How And Why To Keep A “Commonplace Book” The other day I was reading a book and I came across a little anecdote.
It was about the great Athenian general Themistocles. Reading Habits Based on Hogwarts Houses. During my third year of university, I discovered a LiveJournal community called Hogwarts is Home.
Several of my friends had joined it, and encouraged me to apply. It took me a few months, but I finally sent in an application, if only to figure out which Hogwarts House I would be sorted into. I spent a good year playing in Hufflepuff House, until real life drew me away from the community. 5 Near-Identical Jesus Christ Myths That Predate Jesus. I studied history in college, and spent a lot of my time researching ancient civilizations and comparative religions.
As an agnostic, I am fascinated by religion and the idea of faith and belief, across all religions spanning the entirety of human existence. Some of the most fascinating projects that I did in college involved comparing ancient mythology to modern religious beliefs, finding similarities and multiple parallels. For example, anyone who has ever read The Epic of Gilgamesh will know that many biblical stories are plucked straight from the story, including the flood myth and the virgin birth myth. Historians and religious scholars know that religious texts are made up of a series of myths (that’s not to say they are not true, but just that they are mythical stories). These myths appear across different religions and eras, and the same stories repeat themselves over and over again throughout history. Rank-Raglan mythotype. The Rank-Raglan mythotype (sometimes called the hero archetype) is a pattern developed by Otto Rank and later on Lord Raglan that lists different cross-cultural narrative traits of heroes, including mythical heroes .[1] This mythotype has been prominently used in the modern Christ myth theory to argue that a historical Jesus did not exist.[2][3] However, others such as Alan Dundes have argued that the Hero patterns were designed to investigate received traditions, not deal with determining actual historicity of any individual.[4] As such, he argued that even if Jesus were to fit the Hero patterns, it would not affect his historicity.[4] History[edit] Otto Rank, in 1909, developed a Hero pattern on that was very much based on Oedipus's legend, followed Freudian thought in that the pattern lingered on the Hero's relations with the parents and was limited to the first half of the life of the Hero:[4] Criticisms[edit] Uses[edit] References[edit] Jump up ^ Lord Raglan.
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And isn’t also strange that other art forms don’t have equivalent terms for a vague sense of someone’s total experience of that form (well-seen for movies? Well-heard for music? Your mega summer reading list: 70+ picks from the TED community. Summer: the season for cracking open a good book under the shade of a tree.
Below, we’ve compiled about 70 stellar book recommendations from members of the TED community. Maira Kalman: The illustrated woman.
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It’s fascinating to see which quotes have spoken so deeply to people that they’ve had them indelibly printed on their own skin. And let’s be honest -- who thought book nerds could be so edgy? Not all of us bookworms, however, possess the level of decisiveness needed to join our lives with one literary tattoo for life. The more commitment-phobic among us need not despair -- we can still wear our bookishness as a sleeve if we wish.
Here are 18 gorgeous temporary tattoos that will -- for a couple days, at least -- show everyone how much you love reading: Why Readers, Scientifically, Are The Best People To Fall In Love With. Ever finished a book?
I mean, truly finished one? Cover to cover. 66 Facts You May Not Have Known About The English Language The English language is, quite literally, the greatest language in the world.
Great in terms of size - the current edition of the Oxford English Dictionary contains 615,000 entries. Great in terms of scope — it’s an official language in seventy-nine countries and territories. 31 Beautiful Ideas For A Book-Inspired Wedding. 5 examples of how the languages we speak can affect the way we think. Keith Chen (TED Talk: Could your language affect your ability to save money?)
Might be an economist, but he wants to talk about language. For instance, he points out, in Chinese, saying “this is my uncle” is not as straightforward as you might think. In Chinese, you have no choice but to encode more information about said uncle.