(November 6, 2012 at 7:49 pm)John V Wrote: Consider also that these bronze age goat herders and their successors are the best selling authors in history.
Only because they forced their novel with the sword until there was enough idiots to accept it as fact. Back in those days I could have forced Harry Potter or the Lord of the Rings as fact and today people would believe it as revealed truth. Despite it being complete 100% bullshit and fictitious.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain