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	How Myth Endures

Kodanshi

3-1-2008 12:44 PM

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Kodanshi says:

This refers to urban legends (more specifically the mistaken belief that humans only use 10% of their brains), but it seems to me that it applies much more widely, especially in matters of religious faith, religious conversion (muslims converting to Christianity, for example), etc.

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