Reply #103: lets look at the Thesaurus Terms [View All]

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I've separated them - positive and negative and neutral

positive: ancient wisdom, archetypal myth, archetypal pattern, common law, custom, history, imagery, lore, Marchen, Mishnah, mystery, racial memory, Talmud, tradition, traditionalism, traditionality, vision,

neutral/unrelated : Western, Western story, Westerner,

negative:adventure story, allegory, apologue, apparition, bedtime story, brainchild, bubble, canard, chimera, cock-and-bull story, concoction, creation, delirium, detective story,epic, extravaganza, fable, fabliau, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, fancy, fantasque, fantasy, fib, fiction, figment, folk motif, folk story, folklore, folktale, forgery, gest, ghost story, hallucination, horse opera, idle fancy, illusion,imagination, imagining, immemorial usage, insubstantial image, invention, legend, lie, love story, maggot, make-believe, mystery story, mythology, mythos, nursery tale, parable, phantasm, phantom, prevarication, romance, saga, science fiction, shocker, sick fancy, space fiction, space opera, Spiritus Mundi, story, Sunna, suspense story, tall tale,thick-coming fancies, thriller, trip, untruth, vapor, whim, whimsy, whodunit, whopper, wildest dreams, work of fiction

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On the face of it - the definition: a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people] - could be fine.

But when you consider the Thesaurus Terms - it seems pretty obvious that people could be offended. The meaning is made more clear through the associated words.

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Personally - I consider myself neutral. I don't think either side should attack the beliefs or non-beliefs of the other. I see you as the one attacking.

You seem to enjoy the whole myth part of religion. I think that's great. But you also seem to insist on ramming it down everyones throat.