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 I scribbled some notes into my notebook on Thursday:

"Creation myths comprise of good and evil (or chaos and order).  Gods/higher beings/deities.  Opposites.
Are current scientific stories going to be myths in the future?"

Creation myths are no different from any other story; they're going to need a protagonist and an antagonist, too.  These two factors can produce a problem, which is usually solved with a compromise.  These are fundamentals for stories.

It was pointed clear that most creation myths have deities.  Why do they have higher beings in the ranking of 7 for creation?  It must be because humans (mere mortals) are not sufficient enough to establish something as great as the world, physics, or life.

In 11th grade, I had a summer assignment to write a three page paper about truth.  My friends and I racked our brains about it!  The paper questioned and challenged everything we knew or thought we knew.  I remember coming up with a scenario: You have a shirt.  This is truth.  In years, the shirt gets faded in the wash, worn out, and turns into a rag.  This is also truth.  Is it a shirt anymore?  No.  Did I lie when I said it was a shirt?  No.  So, what happened?

The shirt changed.  Truths change, often evolving-- as can be seen in science.  (In the shirt's case, it regressed.)  What is important to you today may not be important to you in ten years.

The stories we live by are stories we live by.  If they change, we change.

If my parents' lives were different, I wouldn't hear of stories about their troubles trying to escape their home country when the Communists arrived (maybe I would be brought up that Communists are actually okay people) and re-establishing a new life in a foreign country.  If I had not know their story, if I had heard something different, more relaxing, I would not have worked hard towards a better future for myself, keeping my parents' struggles in mind, and who cares what Bryn Mawr would mean to me.

On a less dramatic note, if all of Disney's princesses grew up with a mother and father, where would little girls' imagination of Prince Charming and childhoods of cute fairy tales be?  (Not to mention Disney's enterprise.)

If we change anything we live by, we, of course, change our lives.  We (and I also mean our thoughts) are composed of every single one of those "anythings".

I also want to briefly mention that we talked about culture in our discussion on Thursday.  Some assumed they had no culture.  Some agreed that American culture is not as prominent in America than other cultures in their own countries are.  Walking out of class, I regretted forgetting to ask if anyone has seen Coming To America, starring Eddie Murphy.  Prince Akeem and his friend Semmi travel to America from "Zamunda," Africa in high hopes of looking for a bride to be his queen.  He looks in Queens, New York.  There, he is hit with a new culture of dating, "McDowell's," phrases/slang, and American football.

"Fascinating!  Semmi, look at this!  America is great indeed.  Imagine a country so free, one can throw glass on the streets!"