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Philosophy: Can you believe historians?

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      CommentAuthorabhiram
    • CommentTimeAug 10th 2007
     
    Usually those who win wars are the ones that end up writing official history books so who knows what really happened in the past. Maybe they just made all it up so...
    Do you believe the history you learned at school?
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    Nope but had to learn it. I just learned it made the tests and got on with reading more important books such as ISKCON books. If I didn't learn it, then my mom would kill me if I had a insufficient grade.
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      CommentAuthorabhiram
    • CommentTimeAug 11th 2007
     
    So you learned everything knowing that it was a lie? :)
    • CommentAuthorsanta
    • CommentTimeAug 11th 2007
     
    One devotee asked about dinsaur bones and the use of metal and modernities in the time of krsna and the pandavas. He had difficulty reconciling with modern history and thier view of the appearence of man, modern man, development of modern technology like metal and tools and building technology. I gave an answer but he still had diffculty in accepting. My relply was along the lines of Drutakarma Prabhu's book hidden history of the human race and and the same idea that was posted previously........those who win wars write the history. what advice can you give.
    Thankful People: ekendra
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      CommentAuthormishra
    • CommentTimeAug 11th 2007
     
    yes, how can one avoid to be cheated, it makes me feel unease.
    • CommentAuthorafflelou
    • CommentTimeAug 11th 2007
     
    Good reading material from an independent source:

    http://www.abc.net.au/specials/saul/default.htm

    Has other books explaining history with a fairly unbiased perspective
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    <So you learned everything knowing that it was a lie? :) >

    Had to. Otherwise I would not have been in senior secundary school prep-university education. ;)

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