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Originally Posted by Melusine
We study and learn about the history of myths and their place in human history/development; we can appreciate them, but to perpetuate them as fact because they're fun is like keeping a child in a perpetual state of intellectual immaturity. Simply know what's fact and fiction.
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One of the best reasons for continuing these traditions is that eventually the child wises up and realizes that people who were trusted were not telling the truth. That's one of the most important lessons of science--question authority.