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     %MAINTAIN REAL MYTHS APPEAR COMMUNITY TOGETHER 960513

     Myths   are   non-objective  realities   which   hold
communities together.    To  maintain  their  communities,
members of communities maintain their key myths; i.e., act
in ways which affirm the myths.

     The  essence  of  myths  are  often  communicated  by
stories   of  human  vision,   visions,   dreams,   hopes,
aspirations,  bravery, courage,  diligence,  success,  and
failures.  Such stories  make clear to hearers what people
have  believed, valued, hoped for and sacrificially worked
for.

     Myths  provide the contexts within which people  live
meaningful  lives with hope and meaning.   Myths  are  not
objective  accounts  of  objective events  at  well  known
dates,   times and places.   Myths tell stories  of  human
relationships  and what  those relationships have ment  to
participants, spectators and story-tellers.

     Myths  are maintained by people who act in ways which
affirm  the  importance of the myths and  so  sustain  the
stories  which  are  central  to the myths.    It  is  not
possible to verify that myths are true,  any more than  it
is possible to prove that they are false.   It is possible
to  verify  that  people  regard  a  particular  myth   as
important;   or that they regard a particular myth as  not
important.     Particular people may embody a myth by  how
they feel, think and act in the light of their assumptions
and attitudes; and by what stories they tell with passion.

     Scientists embody a myth which pertains to knowledge,
objectivity,  and the power to be in  control.  Scientists
tell  stories about who discovered what law of nature  and
about who used what law of nature in order to control what
objects and/or processes.    The mathematical language and
symbolic logic of science have been developed in  order to
tell the quantitative stories which  are  essential to the
affirmation of scientists' myth.   Scientists tell stories
of  quantitative relationships between elements which  are
objective  parts of reality and subject to human controls.
They are  less  prone  to  focus   explicitly  upon  human
relationships   which  are  reflexive  and  transcend  the
possibilities of human control.

     Myths   are   non-objective  realities   which   hold
communities  together.    To  maintain  their  communities
members of communities maintain their key myths; i.e., act
in ways which affirm the myths.

     To  affirm their myth scientists deal with reality in
terms  of the constituent parts of reality;   the  quarks,
elementary particles,  nucleons, nuclei, atoms, molecules,
DNA,  cells,  organs,  organisms and communities which are
basic parts of reality.  Often scientists' myth leads them
away from dealing with each other and their supporters  as
whole   persons---and  so  into  disintegrative   analytic
activities which they  do  not recognize as such---because
of their collusive affirmations of their myth.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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