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Ahem, actually: in norse mythology there was the flying horse «Sleipnir:» https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleipnir While n

• slim 7y ago
  in arab mythology, it's the Buraq https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buraq https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buraq
• posterboy 7y ago
  Who says folks believed myths to be realistic? We are actually talking about knowledge, not believe. There may have been many people for whom between horses and steam engine powered trains there was no certainty nor prospect for motorization, only wet dreams of flying. Interesting fact nontheless, Pegasus comes to mind.
  • Jenz 7y ago
    True. I find it hard to relate to. Do priest believe god is real, (if so: also realistic,) or do they just believe in him?
    • posterboy 7y ago
      Priests believe in an interpretation of what they know and they know they believe because they have been indoctrinated to think so. It's very difficult and I don't want to disparage it, not actively right now, but latently--and that's similarly a learned behavior. However, if Goedels symbolic proof of gods existence, which is subject to interpretation of course, holds any water, than there might be an elementary truth, the knowledge that good does exist. Similar to Descartes "I think therefore I am", it might be trivial and discovering it might be part of everyones development. In that sense, priests wouldn't be any different. Ironically, I believe that I know that, the proof at least, subconsciously. I actively believe that. That's not good. lol. What does that have to do with UX cliches? If you'd ask priests whether god is dead, they'd say, "why, horses are good enough"?!