If I write a book and hide it for two thousand years, will the people of the future automatically believe its every word?
Maybe fifteen hundred years, at the least, but the more the better.
Maybe fifteen hundred years, at the least, but the more the better.
User
Well...that depends on the nature of the book.
Many such books are believed...
- consider, for example, the Babylonian Chronicles
and many such books are not believed
- consider, for example, the Dyskolos by Menander
Excepting with regard to contemporaneity, the number of years a document has been "lost" has little relevance to whether or not an ancient document is believed by experts to be true.
Anonymous
You are a fool and EVERYTHING you do and write shouts "I AM A FOOL !!!!!"
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Better yet, write dozens of books, and then have other people compile it into one book before proceeding to edit, redact, embellish, mistranslate, and misinterpret it for 2000+ years - then propagate it through fear and ignorance.
georgiastars
Depends on who's reading it.
Anonymous
I dunno. Try it and let us know how it works out.