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Again, reality - expectations = our reaction to what we see. You seem to feel your version of expectations are better tuned so that when we subtract them from

Again, reality - expectations = our reaction to what we see. You seem to feel your version of expectations are better tuned so that when we subtract them from reality it is what you expected. I see this as amazing. Again, that has to be because I see human communication more flawed than you do. And that is fine. Personally, I think you do a lot of hand waving when you say something like "there's always a jerk in the middle who changes the story to something totally different" and then just outright ignore that when talking about oral tradition maintenance. Especially when you consider wars, famine, mass migrations, etc. But alas, it's different expectations and and given that you aren't amazed, your expectations are apparently more accurate (as long as those expectations were truly held before the proof was shown)

SketchySeaBeast 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_tradition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_tradition There's plenty of research and precedent for it.
pbhjpbhj 8y ago
>"there's always a jerk in the middle who changes the story to something totally different" and then just outright ignore that when talking about oral tradition // We actually have some confirmations where oral traditions weren't bawdlerised in Judaeo-Christian history -- if you look at how they adopted a system of rewarding verity (as Muslims do now, with learning their scripture by rote) then you can see how separated populations maintained the same stories, in the same form, without alteration of major factual points. https://www.sapiens.org/column/curiosities/dead-sea-scrolls-historical-accounts/ https://www.sapiens.org/column/curiosities/dead-sea-scrolls-... read from "When I entered graduate school".