KneeTitts @ KneeTitts @lemmy.world

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After seeing Biden in the last debate, I believe they are right

Yes lets judge a mans entire career based on one off night.

I dunno.... sugar is sugar, carbs are carbs, protein is protein, your body is not prejudiced as to where those components comes from

Even assuming the passage is totally genuine, two fires had destroyed much in the way of official documents Tacitus had to work with and it is unlikely that he would sift through what he did have to find the record of an obscure crucifixion, which suggests that Tacitus was repeating an urban myth whose source was likely the Christians themselves,[3]:344 especially since Tacitus was writing at a time when at least the three synoptic gospels are thought to already have been in circulation.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tacitus

According to Bart Ehrman, Josephus' passage about Jesus was altered by a Christian scribe, including the reference to Jesus as the Messiah

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus_on_Jesus

Scholars have differing opinions on the total or partial authenticity of the reference in the passage to the execution of Jesus by Pontius Pilate.[15][30] The general scholarly view is that while the Testimonium Flavianum is most likely not authentic.

Respected Christian scholar R. T. France, for example, does not believe that the Tacitus passage provides sufficient independent testimony for the existence of Jesus [Franc.EvJ, 23] and agrees with G. A. Wells that the citation is of little value

A. The first line of the Tacitus passage says Chrestians, not Christians.

Suetonius says Chrestus was personally starting trouble in Rome during the reign of Claudius.

Suetonius is writing years after Tacitus yet doesn't mention that Chrestus died.

So Chrestus can't be Jesus because it's the wrong decade, wrong continent and missing a death.

B. The second line in Tacitus that mentions Christ and his death was never noticed until after the mid-fourth century. So this second line is fake.

P.S. Even if the second line was somehow authentic, the information would have come from Christians. This would be the equivalent of deriving Abraham's biography by talking to Muslims.

This is why Bart Ehrman specifically dismisses Tacitus and Josephus. As do most other biblical scholars.

In the immortal words of Christopher Hitchens, if this is all you got, you are holding an empty bag.

There are lots of people now today who claim to be god, claim to be jesus, claim to have magic powers. so it would appear this is just normal human behavior and has been for a very long time. But the main reason people continue to believe these ancient holy books and all the stories in them is literally because they are protected from inquiry. So Jeff down the street claims to be jesus? We can go test him and try to falsify his claims. But some guy 2000 years ago, ya its not possible to check that one out. And That is why they persist, its by design.

then that mean 90% of historical figures can’t be proven to have existed

Well for most of those we tend to use independent verification for their existence. And in the case of jesus, we have literally zero Credible examples of independent verification.

Pretty sure Joe Rogan said

ya you lost me at Rogan

Use of modern technology makes it possible to place one stone every 20 seconds, which is triple the rate ancient egypt workers supposedly aceived

Um, maybe Im missing something.. you think ancient Egyptians placed one stone every minute? So 60 stones per hour??

Just stop using YT altogether

YT spent the last 15 years stomping out all competition, so now that they have accomplished that, they jack up the rates... (or in this case jack up the ads)

classic capitaism

server side video ad injection means they could vary the placement of the ad, so things like sponsorblock which relies on the segment being in the exact same place all the time would not be very effective

wont

have ya met maga folks? they cray

Libretube, also amazing

More and more Im trusting the fact that ublock origin will correct these issues in short order. Youtube must really hate those guys...

Im amazed at how good libretube is getting honestly

David Blaine who almost died....

Yaaaaa I seriously doubt that, his PR team worked overtime to promote that nonsense

in before the right wing loons nominate him for president

Its also full of distortions, its far from accurate if you look into it

best thing the US can do for Mexico is reduce demand

Ya, how? Amuricans luv them some coke!

One caveat here, if people get a vaccine for skin cancer, they'll inevitably spend way way more time in the sun.. this will lead to a rise in other forms of cancer like leukemia

Vaccines represent a prevention, not really a cure. If you prevent something, you never have to cure it.