Does having a college degree affect whether or not you believe in mythical creatures?

[Newest Reality]

1. One could only hope

that by application of the tools that a wide spectrum of language and thought can provide, that the nature of belief itself would be investigated thoroughly.

Once the nature of belief is divined, then one is free to turn what is considered serious, dogmatic or literally interpreted into symbolic liberation. Then, one becomes free to "believe" in a more creative and enjoyable way as play and recreation without a rigid compulsion to promulgate and enforce a belief.

Of knowledge, we know so little for a fact of what is, so we resort to beliefs that are either flexible or considered, erroneously, to be concrete. So, belief can be a placeholder for the potential of direct experience, a metaphor for function or change, or a form of playful ways to interpret what living in a world of abstraction provides.