Monday, April 21, 2014

It is important to write your own creation stories

In the end anyone who has ever written anything (including the Bible) was just someone like you only in another time or culture trying to make some sense of the world and trying to not commit suicide, get poisoned, die from bad food, or get run through with a sword or strangled with a rope hanging from someone's tree or something like that.

In other words people who wrote in ancient history were all extremely traumatized their whole lives by intense events of people dying around them, parents often dying in the 30s or 40s, children dying so if you had 5 or 10 kids maybe 3 would live to adulthood etc.

We now live in the U.S. in a basic Disneyland of a culture, the knowledge and culture is so far removed even from the world I grew up in in the 1950s. Most people in the 1950s hadn't even finished High School. And now, finishing High School and going to college is more like people finishing junior high and going to High School was in the 1950s. In the 1950s I met many many people who hadn't barely even learned to read or couldn't read a word and yet still often had jobs working at various things. 100 years before that it was even worse and the further back you go usually eventually you get down to only about 5% of the people or less could read.

Even in the 1980s only about 40% of the people in India could read or write. So, when I met people often they had never even been to school and thought I and my family (in comparison) were sort of "Gold Plated ETs" from another world. So, it hasn't been that long that most people have even been to school around the world at all.

Though the U.S. has compulsory education this is something only very rich nations do.

So, because of all this maybe it is very important since you obviously can write and read that you write down for your family and friends your experience of what life is all about and how you were created.

I think there should be over 7 billion creation stories out that people could write. You should be able to write your own Bible because maybe you have 1/100 the PTSD of the people who actually originally wrote the Bible (let alone the hundreds of languages it has been translated through to get to here.)

How much of all this has ANY of the same meanings at all of 2000 years ago? Even people who talk to me (people born since the 1970s) who try to talk to me about what Woodstock, the Viet Nam War and Free Speech and Civil Rights was all about back then usually only speak in Caricatures that have no resemblance to what life was really like in the 1960s and 1970s that I actually lived through. How much more disconnect is there between the year Zero when Jesus was born and now?

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