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I am 100% sure that we do not have the correct version of history at our fingertips.
I am also 100% sure that we do no have the correct vision of the future at our fingertips.
These two beliefs give me precisely zero basis for finding most of your assertions in this thread more or less believable.
The inaccuracy of one position does not imply increased accuracy of another, unrelated position. To believe otherwise is lunacy. For example:
I once believed that my current girlfriend thought I was ugly and not worth talking to. Turns out that I was wrong. This discovery does not support the hypothesis that Angelina Jolie would find me attractive and worth talking to.
To find out if Ms Jolie would like to spend time with me, I would need evidence relating to that situation.
To be convinced of something I need a combination of evidence and sound, consistent reasoning or logic.
Unfortunately, I see neither of those two in any of your posts on this thread. It may well be true that everything you claim as truth is, in fact, correct. Shame that none of your posts take me any closer to understanding, evaluating and accepting your assertions.
If you want to convince people of things, then please help them to see the evidence and use carefully reasoned arguments to help them shake their prejudices.
Sometimes I wonder if there is not a lot of money to be made as an image and debating consultant to people with extreme, minority views. Shame that my ethics would preclude me from doing that kind of thing.