steve wrote:
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> Your myths are you own regardless of if you worship Zeus, Thor, Ra, 
> Shiva, Alla, the biblical storm god, the plural elohim (gods),  Etc, 
> or any and/or all of them at once.
I like the definition of the word "myth" as: a truth to powerful to be 
told in words. Tricky, because I see the Adam&Eve&Serpent story as a 
command that creates the Neolithic including wheat-eating. IMHO it is 
imposed on every generation.



> I live in the real word where people believe in lots of things with no 
> rational basis, things that I and perhaps you do not believe in, 
> that's par for the course.  When it comes to Zeus, or Thor, or Ra, or 
> Shiva, etc., most people are atheists.    Paleolithic gods were framed 
> as representations of aspects of the natural world with a bases in 
> reality.  Neolithic gods have no basis in reality.

Depends on how one sees those names, and the meanings of their 
translations into modern English.
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>  Things like gods, faeries, daemons, trolls, genies, etc., are not 
> proper names.

IMHO the names exist because they are real . There certainly are trolls 
on the internet, and there were ogres when I went to school. Daemons are 
found in every computer, as well as in our minds. Depends on the definition.

I have read the Bible cover to cover circa 1960, thanks to the Gideons 
and lack of money. Useful historical document, for the most part.

"I expect that the best you can hope for is to express your beliefs but 
not expect anyone to believe them or accept them as if they were to any 
degree equivalent to their own.  Other people may not even care to listen. "
You've described my close relatives, who are now burning in 
carbohydrates, cooking oil, msg, nitrites etc. No waiting.
But I've learned not to preach to them. Hard to do when one cares.

William

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