Ed Zwick, director and co-writer of “The Last Samurai” movie of 2003, says, “It’s as important to celebrate what’s poetic and idealized as it is to understand the reality. . . . We’re inspired by the mythologizing of the samurai as heroes.” ~Stefan Lovgren, “‘The Last Samurai’: Movie Myth or History?” National Geographic News, 12/2/03
Abraham, Siddhartha, Jesus, Bonhoeffer, and Mother Teresa are part history and part myth to us. Which part would you leave out? I’d say the “poetic” is our way of trying to articulate “reality,” or reality is more than just “history.” ~jpc
We celebrate the life within life. Namaste.
image: http://www.ocean.udel.edu/blacksea/history/noah.html
Monday, October 02, 2006
Reality?
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Are you saying "poetry" and "myth" are as important as flesh-and-blood reality? If yes, are you saying Jesus is myth as well as flesh-and-blood? FM
"Yes" to both questions. jpc
The New Testament is a second hand account of what Jesus said and did, but it's a first hand account of what the early church thought he said and did. This may make it less historically accurate, but does it make it less authentic? I think not. rcw
So you're saying Jesus is a myth as well as a real person? FM
Much of the New Testament story about Jesus is not provable historical fact. It is not accurate biography as we judge authentic biography today. Myth is good if it's a story that transforms.
jpc
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