What is your creation story?

[Jembru]

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Everyone has such great stories. Only if they were true. I'd totally dig it.

My story: There was nothing. Then something. Soon there will be nothing. Hold on to the ride.

This is probably why I'm an atheist.

and lazy.

But if they were true, they wouldn't be myths now would they?

[Medusa]

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I always liked the story of the turtles creating the world. I think that's Polynesian?

[Jembru]

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I always liked the story of the turtles creating the world. I think that's Polynesian?

'It's no use. I'm afraid it's turtles all the way down.'

[Näre]

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This thread inspires me. I've always thought that myths about creation are somehow distressing but seems like it's not the case.

Now all I need is a myth of my own!

[Jembru]

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This thread inspires me. I've always thought that myths about creation are somehow distressing but seems like it's not the case.

Now all I need is a myth of my own!

Be sure to let us know when you find one. I can't wait to get some proper time off work and start modifying my own.

[Näre]

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Be sure to let us know when you find one. I can't wait to get some proper time off work and start modifying my own.

How are those things found?

[Munin-Hugin]

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This thread inspires me. I've always thought that myths about creation are somehow distressing but seems like it's not the case.

Now all I need is a myth of my own!

Many, many moons ago in an Anthropology class I took entitled "Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion" (yes, it was a real class, all about the religious practices around the world, from mainstream to little villages on forgotten Pacific islands), we sat down and wrote our own myths as a group. The idea was that one person told a short story to the class, and then every few days a different student would re-write it as if he or she was the next generation telling it. By the end of the semester, it had turned into this totally genuine sounding legend! Maybe try something like that!

[thalassa]

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How are those things found?

[Munin-Hugin]

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Exactly what I was eluding to Thal. The story we used for that class I took was simple. A boy and his grandfather went fishing, talked as boys and grandfathers tend to do, then came home and shared their catch with their family.

By the end, it turned into a tale of how a man went in search for food to feed his starving village. Lost and losing hope, he fell to his knees and shouted at the sky for guidance, when the Great Grandfather Spirit appeared to him. The Spirit took pity upon the man, and caused water to bubble up from the ground, teaming with fish. One of which, Brother Catfish, rose from the surface and struck a bargain with the man. In return for a continual bounty for his people, the man promised to honor all of the spirits of nature and to pass those practices down to his children.

[Gas Mask]

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I believe that the spirits have existed as long as there have been elements and that the gods have existed for as long as there have been beings to worship them. I don't really have a complicated creation story.

[Näre]

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Thanks Thalassa and Munin-Hugin!
Lately I've been attracted to the idea of storytelling, now I found good use for it!

But well, I shall stop harassing this thread now.

[Briton]

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I don't believe I can receive divine revelation, so my understanding of creation is whatever New Scientist and phys.org report

[Jembru]

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I don't believe I can receive divine revelation, so my understanding of creation is whatever New Scientist and phys.org report

I've been thinking of resubscribing to the New Scientist. I stopped getting it because I was too busy doing other things, like staying up half the night on msn (gosh, remember when that was a thing?), so didn't read it. I've noticed my vocabulary is getting smaller, and my memory of details diminishing. Now that I DO have time to read at work, maybe I should stop thinking about resubscribing and just do it.

(if it weren't for the New Scientist, I'd never have discovered teratoma.. how much that enriched my life!).

[thalassa]

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I don't believe I can receive divine revelation, so my understanding of creation is whatever New Scientist and phys.org report

Its not about divine revelation, its about creativity in extended metaphors!

[Stardust]

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I personally believe that God, or the "Supreme Divine" made the Big Bang and after that everything just took off on it's own. Stars, planets, life, etc.