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 also scripture is open to interpretation. its the reason for all the denominations as you know. i also don't trust scripture because they have all been subverted and none are original and are all copies of copies, edited to suit each empire at their requirement and to control populations. compare kjv to septuagint to nag hammadi. each is so entirely different from the most ancient that I think it is a lie to claim that the words of men are the words of God. sure you might disregard the older ones, but what would you do if the Ancients told you they disregard all the modern ones? all books are lying and falsely pretending to say something God said. i get that you can say this is a lie too, but if I could take you in a time machine and show you each subversion where the original text is edited, how would you feel worshipping the words of men? i also don't trust literal interpretations. the same applies to pagan texts. i don't know of a fail-proof way to know what is original and what isn't but I am trying. but that all texts have been altered to suit an agenda and a historic revision, altering history, of that I am sure. I don't trust any history. I take it all with a grain of salt. what I do trust are the ideas my family told me they inherited through oral tradition, and they will remain unpublished so they cannot become subverted. I also trust the Aryan race. 
 >scripture is open to interpretation.

i don't think it is; i suspect there is a perfectly objective Truth to the matter and (for various reasons) we are bad at 'getting it.'

you are correct that the Scriptures are nevertheless endlessly interpreted.

>I don't trust any history.

in this i agree wholeheartedly. mostly due to positivism tho. 
 the perfect objective truth does exist, but its locked away in the vatican archives, or somewhere else. for all we know all the contexts we deem to be a certain way and we are taught could be a manipulation too. there is a massive lie behind what they call history. i bet if we saw the perfect objective truth it would shock all of us to our core. it might surprise you that I think the Poetic Eddas have been doctored and vast parts omitted. 
 

there is a massive lie behind what they call history. i bet if we saw the perfect objective truth it would shock all of us to our core.

this is precisely what i mean when i say that positivism is largely responsible for my skepticism. my suspicion is that we couldn’t recognize ‘that shocking truth’ even if we saw it. and for the same reason that we are so dissimilar to our Aryan ancestors – our experience of reality right down to our very perceptual faculties are comparatively limited.

they were greater men in ways of which we are not even aware and could not be measured. i often wonder what happened between then and now to effect this.