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We may understand: Heroes, Angels, Spirits, Gods and Paradigms - - - as embodying
the Widely-Shared and Apparently-Coherent Visions-and-Consensuses of Communities
that are in-Agreement about what Clusters-of:

Ideals	Values		Principles	Approaches	Missions	Plans

Virtues	Traditions	Assumptions	Technologies	Duties		Goals

- - - 	Make the most sense in the light of their own Shared-Experiences.

At the Boarders between different such communities, people who embody the 
differences between such communities - - - are likely to find themselves 
engage in Ego-Centric-Conflicts over:

 1. Territories-Claimed to "Be-Their-Own",
 2. Limited-Resources-Claimed to "Be-Their-Own",
 3. "Absolute" Truths and Beliefs,
 4. Who-is-Superior  and  Who-is-Inferior,
 5. The natures of Heroes, Angels, Spirits, Gods, etc.

Not all people and communities are equally coherent and well-integrated as
Authentic-People-and-Communities.  

People-and-Communities cling to Tragically-Misleading-and-Incoherently-Isolated:

Assumptions		Beliefs		Greed		Arrogance	

Things			Possessions	Wealth		Powers		

Ideals			Values		Principles	Approaches	

Missions		Plans		Virtues		Traditions	

Assumptions		Technologies	Duties		Goals

What is missing is the integration of all into a coherent whole upon which
members of the community have focused in Open-and-Honest-Dialogues and come
to Graciously-Arrived-At-Consensuses.

What people tenaciously cling to in Alienative-Ways - - - are the Roots of their
Alienative-Conflicts - - - Which-Destroy-Them - - - as their patterns of Civility
and Civilization FALL, and as their glories are destroyed by their Enduring-
Alienative-Conflicts which the fail to Attend-to-and-Mitigate.

All Civilizations are Truly-Great 

Only to the extent that their: - - -

Angels, Spirits, Gods, Paradigms and Heroes - - -

Focus their attention upon - - -

Gracious, Generous and Hospitable Patterns of Mitigating - - -

Their-Own-Alienative-Conflicts;     and upon - - -

Building for ALL people in their communities - - -

Open-Sanctuaries within which to Enjoy-Each-Other's-Presences within - - -

Open-and-HOnest-Dialogues about how to Graciously Meet ALL of each Other's - - -

Most-Essential-Humane-Healthy-Needs within God's Astronomically-Tiny Space-Ship-Earth

That is Essentially Isolated from all Extra-Terrestrial Pure-Material-Resources

Which are most like those Most-Coveted within God's Tiny Space-Ship-Earth 

Dominated by Humans' Exponentially-Growing Populations-and-Daily-Consumptive-Demands.