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Was the American Civil War a myth?

I mean, is there anybody alive here and now to say that yes, it actually happened? How do we know it's not just some government conspiracy to get us to hate each other? How do we know that Gandhi actually existed? We are supposed to believe the brainwashing masterminds and conform to brutally divided hate for each other?

How do we know!?

Update:

Dear friends. I post this ignorant post not as proof of my ignorance, I've done plenty of other things to show that, but as a statement of how stupid some people on here get with thier ideas. Enjoy your lives. Good day.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    Not the same as "Jesus" I get your point, but you really need to learn how to think.

  • 8 years ago

    There is more than ample contemporary documentary evidence, from a wide variety of sources, to whow that the US Civil War did, indeed, happen. There are also copious quantities of artifacts from the various battles, located in situ.

    Can you make the same claim about, say, Jesus?

    There is all sorts of proof Ghandi existed. This proof includes photos, film, his own writings, and a wide variety of contemporary documentary sources both in favor and opposed to the man in question.

    Can you make the same claim about biblical figures?

  • 8 years ago

    I do believe that some of the survivors of that time lived into rather modern times & that their tales were recorded on film.....

    I also believe there to be some archaeological evidence as well as old newspaper records....

    Now, if we had these items from any of the mythical periods of old.....that would surely change things...

    Also....a war between humans is much more believable than two of every creature on a boat kind of thing.....

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    You don't know. Maybe what you see is different than what others see.

    You're reality could be skewed by your experiences.

    People have different filters for how they are affected by their environment.

    There is also people in other dimensions.

    There are other worlds than these.

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    I own several bullets from the Civil War.

    Mmmmm...mythical bullets. I should ebay these puppies.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    8 years ago

    Are you stupid? there's more evidence than there's for gawd and crazy authoritarian government conspiracies(none actually)

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Thousands of photographs exist of the US Civil War.

    In fact, it was the first war to be photographed.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=civil+war+photos&h...

  • 8 years ago

    Could you pass the joint when you're done with it?

  • 8 years ago

    mountains of independent evidence ...

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Well if I didn't see it therefore it didn't happen- atheist logic.

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