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To have had millennia when history was oral, passed down over the centuries by serious people, not to have been so perverted by the whims of the powerful or fanciful as to be identified as totally unreliable.
Yes, I know that's backwards from what you've been taught, but maybe the avalanches of disappeared from the pipes histories has opened your mind to the veracity of this concept. Oral histories are more reliable than written ones.
pipe up any time....
