> > My favourite mythologies are Ancient Greek, Ancient Scandinavian, Celtic, and Modern American (also one of Speedball's favourite mythologies, yes?).
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> Modern American Myths, well, yes, there are social Myths (the American Dream), urban myths (the woman who mirowaved her pet (either a dog or a cat) to dry it off), historical myths (George Washington and the cherry tree), Comic Books, and TV Shows (Star Trek, X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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> Also Scandinavian (or Norse) mythology. Now they have a dim view of the after life. Even if you die a noble warriors death and go to Valhalla you will be completely detroyed during there end of the world, Ragnarok.
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> I also know a lot about King Arthur, which is a whole mythology unto it's self.
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> Speed'realityisboring'ball

Heh. It would appear so; that oftimes fiction carries more appeal than reality. Familiarity with the familiar references that one sees every day breeds contempt, it seems. I toy with the idea of re-framing truth as fiction -- to give it a greater mystic allure and a fighting chance in this world, as it were. But that approach carries its own hazards, not the least that it comes across as an underhanded way of approaching 'What is real'. And yet the best books, programs, and films -- and other works of fiction that we enjoy the most -- are precisely the ones that preserve the greatest enduring truths about our place in life.

Wolf "had a random attack of transmusing too diffuse for the movie discussion thread" spirit