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Skriven 2011-01-17 10:43:46 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 13618 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: Welcome to the 21st century in a supposedly civilized country
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15 Jan 11 12:18, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Roy Witt:

 MvdV> Hello Roy,

 MvdV> On Friday January 14 2011 11:28, you wrote to me:

 MvdV>>> Or so it is claimed by an anonymous who wrote it down a couple
 MvdV>>> of hundred years later.

 RW>> It wasn't that long before that part of it was recorded. 33AD to
 RW>> 100AD...

 MvdV> So you say.

I'm merely repeating what biblical scholars and historians have written
down as a conclusion of their investigation of history.

 MvdV> Prove that that part was written down at 100 AD.

 Prove that it was written "a couple of hundred years later".

 RW>> maybe by an eye witness with a good memory or not.

 MvdV> More likely someone who just made it up. If he was an eye witness
 MvdV> why wait 70 years to write it down? Makes no sense.

Perhaps it wasn't that important to the writer at the time. Three people
died on crosses, one was a thief, one was a murderer and one was falsely
accused to be a rebel leader who advocated the overthrow of Roman rule in
Isreal.

 MvdV>>> The problem with these observations is that they are not
 MvdV>>> verifiable and they are not reproducible.

 RW>> Of course not. If they had today's technology back then, a different
 RW>> story.

 MvdV> Nevertheless, they could have done better in documenting and
 MvdV> preserving evidence than writing it down decades if not centutries
 MvdV> later.

Considering that most of them were illiterate to the extreme, they did a
great job of preserving what happened.

 RW>>>> This same man, earlier in his life, had been observed feeding
 RW>>>> thousands of people from a food supply that would not have fed
 RW>>>> them all, but somehow it did.

 MvdV>>> And the Baron of Munchausen was observed pulling himself out of
 MvdV>>> a swamp by his hair.

 RW>> And Donald Duck did that by pulling himself up by his tail feathers.

 MvdV> Right. And the existance of Donald Duck is better documented than
 MvdV> that of JC.

Donald Duck doesn't exist, except on the movie screen and souvenir-store
shelves.

 MvdV>>> Plenty of halucinating drugs to be found in nature. Think of
 MvdV>>> mushrooms.

 MvdV> Up until last year when they were banned, one could buy brands of
 MvdV> mushrooms that were bred an harvested for their halucinating
 MvdV> effect.

Too much trouble anyway. You can find LSD easier and it's tasteless.

 RW>> The very thought of them brings a queazy feeling to my stomach. More
 RW>> likely it was the consumption of 'night shade' berries.

 MvdV> Those are not merely halucinating, they are outright poisonous.

They're only poisonous if you eat enough of them to kill you. Just like
arsenic.

                R\%/itt

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