That's just what I had in mind, in fact. I've even heard it said that if those '500 witnesses' gave just five minutes testimony each, it would make nearly fifty hours of firsthand eyewitness evidence. In reality, of course, just as with G-C's "room full of witnesses", it's just another layer of background detail intended to add verification to the story but which cannot stand without verification in itself.
The really sad thing is I don't honestly think that G-C's story is all that implausible. Given his track record around these boards I'm sure that one or two facts may have been embellished or given a little reverse spin, but I'm equally as sure that the basic scenario is essentially accurate. So with that in mind, adding unnecessary and unverifiable story details positively glows as a desperate attempt to be believed, thus causing me to dismiss whatever point he's been trying to make.
The really sad thing is I don't honestly think that G-C's story is all that implausible. Given his track record around these boards I'm sure that one or two facts may have been embellished or given a little reverse spin, but I'm equally as sure that the basic scenario is essentially accurate. So with that in mind, adding unnecessary and unverifiable story details positively glows as a desperate attempt to be believed, thus causing me to dismiss whatever point he's been trying to make.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
