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| | Myth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In the academic field of mythology, a myth is a story of supernatural events or heroism that is believed to be true by people who perceive religious or spiritual significance in it. | | | Because of this usage, many people take offense when the religious narratives they believe to be true are called myths (see Religion and mythology for more information). | | | The Myth of Sisyphus is an essay by Albert Camus. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth
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| | David Archard, "Myths, Lies and Historical Truth" |
| | Sum: academic attacks on particular myths will not bring them down, because belief in them is not dependent on strict standards of plausibility but rather the function they serve (compare religion and urban legends): e.g. | | | National myths are not things like the founding of Rome by Romulus and Remus (i.e., entirely fictional and connected to spiritual claims) | | | Affective: belief in the myths leads us to lead noble lives or have the right kind of attitudes to other beings. |
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http://spruce.flint.umich.edu/~simoncu/385/Archard.htm
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| | Fiction Down Under |
| | The karakia (prayer, chant or hymn) at the beginning of the Prologue alludes to the Maori Creation myth, and connects the art of carving to other creations. | | | Maori culture is not monolingual and confined to rural marae, just as Pakeha culture is not monolingual and urban; many Maori identities are forged in the Pakeha-dominated worlds of commerce and government, most Maori do not speak the Maori language, and many Pakeha identities are lived in close relationship with Maori culture. | | | Instead, there is a broad overlapping of languages and cultures, and the reader of Potiki should realise that this novel represents aspects of Maori culture somewhere in the spectrum that runs from traditional classical Maoritanga to urban gang subculture. |
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http://www.stolaf.edu/courses/2004sem1/English/215/PotikiAnnotations.shtml
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| | Review: Encyclopedia of Urban Legends |
| | The author examines essentially all the stories and themes that have ever popped up in Urban Myth, performing a sort of modern exegesis to break them into their component parts. | | | It features summaries and explanations of major and minor urban myths and themes. | | | As the name implies, The Encyclopedia of Urban Legends provides a quite broad, but not very deep, selection of urban legends and traditional folktales. |
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http://www.fables.org/commentary/urban_legends.html
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| | The end of the Myth of Galileo Galilei supported by the progressivists by Atila S. Guimaraes@ TraditionInAction.org |
| | Pope Urban VIII only broke his good relations with Galileo when the latter wrote the book Dialogo, or Massimi Sistemi, in which he tried to ridicule the Aristotelian-Thomist philosophy in dealing with the systems of Ptolemy and Copernicus. | | | Moreover, Pope Urban VIII was linked to Galileo by a personal friendship. | | | The initial favorable position of the Roman College to Galileo, the seriousness of its scholars, the confidence St. Robert Bellarmine placed in their opinion, and its specialized department of science do not present a picture of an institution opposed to the advancement of science, as presented by the revolutionary and progressivist myth. |
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http://www.traditioninaction.org/History/A_003_Galileo.html
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| | Medjugorje - A Chronological Redord |
| | The Urban Myth - Pope Urban VIII, that is! | | | "His Holiness, Pope Urban VIII stated: 'In cases which concern private revelations, it is better to believe than not to believe, for, if you believe, and it is proven true, you will be happy that you have believed, because our Holy Mother asked it. | | | If you believe, and it should be proven false, you will receive all blessings as if it had been true, because you believed it to be true.' (Pope Urban VIII, 1623-44)" |
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http://www.unitypublishing.com/Apparitions/MedjugorjeHistory.htm
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| | Rev. Robert H. Tucker - Sermons on the Web - Into the Sunset |
| | Or, to see how the Western myth of redemptive violence is transferred into modern urban life, we have the movie "Death Wish." The story of Death Wish opens with Paul Kersey and his wife vacationing in Hawaii. | | | Westerns have supplanted the Biblical and Christian myth of redemptive suffering with that of redemptive violence. | | | One of the most potent arguments against the verbal inspiration of the Scriptures, in my mind, is the bloodthirsty commands put in the mouth of God. |
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http://www.bobandmaggi.com/sermon19970706.html
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| | The "Missing Day" Urban Myth - About-Him.Com |
| | We don't need to resort to embellishments and urban myths to establish the credibility of God's Word. | | | We don't have to resort to the Gibeonites deception to establish God's Word. | | | Unfortunately, many Christians do not first check out a story before they begin to use it in their apologetics. |
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http://www.about-him.com/guest16.html
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| | myth - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Phrases that include myth: urban myth, culture myth, solar myth, beauty myth, callisto the greek myth, more... | | | MYTH : Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion [home, info] | | | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "myth" is defined. |
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http://www.onelook.com/?w=myth&ls=a
