#true myth

[lifeoutsidehumanity]

-mod 🦇 (Vampire bats are my favorite animal, shocking I know)

[lifeoutsidehumanity]

What’s a True Myth ghost?

(Bite-Sized version: scroll down)

(Go check out our pinned post if you don’t know what a True Myth is!!)

Basically, it means someone who died in a “past life” and is currently now in a new body. (Essentially, I possessed this body lol)

Living as a ghost can range from being pretty chill to OH MY GOD PARANORMAL ACTIVITY EVERYWHERE!! Being a ghost is different for every ghost because everyone’s soul is unique in their own way. It just depends on your situation. You can live a perfectly normal life as a ghost or live a OH MY GOD THERES SO MUCH life as a ghost. It just depends.

Ghosts are the literal souls of people who’s bodies have died before, so you’re basically the embodiment of a soul.

Real world ghosts tend to either have a body they take and posses, usually when the child is too young to even really HAVE a soul, or are free roaming without a body. Either way, you see ghosts all the time. It’s pretty much your choice wether or not you have a body. (Though if you’re reading this as a ghost, you mostly likely have a body so please do not leave your body for too long you will NOT get it back)

My Personal Experience as a Ghost

I personally chose to have a body, and that meant I underwent a period of time I call “body shock”. It basically means you completely forget your past life until you remember it. That’s why a lot of bodied ghosts usually have a completely different personality, experiences, and opinions from their past life. Soul ≠ Current traits and experiences. A lot of people tend to have that misconception.

So basically, I was poisoned to death a couple hundred years ago. Whoopsies.

I would say this has affected my life semi-significantly. Sometimes I go out of my body. Sometimes I mix my memories up. Sometimes people get freaked out because I give them some random paranormal experience I didn’t mean to.

How Do I Become a Ghost?

Well, first of all, you don’t want to be a ghost. It’s not that it’s bad, but, like, live your current life dude. I do not promote trying to “become a ghost” in your own will, because it won’t work. The reasons in which you become a ghost after body death can vary and range, for me personally, I still don’t know, as my body shock is wearing off. I was poisoned, however. I know that. I don’t think I’m vengeful.

“IM A GHOST AND MY EXPERIENCE IS DIFFERENT”

Of course it is lol your soul is different from mine and therefore we have different experiences./lh

Not everyone will know they’re a ghost.

Not everyone will have an effect on their life for behind a ghost.

Not everyone will be unaffected.

It’s different for every ghost.

-🖋️

Bite-Sized version under the cut

[fefeman]

So much problems on the internet come down to peoples learning a concept meant to bring further reflections, and deciding this is the end on the matter because it feel like a good clap-back. So you get peoples who stop the reflections at it's most basic form and outright reject anything that come from beyond that.

Like, take "Satire require clarity of purpose and target lest it be mistaken for what it criticize". All in all, a good principle to have when you're writing: you shouldn't just imitate the thing you're mocking, you should present how absurd and idiotic it is. This is the distinction between "insecure bigot humor" and "second degree humor".

But at the same time, this bring other questions: How far is the writer accountable for the perception of their media? Can someone who came to the work with already made expectation be considered a good reference when regarding if the work is satire or not? If the work require cultural context, how much is the author supposed to explain said context? At what point is it the responsibility of the audience to get the complementary informations?

A lot of peoples use the catchphrase without thinking about these questions. "If I personally don't feel it's satire, If I don't see the clarity, than it's a failure of a satire." This become extremely glaring when the subject of (alleged) satire is something that the critic is fundamentally against (as in, believe it can never be done in any worthwhile way, at least not in the form that is satirized).

One perfect example of it is Ovid's metamorphoses, an example I'm gonna use for every case of misattributed meaning. If you look at the metamorphoses, particularly the Medusa myth, without knowing the context, it might look like a compilation of gods doing cruel things to mortal, especially women, and all this being treated as normal. So much more if you're approaching as someone who believe this is a "woman hating book about getting off from the suffering of women."

If you have some knowledge about Ovid's, you can clearly see, however, that this is a very cynical, scathing and on point satire of the power play in the roman imperial court. Of how the emperor's friends and relative can get away with rape and only their victims will face consequences (reminder: there are no allusion of Poseidon raping Medusa before Ovid). Of how the supposed protector of the arts will ditch the artists the instant someone is slightly annoyed by them (Arachne). Of how the peoples trying to really help the little peoples get punished for opposing the higher ups (Prometheus).

The metamorphoses is proof that "clarity of purpose and target" is something that is very dependent of the audience.

And that's just ONE thing where peoples on the internet removed the nuance from a concept and turned it into a premade catchphrase that can be used anytime without really meaning much, or that aren't expanded as far as it should. But there are others: "you don't own people a debate", "show don't tell" (this one in particular has another layer of mistranslation), cultural Christianity, "Read another book", etc...

[kgdrendel]

The Story that Matters I was reflecting before God this morning and praying when the following question arose in my head: whether it is more important to believe the historical fact of the biblical stories or to believe the stories themselves.

