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Since I have never studied religous history or the bible, I have no vested interest in this but this type thing is hilarious to an outsider.

Human beings, after investing effort and money, have to have confirmed what that want confirmed. Otherwise you would be paying for something you didn’t want to be true and what’s the sense in that?

This is why Curly Howard made more sense than any academic or fundamentalist.

When it comes to recounting events, it’s just great that all witnesses are dead. That gives you plently of leeway to just make it up since there is no one around to contradict your spin.

Curly would have no trouble understanding a lawyer I once knew throw a temper tantrum because the expert he hired to administer a lie detector test double crossed him by testifying that his client lied. I had to actually wrestle a gun away from him. He was so enraged he determined to shoot the lie detector expert before he could get out of town.

Which reminds me of another piece of advice: Never murder anyone without making sure that you leave absolutely no evidence that you did it.

Comment by Dave

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I really ENJOYED this one! It is interesting to see that Dave has lived in the same genteel world I was raised in, where you have to wrestle a gun away from someone. My doctor brother wa working in a clinic in rural Tennessee where the two doctors who ran the thing were looking for each other with guns in their hands.

And this guy was a lawyer. Was it down South, Dave?

I advise all you murderers who read Bob’s Blog to heed Dave’s sage advice. Unless you’re doing your surfing from the slammer anyway.

Dave says,

“Human beings, after investing effort and money, have to have confirmed what that want confirmed. Otherwise you would be paying for something you didn’t want to be true and what’s the sense in that?”

This anticipates a piece I have been thinking of writing. Look at Dave’s statement first. It puts my whole point in a single sentence, and I LOVE summaries.

Now let the old man expound:

When I was about ten, I made a trip to Cuba with a Cuban friend who had a family down there, a fellow brick maker who fled to us when Castro took over years later. I stayed there a coupleof weeks and learned a fair amount of Spanish. I was very proud of my little bit of hard-earned Spanish, and I wan’t familiar with any other language but English.

I started to notice how many English words were like English words. I pointed them out, and every time I did my fahter or my brother in med school would point out they were kin to LATIN words.

I got pissed off with those Romans and I wished they were DEAD.

But that experience helped me to understand from the get-go what was going on in this World History when I first got to college at age sixteen. I had also read a lot of medical history before I went to college, so I understood how social science experts could be so ridiculous, just as the Doctors of Medicine had been when their field was primitive.

To me, the whole idea that the world began in Egypt and then moved to Greece was a bit odd. Nobody else worried about it.

But my experience with Spanish explained the whole thing to me pretty quickly because my mind was pretty quick back when I was sixteen. I had worked my butt off learning about Spanish, and I wasn’t about to let these Romans screw me. Historians had worked their butts off studying all the stuff they had from the ONLY people who had dug for prehistoric past, the teams in the Middle East, and they weren’t about to let facts screw them up.

The difference was, of course, that I couldn’t do anything about the Romans making trouble for me. Historians can agree on any history they find convenient.

We PAY them to do that, and any objection violates their Academic Freedom.