This is http://www.essayz.com/a9602251.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.} ========================================================== %KINDS TEMPTATION ARROGANT DECEPTIVE DISHONEST FEAR+960225 %PRESUMPTUOUS UNBALANCED EXTREME FANATICAL CONTROL+960225 %RATIONALIZE BEHAVIOR SELF CENTERED DEFENSIVE SIN+960225 %MANIPULATOR FALSE ASSUMPTION ALIENATE DISCONNECT+960225 %JUDGMENTAL CONDEMNATION KNOWLEDGE GOOD EVIL FAIL 960225 Good people are often tempted in ways which they do not recognize. They distract themselves from the serious ways they are tempted by focusing their attention upon the less serious ways in which thy are tempted, and take pride in their ability to resist the less serious temptations. They are unaware of how often they yield to the more serious temptations which are associated with the following troublesome words: ARROGANCE DECEPTION DISHONESTY PRESUMPTIONS UNBALANCED EXTREMISM FANATICISM RATIONALIZATION SELF-CENTERED FEARFULNESS DEFENSES CONTROLS MANIPULATIONS FALSE-ASSUMPTIONS ALIENATION DISCONNECTIONS BETTER-THAN-OTHERS JUDGMENTALISM CONDEMNATIONS KNOW-WHO-IS-GOOD KNOW-WHO-IS-EVIL Such words are troublesome to people who presume that they are good and better than others whom they regard as less than they are, if not evil. Thus they divert their attention to all the temptations which they successfully resist---and pride themselves upon those temptations which they successfully resist---and ignore the more serious temptations which they do not successfully resist. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================