[fcb4]

I turn 47 today and my mind and heart smell of the celtic salmon story (http://www.yourirish.com/folklore/salmon-of-wisdom). It’s a season of life when one turns their face towards home. Spawning takes on a mythic reality beyond parenting. One sees that there is far more to leaving behind oneself. In the natural order of life, we usher in life at the beginning of our adult journey. We provide and protect, we give ourselves to instilling the vision and values of life and eternity with youthful vigor but without the wisdom of age. Until you start passing through the zenith of youth, you can’t see that the last half of life is far more youthful than the first. You understand that writing the fairy tales is much more childlike than reading them. I hope to scribe and bard, more than read...on the road back to eden.

Fishing for Fintan

By Eric Blauer

8.28.17

I stand on the edge of yesterday,

awakening today,

tomorrow's arrival,

lapping away the thawing ground

at my feet.

I hear the echoes, Homeric voices,

feel the Herculean deeds,

reverberating through my consciousness,

a fly strumming on a spider’s thread.

Elysium cascades upon me,

Valhalla’s lighted hall is not yet full,

Zion’s gates of pearl stand open,

and Fintan the salmon returns,

again and again for the seeker.

The fires of Olympus still burn,

pages like torches lighting the way,

as thundered hammers crack open,

sleeping men in stone,

and the ambrosia or truth,

touches the lips of Adam,

again.

Leaping like horses,

the river riders return,

upwards, onward they throw themselves wildly,

mercilessly driven by the ancient call of home,

the ruin of the run,

each scale torn, gash received,

a mark of divine love and light,

received.

At the pool, I sit,

sucking the thumb of wisdom,

the scent of salmon,

my anointing oil.

Reborn,

the colors of my scales,

speckled acorns,

my painted dreams,

wash backwards to the sea,

glittering dancers,

beackon,

the way of return.

[iheartmoosiq]

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[pivot2thrive]

Making Stuff Up - True Myth

What differentiates us from other animals is our ability to imagine and basically make stuff up. That is the assertion of Yuval Noah Harari in Sapiens as to why humans are different.

It is in the sharing of made up stories (myths) that has allowed humans to rise to where we are today in our corner of the galaxy (I say rise though at times and in some systems it seems more of a fall but I speak mainly to our prominence). There are numerous imagined things that have been quite influential in our collective journey. Various nature gods have given rise to groups who follow them, creating shrines and building stories to explain the why’s like why it does or doesn’t rain. Some notable myths have been around the worth and value of groups of people, ranging from caste systems to notions that all men are equal before God endowed with inalienable rights (except women and slaves of course). Another interesting concept is that of money and it’s imagined worth and the trust in its imagined future that it will retain its value.

It seems to me that the history of our past has been an exercise in which imagined concepts actually work best for us. Atrocity and horror has accompanied brilliance and compassion in various discourses. Communism’s idealistic base in Marx was noteworthy and honorable though its implementation showed the flaws of an imagined system that didn’t work as well as others (like capitalism). To be clear, capitalism has had numerous failings as well and blends between the two have led to varying degrees of socialism in many cultures. I should note that all of these systems are imagined and are based on the collective agreement of humans to trust and provide meaning to their precepts. No one individual’s rejection of the system makes it fail but rather a collective disenfranchisement based on results over time is typically what causes shifts.

CS Lewis once labeled the Christian myth to be “true myth” noting the correlation of many of its stories to others but distinguishing it by its outcome. My guess is that he realized in its stories a truth that provides results (he obviously wasn’t looking at the results of the church I was raised in but I digress).

What has consistently differentiated science from faith and philosophy is a “prove me wrong” mentality rather than an “assume I’m right” belief structure. This has allowed science to uncover imagined “truths” of our universe and test them over and over and over to arrive at theories that are the tested truths of how things work and/or how they work best. At the cutting edges of science, scientists seem more like faith jockeys but the difference is that they devise ways to test their assertions to see if their imagined beliefs hold up. Then the crucible of testing and time uncovers what does and doesn’t work and/or even what may change.

I read about the sciences converging quite a bit. The best science is at the intersections an MIT/Harvard PhD friend of mine once said. I’m particularly interested at the intersection of psychology, neurology and theology. I’ve recently read quite a bit from the leader in interpersonal neurobiology. Many of the best new ventures in Silicon Valley blend and mix areas like materials science, biology, chemistry, and systems theory.

As we grow, what we believe in how things work changes, sometimes from our own development and sometimes because external things change. I can imagine a lot of things but some thoughts are more beneficial than others to my health and well being. It is here that I think true myth lies. True myth is the story that holds up to the crucible of experience which ultimately leads to health and well being, performance and consistency.

Thus far, the myth of money has worked in the US (noting it hasn’t held up at well at times or in other countries). The myth of the equality of man seems to be more effective than those of castes. The myth of a loving God (parent) that gives a damn about me and you seems to be a time tested precursor for health and well being (findings in neurotheology and interpersonal neurobiology).

I suppose, in the end, the true myths that we imagine are the ones that work best.