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Originally Posted by HydrogenBond View Post
Thanks for the link. I watched it. It brought me back to my studies of collective symbolism many years ago. What I had learned back then was there are common themes to almost all mythology.
Just to clarify, I only linked to one part of many. Don't want you missing out on the only-a-few-years-ago knowledge & learning of Mr. Campbell.

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To a child it [Little Red Riding Hood] is a fun story. But it was also a line of programming this is inserted into the operating system. To the mind of the past, the affect was sort of a like a Window's Update which would be run on all the brain computers in the culture.
Riding Hood is hardly a god myth, which is the topic here. The common version is many times re-written variant of a Brothers Grimm story. >> Little Red Riding Hood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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