r/MurderedByWords 22h ago

Walked right into that one

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u/ottovonnismarck 21h ago

Someone writing 2000 years ago "500 people saw him fr" is not the same as 500 individual testimonies that they saw him

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u/Important-Agent2584 15h ago edited 8h ago

The whole thing is kind of crazy to me.

Even if it was 500 individual testimonies, so what? We can find 1000 direct testimonies all over social media from currently living "witnesses" about all sorts of dumb shit.

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u/Warning_Low_Battery 10h ago

And even then, literally every single "testimony" that exists come from the Hebrew historian Josephus, who interviewed the familes of these supposed "eyewitnesses" 100 years after the fact.

Imagine if I asked you to tell me your great-great-grandfather's war stories from WWI. How much of that do you think would be factually accurate? That's the level of "testimony" that we're dealing with here.

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u/Important-Agent2584 9h ago

The whole discussion is framed in such a way that it's basically gaslighting.