# What is this "Spirituality" you Earthmen speak of?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-spirituality-you-earthmen-speak-of/310029>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [June 27, 2005, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-spirituality-you-earthmen-speak-of/310029 "2005-06-27T12:51:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-spirituality-you-earthmen-speak-of/310029/401 "2005-07-19T12:21:09Z")

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> [@monavis](#):
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> I do not mean to be demeaning, but Truth and fact are the same thing. A fact is what is,just as truth is.
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> Monavis

It’s not demeaning. MAybe a little nit picky but I see your point. We were discussing beliefs. There are beliefs that have no foundation in a verifiable fact but are presented as the truth. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-spirituality-you-earthmen-speak-of/310029/402 "2005-07-20T21:39:53Z")

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> [@David Simmons](#):
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> If something is written 75 years after the alleged occurance, it’s a safe bet that the author, known or not, wasn’t a witness.

Since we’re pulling dates out of hats, I’ll pull out 40 years. I’m old enought to write about people I knew 40 years ago. Besides, you may not logically conclude that just because you haven’t found anything earlier yet that what you have is the earliest.

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**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-spirituality-you-earthmen-speak-of/310029/403 "2005-07-21T13:07:36Z")

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I too am able to write about events I witnessed when I was young. Thing is, I would only wait 40 or so years if the events where unimportant. I would have to take a chance and say that it is fair to call the events under discussion “important.”

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**Author:** ![monavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@monavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monavis)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-spirituality-you-earthmen-speak-of/310029/404 "2005-07-22T11:42:56Z")

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> [@Scott Plaid](#):
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> I too am able to write about events I witnessed when I was young. Thing is, I would only wait 40 or so years if the events where unimportant. I would have to take a chance and say that it is fair to call the events under discussion “important.”

Memories are not the same to many people, I have a younger sister who tells us memories different than the rest of us have. She will argue that her memories are right but then 3 of us will say that is not the way we remember it and our memories jibe. So memories can be wrong.

Monavis

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