RE: Historian explains why Jesus ''mythers'' aren't taken seriously by most Historians
June 9, 2015 at 6:50 pm
(June 9, 2015 at 6:10 pm)Secular Elf Wrote:(June 7, 2015 at 3:11 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: That is a good question. This is not his first thread that deals with this topic:
A strange but curious question: if you had a time machine...
The arguments are pretty much the same, over and over again. I guess he figures that doing the same thing again will give him a different result than it did before.
I am late to this thread, and I have noticed this pattern with the OP too. He reiterates the same point over and over. It is a What is the saying? Oh yes, "Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results = the definition of insanity.
Yes. But recognizing a pattern does nothing to prevent it from occurring again. I expect another thread on the subject of whether there was a historical Jesus or not within a few months of this one being abandoned. And I expect the arguments to be pretty much the same. It is not as if it is likely that anyone is going to dig up a new document in the next couple of months.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.