The document invites a discussion on personal or communal symbols in life, urging participants to reflect on their significance and the emotions they evoke. It emphasizes analyzing the motions and meanings associated with these symbols, including rituals like hand signs that convey acceptance and various emotions. The writer suggests exploring any underlying mythology linked to the symbols, highlighting their communicative power beyond language.

1. Interseting discussion topic,
want to chime in?
Describe a symbol in your life. It can be a religious one or not. But I want to know something in
your life that is communal (that is to say, it takes place with other people) or personal (you go
through it alone) that points "beyond itself". Especially good topics are symbols that you share
with friends, family, teams, scout troops, or whatever - just a meaningful group (important
places, annual parties, hand signs, code words, handshakes, etc).
I want you to deeply diagnose the thing - even if you never have before: What are the motions
involved? Do they have a significance? What is the connection between sign and symbolized?
What feeling or event is it meant to evoke? Just describe each and every element that is
consistently involved and explain its significance... Is there a "mythology" behind it? (that is to
say, a key founding story that's interpretive, rather than exact, history)
Solution
hand signs:
it involves acceptance, sometime ignorance, sometime victory, some time hapiness. Yes a lot. It
is beyond the language one speaks. It has grat power to communicate. I don't know of
mythology but yes its there.