More things are myth than you think!

[seams_unusual]

 I've been meaning to type this for a year.  
No, seriously!  Exactly one year!  Weird!  It's been in the diary since December 1st 2009

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[ext_300575]

Everything is NOW....because TIME is a myth...the big bang is...we are the big bang.

[aprilstarchild]

Oooh, I don't even know where to start. (I mean that in a good way, there's so much stuff here.)

1. That theory of fanfiction is pretty well-accepted, if I remember correctly. That we love it because it's based on people we "know" already.

2. It sounds like you're talking about histiography, the study of how we "do" history. A friend of mine who majored in History at PSU had to take a bunch of classes about it! Fascinating stuff.

3. The difference between the big bang and other creation myths is that we have hard evidence for it, that more and more evidence comes forward for it all the time, and that if evidence was discovered against it, scientists would tweak or change the the theory.

4. None of us experience the world directly. Our brains filter all the input our sensory organs give us, and we're constantly an infinitesimal split second behind reality. There's all sorts of experiments on this in psychology, but our brains are fabulous at making stuff up, ignoring things, etc. We all live in our own little realities.

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[seams_unusual]

AWESOME SAUCE! I had no idea that there were already studies in what I was rambling about!

I would argue, however, that the ancient peoples were doing the best that they could with the evidence they had as they understood it... which is exactly what the scientists are doing now. We may think of ourselves as much less primitive or more sophisticated... but the act of believing based on best evidence... I would argue is nearly the same.

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[aprilstarchild]

I agree on ancient peoples, don't get me wrong. And none of us were there, obviously.

Plus, the problem with a lot of science, is that human beings didn't evolve to have brains that could deal with that kind of information, which is a small part of why (in my opinion) so many people refuse to believe in evolution. They can't wrap their minds around the span of time we're talking about, or the tiny changes it takes. My brain can't visualize what a billion of anything looks like. Did you know there's more atoms in a grain of salt then there are stars in the universe? Which is fucking insane, considering our current guesses as to how many stars there are. It's mind-boggling.

There are currently enzymes in your cells that are changing the shapes of proteins hundreds of times a second. What the fuckity fuck. When I think about watching a youtube video, the amount of data that is going through the air from a cell tower to a device plugged into my USB drive, and then how fast my computer turns that into recognizable images and sound, I

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[seams_unusual]

Yay Sleigh'r! No, of course I don't mind!
I wanna have an April day sometime soon. I shall provide food.

[medievallass]

Great heady cool stuff Katrina! I like it! I agree with April I think you are talking about the process of how we compile and understand history, which again in agreement with April is awesome ^_^. I need to take a course this year named Historic Imagination. It's about what historians do, and how we understand history, sort the philosophy behind studying history and how we do it. If you like I could loan you whatever books I have from the class when I've completed it

[seams_unusual]

That class sounds like something I'd love to take...
and your plant baby essay sounds like something I would totally read!