• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    I’m not too familiar with it, but does it really work? I feel like just the first point, ordinary world, has some huge issues

    The hero begins in a situation of normality from which some information is received that acts as a call to head off into the unknown

    I think Jesus was always seen as special, even before birth. If we go with the Biblical story I mean

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      7 months ago

      It’s just another myth that describes a mythical hero on their journey. It’s too easy to take everything too literally, or too metaphorically. I use a lot of judeochristian metaphors, allegories, etc, but I imagine if I’d been raised Buddhist, I’d use a lot of Buddhist metaphors, or any other religion. I’m aware a lot of people will take offense to that, and that’s not my intent. Imo, getting hung up on the veracity misses the point the story is trying to make, in the first place. Imo, that’s what the “ears to hear, eyes to see” metaphor means.