(July 26, 2017 at 5:01 pm)JackRussell Wrote: In Roman Britain, and across the Roman world, we have many surviving 'defixio', curse documents.
Did they come true? How could you or I know that?
Verifying ancient people as real. Well , I don't believe in absolute certainty. A coin helps and a miracle doesn't.
Even if they could be verified, who the fuck cares who they were or what they did or said? That only matters to the religious because...magic. If Socrates was the genuine author of his philosophy and method or if it was a conjoined pair of twins where one was Alaskan native and one was a hulking Andre the Giant style European, doesn't matter worth a platypus fart. It's the lessons we learn that are what's important (whether it's to learn from their fuck-ups or if they genuinely had something profound to say).
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