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| | Urban legend - Psychology Central |
| | Jan Harold Brunvand notes that the use of urban legend is less prejudicial because the term myth is often commonly used to describe cultural ideas and tales that are widely accepted as being false or untrue. | | | One such urban legend is that a ceiling fan can decapitate a person jumping on a bed (this was disproved on MythBusters). | | | For more on the meanings of the word myth, see Mythology. |
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http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Urban_legend
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| | Myth - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Phrases that include Myth: urban myth, beauty myth, culture myth, aetiological myth, aitiological myth, more... | | | MYTH : Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion [home, info] | | | Myth : Glossary of Literary Terms [home, info] |
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http://www.onelook.com/?w=Myth&ls=a
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| | Urban Legend Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.com |
| | For more on the meanings of the word myth, see Mythology. | | | The more academic definitions of myth usually refer to a supernatural tale involving gods, spirits, the creation of the world, and so forth. | | | Many urban legends are about horrific crimes, contaminated foods or other situations that might affect a lot of people if they were true. |
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http://www.launchbase.com/encyclopedia/Urban_legend
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| | MTV.com - Onair - Big Urban Myth - Birth |
| | The transformation of an occurrence into a full-fledged urban myth is a story all unto itself. | | | Like a huge, cultural game of telephone, the Urban Myth is usually the result of half-truths or complete exaggerations. | | | Check out these classic examples of urban myths and learn how they came into being. |
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http://www.mtv.com/onair/big_urban_myth/birth/index.jhtml?choose=The+Hook
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| | Baader-Meinhof: The Concept of the Urban Guerrilla |
| | The urban guerrilla's aim is to attack the state's apparatus of control at certain points and put them out of action, to destroy the myth of the system's omnipresence and invulnerability. | | | The "urban guerrilla" signifies armed struggle, necessary to the extent that it is the police which make indiscriminate use of firearms, exonerating class justice from guilt and burying our comrades alive unless we prevent them. | | | The "urban guerrilla" is based on a recognition of the facts instead of an apologia of the facts. |
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http://www.baader-meinhof.com/students/resources/communique/engconcept.html
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| | The Heartland Institute - Debunking Friday the 13th: 13 Myths of Urban Sprawl - by Wendell Cox |
| | Myth #5: Central Cities Are the Victims of Suburban Growth. | | | Myth #7: Rail Transit Is Needed for Transportation Choice. From Cincinnati to Austin, transit spending advocates quickly abandon their baseless traffic congestion claims when challenged. | | | Urban population densities have fallen faster in Europe and Canada than in the United States. |
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http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=12350
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| | Welcome/login messages from ftp://anonymous:othnet@update-widgetphreak.sytes.net |
| | RETR /mp3s/Comps/Mu/Children of Mu/Urban Myth And Steve Beresford - Sun Propeller.mp3 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for /mp3s/Comps/Mu/Children of Mu/Urban Myth And Steve Beresford - Sun Propeller.mp3 (3342450 bytes). | | | PWD 257 "/" --- Checking /mp3s/Comps/Mu/Children of Mu/Urban Myth And Steve Beresford - Sun Propeller.mp3 for availibility PORT 209,173,192,59,16,253 200 PORT command successful. |
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| | Urban rumor |
| | An urban myth is the basis of the book and film 'The Beach' where it is commonly believed amongst the western travelling community in South East Asia that there is an idyllic beach that only a select few know about. | | | The defining characteristic of an Urban Myth is that it is not an idea that is propagated by any institution, be it scientific, governmental or even journalistic. | | | Urban Rumours such as the dead rat theory. |
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http://www.bambooweb.com/articles/u/r/Urban_rumor.html
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| | The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory |
| | By “myth” Eller intends two slightly different meanings: myth as an unproven yet widely held belief, and myth as a formative belief system—notably, while the book is polemic, she is careful not to use “myth” in its most derogatory connotation (as false, an urban legend even). | | | To conclude, The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory is a razor sharp and enlightening critique and polemic, and as such, it should be read by anyone confused by, interested in, or curious about the various gynocentrisms in vogue today. | | | The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory is at its most lively in its polemical moments; a well-written polemic that pokes holes in an opponent’s argument is a joy to read. |
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http://www.skrause.org/writing/bookreviews/eller_cynthia-the_myth_of_matriarchal_prehistory.shtml
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| | Organ Donation > Urban Myths |
| | This urban myth stems from several reports from transplant recipients themselves as well as the media. | | | Myth: If I am in an accident and the hospital knows that I want to be a donor, the doctors will not try to save my life. | | | Myth: I don't need to tell my family that I want to be a donor because I have it written in my will. |
