The famous Lewis “Truth in Fiction” Paper
Fictional statements can be “true” inside an invented world, even when they are not true in actual history.
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Irrational
Irrational ideas include new ideas, the speculative, beliefs, and the disproven.
Oort Cloud
The Oort Cloud may be real, but it remains unseen. It is a strong speculative idea: rationally proposed, empirically unconfirmed, and waiting for direct observation.
Major Religion: Hinduism
Hinduism, one of the world’s oldest religions, emerged around 1100 BCE, several centuries after the Indus Valley Civilization collapsed. Hinduism has no known roots in the IVC, but it’s a topic to follow as we uncover clues. There was a several century gap from the collapse of the IVC to the rise of the early
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Oldest Known Monotheistic Religion: Atenism
In the ninth year of the reign of Akhenaten, he declared the traditional supreme God Aten to be the only God of Egypt with himself as the sole communicator to Aten, kind of like an early Pope. This early attempt at monotheism failed after about 20 years and Egypt returned to their traditional polytheistic religion.
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