I mean a demon with ten heads and a monkey called hanuman what is all that about
2006-11-21 03:39:50 · 6 answers · asked by sisterly love 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am not christian so stop attacking me
with jesus,
but jesus story was not a myth he did come to this world but hindus know that there stories are myths thats the stupid bit at least chritians and jews muslims say it happend this lot are making everything up and worshipping idiot looking stones
2006-11-21 03:48:53 · update #1
Stranger, the problem as I see it is that you do not understand the concept of myth. You have no fundamental knowledge of what myth is trying to achieve. So, let me educate you. Let me give you a little something from Joseph Campbell, who is perhaps the world's foremost scholar of mythology. Among his many books are The Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Masks Of God, Myths To Live By, and Historical Atlas Of World Mythology. The question and quote are taken from an interview given by Joseph Campbell in the 1980s.
"Question - What does myth do for us? Why is it so important?
Answer, by Joseph Campbell - It puts you in touch with a plane of reference that goes past your mind and into your very being, into your very gut. The ultimate mystery of being and non-being transcends all categories of knowledge and thought. Yet that which transcends all talk is the very essence of your own being, so you're resting on it and you know it. The function of mythological symbols is to give you a sense of "Aha! Yes. I know what it is, it's myself." This is what it's all about, and then you feel a kind of centering, centering, centering all the time. And whatever you do can be discussed in relationship to this ground of truth. Though to talk about it as truth is a little bit deceptive because when we think of truth we think of something that can be conceptualized. It goes past that."
Does this help you to understand that there is MORE than the literal, in mythology? In fact, myth challenges us to look past the imagery in order to find the deeper meaning.
Good luck on our journey.
2006-11-21 04:01:40 · answer #1 · answered by gjstoryteller 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hindu gods are just as likely to be real as the Christian one. I don't see how a ten headed god is any weirder than a man who was crucified coming back from the dead.
2006-11-21 03:42:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Why do Christians have yearly rituals to re-enact the torture and death of one ancient man, then call this man god? They also carry around with them the effigy of the tool used to torture and kill him (the cross)
Why are they cannibals in effigy? (as in Holy communion). Very, very sadistic.
2006-11-21 03:47:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is not any more strange that a virgin birth or rising after someone is dead and a snake that tells a woman what to do
2006-11-21 03:41:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
And it confuses me to this day how you people find ren and stimpy entertaining. What is that all about?
What confuses me more is, why in the world do you ask such stupid questions, and why in the world do I bother to respond?
2006-11-21 03:44:52 · answer #5 · answered by Hana 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they probably wonder about your god too. so let's call it even. hehehe...
2006-11-21 03:41:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