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It makes me wonder what founding myths we live with today. I wont even bother to speculate at the risk of promoting flamebait but I imagine our myths are some o
by verylittlemeat 8y ago
It makes me wonder what founding myths we live with today. I wont even bother to speculate at the risk of promoting flamebait but I imagine our myths are some of our most scared truths. Of course that's not to say they're conspiracies but just very convenient lies.
- badosu 8y agoLies, or corruption due to verbal communication inter generations. There are mythical accounts verbally communicated for geological events like mega eruptiona spanning tens of thousand years.
- erikpukinskis 8y agoThey’re not necessarily lies. I usually assume myths are faithful transcriptions of actual historical events, just stylized in order to aid in their retelling.
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- DougN7 8y agoI think the Big Bang “theory” is one. It might be accurate, or maybe our universe is squirting out of a worm hole. Either way we believe our stories of the beginning to be true just as vigorously and reason about them just as much as the ancients did.