Difference Between Real People & Fictional Characters

[Abishai100]

Graffiti George

When we read about fictional characters who represent emotions or ideas that are very serious or psychologically troubling, we are more pensive about how they reflect real world behaviors.

Such characters include Othello (Shakespeare), the brooding betrayed minority prince who mistrusts his wife's intentions, and Leatherface (Tobe Hooper), the cannibalistic chainsaw-wielding super-psychopath.

Maybe we're scared of ghosts and the afterlife, since we do not want to confront the demons of confession.

Movies are different than books, since they offer us the power of the camera and visual imagination.

One simple conclusion is that there is nothing inherently wrong with romanticizing actions deemed out of reach when we see these actions achieved in the derring-do of others, be they fictional or real.

This notion could explain the popularity of vigilantism-fantasy comic book characters such as Daredevil (Marvel Comics).

 

[shimon]

Okay i can buy that but remember they didnt have television or movies back then and they certainly didnt read boks so most were illiterate therefor stories were used to convey messages and themes ..the story tellers had to embellish their stories to enrapture their audiences.. The stories were most likely told in the center of an encampment or around a community fire and the little children that heard the stories were enthralled by them and grew into adulthood and passed them on to their children adding in their own tidbits till the stories became all cosuming andbasically was a form of enchantment and entertainment to those who had relatively mundane lives of work and toil to survive....

 

[HaShev]

You have to recognize how Christians use illogical reasoning in order to help remove that veil.
They dare ask "how did this spread so fast and vast if it was all made up"?
1) because propaganda and even myths sometimes use enough truth in the fiction in order to make it appear as real or to impossible to be not really true.
2) Rome controlled the regions in which it spread then expanded behind that religious mask to sleep with many nations/kingdoms and get it's foot in the door in many outter regions, thus called the Harlot Church.
Therefore it could order what people would read and be schooled in.
Much of Rome already knew many of these stories through their worship of Baal, it's the others newly conquered or unsuspectedly conquered that would need to be indoctrinated in this new one world religion which converged and masked the old mystery religions.
If Christians doubt such a wide scale suggested reading then they should research what me and Shimon already know regarding South Koreas use of the Jewish Talmud as required reading in their schools. On a mass scale they decided they'd emulate the knowledge and sucess of the Jewish people through studying the Talmud and made it very very popular in S. Korea.
SO the argument how could it spread is answered by studying emulations/resemblences in order to see the process at work. This was Rome, they forced their way into all cultures or "No water for you!".

 

[HaShev]

This topic needs to be discussed again, because someone on here says their Christ is Yeshu (who lived in 100bc) but then also said John the Baptist was his faithful friend and he was an AD era figure in the story if Theudas the Christ by the Jordan who's apostles are Martyrs.
I also would not call him friend. It was the christ figure who followed John but as John's faithful followers accounted (survivers of John are called Mandeans) they claim Jesus was the evil false prophet who stole John's flock after he had his friend and follower Salome turn him over to be beheaded.
In studying the Mandeans and the NT nuances with mystical light teachings one can conclude the cult Jesus stole from John was clothed in sun worship.

 

[shimon]

Yes it is if any are interested there is a book by kersey graves called the 16 crucified. Saviors it makes an interesting read....sun worship has been around a long time the names just change or the mask but the idea never changes....