This is http://www.essayz.com/a9607142.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.} ========================================================== %TECHNOCRATIC SALVATION MEANS TOOLS TECHNIQUES 960714 Technocrats are people who are compulsively preoccupied with salvation technologies such as: 1. Proper religious rituals regarded as essential to the achievement of our salvation. 2. Recitation of proper dogmas and doctrines regarded as essential to the achievement of our salvation. 3. Proper association with good people who can facilitate the achievement of our salvation---and avoidance of evil people and evil influences which can undermine our salvation. 4. Proper conformity to: commandments, laws and behavioral patterns---conformity which is regarded as essential to our achievement of our salvation. 5. The avoidance of improper rituals, doctrines, people, commandments, laws and behavior patterns which may undermine our achievement of our salvation. 6. The acquisition of sure knowledge and the use of sure knowledge which is essential to our achievement of our salvation---religious, political, financial, scientific, literary, musical, etc. 7. Making installment payments in service, conformity, money, rituals, etc.---to retroactively justify our salvation received "on account." (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================