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It would mean that greenhouses don't work there which could have odd effects on out of season foods.
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I'm reading the book The Pagan Christs. My main annoyance with the book is that the author assumes that if a myth is told about someone then they are purely mythological. His thesis is, Christ is purely mythic because people tell mythic tales about him. People from Lincoln to Hitler have mythic stories told about them, many of these are treated as true even when they are known to be fantasy.
So try this. A world where J M Robertson was right. If anyone tells a mythic story about you, you are purely a myth with no reality whatsoever. Figures like Washington, Lincoln, Edison, Elizabeth I, Napoleon, Newton, Shakespeare, Homer, and Joan of Arc never existed, but everyone believes they did.
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So for a brief while in parts of the 19th and early 20th century, there were US presidents, but after that they became mythical again? I like it.
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But making some people real here fictional in parallels would be interesting. I've only ever seen it the other way around.
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To a layman, "myth" has been conflated with "Greek myth" or "Norse Myth" which eventually mutated into "false story, less than an intentional lie". Robertson might be reading research that describes "Christ myths" without knowing the theologian definition of "myth" and taking it as gospel (pun intended). Quote:
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Once a long time ago, I read a comic book, I think DC maybe during the crisis, talking about Earth-Prime (our Earth) a newscaster mentioned it was a world where mythical heros like Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett were real.
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09-03-2017, 02:05 AM | #410 |
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That is definitely WAY too contentious to get into here, but I don't see that argument as entirely absurd regardless of your personal religion.
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