Let's say I wrote a ridiculous book while having a chemically induced "vision quest", and I bury it in a cave. I sober up, and go on about my life and forget about it.
1,625 years from now, it is discovered by future humans. They think it is some holy text. Naturally, it has not "changed", aside from the elements and time affecting the integrity of the pages.
They regard my deluded writings as some sort of "truth", and begin a cult based on it, fused with choice beliefs of a few other established cults.
Does this make my book the "truth" simply because they want it to be, and because this book is relatively new and unaltered?
2007-08-05
04:43:53
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