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:bible_wh::confederate_flag: 巫女波 RMIV:sonnen... | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 >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.
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ᛗᛟᛟᛗᛁᚾ:vrill: | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 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.
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:bible_wh::confederate_flag: 巫女波 RMIV:sonnen... | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 

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.