RE: rewriting the bible part 2 - exodus
March 20, 2016 at 5:10 am
(This post was last modified: March 20, 2016 at 5:33 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 18, 2016 at 1:34 am)Aractus Wrote: 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.
Way to drop the ball on that link. Random Internet Shaman thinks that myths are super duper important and different from fiction, not the least of which because they allow shamans to perform fucking miracles.....gee...I'm convinced..................?
Myths are fiction, being fiction that addresses the metaphysical doesn't make them any less so, and myths aren't the only type of fiction that address the metaphysical. I'm not sure how you could decide that myth has a different form or function than fiction, as though there was only one form or function to myth -or- other works of fiction? Different cultures have developed distinct narrative forms, this is true regardless of what sort of narrative they are telling. A cop show in the US and a cop show in the UK are a bit different. The bit about pre-existing knowledge was lunacy, you seemed to have realize it as soon as you wrote it.
No single person wrote the entire corpus of star wars fiction either, and peoples beliefs are writ very large in each and -every- one of them. I'm really still not sure what you're trying to say here. The things that people believed aren't any more or less fictive for having people believe in them. Some one, many someones, came up with the words spoken. That they put those words into the mouth of a character they may not have invented is no different than an author putting words in the mouth of Vader. That they may have hoped to convey a deeper message with those words or stories is, again, no different than the aspirations of the authors of countless other works of fiction.
Are myths different, sure..different than legends or police procedurals. Are myths different than fiction....wtf? It's like asking if house cats are different. Different than cougars, different than cheetahs. Still a bunch of felines.
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