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Understanding History: Why Serious Scholarship of D&D Matters
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<blockquote data-quote="bloodtide" data-source="post: 9078259" data-attributes="member: 6684958"><p>To "convince" anyone of anything, I'd need an audience with an open mind. So...need that first step.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, though I said this.....facts are tiny bits of true data that are absolutely true. This like when and where an event happened. But that's it, nothing else is a fact.</p><p></p><p>Well....you could show them in writing or tell them. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Right...you can go down the rabbit hole that everything is a lie or fake or whatever. A sane person will accept at some point you just have to accept the flawed ways we have are the best that there is...and really, all we have got. And it's nice to have at least a couple people or things that same the same thing: so you don't just have the certificate, but also family members that were there, and even pictures. (and my mom was in the hospital for a whole week for $502...with a charge of $42 for a bottle of aspirin).</p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, no....see this is my point. Any random thing anyone writes in a letter is subjective and NOT a fact. It's an OPTION. It's personal. Even IF it sounds like they are telling a fact, it might be a 100% lie. Just a simple letter to a boss saying "I got to work at 7:45" could be a lie as they really got to work at 8:15. Just as something is in a littler does not make it a fact or true.</p><p></p><p>And so many "scholars" will cherry pick with some barnyard targeting whatever words they agree with out of one letter....and then say it's an absolute fact.</p><p></p><p>It is in some circles.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bloodtide, post: 9078259, member: 6684958"] To "convince" anyone of anything, I'd need an audience with an open mind. So...need that first step. Well, though I said this.....facts are tiny bits of true data that are absolutely true. This like when and where an event happened. But that's it, nothing else is a fact. Well....you could show them in writing or tell them. Right...you can go down the rabbit hole that everything is a lie or fake or whatever. A sane person will accept at some point you just have to accept the flawed ways we have are the best that there is...and really, all we have got. And it's nice to have at least a couple people or things that same the same thing: so you don't just have the certificate, but also family members that were there, and even pictures. (and my mom was in the hospital for a whole week for $502...with a charge of $42 for a bottle of aspirin). Well, no....see this is my point. Any random thing anyone writes in a letter is subjective and NOT a fact. It's an OPTION. It's personal. Even IF it sounds like they are telling a fact, it might be a 100% lie. Just a simple letter to a boss saying "I got to work at 7:45" could be a lie as they really got to work at 8:15. Just as something is in a littler does not make it a fact or true. And so many "scholars" will cherry pick with some barnyard targeting whatever words they agree with out of one letter....and then say it's an absolute fact. It is in some circles. [/QUOTE]
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