(July 30, 2013 at 7:30 pm)BettyG Wrote: Humans have remarkable memories. My mom clearly remembers the big flood of 1927 86 years ago. Add 86 to 33 AD is 119 AD. Second century. She remembers things her grandparents told her that possibly happened 80 years before that. So it could be possible that in the late 100's, people knew what happened in 33 AD without writing any thing down. In those days of illiteracy, people had to put more effort into rote learning.
She believes she remembers is very different from she actually remembers.
Memory is altered every single time you recall it. If you don't recall it, you forget it.
There are people with abilities to remember everything down the last detail, but there's no reason to think your mum or anyone of these people here have this ability.
That is hardly the point here, even if they actually remembered, nothing is preventing them from lying, since most people around them wouldn't have known what happened anyway.
