They have a deceptive spirit about them. There is a legitimate kind of civil disobedience. The human body is made in the likeness of God Satan can't look at a man without being reminded of the God he turned against. Epicureanism Epicureanism is the over indulgence and wanton seeking of pleasure. Something like the windsurfers, who have given up professions to do nothing but waste their lives in pleasure.
Epicureanism is a subtle way to destroy the human body through pleasure and promiscuity.
Stoicism Stoicism is the exact opposite of Epicureanism. The Catholic Monks were a beginning form of Stoicism. Heaven's Gate Cult, showed the ultimate method of Stoicism through their mass suicide. Unisex God made man male and female. And he made it clear that the sexes were to be grateful to be what God made each one to be.