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   Bruno Zeigerts said, 3 months ago

   Actually, that’s a fair assessment of history.
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   Sack of Rabid Weasels said, 3 months ago

   …or for some tech company.
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   Tue Elung-Jensen said, 3 months ago

   Well history is made by the people who can get their version documented the most.
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   Thomas Scott Roberts said, 3 months ago

   And it’s just as true for recent history. Events within our lifetime are so often recorded differently from what happened. Then a movie is made, and the alterations really begin.
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   ghostkeeper said, 3 months ago

   @Thomas Scott Roberts

   Yep. For instance, people keep leaving flowers on Jack Dawson’s grave. Yes, the man was on the Titanic, yes he died there, but the only connection between the real Jack Dawson and Leonardo diCaprio’s Jack Dawson is the name!
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   ghostkeeper said, 3 months ago

   Then there is how the movie portrayed Officer William Murdoch. The man’s family and his hometown are rightfully furious at the depiction of their ancestor as a villain. He did NOT take bribes, he did NOT shoot a passenger, and he did NOT kill himself. The producers of the movie paid five thousand pounds to the Murdoch Memorial Fund in apology.
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   Thomas Scott Roberts said, 3 months ago

   Some people go so far as to take to take the lyrics to pop songs seriously, and think that they’re all really things that happened to the singer. And we’re supposed to trust history books written about events ages before we- or the authors- lived?
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   Slywlf said, 3 months ago

   Yup – this has been going on since people first started communicating! Consider Plato mentioning Atlantis – heck, it probably goes back to the cave art that recorded a really good hunt ;-)
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   ottod said, 3 months ago

   Wow! Did you even know that was a scab you were picking?
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    phritzg said, 3 months ago

    How do you record history when at least 25% of the people can’t or won’t believe what they see with their own eyes?
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    Thomas Scott Roberts said, 3 months ago

    Ask any cop who has to take down several eyewitness accounts to the same incident. And still, there are people who think they can say with confidence what the future will be. Oh sure, we can’t get the past or present straight, but we’re going to proven right about things that haven’t happened yet.
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    Penny Robinson Fan Club said, 3 months ago

    Sounds like a bunch of crackpots who failed high school history. I think we have a pretty fair account of the events of the Civil War, the Gunpowder Plot, and the voyage of the Pilgrims on the Mayflower, just to name a few.

    Y’all may be confusing the raw facts of history with the interpretation of them; not the same thing at all
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    Thomas Scott Roberts said, 3 months ago

    @Penny Robinson Fan Club

    Mmm- no. Facts are what the record keeper says they are. No one has suggested that all recorded history is wrong, or that there are no accounts that can be trusted. But all historical records have been kept by humans, and humans have biases. Yes, we know a lot about the civil war. But if we knew everything beyond all doubt, and against any further research and investigation, then there’s no reason to ever write another account.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago

    @ghostkeeper

    Why I despise tha movie “Titanic” they had real stories of real people and they cut them out for the false story to recoup the funds it cost to make. I refuse to see it ever again.
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    Thomas Scott Roberts said, 3 months ago

    @Night-Gaunt49

    Well it was never promoted as a documentary.
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