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SnowyOwl 8 July 7
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Help me out here, the difference between fables and myths is exactly what?
I just treat fiction as fiction.
Like people call "Star Wars" science fiction.
It's not science but it is fiction, so I let it go.
All fiction goes into that category including historical fiction, like the fictional Jewish Messiah stories.
People take fiction way too serious.

Fables tend to have a moral message, like Aesop's Fables. Myths tend to be more about stories told to try and explain natural phenomena that is not understood by unscientific cultures. Sci Fi is just fiction with a futuristic scientific theme.
Fiction has a place in every culture because it allows us to dream big dreams and try to reach the stars. Looks at the original Star Trek series and then look around you today , you'll find real examples of Tricorders, Communicators, Racial and Sexual Equality that were only imagined in the 60's when the series aired on TV.
'It's better to aim for a star and hit an eagle than to just aim for an eagle and hit a rock'.

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Us Homo sapiens types will believe whatever reinforces our existing prejudices. I wanted to believe it myself, because I agree with the sentiment - we’d be better off to understand myth as myth than to take it literally.

But something about the wording smelled fishy to me, so I looked it up.

Sure enough! Not Hypatia.

Written in the 20th century by one Elbert Hubbard, who just made it up and attributed it to Hypatia.

This is how myths are made…
and passed on as literal history. Believing what gives us comfort is easy. Doing the work to discover the truth is…

not how humans are made.

skado Level 9 July 8, 2022

Oh Dear Me! I am CRUSHED but I still like the message.
Thanks for looking it up on the internet, you did your research and we will send a gold star out to you in the mail.
Did you research drinking bleach to protect you from Covid? How about swallowing chemicals for your fish tank? - great job on the research. I may even throw in a second gold star.

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