HISTORIAN WANTED. IDIOCY REQUIRED | 2004-11-12
If you want to be a professional historian, there are two rigid requirements. You must be UNABLE to:
1) Think; and
2) Count.
To give one of many examples of Requirement 1, you must accept the idea that the people in Northern Europe did not know how to read and write before the Romans taught them to write.
There are, of course, many runic inscriptions on stone in Northern Europe, but historians agree that that is the only writing that was done in Northern Europe.
If you THOUGHT about it, it would seem a little strange that people could write highly complex statements on rock but nowhere else. Where did they LEARN to write? There are no Primers etched in Northern European stones.
Obviously only a true retard would accept that idea.
So much for Requirement 1.
As for Requirement 2, the entire theory on which Israel is based (on which the official Christian doctrine of the Diaspora is based) collapses instantly if you face the fact that there were six million Jews in the Roman Empire.
Nobody who can count can make a living as a historian or as a theologian.
Here is another reason why a person who can count cannot be a professional historian: anybody who has the slightest acquaintance with the American Revolution has heard every discussion of it breathlessly repeat Sam Adams's numbers:
One in three Americans was for the Revolution, one in three was neutral, and one in three was a Tory.
There were thirteen colonies. If the average was that one in three was a Tory, then some states would have a solid majoirity of Tories and some would have more Revolutionaries.
But by 1776, every single one of the thirteen colonies had tossed out their Royal Governors. If Adams's numbers had been correct, at least six of the thirteen would have kept their Royal Governors.
Then there is the simple fact that that split is far too convenient. Exactly a third for one side, exactly a third for the other side, and exactly a third neutral?
Don't be ridiculous!
Unless you want to be a historian and get paid for it.