Find him in roman records, or letters about ‘this hippie bastard, Christ or something, was a total dick when he came into the office to pay his taxes today. Gods, why do I even do this fucking job? I’m having serious anxiety issues, and at 23, im past middle age. I’m afraid I won’t ever…’ Or literally any reliable source.
Your book about fucking wizards is not a reliable source, and if you get to say Jesus definitely existed; I get to say gandalf actually existed. Also magneto (that even had pictures in the primary source!)
Because its got wizards and makes a lot of strong claims, including about wizards, that aren’t corroborated NY actual real historical documents, which we have for some of the times and places mentioned, including the Roman empire, who kept absolutely fucking anal records-in fact, when it split, we literally still use the word for half of them (byzantine)as the word for ‘absolutely fucking anal retentive bureaucracy’.
Youre working with more literary analysis and like ‘oh hey here’s an accurate description of an eclipse, so this person probably saw one, they were in this part of the world, so we can guess when it was written’ type stuff than historical details. An ancient stone dildo tells us so much more about a culture than your book about wizards.
Just saying Christianity didn’t invent love, and making fun of religious excuses.
I’m talking about interpretation of Jesus’ words (•-•")
Dude we don’t even know if he existed, and even if he did we know he wasn’t even the coolest guy the romans executed on a cross.
If we don’t know he existed then we don’t know if most people until recent history existed
Nah, there aren’t a lot of reliable documents, holy books don’t count.
Why don’t “holy books” count?
Not historical sources, full of dubious claims.
Find him in roman records, or letters about ‘this hippie bastard, Christ or something, was a total dick when he came into the office to pay his taxes today. Gods, why do I even do this fucking job? I’m having serious anxiety issues, and at 23, im past middle age. I’m afraid I won’t ever…’ Or literally any reliable source.
Your book about fucking wizards is not a reliable source, and if you get to say Jesus definitely existed; I get to say gandalf actually existed. Also magneto (that even had pictures in the primary source!)
Flavius Josephus, Pliny the Younger, Suetonius, Celsus, Tacitus, Thallus, Phlegon, etc
How come?
Because its got wizards and makes a lot of strong claims, including about wizards, that aren’t corroborated NY actual real historical documents, which we have for some of the times and places mentioned, including the Roman empire, who kept absolutely fucking anal records-in fact, when it split, we literally still use the word for half of them (byzantine)as the word for ‘absolutely fucking anal retentive bureaucracy’.
Youre working with more literary analysis and like ‘oh hey here’s an accurate description of an eclipse, so this person probably saw one, they were in this part of the world, so we can guess when it was written’ type stuff than historical details. An ancient stone dildo tells us so much more about a culture than your book about wizards.