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This is an absurd complaint,the oldest written document is a fictional story used to convey a moral message named The Epic of Gilgamesh. Humanity has used fiction to impart wisdom quite literally forever.
mrttao
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people still think that.
your typical woke argument is "just like star wars / harry potter".
"trump is literally voldemort" they say.
"closing the border is literally what a death eater would do" they say
"opposing children pirate affirming care is literally emperor palpatine" they say.
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PsihoKekec
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6th they near universally advocate for am inherently authoritarian system. As despite what that bum Marx wrote or idiotic anarchists naively believe. Socialism when put into practice has been universally totalitarian in under a decade implementation. This has happened on every inhabited continent,within every currently existing civilization,across all climates,and for every single race of man. Oh and with quite literally dozens of examples spread out over an entire century. But you know Muh Not Real Socialism Tm reeeeeee
Damnit Scotty don't tell them about the hidden guns......Guys no one tell Scotty we 48 guns in that cave over there ok?
gral
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Calling the Epic of Gilgamesh 'fictional' is a bit too much, no? People believed it was true, it was a big part of their culture. If you had said the Lord of the Rings, you'd have more of a point.
Tom Sawyer,The Great Gatsby,Star Trek,Moby Dick,need just go on? Humans use fiction to teach morality constantly,now you can argue Harry Potter shouldn't be used and I'd agree. However the concept itself is sound and has a very well established history of being used as a highly effective tool for teaching....Hell Jesus Christ taught mostly in parables which were fictional stories used to convey moral concepts.
The Flood in the Bible and the massive floods in the Epic of Gilgamesh are likely the same thing; a distant retelling the Burckle Crater impact event in the Indian Ocean and the aftermath, including tsunami's and mass rainout events.
en.wikipedia.org
When something leaves a 29km hole in the bottom of the Indian Ocean, it probably was rather hard for the survivors to forget what happened, even if they didn't understand why.
Many ancient history books are at least in part long games of telephone about massive ecological/astronomical events and things like massive volcanic eruptions disrupting ecosystems.
Burckle Crater - Wikipedia
When something leaves a 29km hole in the bottom of the Indian Ocean, it probably was rather hard for the survivors to forget what happened, even if they didn't understand why.
Many ancient history books are at least in part long games of telephone about massive ecological/astronomical events and things like massive volcanic eruptions disrupting ecosystems.
Uh, that was like nearly 2 years ago now.Bro a few posts ago you were batching about tradition and you then quote Cicero?
Individual wisdom is separate from tradition, and not as hidebound.
I throughly disagree but it just made me laugh either way man don't read to much into it.
I think Bacle has a valid point there actually. Quoting someone because you consider that what that person said was intelligent and worth repeating, is not at all the same thing as treating that person's words as carrying authority because they are part of Tradition.
The distinction remains valid even if the person you are quoting lived and died thousands of years ago.
I'm going to have to disagree with you on the whole tradition thing.
Tradition as I define it is the result of trial and error through out the whole of human history. If something has been tradition for a really long time its probaly around for a reason.
All great,including polish death camp - but why Hitler is not black transgender woman ?
Carrot of Truth
War is Peace
The Confederacy's love of slavery disproves the value of tradition being held to just for the sake of 'tradition', as does 3rd world female genital mutilation, widow burnings in pre-Brit India, the human sacrifice of teh Aztecs, and numerous other stupid and monstrous 'traditions' held around the world because they help local elite maintain control.
'Tradition' is not always a good thing, and should not treated as such.
There is old joke about scientist who come to some still wild tribes in New Guinea,described their rituals,but when he asked them why they are doing that,they send him from one elder to another,till oldest ones said:
"our ancestrors always did it"