Friday, May 21, 2010
The Truth Behind the Similarities
I would first like to start off by saying that I love this subject. I love looking at all the different points of views that people have on my strongest belief. I feel that it teaches us that we cannot rely completely on what we are readily taught by our parents, teachers, and any kind of other educators we might have throughout life. I believe that it is very true that not a lot of people take a glance at the bigger picture and think about how this planet was created, along with those whom dwell in it. It doesn't do much towards my beliefs, but that is another subject. The question is what does studying and comparing teach us about ourselves. So, I will give you my answer. I think that because of the many different stories obviously very similar, we obviously like to make our own points of views on things. Also, because of the similarities, we find a truth somewhere inside of what we are telling. An example might be in our current populated belief of Adam and Eve, and the beliefs Egyptians had of the great thing creating two people who were the sky and the land. It is something that comes out of deep thought and curiosity, but as you have seen, comes out very similar in the end. I personally believe that we all, over time have come up with similar views, because a lot of it is true...somewhere. Obviously all of the stories aren't correct. If they were then we'd have to believe in 20 different things. The fact of the matter that I'm trying to convey to you is that we have a lot of stories that sound almost exactly the same, and with this, we can make the assumption that somewhere out there there is a place where all of this popular belief has come from. It didn't just pop out of no where, and people haven't just agreed with it for over 2000 years for no reason. You have to THINK. If you just become ignorant and say, "well they are all similar, but very different...and obviously people just want to make up there own stories, so none of it's true," then you will be out of a truth. If you critically think about how all of this came about, I'm sure you won't come up with an answer, but there will be the questions as to why this is in such popular demand. It is more than a bunch of stories relating to each other. We as people need to learn more than what we are learning today. By comparing different myths and what not, I can see that we all as a whole need to do some more reading up to do. I can also see that we all agree on something...and that something isn't put into words, and peoples hearts yet. I can't really explain exactly what I mean...but all I know is, that I believe in something far greater than myself, and I think that not a lot of people have come to this conclusion yet. I think that by comparing these myths and what not, I see that people obviously haven't found that, "faith," yet. I do understand though. It takes a lot to believe in something that isn't rationally explained, or physically seen. If more people had faith in something greater than themselves and figured out what I tried explaining early, then this whole, "Great Myth," thing would never had been thought of. Which also means that by comparing these myths, I see that there is a wide range of people who haven't found faith in something huge yet. Interesting.
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Great blog man, I love your perspective on this. I can also relate somewhat, as I also find this to be an interesting subject. I feel that we really do live in a bit of a close-minded society, and we know very little about even the current world around us, much less their past, or our own. I also agree with how you pointed out that while these myths do have some differences within them, a lot of them still end up going in the same direction, or having very clear and obvious similarities. That is reassuring to me, that even within the confused things that people might believe in, there can still be at least a small amount of truth in them. Great blog man.
ReplyDeleteI found your blog to be rather interesting this week. It is true that we cannot simply rely on what we have been taught by our parents or other people in authority. There comes a time when we have to study these things out for ourselves to see if these things really are so or not. I appreciate what my parents instilled in me as a child. I grew up in a Christian household so I was taught to believe that the world was created by God and that I was created in His image. I always accepted this as a child, but that simply was not enough, I had to go and study these things out for myself personally. And once I did this, I came to the stronger conclusion that these things were indeed true. It really is interesting that these stories have similar points of view to them. There really must be a common source to where all of these stories came from. I doubt they just happened to come about. I can’t help but to think that there is a greater root to some of these stories. Like maybe these people once believed in the creation that is taught from the Bible.
ReplyDeleteyou worte your blog very well and i really enjoyed reading it. i really liked how you used example from the myths you watched and how you talked about how and who we are taught by how we were created and put on this earth. i strongly agree with you whenyou said that you think that people should look into how other cultures look at how men, women and how the earth was created, i think if people do this it will open their eyes and their minds and be more educated about how other peole percieve the world. i also think that because people can be so losed minded about the subject of creation that they can be very ignorantwhen it comes to talking or exploring the other ways that people look at how we were create. i think that if people were to look more into myths and see how other people think it would openup peoples minds and make people more accepting to new ideas.
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