What do you think is a myth? Can you please only give me one thing which we SHOULD consider as a myth?

Answer 1

Honest Politicians

Answer 2

What is myth?
A starting point for looking at the nature of myths is to say that myths are stories shared by a group, and which are a part of their cultural identity. As such, they are important to understand when looking at the history of a people. There is no completely satisfactory definition of myth*, although many of the world's greatest thinkers have provided partial answers.

* They are often stories of origins, how the world and everything in it came to be in illo tempore (Eliade).
* Sometimes they are public dreams which, like private dreams, emerge from the unconscious mind (Freud).
* Indeed, they often reveal the archetypes of the collective unconscious (Jung).
* They orient people to the metaphysical dimension, explain the origins and nature of the cosmos, validate social issues, and, on the psychological plane, address themselves to the innermost depths of the psyche (Campbell).
* Some of them are explanatory, being prescientific attempts to interpret the natural world (Frazer).
* Religious myths are sacred histories (Eliade)
* They are both individual and social in scope, but they are first and foremost stories (Kirk).

To help define myth, people often compare myth with science and religion. Usually, this comparison is unfavorable and myth is relegated to the area of lies.

Answer 3

Isn't a myth a female moth? I may have my facts confused...

Answer 4

Thingle girlth are myths. Married girlth are mythith.

Answer 5

Happiness ever after.

Answer 6

That someone can actually win 1,000,000 on Deal or No Deal.

Answer 7

Elvis is alive and well.

Answer 8

the tooth fairy