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   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 5 Jan 2026 19:12:22 -0500 (EST), kludge@panix.com (Scott   
   Dorsey) wrote:   
      
   >Bobbie Sellers   wrote:   
   >>On 1/4/26 21:18, Your Name wrote:   
   >>> You don't need the mythical stories of the Bible. There are plenty of    
   >>> actual "historic records" that are wrong - either because the person    
   >>> writing it didn't know enough at the time or because they simply lied.   
   >>   
   >>	Name another volume that people might be familiar with, please.   
   >   
   >The Illiad.  History of the Pelopponesian War turns out to have some    
   >issues as well.  And I am somewhat skeptical of the discussion of Atlantis   
   >in Plato's Dialogues although it may well have been Ireland.   
      
   Or a nearby island that went volcanic catastrophically and was still   
   remembered for doing so when Plato wrote.   
      
   Of course, how accurate the account is (if there were no survivors,   
   how accurate could it be?) is hard to say.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)