(March 17, 2016 at 11:07 am)Rhythm Wrote:(March 16, 2016 at 2:15 am)Aractus Wrote: It has nothing to do with multiple authors or single authors. It has to do with the fact that Myths are an unconscious creation, whereas Fiction is a conscious creation.
What an absurd suggestion fobbed off as fact. The only manner in which this statement could even make -sense- is if you were suggesting that myths were akin to auto-writing, which I'm pretty sure you're not, and it wouldn't be a difference with regards to other types of fiction in any case. If you mean to say that the narratives presented in myth take form, to some extent, based upon the human subconscious.......then, again, that's not a difference with regards to any other subset of fiction (hell, even non-fiction in influenced by our subconscious, in the manner that we frame a story or, at a fundamental level, what we choose to tell stories about). If you mean to say that a myth is different than a NYT police procedural, well, no shit.....but they aren't different in -any- sense of their fictive natures, or that they both express and arise from the authors subconscious mind, or that the author consciously chose the details of one narrative but not the other.
Perhaps you could find some other way to express what you mean here?
Here you are:
.Myths ARE metaphysical, and distinct from fiction. End of story. If you can't grasp this very simple concept then you clearly are not a critical thinker Rhythm. They have a completely different form and function to fiction, so I'll repeat myself: Fiction is a deliberately created work. Myths are an unconscious creation. And we know they have similarities to other unconscious beliefs or knowledge. For example a baby doesn't need to be taught how to suckle. It's pre-existing knowledge that serves a function. Mythology is similar but distinct - it's not purely pre-existing knowledge (although it could be based on it), but they are beliefs that distinct cultures and religions have developed nonetheless.
So let me put this straight: No single person or group of people decided to invent the Hebrew Patriarchs. They merely wrote down their beliefs.
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The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
