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%MYTHIC STORIES MYTHS REFLEXIVE RELATIONSHIPS POWER 061220
   %MOVE GUIDE PEOPLE WAYS DOMINATION SYSTEM SHALOM 061220
  %CONFLICT DIFFERENT NEIGHBORS NEEDS DESIRES WANTS 061220
%FABLE GREAT ACCOMPLISHMENTS WORTHY HONOR CELEBRATE 061220
%HONORABLE SACRIFICE BATTLE DEFEND POSESSIONS IDEAL 061220

     Mythic-Stories  have  great power to move  and  guide
people;   but  often people are moved and guided  in  ways
which lead to conflicts between people who have been moved
and guided in different ways because:

     1.  They have received the same myths into  different
contexts defined by contrasting:  assumptions,  attitudes,
values, ideals, principles, beliefs, etc.

     2.  Mythic-Stories  are  taken by some people  to  be
literal accounts of historic-events in specific places  on
Earth at specific dates ---  even if not reliably known in
precise detail.

     3.  Mythic-Stories are  taken by other people  to  be
poetic accounts of  meaningful-occasions  in mythic-places
somewhere in mythic-times ---  even thought it is unlikely
that  the stories match any actual experiences  of  actual
people during any known historic-times-or-places.

     4.  Mythic-Stories  are  taken  by  other  people  as
politically  motivated efforts to motivate people to  join
political-coalitions  which  are indicated in the  mythic-
stories.

     5.  Mythic-Stories  are dismissed by other people  as
false fabrications which are not to be taken seriously  by
any well informed and intelligent people.

     Be Graciously-Together in the Many-Ways-of-Shalom.

                         (c) 2006 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)

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