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Wikiposting number one-What is Truth? Although myths can hardly be dubbed as fictional, I think that there are many truths in myths. To start off, myths reflect the truth within the culture that is describing the myth. That is an obvious quality. However, if you look deeper into this, you may see that myths are also simply a way for people to entertain themselves. As you can see, myths tell how something happened. In the Australian myth, The Rainbow Serpent, the story tells of a destructive snake that plowed his way through the landmass that is now Australia, which incidentally was how Australia's physical geography was said to have come to be. This would never happen in real life, and whether the Australians telling the story knew this or not, it was still a much more fun way of describing Australia's geography than saying it was formed from the shifting of continents or of a great earthquake. The truth is that, myths are better ways to make people think in depth. Now mind you, it is false and should not be taken seriously, but looking beyond what we know at supernatural beings can expand our horizons. Thinking about how clever the ancient people who came up with these myths were, only trying to describe what they didn't know, is really quite intriguing. It shows a deeper connection with supernatural beings and the fact that there is more than one way of interpereting the unknown. So truly, myths have more truth to them than most may think. They represent times of needing entertainment, and they represent the minds of those before us, who knew no better than to believe that the gods determined your fate on earth (for example). Myths are more than just stories. They have truth.

Wikiposting number two-The "truth" about fear. When we think of fear, we think of something scary that makes us hide under our covers and shiver a little bit. But the "truth" about fear is something different. I think that what causes our fear is uncertainty. In __Lord of the Flies__, the boys were "afraid" of the beast. But they didn't know what the beast was, how big it is, what it eats; they didn't even know if the beast existed. But they let their imaginations wander and came up with the idea that there is something out there in the uninhabited land they are on that could do harm to them. They don't have any idea, but all they can imagine is something sinister that is more likely to eat you whole than befriend you. It is unclear what is really out there in the island the boys are on which leads to assumptions, which leads to panic, and finally, the end product of uncertainty and panic is what we call fear. For a real life example, I am afraid of spiders. I know for the most part that they are more frightened of me than I am of them. However, they all look different to me and I always assume that any one of them could be poisonous. Unless I am an expert in the study of spiders and all the different species of them, I wont ever know which ones I should clearly stay away from. So as you can see, fear is more like uncertainty as opposed to an actual sense. I mean, when you know somethings coming you are not so scared. But if something completely unexpected happens, "fear" surges through you.

Wikiposting number three-The truth in dreams In all of our dreams, we convey what we want to do with our lives. We dream about the things we want, the things we need to do, the people we love, etc. This is something that the we humans (usually) cannot control. So therefore, it reflects the truth in our everyday lives. Dreams are have more truth to them than people think. A lot of times however, dreams are blown out of proportion. They usually involve creatures, flying and other things that people normally cannot do. If you strip them of their unreality, they are all about the truth in our lives.

Truth presentation: Thesis for the topic: Why do we believe what we hear? What makes us "hear" things and how does that effect what we perceive as truth?

I will be talking about how people hear and hearing vs. listening. I'll present it via power point and most likely have lots of visual aids and hearing activities that involve my audience.