This is http://www.essayz.com/b0801310.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.} ========================================================== Click on WELCOME for a quick tour of essayz.com ========================================================== %TOLERATE ESSENTIAL DIFFERENCE WITHIN BETWEEN AMONG 080131 %PRETENTIOUS DISHONEST SUPERIOR ME MY MINE OUR US 080131 %CREATIVE IMAGINATIVE VISION DREAMS DESIRES HOPES 080131 %GOOD PERSPECTIVES PERCEPTIONS UNDERSTANDINGS VIEWS 080131 %KNOWING WHO WITHIN ISOLATION ESSENTIALLY EVIL DEED 080131 %CONTENTIOUS GOOD CONFLICTS REDEMPTIVE VIOLENCE SIN 080131 To-Be-Honest with ourselves and each other --- we must recognize, acknowledge, and describe to ourselves and each other in dialogue --- that: 1. There are Essential-Differences between us that are central to our own and each other's personal integrities; and so to our own and each other's communal integrities. Our being different in some ways which are mutually- complementary --- is essential to our personal/communal integrations and integrities. Integrity depends upon Essential-Differences which are: gracious, mutually- complementary, open, honest, etc. 2. Our-Conformity with each other's Prescriptions-and- Proscriptions-and-Taboos --- are Not-Essential to our own or to each other's personal-and-communal integrations-or- integrities. There is NO-NEED for us to pretend to be alike; when we are Essentially-Different. Pretentiousness is Not-Essential! It is Essential that we Tolerate- Essential-Differences Within-Among-And-Between us. Otherwise Integrity-is-Impossible! 3. To Truly-Honor the above observations we must honor many Essential-Clusters-of-Virtues which will often include being: gracious, mutually-engaged, complementary, cooperative, open, honest, hospitable, well-integrated, authentic, tolerant, etc. 3. To truly-Honor the above observations we must acknowledge that Within-Some-Circumstances there are technologies/techniques which are Not-as-Essential as many of our Essential-Clusters-of-Virtues. NO-ONE-ISOLATED: Technology, Technique, Technocrat, Prescription, Proscription, Taboo, Standard, Demand, Command, Law, Script, Scriptural-Text, or Interpretation is GOD. GOD transcends all Alienative-Uses-of-Isolated-Tools! Be-Together in the Many-Gracious ways of Shalom. (c) 2008 by Paul A. Smith in "Search for Honesty and Integrity" (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================