Myths
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I realized that in a world crowded with variation and contradiction, foolish preachers, only foolish preachers like I used to be, see no paradox in the
myths
and fictions they use to assert authenticity.
What do Harry Potter, Katniss Everdeen, and Frodo all have in common with the heroes of ancient
myths?
He studied
myths
from all over the world and published a book called "The Hero with a Thousand Faces," retelling dozens of stories and explaining how each represents the mono-myth, or Hero's Journey.
Historians have suggested that the tale of Sisyphus may stem from ancient
myths
about the rising and setting sun, or other natural cycles.
If you're persuaded by the arguments, take on the
myths
when family or friends or workmates repeat them.
And these identities are based on myths, typically about ancient, primordial origins.
Now, people say that origin stories and identity
myths
make us feel secure.
Do we really need identity
myths
to feel safe?
What if we reject every single primordial origin myth and develop a deeper sense of personhood, one responsible to humanity as a whole rather than to a particular tribe, a radically different idea of humanity that exposes how origin
myths
mystify, disguise global power, rapacious exploitation, poverty, the worldwide oppression of women and girls, and of course massive, accelerating inequalities?
Now, origin
myths
are closely linked to tradition, and the word tradition points to something old and permanent, almost natural, and people assume tradition is just history, simply the past condensed into a nice story.
Why not reject the identity
myths
that call on you to belong, that politicians and community leaders, so-called community leaders, place on you?
So much for those killer clam
myths!
The zany curves he generated revealed common types of fairy tales and
myths
that echo through many cultures.
They tell
myths
and legends about love.
See, I can understand where Leah's coming from, because the years that I've worked with the community, I hear
myths
every single day that aren't true at all.
These are all
myths
and untrue.
Come out to your neighbors, to your fellow workers… break down the
myths.
Because of all the
myths
that are still associated with sexual harassment.
But they also made the
myths
that surround them, and when it comes to wonders, there's this thick connective tissue between mythology and reality.
Animals walked on water,
myths
were re-enacted by condemned prisoners, and at night, nude synchronized swimmers would perform by torchlight.
So, he'd taken this data and made a presentation which just shattered a lot of
myths
that people had about the economics in the developing world.
Even though their actual explanations, their myths, were largely false.
But in another way, it's even bleaker than the ancient myths, because the villain, entropy, is preordained to have the final victory, when the inexorable laws of thermodynamics shut down all novelty with the so-called heat death of the universe.
But according to historians, ancient robots were more than just
myths.
And like many modern
myths
about artificial intelligence, Talos’ tale is as much about his robotic heart as it is about his robotic brain.
And then when religion came along, purity
myths
only made that worse.
And when you can't talk about what's happening to your body, how do you break these
myths?
For 35 years I've been looking for any evidence of any incident of that kind, and I've concluded that that's one of the urban
myths.
They didn't want to let my camera in because it confronts constructed realities,
myths
and beliefs, and provides what appears to be evidence of a truth.
Now, adoption has changed a lot over the years, but there are still sort of characters and, I'd say,
myths
around, like the kind of "Orphan Annie," like that sort of little children, just waiting for people to come along and kind of scoop them up.
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