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 Cervantes
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#8592334 - 07/03/08 05:00 PM (2 months, 3 days ago) |
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Every culture has folklore...
Some of these tales have been lost, others have been preserved and some have been adapted for religious purposes.
We still tell stories that are thousands of years old.
We tell stories about what to believe... how to live... how to die... how to love... how to grow...
Most of us watch stories regularly on TV, in the movies, on the net... etc.
Some stories are true, some are fiction... some true stories have been interpreted as fiction and vice-versa.
Some stories are good, some suck.
Yet...
The human belief in certain stories has lead to countless wars.
Stories are powerful. The pen is mightier than the sword.
Why do humans like stories?
How does a human decide what lessons to take from a story?
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 MOTH
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I personally enjoy stories because they are tools that seem to shape and interact with consciousness. As you mention, they can inspire humans to act depending on what attachment a person places on the drama in the story. Stories definitely fuel the mind, which can create a response in the body. I feel humans take what they will from stories based on their own interactions with reality. The lesson they will take comes from the layout of their own inner framework: what they believe they need out of reality. Then they will see it in the story, and it will affirm what they already know, or want to show themselves about an aspect of reality inherent to the humanimal experience.
I love stories. It's fun thinking about them.
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PhanTomCat
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Cervantes said:
The human belief in certain stories has lead to countless wars.
I once witnessed a scrap between two people at a Movie Rental place, over a movie....
Powerful stuff....
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backfromthedead
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PhanTomCat said:
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Cervantes said:
The human belief in certain stories has lead to countless wars.
I once witnessed a scrap between two people at a Movie Rental place, over a movie....
Powerful stuff....
>^;;^<
Wasn't the Matrix was it...??
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PhanTomCat
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I have no idea what the movie was, but there was only one left....
It was more like a tug of war than a "scrap"....
Had there been a few beers consumed by the people before this, it most likely would have gotten more nasty....!   
I had gone there to find entertainment, and I was not disappointed....! 
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SatChitAnanda
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As far as I am concerned, we are living and breathing expressions of the greatest story ever told, the One Big Story.
Our stories, the small stories such as creation myths, legends, poems etc, are useful to point beyond the stories. There are lessons and teachings encoded within, to point to this, to this timeless moment here and now only to realize we are the story that is effortlessly unfolding and evolving with enormous creative potential.
.. like an improv acting class.
The shamans agree saying, "the universe is telling a story as it is being told"
The plants instructed me that I must embody the experiences instead of just having experiences. The plants told me the only way to embody experiences is to express them out into the world through the means of story telling/poetry or any act of creative expression.
A teaching or lesson is useless if it is not being taught.
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figmentfragment
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PhanTomCat said:
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Cervantes said:
The human belief in certain stories has lead to countless wars.
I once witnessed a scrap between two people at a Movie Rental place, over a movie....
Powerful stuff....
>^;;^<
Wasn't the Matrix was it...??
No, because anyone who feels THAT passionately about the matrix has their own copy.
  
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MOTH
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SatChitAnanda said:
As far as I am concerned, we are living and breathing expressions of the greatest story ever told, the One Big Story.
I have felt this before, especially on big doses of psychedelics.
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Chronic777
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Re: Stories [Re: MOTH]
#8594209 - 07/04/08 07:40 AM (2 months, 3 days ago) |
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Once the story of creation has been told, who is left to tell it?
The story creates itself & destroys itself endlessly, there is no individual teller of the story, there never was & never will be any one left to tell the story, the absolute holds onto no history of itself.
We seem to write, draw, read the book & turn the pages, yet this is all happening with no-one actually doing it, it all just happens.
Let the story unfold...
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Cervantes
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Chronic777 said:
The story creates itself & destroys itself endlessly, there is no individual teller of the story, there never was & never will be any one left to tell the story, the absolute holds onto no history of itself.
Then you are not talking about a story.
Instead, you are using the word 'Story' as a metaphor, and you are talking in a yin-yang circle.
Nothing wrong with that... it just isn't a story you are really talking about.
If it can't be told, by definition, it is not a story.
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We seem to write, draw, read the book & turn the pages, yet this is all happening with no-one actually doing it, it all just happens.
What do you mean "no one" is actually doing it? Explain yourself. What do you mean by "it all just happens". This isn't that new age stuff is it?
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PhanTomCat
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No, because anyone who feels THAT passionately about the matrix has their own copy.
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Absolutely.... 
I watched Reloaded & Revolutions this afternoon.... 
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