(August 4, 2012 at 12:57 pm)spockrates Wrote: No problem! Can't think of any while he was still living. That would be quite a find, since he lived in obscurity up until the last three years if his life.
I don't think the lack of writing prior to a person's death is necessarily a deal breaker. For example, there is no writing about Socrates prior to his death. But that does not prevent me from discounting the writings of Xenophon, or Socrates disciple Plato as fairy tales!
But the accounts of Socrates , Xenophon and Plato are about men and not about supposed gods.
Do you realise why these claims attract the need for evidence other than hearsay.
Its the difference in me saying "I saw Brian down the bus stop" and "I saw Brian lift up a bus using only his left arm, right over his head"
One claim is mundane and so is believable the other is an extradinary claim and requires extradinary proof.
Oh and if your story reads like a fairy tale you cant really blame people for pointing it out.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
