First and Foremost

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First and foremost - for many, is the concern for safety and security. A no-brainer, but not to be taken for granted!

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Concerns for safety and security do prompt for a variety of approaches to being alive. There are, for example, rather humanistic and rather theistic versions of existence.

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And people do mix up faith and reason. That is, they may 'construct' and live by an interlaced approach of pragmatic faith, especially when that works better for them. We are adaptable creatures.

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Many believe in the primacy of being created by God, and all else follows in order of purpose. Others believe in no 'grand' purpose, that is, they believe that evolution does not aim at a specific goal.

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Surprisingly, both views are very meaningful, especially to those who hold them. Believers and non-believers alike, we all construct meanings in our minds out of these and other shared experiences.

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Even the lack of a 'grand' meaning can be meaningful and fascinating enough for people to help sustain their noble endeavors.

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What, then, is 'given' to us, by whoever, that serves as the basics to help us construct any of the varieties of meaning that we may hear about, from the trivial to the grand?

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First and foremost, it is our body in its environment. It is the experience of a body with an interior self, in an exterior world. With that, we all build our personal outlooks on life, debatable as they are.

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And as we grow up, and begin to relate intimately, we find out a lot more dicey things about ourselves. One undebatable recognition must be that humans are sexual beings - for better or worse.

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Over time humans have learned - like no other creature - to delay their sexual gratification via the calculated deployment of purpose and meaning.

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As sexuality generates a dependency by one on the other, it makes any sexual creature a vulnerable creature, especially the human being.

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And when that intensely human vulnerability gets disrespected, as it is too often the case, the shamed person may feel endangered and become naturally aggressive to protect him or herself.

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Again, coming to disagree with a mate's burgeoning sexuality - an acquired taste if you will - may thus undermine the relationship as the respective mate, if not both, will come to feel endangered.

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Generally speaking, civilizations deploy certain cultural norms to better manage human sexuality. That is, norms help people protect their vulnerabilities and keep themselves from being endangered.

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That is why passionate love cannot be guaranteed as safe. Most any mate, promising or not, will never be free from burgeoning desires, from acquiring tastes. Still we must give love a chance...

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