JOB BLOG 1
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The word myth is defined as a story or word. Myths are defined as “tales believed as true”. Religion is a myth. Does that mean it is true or not true. I don’t know the answer to that question nor does anyone have the evidence to fully prove or disprove it. If you believe in the bible, the stories in it are the myths you believe in. If you do not believe in the bible then there is an alternate set of myths that you believe in. It seems to me that myths were created by symbols and language. Two people who hear the same exact sentence could come up with two different meanings and symbols in their head. They hear the same words yet gather a different meaning. This is where myths can get very dicey and unclear. Just because you heard what that person said and you came up with a conclusion does not mean your right about it. We do not have the luxury to go back in time and clarify, for ourselves, what these stories meant or if they were true or not. We only have faith and arguments and the way we were raised to come up with our assumptions and beliefs. In my opinion, myths are imbedded in us as we begin to learn language and symbols as a young child. We learn what certain objects are such as a ball or car. We learn that there is a right word and sound for objects in our life. When you hear the word tree, what do you see. You see a tree. But how big is that tree? How many leaves does it have? Does it even have leaves? Many of us will picture a different tree then someone else, thus giving the word “tree” a different symbol or meaning to you then is has to another person. We grow up with these myths that some people are ugly, that some people are pretty, some are fat some are skinny, some are tall some are short. Are these things really true? What is reality? Reality is things that are real. I am real you are real. We grow up believing we are a certain way because of what people tell us, what our past tells us, and culture tells us. It is true to us because we believe in it. I feel that we have myths in order to fill a void, and a sense of being lost. As babies, before we learned to speak, we instinctively knew what we liked and didn’t like. We laughed or smiled when we liked something and we cried when we didn’t. I feel that as babies we truly understood what was real. When myths got involved through language and symbol, it distorted what made us happy or un happy. New beliefs were imprinted in our minds instead of just feeling what is real. 1. What is real? 2. Is there one root concept in every single myth? If so is that what is real? |
