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Posted Saturday, July 9, 2022
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History is not as it seems
This started out because I wanted to learn more about the origins of the Bible. But as I'm researching, nearly all the original documents that we ascribe to western history (Greece, Rome, Jesus, everything) we have are from like the year 900-1500 AD and forward. We only have copies of copies from hundreds to thousands of years before. (this isn't including like Egyptian hieroglyphics but western writing that we read translations of today like works of Aristotle, Plato's Republic, Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, or the Bible) We have some old documents, but just fragments they're not anything related to our history of literature (dice, official decrees, fortune telling bones, records of sales, etc.) and I'm sure lots of the old copies we have are honest attempts at transcribing or translating, but if you think any of the stuff you read from thousands of years ago is a translation from an original document, you're wrong. It's kind of crazy. So much of what I know is someone's version of history from long after it happened. As someone who's been an editor of Wikipedia, I see how much people bend the truth (or just pick and choose) for real time events. Imagine how wrong the historians probably were. I don't really trust any western history before 1000 AD. You can't believe anything anyone tells you. Always question.
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We can trust much of it as things aren't isolated and there are other events that end uo having to correlate. Often times they will give to the populace a narrative while knowing its not the only possibility and not known 100% but the most likely scenario based on multiple factors. There's, of course, always human bias and human error. But as far as history is concerned, there are no ancient artifacts with dark powers, there is no ring of power lost to time that some river folk might find, there's not much at stake for getting it wrong. We can trust the broad strokes until new evidence proves it wrong.
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