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Considering the ongoing bombing, the answer may change from moment-to-moment.

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Yes Centurion, this rebel right here

Expanding on this thought, I guess myth, philosophy and scientific method would be parts of a same spectrum?

In line with this, many ancient thinkers believed that myths - some even saying the stories of the gods - expressed mundane truths simply distorted by time and transmission. Also in line with that, 'natural philosophy' is an older term covering the fields we'd now regard as 'science', because it was seen as simply an attempt to discover the inner reasoning of the natural world, the same way philosophers attempted to discover the inner reasoning of the metaphysical world.

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Explanation: Herodotus was an ancient Greek writer who is often known as the "Father of History", due to his works being the foundation for Western study of history from that point forward - attempting to meaningfully connect cause and effect, likelihood of events, sources, etc; rather than just chronicles of what happened in one region of one country, or blatant mythmaking with no foundation in fact.

... however, Herodotus is also sometimes known as the "Father of Lies", because while his is the first major attempt at sorting all those issues out and forging them into a coherent narrative, he is... lacking established tools of the discipline, shall we say? His judgements as to what is and is not credible do not always pass the modern sniff-test - especially since his access to foreign sources and foreign lands would have been very limited at that time! So invariably, he passes along a few tall tales, especially about distant lands like India.

In Herodotus's defense, he admits that he is only relaying what travelers have told him about the far and exotic land of India, and, while unstated, the story probably went through translation several times before finding its way to him, lmao.

Explanation: In the New Testament, the central religious figure of Jesus Christ at one point drives merchants and moneylenders out of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.

~~This proves that he was a dangerous anti-Roman terrorist and deserved what he got~~

Explanation: During the unification of Mongolia, Genghis Khan was shot in the neck with arrow, and nearly died. Due to the attentions of one of Genghis's close followers, Genghis survived the night and was able to complete his victory in the morning - one presumes that the arrow's danger was location rather than depth.

When Genghis captured the enemy army, it was requested that the man who shot Genghis Khan come forth. In an age before PoW protections, admitting to almost killing the enemy leader is a great way to get brutally murdered. Jebe, the enemy Mongol who had shot Genghis, nonetheless stepped forward and admitted that he was the one who shot Genghis, out of no malice except that they were on opposite sides of the battlefield.

Genghis was so impressed by Jebe's bravery and impartiality that he made a show of forgiving him on the spot, and Jebe would become one of Genghis's most loyal and effective generals in the years to come.

Explanation: Despite the polities of Poland and Finland being strongly anti-Bolshevik after separating from the Russian Empire, both of them refused to take the side of the Whites (conservatives) in the Russian Civil War. This in no small part because both countries had spent hundreds of years under the Russian yoke, and the White leadership being overwhelmingly imperialist in their outlook - up to and including refusing to recognize the independence of Poland and Finland.

Why won't these treasonous vassals come to Mother Russia's aid?!

And a special hello to Ensign_Crab, who can't stay away from playing defense for tankies 😘

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Inejir%C5%8D_Asanuma

I remember watching a slowed-down gif of this with a friend and feeling so bizarre that we can relive moments of the past so vividly with modern technology.