This is http://www.essayz.com/b0802270.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.} ========================================================== Click on WELCOME for a quick tour of essayz.com ========================================================== %FRAMING RESPONDING QUESTIONS ANCIENT MYTHOLOGICAL 080227 %HERO BEINGS LEADERS KINGS QUEENS EMPERORS BULLIES 080227 %DOMINANT GANGS TRIBES CITIES NATIONS REDEMPTIVE IT 080227 %THINGS ADDICTIONS DRUGS VIOLENCE DEMANDS COMMANDS 080227 %DISTINCTIONS DIFFERENT PEOPLE FOREIGNERS COLORS 080227 %RACES CULTURES CIVILIZATIONS CIVILITY GOOD POLICE 080227 Mythology has played major roles in human civilization Since-Before the Most-Ancient Historically-Recorded-Times. Mythology deals with Epic-Stories about Ancient-Heroes and Mythological-Beings/Powers. The boundaries between Ancient-Historical-Heroes and Ancient-Mythological-Heroes and Ancient Kings, Queens and Emperors are often difficult to draw with Much-Confidence. Parables, Similes, Allegories, Fairy-Tales, and their like --- have played Major-Roles in conveying people's senses of: Significance, Meaning, Ideals, Values, and Virtues. The Evidence that Mythological Beings, Heroes, Leaders, and Powers were Objectively-Real --- in the Modern- Scientific-Sense --- is often scanty. Given that Fact-of- Life; what questions are most Helpfully-Framed now about them? What responses to such Helpfully-Framed-Questions are Most- Likely to be Most-Helpful now? What Conflicts- and-Battles over such Questions-and-Responses are Most- Likely to be Most-Helpful now? Is it helpful to fight destructive wars and to maintain Military-Industrial- Complexes --- over such Questions-and-Responses? Be-Together in the Many-Gracious Ways of Shalom. (c) 2008 by Paul A. Smith in "Search for Honesty and Integrity" (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================