This is http://www.essayz.com/b0710242.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.} ========================================================== %DEFINE DETERMINE TRANSCENDENT SOURCE KNOWLEDGE GOD 071024 %ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY ARROGANCE SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS ID 071024 It is a common fact of life that people differ in regard to which kinds of other people they: 1. Are comfortable in spending time with. 2. Instinctively trust and can cooperate with. 3. Easily understand intuitively. 4. Are inclined to honor and engage in open/honest talk. It is not possible for mere mortals to devise any system of prescriptions, proscriptions and commandments which can helpfully define which people must work together, become intimate, must avoid each other, avoid intimacy, must avoid open-and-honest-dialogue, etc. --- in Non- Alienative-Behaviors. Even if one postulates that there is some transcendent source of such knowledge, there is no evidence that any mere mortals have reliably received and made use of such helpful knowledge --- about which people must work together, become intimate, must avoid each other, must avoid intimacy, must avoid open-and-honest-dialogue etc. --- in Non-Alienative-Behaviors. Mere mortals cannot live: authentic, creative, honest, and robust lives in terms of any prescriptive/proscriptive system --- because the combinations of different people are far to diverse to be dealt with in such a technocratic, insensitive, non-sympathetic and non- empathetic way --- directed by technocrats and by formulas that are foolishly-simplistic-and-tragic. ---------------------------------------------------------- True-Lovers who are engaged in true courtships --- emphasize kind and positive affirmations of each other's attractive hints about what they would like to do together --- and thereby discover/build integrative healthy relationships. Domineering people engaged in endless contentious contests --- emphasize mean negations of each other's straying from the narrow straight paths which are presumed to be: always proper, right, required, mandatory, etc. --- and thereby destroy integrations and integrative processes which are authentically and mutually satisfying. ---------------------------------------------------------- In the above processes --- choices are made-daily between: ==========================================================