CollieUnderstanding ourselves For completeness, let’s look at a dictionary definition for spirituality as well. Doing so helped clarify religiosity; let’s see if it helps here…
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Two modern-day examples of the secularity of organized religion: President Bush recently asked the Pope (the leader of another nation) to put pressure on Catholic…
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(Originally posted October 2004) First a few quick notes I’m very happy about. This is my One Year Anniversary Firestarter article — yay! I’m very…
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Why is the Journey that denotes active individualism and physical maturity always coded male? Why is the one that connotes life’s wisdom cooperatively rooted within…
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I have a few other issues with this so-called Hero’s Journey, at least as laid out by Campbell. First of all, it stipulates a very…
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Conclusion In the process of writing this incredibly rambling Firestarter I was asked: why does this matter? Why have I spent all this time considering…
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I found at least one of these female villains curiously unsatisfying for a slightly different reason, oddly enough. She was depicted as a goddess of…
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I guess what I enjoyed most about the humor that worked for me was when it wasn’t strained, nor about humiliating and belittling others. Humor…
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Mercy has two other elements in her story which I’m looking forward to seeing explored. First, she has at least one other person who is…
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Before we go on to discussion of my favorite heroine, here’s an example of a heroine where I wasn’t terribly impressed with the story’s sexual…
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