This is http://www.essayz.com/b0410031.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.}
==========================================================
       =====>   See what editing of this essay will come later.  <======

%EMBEDDING APPROPRIATE MAJOR CONCERNS DIFFERENT GOD 041003
%IDOLATRY GOLDEN AGES ORAL POEM SONGS WRITTEN FORMS 041003
%PLAYS DRAMA MOVIES SOAP OPERAS MYTHS PARALLEL WAYS 041003
%REALMS HEAVEN ABOVE EARTH BENEATH TIED TOGETHER IT 041003
   %REGULATE DOMINATE CONTROL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS LAWS 041003

     Contrasting  ways-of-embedding  our appropriate major
concerns yield different fruits;  because of the different
ways-they-are-embedded.    Some  of the different ways  of
embedding-our-major-concerns include:

     1.  Telling epic stories about heroes  of  our golden
ages;  orally,  in poems, in songs,  in written forms,  in
plays, in movies, in operas, etc.

     2.  Maintaining  myths  about gods in  some  heavenly
realm to whom and to which we are tied in mysterious ways.

     3.  Creating  a  regulatory  system  of  civil  laws,
courts,  police,  and punishments ---  to maintain law and
order against the evil-threats-of-chaos.

     4.  Maintaining  religious  traditions  which  affirm
and/or  denigrate particular: scriptures,  rituals,  life-
styles,  assemblies,  governace-systems, leaders,  events,
wars, relationships, patterns-of-conformity, etc.

     5.  Maintaining  clarity  about patterns  of  virtues
which bear sweek-fruits, and contrasting patterns of vices
which bear bitter-fruits ---  of  integrations/integrities
versus dis-integrations/chaos.

     6.  Intentionally building and graciously maintaining
sanctuaries   within   which  all  people  who   wish   to
participate are  welcome  to  share honestly  their  life-
stories  and faith-journies  within intimate relationships
which   entail   both  safety  and  mutual   patterns   of
vulnerability.

     7.  Regularly  celebrating the powers of the Myth  of
Redemptive  Violence  and  Coercion;   through:   stories,
battles,    conflicts,   contentiousness,    competitions,
rewarding-winners,  punishing-losers, wars,  preparations-
for-wars,  celebrations of past victories,  mourning  past
losses,  honoring-war-veterans,  movies,  balads,  poetry,
art,     computer-games,    military-service,    military-
industrial-complexes, profitable-war-corporations, etc.

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