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  • Myths and Legends

    I love myths and legends that sort of create tradition and stand with culture through time, connecting to the present If you know any, please share.

    Here's a nice one I read.

    According to an American Indian Legend -

    If anyone desires a wish to come true they must first

    capture a butterfly and whisper that wish to it.

    Since a butterfly can make no sound, the butterfly can not reveal

    the wish to anyone but the Great Spirit who hears and sees all.

    In gratitude for giving the beautiful butterfly its freedom,

    the Great Spirit always grants the wish.

    So, according to legend, by making a wish and giving the butterfly its freedom,

    the wish will be taken to the heavens and be granted.

  • #2
    what about punishment for capturing the free butterfly in the first place LOL.

    There are many myths and legends, some are true and some are not, but we must believe in something, what we believe in is our choise because we all have different somethings worth believing in.

    ALL MEN MUST DIE EVENTUALLY, BUT LEGENDS LIVE FOREVER.

    what you leave behind is your legacy, and in a way you are alive through your legacy, so you trully die when people don't remember you anymore.

    Let us remember our passed, as we would like to be remembered when we pass.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by PASAMONSTER what about punishment for capturing the free butterfly in the first place LOL.

      There are many myths and legends, some are true and some are not, but we must believe in something, what we believe in is our choise because we all have different somethings worth believing in.

      ALL MEN MUST DIE EVENTUALLY, BUT LEGENDS LIVE FOREVER.

      what you leave behind is your legacy, and in a way you are alive through your legacy, so you trully die when people don't remember you anymore.

      Let us remember our passed, as we would like to be remembered when we pass.
      Ok PASA!! Nice one!
      YOU interfered death and i will continue it!
      Let us take A Closer Look at Some Myths About Death

      THROUGHOUT history, man has stood perplexed and apprehensive before the dark prospect of death. What is more, fear of death has been fueled by a mix of false religious ideas, popular customs, and ingrained personal beliefs. The problem with fear of death is that it can paralyze one's ability to enjoy life and erode one's confidence that there is meaning to life.
      Popular religion is especially reprehensible for promoting a number of popular myths regarding death. By examining a few of these under the light of Bible truth, see if your personal perceptions about death can be clarified.

      Myth 1: Death is the natural end of life.

      "Death . . . is an integral part of our lives," says the book Death—The Final Stage of Growth. Comments like this reflect the belief that death is normal, the natural ending of all living organisms. In turn, such a belief has fostered a nihilistic philosophy and opportunistic behavior in many.
      Myth 2: God takes people in death to be with him.
      A 27-year-old mother who was dying and leaving three children behind told a Catholic nun: "Don't come in and tell me this is God's will for me. . . . I hate it when somebody else tells me this." Yet, this is what many religions teach about death—that God takes people to be near him.
      Is the Creator really so cruel that he would callously inflict death on us, knowing that this breaks our hearts? No, not the God of the Bible. According to 1 John 4:8, "God is love." Note that it does not say that God has love or that God is loving, but it says that God is love. So intense, so pure, so perfect is God's love, so thoroughly does it permeate his personality and actions that he may rightly be spoken of as the very personification of love. This is not a God who takes people in death to be near him.

      Myth 3: God takes little children to become angels.
      Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, who studied terminally ill individuals, referred to another common perception among religious people. Describing a real incident, she stated that it is "unwise to tell a little child who lost her brother that God loved little boys so much that he took little Johnny to heaven." Such a statement casts God in a bad light and does not reflect his personality and behavior. Dr. Kübler-Ross continued: "When this little girl grew up to be a woman she never solved her anger at God, which resulted in a psychotic depression when she lost her own little son three decades later."
      Why would God snatch a child to get another angel—as if God needed a child more than the child's parents did? If it were true that God takes children, would that not make him an unloving, selfish Creator? Contrary to such a perception, the Bible says: "Love is from God." (1 John 4:7) Would a God of love cause a loss that even humans with any measure of decency would not tolerate?
      So why do children die? Part of the Bible's answer is recorded at Ecclesiastes 9:11: "Time and unforeseen occurrence befall them all." And Psalm 51:5 tells us that all of us are imperfect, sinful, from the time of our conception, and the eventuality for all men now is death from any number of causes. Sometimes death strikes before birth, resulting in a stillbirth. In other cases, children succumb to their dire circumstances or have accidents and die. God is not responsible for such eventualities.

      Myth 4: Some people are tormented afterdeath.

      Myth 5: Death means the permanent end of our existence.
      Last edited by Wise; 03-15-2004, 04:57 AM.
      VerTigO

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      • #4
        Some Common Myths About Death & What Do the Scriptures Say?

        Death is the natural end of life:Genesis 1:28; 2:17; Romans 5:12

        God takes people in death to be with him:Job 34:15; Psalm 37:11, 29; 115:16

        God takes little children to become angels:Psalm 51:5; 104:1, 4; Hebrews 1:7, 14

        Some people are tormented after death:Psalm 146:4; Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10; Romans 6:23

        Death means the permanent end of our existence:Job 14:14, 15; John 3:16; 17:3; Acts 24:15





        PASAMONSTER
        VerTigO

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        • #5
          Legend has it that after the battle of Yamazaki in 1582 Akechi Mitsutoshi performed the unprecedented act of committing seppuku and writing a poem on the door with the blood from his abdomen, using a brush.

          In the world of the warrior, seppuku was a deed of bravery that was admirable in a samurai who knew he was defeated, disgraced, or mortally wounded. It meant that he could end his days with his transgressions wiped away and with his reputation not merely intact but actually enhanced. The cutting of the abdomen released the samurai’s spirit in the most dramatic fashion, but it was an extremely painful and unpleasant way to die, and sometimes the samurai who was performing the act asked a loyal comrade to cut off his head at the moment of agony.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Wise Myth 1: Death is the natural end of life.
            This is a myth? Can you name me a living thing that doesn't die? And don't go blabbering about the human spirit. I'm talking about biological life. A spirit is not alive as defined by the biological sciences.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by PASAMONSTER ALL MEN MUST DIE EVENTUALLY, BUT LEGENDS LIVE FOREVER.
              Until all men die. Then the legend goes with them.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by clubbin714 Legend has it that after the battle of Yamazaki in 1582 Akechi Mitsutoshi performed the unprecedented act of committing seppuku and writing a poem on the door with the blood from his abdomen, using a brush.

                In the world of the warrior, seppuku was a deed of bravery that was admirable in a samurai who knew he was defeated, disgraced, or mortally wounded. It meant that he could end his days with his transgressions wiped away and with his reputation not merely intact but actually enhanced. The cutting of the abdomen released the samurai’s spirit in the most dramatic fashion, but it was an extremely painful and unpleasant way to die, and sometimes the samurai who was performing the act asked a loyal comrade to cut off his head at the moment of agony.
                The Last Samurai was a good movie.

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                • #9
                  but if all men are dead, how would we know that the legends went with them. And if we're dead how we know if all men died.

                  Talking about samurai

                  kenshi Miyamoto Musashi defines the meaning of samurai.

                  Given name is Shimen Musashi no Kami Fujiwara no Genshin

                  Author of "The Book of Five Rings"-- a samurai way of life-- explaining the important factors Honor, Respect, Virtue, Knowledge, Strenght.

                  Created many styles of sword fighting, one of the most famous being the double katana style.

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                  • #10
                    for spiral:



                    Joseph Campbell

                    You should check out this book.

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