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All religious scriptures, statements, doctrines, laws, songs, parables, metaphors and rituals 
--- affect people thorough how readers and hearers: interpret them, hear them, respond to them
and bring their own experiences and previous understandings to their religious and spiritual
encounters.

So also it is with: Political, Philosophical, Scientific, Economic, Engineering, Military and
Terrorist encounters.  Human responses always include reflexive-personal-aspects of various
kinds.  They all play important roles in how people attempt to Integrate-the-Encounter into 
their Whole-Being.  

People's Encounters are not purely objective realities. Human encounters always include 
important Reflexive-Aspects which we ignore at our peril!  This is even true of encounters
with Objective-Realities - - - upon which we depend for our survival!

We cannot mitigate our own Alienative-Conflicts related to People's Encounters --- while
we are pretending that People's Reflexive Responses can be safely ignored!

Sincere: ignorance, prejudices and biases are no protection to those who are complicit in
demonstrating such responses.  Neither can sincere people protect themselves against the tragic
consequences of simplistic-complicity --- by trying to be more sincere --- while still trying
to ignore essential aspects of human encounters with both objective and reflexive realities 
upon which they are interdependent for their survival in sustainable ways that are robust in
our overall-changing-environments of all kinds, sizes and contexts.  

Beware of that which is absent, needed by you, yet you do not know it is absent!  

Wake-Up, Be-Aware, Beware and Think!