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http://www.organdonor.gov/myth.html
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| | Straight Dope Staff Report: What's so urban about urban legends? |
| | Urban legends have also been called "modern legends," but that may wrongly imply a recent origin. | | | "Urban legend" wasn't the happiest choice, since the stories aren't uniquely urban and aren't all legends in the strict sense. | | | Most urban legends assume an industrialized if not necessarily urban setting, with frequent references to automobiles, telephones, microwave ovens, shopping malls, fast food, ethnic restaurants, and other modern conveniences. |
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http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/murbanlegend.html
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| | Is "Smart Growth" the Ultimate Oxymoron? |
| | In addressing the myth that growth is necessary to provide jobs for residents of the community, Fodor cites national research that found no statistical relationship between a city's growth rate and its unemployment rate across 25 of the nation's fastest and slowest growing cities. | | | Population growth is the underlying cause of these problems and others, including urban sprawl, growing energy consumption, social alienation, urban decay, lack of affordable housing, an increase in the number of people without healthcare insurance, and many more. | | | The first myth is that population growth provides new tax revenues that will decrease the burden on existing property owners. |
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http://www.carryingcapacity.org/smartgrowth.html
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| | Myth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Myth of Sisyphus is an essay by Albert Camus. | | | In the academic fields of mythology, mythography, and folkloristics a myth is a sacred story concerning the origins of the world or how the world and the creatures in it came to have their present form. | | | The Myth of redemptive violence is a term coined by Walter Wink for an archetypal plot in literature, especially in imperial cultures. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth
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| | Review: Encyclopedia of Urban Legends |
| | The author examines essentially all the stories and themes that have ever popped up in Urban Myth, performing a sort of modern exegesis to break them into their component parts. | | | It features summaries and explanations of major and minor urban myths and themes. | | | As the name implies, The Encyclopedia of Urban Legends provides a quite broad, but not very deep, selection of urban legends and traditional folktales. |
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http://www.fables.org/commentary/urban_legends.html
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| | Urban Myths |
| | Law-Lib: Re: Walt Disney World or $5,000 - a new urban myth? | | | Anne Morrison Mary - I did a simple search in Yahoo on "urban legends" and found a site that just added today a message that this too, is an urban legend. | | | Legends and myths about Walt Disney, the Walt Disney Company, and Disney films and theme parks. |
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http://www.mythome.org/UrbnMyth.html
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| | THE 'URBAN MYTH' GAMBIT |
| | The denialists range from the Justice Department, whose spokesperson derided the widely-reported story as "an urban myth," to Daniel Pipes, the chief ideologue of anti-Arabism in the US, whose op ed for the New York Post this morning [March 11] is, er, rather odd
. | | | Witnesses reported them to the police, and identified their van with the logo of "Urban Moving Systems": they were picked up on Route 3, in East Rutherford, and detained. | | | On September 14, New Jersey police moved in on Urban Moving Systems, and the residences of some of its employees, most of them Israelis. |
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http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j031302.html
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| | Folklore, Fairy Tales & Mythology / SAC Library & Media Services |
| | This author's site looks at the rich literature in areas which often intermingle with folklore, fairy tales, urban legends, and mythology. | | | Brief definitions for gods and supernatural beings of many mythologies. | | | Thomas Bulfinch's classic text on Greek and Roman mythology, including some Norse and Druid mythology. |
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http://www.accd.edu/sac/lrc/librns/tina/folklore.htm
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| | Mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Mythology is alive and well in the modern age through urban legends, scientific mythology, and many other ways. | | | The word "mythology", from the Greek words muthos, meaning a narrative, and logos, meaning a word or argument, literally means the study of myths: stories of a particular culture that it believes to be true and that feature a specific religious or belief system. | | | Mythology is also commonly used to refer to a collection of myths from a particular culture or religion. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythology
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| | Backgrounds & Undercovers |
| | Many executives and corporate counselors who chuckle at these other urban legends, inexplicably have irrationally bought into the myth that their companies will incur exposure to litigation by providing true, but negative information about past employees. | | | Another popular urban legend is the belief that someone invented a carburetor (or additive or injector, etc.) that guarantees 150 miles per gallon--but the oil companies bought up the patent. | | | An urban legend with real staying power is the brand new Cadillac (or Mecedes, Lincoln Jaguar, etc.) for sale for $100. |
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http://www.lpconline.com/FAQs_undercovers_backgrounds.html
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