This is http://www.essayz.com/b0701071.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.} ========================================================== %PARABLES LITERAL INTERPRETATION STORIES ALLEGORY 070107 %METAPHOR MYTH FABLE NEWS REPORT FORM TRAGIC ERROR 070107 %CERTAINTY ARROGANCE SELF RIGHTEOUS SIMPLISTIC FOOL 070107 %DOMINATION SYSTEM LOYAL THOUGHTLESS OBEDIENT DEVIL 070107 Parables are stories which may evoke within different people profoundly-different insights-and-understandings regarding their own and other people's relationships. Parables may appear to be about what some particular people at particular times and places actually did and actually experienced --- while entirely transcending such literal perceptions-and-understandings of what the stories are about. People may perceive parables in terms of the forms of allegories, metaphors, myths, fables, and news-reports. When one form is taken With-Certainty to be Another-Form - -- Misunderstandings-and-Confusion are Bound-to-Abound in Tragic-Ways of Great-Contrast to Shalom. 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) ==========================================================