This is http://www.essayz.com/a9712262.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.} ========================================================== %PRESCRIPTIVE ENJOYMENT PERMISSION PROSCRIPTIVE SIN 971226 What can we do with personal and communal integrity when people who are preoccupied with issues of control: 1. Seek to limit joy and enjoyment to occasions which have been authoritatively permitted and prescribed --- to their satisfaction? 2. Rarely, if ever, indicate what such occasions might properly be? 3. Show embarrassment and/or distress when people reveal joy and/or enjoyment in spontaneous ways which are not under anybody's control? Can we with personal and communal integrity respond obediently with joy and enjoyment --- to commandments to do what is required of us --- imposed upon us by people who are preoccupied with issues of control? What if they say that they are merely serving as God's Agents in telling us what God requires of us? How are we to know if they are truly God's Agents; or are instead false prophets who have appointed themselves to be preoccupied with issues of control at our expense? How are we to discern the difference between true prophets and false prophets? What kinds of people are false prophets? What kinds of people are true prophets? Which kinds of people can honestly answer this question in a satisfactory way? (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================