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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9507222.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.} ========================================================== %MECHANICAL PLAN CONTROL JOY HAPPY ECSTASY SEX+950722 %DUTY OBLIGATION MANDATE REQUIRE PRESCRIBE MUST 950722 What images are conjured up by the terms "Mechanical joy", "Planned happiness", "Controlled ecstasy"? Relationships and experiences which are most meaningful and fulfilling are not: mechanical, planned, controlled, mandated, required, prescribed or occasioned by a sense of duty. Personal relationships of true integrity are not the fruits of mechanical plans, programs of control, moral injunctions, ethical prescriptions or lists of do's and don'ts. Plans and efforts to control according to any systematic program tend to undermine personal and communal integrity---rather than to promote them. Efforts to think helpfully in dichotomous terms are doomed to failure. When one way of thinking is dysfunctional, the opposite way of thinking is most likely also dysfunctional. We need to seek to transcend human tendencies to go from one extreme to an opposite extreme; from yes to no, and from no to yes. We need to beware of choosing the opposite, and seek additional (non- dichotomous) alternatives which are more likely to promote personal and communal integrity---than are either extreme of any dichotomous set of alternatives. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================