Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
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Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 9:23 AM
To: Peo Nilsson
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Subject: Re: In the spirit of Godwin's law - I propose Beastie's law
Well, by "erasing" the history, no matter who "tried"
to write it, the chance decrease...
Hmmm. I have come to think that our writing our history condemns
us to repeat it rather than the other way around. With oral history
it is possible to creatively adjust it in each generation. With written
history, it is only creatively adjusted (no history is written truthfully)
when it is first written down which is the time it is least understood
or at least, least seen in perspective.
Then, since it is written, we seem condemned to believing it rather
than making it useful to our needs.
Oral history has given us such nonsense as the "virgin" birth of
Jesus, so that instead of history focusing on the truth inherent
in what the guy was actually preaching, it instead focuses on
an impossible asexual human reproduction event that in reality
never happened. Yes, Virginia, Mary did feel Joseph's schlong.
Without getting into a massive religious debate...
Too you it may not seem possible and you can't get your head
around it, but this does not mean it is impossible. Say God was
an alien as some groups exclaim? Then would you say it was possible for
her to have been pregnant without the old ding dong?
So if aliens could do it, Why couldn't God? (If God were not an alien)
Jay
The next time you see a group of Christmas carolers, stop them
and ask how many of them know what the Golden Rule is. 10-to-1
odds you will find at least 1 of them that can't tell you what it
is.
Written history is much, much better.
Ted
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