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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9005171.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.} ========================================================== %ADDICT LAW LEGAL MORAL JUDGE REJECT CONTROL ETHIC 900517 Self righteous legalists seek to use laws and moralisms as tools by which to control other people. They feel a need to be in control, or to be associated with those who are in control. So they seek to associate themselves with the power to control which is vested in respected laws, legalities, moral systems and ethical systems; and with those who are guardians of such systems. The more powerful and transcendent is the authority behind the instruments of control, the more secure the addictive legalist thinks it can make them be. Those who think that they speak for God are particularly self- confident in their pronunciation of statements designed to control others. They think that the Word of God is a string of words with which to control humans, and they are willing to use those words in their effort to achieve a personal sense of security and self righteousness. It is interesting to note that Jesus spoke no words designed to control others; and is regarded as being the Word of God. He did not seek security for himself; yet offered it as a gift to others. Those who seek security for themselves do not achieve it, because it is a gift offered by others and received with difficulty; for, to receive the gift of security you must admit to and accept your own limitations and vulnerability. Security is the gift of a social context in which you may be free to be vulnerable; if you accept the gift on its own terms, rather than on your own terms. Security is a gift which is offered, not something which can be imposed or achieved. Security is often rejected in defensive efforts which undermine the authentic security which may be accepted in open and honest personal relationships. Addicts seek to achieve security, law, order, etc. in manipulative efforts to be in control in ways which lead to the rejection and alienation of those who are not controlled. Their addictive rejections and alienation undermine both personal and communal integrity, and so prevent the enjoyment of the kind of security which addicts seek to achieve. Their kind of security cannot be achieved or enjoyed. Efforts to achieve it destroy the possibility of enjoying that which is yearned for in ignorance of its real nature. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================