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      5 months ago

      There is no reason to assume oral history with no corroborating evidence is true and the lack of corroborating evidence is good reason to be skeptical.

      The entire Bible is oral history. I assume you don’t place similar validity in the Garden of Eden and the Tower of Babel.

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        I didn’t say that oral history is 100% accurate. I said it’s more accurate than you assume, which based on what you said seemed to be “it’s all made up.”

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          which based on what you said seemed to be “it’s all made up.”

          That is simply a lie.

          I said “the most likely answer” is that it was bullshit due to only being oral history without any corroborating evidence. I did not even remotely imply that all oral history is made up.

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            I’m thinking, since it wasn’t written down until centuries after it supposedly happened, that the most likely answer is that it was just bullshit.

            Your basis for discounting it is “it wasn’t written down.” That’s all oral tradition. I wasn’t trying to argue with you, I just wanted to see an amendment to your statement that recognized that this sentence is inaccurate. Seeing as you’re rolling back on it, I’ll take it as such.

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              Yet again, “most likely answer” does not imply in any way that all oral history is made up. That’s simply a lie.

              I recognized nothing I said as inaccurate. That is another lie.

              Stop lying.

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                  That is another lie. You said I assumed it was all made up.

                  This is what you said:

                  I didn’t say that oral history is 100% accurate. I said it’s more accurate than you assume, which based on what you said seemed to be “it’s all made up.”

                  Absolutely nothing I said indicated that all oral history was made up, as I demonstrated by quoting it.

                  Just tell the truth for one fucking post.