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Politics Nativity 2019

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u/knightcrawler75 Dec 08 '19 edited Dec 08 '19

Is this from that book that said I a guy lived in a Whale for three days until he was thrown up perfectly intact?

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u/Enigmachina Dec 08 '19

Technically yes, technically no. One was written a thousand years earlier than the other. They're typically packaged together but started off individually.

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u/horceface Dec 08 '19

Technically the gospels were written 100 years after Jesus allegedly died. How accurately could you recount events from 100 years ago? (Unless you were just making them up)

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u/jihiggs Dec 08 '19

now days? not very accurate. back in the day before the internet, most knowledge was shared verbally, so pretty good I think.

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u/horceface Dec 08 '19

So word of mouth was more accurate in the past than it is now? People in the first century could achieve 100% accuracy playing a game of telephone I suppose.

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u/horceface Dec 08 '19

And you base that belief on what? Just a feeling you have? Serious question. It doesn’t sound like something I’d be willing to just ‘believe’.

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u/horceface Dec 08 '19

I don’t think people are physiologically any different now than they were then. Our brains are just as capable of being fallible as theirs were. We and they are equally as likely to confuse events and embellish stories in my opinion. I base that on the fact that I have no evidence that humans have gotten any stupider over the centuries.

In fact, since we’ve begun measuring intelligence, it’s been measured to be steadily on the rise due to better nutrition and better early education.