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Silly stories you tell yourself to "explain" stuff. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world to c/general@lemmy.world

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I know nowadays we can generally look up almost anything we can think to ask, and failing that, ask others online, but some of my favorite memories are of just making up total nonsense to kill time and "explain" the origins of things.

Today I was wondering about the salt contents of the oceans, and while there's a bunch of brief videos that lightly explain it (something to do with deep sea magma vents and an exchange of minerals from deep in the earth as the water passes through these subterranean channels), it got me to thinking about what might've been a little more fun or might have been some people's myths.

The super simple silly story I came up with as an alternative was some ancient giants cracking wise and laughing so hard they cried and their tears formed the oceans.

So what are some stories you've come up with of either the natural or incredibly mundane for how things came to be or were made?

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[–] handofdumb@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I wish I could remember! My imagination can run wild and I know I made up plenty to make the world make sense, but I can't seem to remember anything right now :(

Still, I wanted to comment to say this sorta thing always reminds me of the comic Calvin and Hobbes - specifically the way Calvin's dad would explain things to Calvin.