Oral history is generally reliable within a three-generation callback time period

Non Jews were never required to keep the law that was given to the Jews at mount Sinai

And this was quite a contentious debate in the early Christian church. In many ways it makes Christianity Paul's invention since he advocated against the Jerusalem Church (some of whom presumably knew Jesus IIRC) who didn't necessarily want to "open it up" to the Gentiles without them doing what was necessary to become Jewish.

I've always found that bit of history of the church to be the most confusing. Why would someone who never met Jesus, for whom the faith is eponymous, get a "say" in how the faith was structured?

In many ways I think of Christianity as starting with Paul who took the pieces and parts of the Jesus story and built out a faith.
 
My OP says nothing about Jesus.
Irrelevant. My statement is true. You are trying to get hearsay about "Jesus" admitted as history, and to establish "Jesus" as an historical figure.

No, Herodotus is not a "first hand account."
Herodotus is a dead guy.

Herodotus was not a witness to the historical events he writes about.
The people for whom he scribed absolutely were first-hand witnesses.

Herodotus got his information by talking to eyewitnesses,
... and acting as scribe to document the first-hand account.

... interviewing people who knew the eyewitnesses, or from talking to people who knew the cultural oral tradition.
Nope. Only the eyewitnesses, i.e. first-hand accounts, were history once they were transcribed.

You're free to travel the country and demand universities shut down all research about ancient history.
You're free to travel your backyard wishing historians accepted hearsay as first-hand account.

Because without secondary sources and oral tradition, you might as well forget about learning about antiquity.
Correct. We don't have time machines and we cannot verify any beliefs about the unobserved past. All beliefs about the unobserved past are just that, beliefs, and those happen to be hearsay, beliefs and speculation, and they are neither knowledge nor history.

Without secondary sources we would be ignorant of Persian emperor Xerxes,
Nope. Those were all first-hand accounts.
 
Pure communism was supposed to be a utopian society
... according to Marx. In such a Utopia, he would be in charge of the wealth redistribution. Marx would sit on his fat azz all day while others worked like slaves to provide for him. Of course he would refer to that world as "Utopia."

without the need for government or coercion according to Marx. Revolution was supposed to be transitory and ephemeral.
"Finally, in times when the class struggle nears the decisive hour, the process of dissolution going on within the ruling class, in fact within the whole range of society, assumes such a violent, glaring character, that a small section of the ruling class cuts itself adrift, and joins the revolutionary class, the class that holds the future in its hands. " - The Communist Manifesto

"In depicting the most general phases of the development of the proletariat, we traced the more or less veiled civil war, raging within existing society, up to the point where that war breaks out into open revolution, and where the violent overthrow of the bourgeoisie lays the foundation for the sway of the proletariat." - The Communist Manifesto

The core idea of Marx's program was to lift up the poor and oppressed, and for the rich and powerful to get a comeuppance.
Where do you see that? All I see is advocacy for the tearing down of the bourgeoisie world and forcing all the proletariot into slave labor for the benefit of those who control the redistribution of wealth.
 
This accusation still stands yet you have never shown such a person exists.

Even though you deleted your Perry sock puppet, it still exists in people's responses to your Perry sock.

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... according to Marx.
I didn't say anything about how communism would work out in practice. You're tilting at windmills.

What I said was that the theoretical core idea in Marx had a New Testament ethos in concept - to raise up the oppressed and the poor, and to lay low the rich and powerful.
 
Even though you deleted your Perry sock puppet,

I don't know how you do that. But it certainly explains why you can't find much in the way of evidence for it. You seem to specialize in "excuses" to explain away your failures.

it still exists in people's responses to your Perry sock.

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No idea who this is. It isn't addressed to you so I don't know why you hate the guy so much.

Did you change your name from Mason Michael? Why did you change it? HOW do you change it?

So MASON MICHAELS was your sock? Interesting. I'll keep that in mind now that I know.
 
I don't know how you do that.
That's the way this board works. You can cancel your sock puppet's account, but the name of your sock is preserved where people quoted him in their posts.

If you don't like Mason quoting your sock puppet Perry Phimosis, I can give more examples of other people quoting Perry, as below:

 
That's the way this board works. You can cancel your sock puppet's account, but the name of your sock is preserved where people quoted him in their posts.

If you don't like Mason quoting your sock puppet Perry Phimosis, I can give more examples of other people quoting Perry, as below:


Finally! Thanks for showing me that your friend exists. Weird that it doesn't seem to be indexed in the Search function. You had to know where you were goin' for these. Good finds. Now you can find your friend again!

How do you "cancel" your account? I have never seen how that is done. But you seem to be quite knowledgable about all this "changing names" "socks" "canceling accounts". You been at it long?
 
I didn't say anything about how communism would work out in practice.
That was an awesome pivot. You also didn't say anything about how to best apply security controls on financial networks in practice either.

You really should learn to stick with what you did say. Then you can teach AProudLefty what you learned.

What I said was that the theoretical core idea in Marx had a New Testament ethos in concept
Nope. It doesn't preach any sort of morality. Marxism is simply victimhood anger demanding the violent pursuit of vengeance on whomever you happen to HATE at the moment, which is typically the preacher's current political enemy.

- to raise up the oppressed and the poor, and to lay low the rich and powerful.
Erase the "lift up the oppressed and the poor" part and just say "lay low the rich and powerful."
 
Finally! Thanks for showing me that your friend exists. Weird that it doesn't seem to be indexed in the Search function. You had to know where you were goin' for these. Good finds. Now you can find your friend again!

How do you "cancel" your account? I have never seen how that is done. But you seem to be quite knowledgable about all this "changing names" "socks" "canceling accounts". You been at it long?

Obviously you thought once you cancelled your Perry Phimosis account, all evidence of your sock puppet would disappear, and that is why you were so confident in your incessant demands I prove that your Perry sock puppet ever existed.
 
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