS 071010 The asking of questions about: (1) Dangers-in-Letting-Go-of-of-Controls, and (2) Dangers-in-NOT-Letting-Go-of-Controls ... often-recycle-endlessly. WHY? The Endless-Recycling occurs when the focus is ALWAYS upon moving back-and-forth-among-ONLY among the following ODD questions and other questions which are ALWAYS supportive of asking only the following kinds of ODD questions which ALWAYS have ODD-NUMBERS as labels --- even though others with even-numbers are right next to the ODD-NUMBERED ODD-QUESTIONS! 1. Who will be IN-CONTROL if I/WE LET-GO? 2. Who among US truly needs-to-care about who will be in control? 3. If I/WE LET-GO how can I/WE be INVULNERABLE? 4. If I/we do-not-let-go, how can we be honest with each other in any intimate and meaningful healthy relationship? 5. IF I/WE LET-GO how can I/WE be TOTALLY-SECURE alone? 6. If I/we do-not-let-go, how can we cooperate with each other in well-informed and non-prejudicial was of shalom? 7. If I/WE LET-GO; WHO will fulfill ESSENTIAL-PROMISES of SECURITY-THROUGH-INVULNERABILITY and TABOOS-DEFENDED? 8. If I/we do-not-let-go, how can we experiment and learn-together from trying-new-creative ways-of-shalom? 9. If I/WE LET-GO what WONDERFUL-TECHNOLOGY-TECHNOCRAT will REMAIN-STANDING to SAVE-US & DELIVER-US INTO-HEAVEN? 10. If I/we do-not-let-go, how can we focus to help mitigate biologically transmitted agents of disease? 11. If I/WE LET-GO of our pathological-fears and mental- illnesses; Which-of-US can Make-IT-SAFE for US to LIVE-ON? 12. If I/we do-not-let-go, how can we transcend our own collusive-games-of-mutual-self-deception? 13. If I/WE LET-GO who will protect our ULTIMATE-CONCERNS in PRESERVING OUR-COLLUSIVE-GAME-OF-MUTUAL-SELF-DECEPTION? 14. If I/we do-not-let-go, how can we graciously work- with-each-other in resolving our ideological-conflicts? 15. If I/WE LET-GO, who will UNILATERALLY-CONTROL the concentration of wealth-and-power into our own hands? 16. If I/we do-not-let-go, how can we avoid corrupting influences of concentrating wealth-and-power for a few? 17. If I/WE LET-GO how can we know for sure who will and who will lose in OUR-ETERNAL-BATTLES FOR-DOMINATION? 18. If I/we do-not-let-go, how can we avoid fulfilling promises of mutually-assured-total-global-destruction? 19. If I/WE LET-GO how can we assure ETERNAL-SALVATION ON-OUR-OWN-TERMS? 20. If I/we do-not-let-go, how can we together share eternal complementary truths which transcend us all? What is driving this endless cycle of destruction? To Accurately-and-Honestly describe THE-DRIVER we need to focus upon the many: assumptions, motivations, desires, greeds, demands, taboos, and collusive-games-of-mutual- self-deception which keep the Cycle-of-Questions FOCUSED- EXCLUSIVELY upon the ODD-QUESTIONS; and away from the many even-handed-evenly-numbered Very-Basic-Questions about Mutually-Complementary Essential-Truths related to Living- Healthy-Lives within the Many-Gracious-ways-of-Shalom. We need to Persistently-Ask New-Questions Framed-Within Frameworks of Concerns-about-Maintaining: Balance, Truths, Honest-Dialogues, Mutuality, Joys, Authenticity, Personal- Integrities, Communal-Integrities, Flexibility, Tolerance, Hospitality, Hospitals, Schools, Colleges, Universities, and Sanctuaries-Built-for-ALL in keeping with Universal- Declarations-of-Humane-Rights-for-ALL and Millennium-Goals For-ALL to work on Fulfilling-for-ALL their benefits. 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) ==========================================================