This is http://www.essayz.com/b0807060.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 ========================================================== %GOOD EVIL HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS WELL NOT INTEGRATED 080706 %ESSENTIAL ORIGINAL SIN ALIENATION ESTRANGEMENT GOD 080706 The words "EVIL" and "GOOD" are in common practice sometimes used in regard to isolated and/or alienated people. Such use is often misleading, especially when there are connotations of the attributes being essential aspects of The-Person-in-Isolation; apart from how they have participated in their Personal-Relationships. The two words are better reserved for making distinctions between THE-RELATIONSHIPS within which people are participants. It may make sense to say that Dyfunctional-Relationships- of-Alienation are EVIL-RELATIONSHIPS. Then it makes no sense to project EVIL out away from self and/or away from one's best friends --- in alienative ways. Greater clarity about Our-Relationships could well be a fruit of reserving the terms GOOD-And-EVIL as related to Human- Relationships. In a related way, the term "GOOD" in common usage is often used in regards to Utilitarian-Procedures-and-Tools; and to goals, purposes, intentions, ways, paths, groups, and organizations that demonstrate/achieve that which is "good". Here again, there is much which we may better enjoy by carefully using the term "GOOD" only when talking about the Humanane-Relationships which most merit/elicit OUR: admiration, honor, imitation, respect and perhaps something close to reverence. Then we may do well to use words like "helpful" to describe utilitarian-procedures- and-tools which facilitate OUR enjoyment of such GOOD- HUMANE-RELATIONSHIPS. These are best, when they are OUR- DESCRIPTIONS, rather than pretentious statements about any ABSOLUTE-REALITIES-OR-TRUTH which totally transcend us. We need to take care not to fall into the trap of viewing people as GOOD when they provide us with services which we view as GOOD services; e.g. sexual stimulations and sexual intimacies and/or wealth augmentations; outside of the framework of healthy GOOD personal relationships with all-around-healthy Open-and-Honest-Dialogue. Beware of labeling something other than a Well-Integrated-Personal- Relationship --- as being GOOD! Such usage is often tragically misleading. 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) ==========================================================