Hypothetical History: A New Post Series
Starting with A Hypothetical History of Judaism if That Thread I Posted The Other Day Was onto Something
I sometimes read things about history and have wild guesses as to how things fit together. I would like to discuss those things with people, but by doing so, I risk spreading misinformation, or looking like an idiot. That’s why I usually post to social media, because it feels less permanent there. You get corrected faster, its more a conversation than asserting something. But Twitter is melting down, and I’m trying to get off social media.
So here’s what I’m gonna do. Every time I have a wild guess like that, I’m going to write it out here, and hope that the commenters and subscribers here are willing and able to give me feedback so that I lead no one astray and get corrected from saying dumb things.
Ok, so here’s a thing I wrote up after this thread I did after I read a book about how psychedelics and trance states might explain some things about prophecy in Judaism.
Without further ado
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