Sunday, March 5, 2017

Fact & myth

A person being 'too busy' can never be true, as we can only find our own meaning in our own time for the things that are really important to us. We humans are building our own world with reasonable explanations in the age of overloaded information, where multitude of information sources rife with misinformation and lead us to make erroneous assumptions about human nature affecting our day to day decision makings. It is obvious that the great enemy of the truth is myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic world and very often the moralizing fables that are sometimes the reason of myth stories and building the concept of extremely interesting stories that make it more influential and impactful, as we start believing in those realities which never existed or have ever experienced by anyone. Yaa all these fables remains part of our childhood and then we grow up started questioning, finding reasons or explanations or the fact of life, sometimes we can say 'life is full of commonly believed myths and people’s behavior is often guided by those truisms'. For instance, the Greeks believed that after death, a soul went on a journey to a place called the Underworld (which they called Hades).When someone died in Ancient Greece, they would be washed. A coin would be placed in their mouth, to pay the ferrymen who took the dead across the rivers in the different parts of the Underworld. When the Greeks conquered Egypt, they adopted the Egyptian tradition of mummification. They used simple boxes for burying their dead or the deceased would be burned, and their ashes buried in a special pot, all these mythologies are real practices. Ancient god's,  goddess, demigods, heroes,  the terrifying monsters and creatures they all are living legends in the word beliefs and we see them all as mortal legends, in the life of immortal human beings, how can we forget all those exciting amazing and never to cross question stories of our childhood. Myth and fact are the flip sides of coin and we take stand on that side which we should like to flip.  World in which we are living today and the world which has already passed puts a big difference, as we don't know these traditional explanation of natural or social phenomenon or supernatural beings or events does that really make any difference in the present world or just take a stand only if the fact is proved. Myths have their own world of fantasy but these fantasy now a days ends into misconception and a false belief facts leading to broading the horizon. We surely know that we should not touch fire, not touch live wire and so many other nots as these things are fact band and facts come from experience and education not by preassumed perceptions in life.

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