“Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.” ― Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
Half plus Half = 100.0%, the entire world is incorrect
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Atheists are reactionary, all they care about is repulsing The Bible, Quran, Upanishads, Torah. That’s like repulsing fiction Hamlet because it contains ghost characters, or repulsing Star Wars because it contains “the force” magic themes, or repulsing Lord of the Rings because there are “magic rings”. Science Fiction stories like The Bible can be understood, don’t be afraid of fiction.
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Believers confuse fiction with non-fiction. Bible verse “John 1;1” from 2,000 years ago spells out this problem along with Bible verse “1 John 4:20”. You can not love God or love Jesus, because love of a fiction character or dead person you never met isn’t really love. Again, Bible verse “1 John 4:20” spelled this human brain confusion / educational misunderstanding thousands of years ago.
Jamie’s fucking based. Live by the biblical sword, die by the biblical sword.
Wow this Paul the apostle guy sounds like a real piece of shit.
11 A woman[a] should learn in quietness and full submission.
12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man;[b] she must be quiet.
13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
14 And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner.
15 But women[c] will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Timothy+2&version=NIV
Wow this Paul the apostle guy sounds like a real piece of shit.
He is just following God’s story rules, the science fiction character God in the Bible story forces all sin, verse Romans 11:32
People really get off on stories with a devil character, evil player. That’s why in USA in year 2025 so many people flock to Elon Musk and Donald Trump. People love fiction storytelling with piece of shit fiction characters leading their lives. You should check out Mecca and Saudi Arabia! I spent two years in Amman Jordan studying these issues when the Syria war started in March 2011 / Arab Spring.
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George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch filmed interviews in summer of 1987Age 83, JOSEPH CAMPBELL: But in the Bible, eternity withdraws, and nature is corrupt, nature has fallen. In biblical thinking, we live in exile.
Former White House director BILL MOYERS: As we sit here and talk, there is one story after another of car bombings in Beirut—by the Muslims of the Christians, by the Christians of the Muslims, and by the Christians of the Christians. It strikes me that Marshall McLuhan was right when he said that television has made a global village of the world—but he didn’t know the global village would be Beirut. What does that say to you?
JOSEPH CAMPBELL: It says to me that they don’t know how to apply their religious ideas to contemporary life, and to human beings rather than just to their own community. It’s a terrible example of the failure of religion to meet the modern world. These three mythologies are fighting it out. They have disqualified themselves for the future.
The entire existence of our planet encompasses less than a third of a percent of the time since the big bang. Humanity has only been on the planet for about 4% of Earth’s existence. We’ve only really kept written records for about 5% of that time.
We are utterly ignorant and utterly incapable of fully understanding the nature of the universe around us given how fleeting our entire existence here has been. It is the height of human arrogance to say that there is or there is no higher existence to our own.
Humanity has only been on the planet for about 4% of Earth’s existence.
We have so little information passed down, for all we know 2 million years ago some life form on Earth came up with a way to slip dimensions using more organic like methods that we wouldn’t recognize… and went to other places or other universes. Life on Earth may have been able to access physics and things we don’t even grasp yet in April 2025.
It is the height of human arrogance to say that there is or there is no higher existence to our own.
I personally believe there is, !GreatSealUSA@lemm.ee . I believe in cherry-picking from all human history, all spoken/written languages, all symbols of art, world wide, and beyond. And new ideas that are being shared or discovered all the time.
It is the height of human arrogance to say that there is or there is no higher existence to our own.
The real arrogance is to say “one book is perfect, ONLY one book is perfect, and all other books in the public library are not equal to the ONE perfect storybook”. That’s the pattern of crisis that this Unified Theory of Fiction and Non-Fiction topic is addressing.
“Book Supremacy”, One perfect book
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“How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.” ― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
