This is http://www.essayz.com/a9810092.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.} ========================================================== %IMPROPER PRIORITIES VALUES IDEALS IMPORTANCE LOVE+981009 %EXCLUSIVE CONTROL ISSUE PREOCCUPATION ADDICTION+981009 %FUNDAMENTALS CHRISTIAN GOSPEL FAITH DOCTRINE SIN+981009 %DEVIL ALIENATION ESTRANGEMENT EXCOMMUNICATION GO 981009 People who are preoccupied with issues of control often object to how other people affirm complementary values, ideals, principles, attitudes, and priorities. They often refuse to acknowledge that each person might behave responsibly, prudently, and with in integrity --- in a variety of different ways which are consistent with their unique talents, gifts, abilities, dispositions, desires, interests, and contexts. People who are preoccupied with issues of control refuse to deal with the complexities of real life in which different people prudently should respond differently to their unique talents, gifts, abilities, dispositions, desires, interests, and contexts --- in ways which cannot be prudently specified in detail by any conventional set of commandments, rules, regulations, prescriptions, proscriptions, doctrines, etc. The key to life is not conformity of any kind. The best that can be offered entails: suggestions, guidelines, guard-rails, paths, playing fields, descriptions of hazards and dangers, warnings based upon past experiences, etc. The best that can be offered does not entail: coercion, controls, violence, exclusivity, legalism, judgmentalism, shaming, condemnations, alienation, estrangement, excommunication, terrorism, or other related manipulative procedures. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================