history is in the eye of who writes it by jocko500
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I thought of those links or ideas i put into my comments at times. I was thinking too why I had to read about 15 history of diff authors about the same thing just to get a idea of the history I looking up.
Take Sally Skull for instand. I read 15 at lest of history by 15 diff authors . Each one had something diff to her story. Some left out stuff and others added stuff to her story. I understand if they just give a thumbnail history of her for they have a lot of people to cover but the ones that give a full story of her life, that is diff. One even change the history of her life. How he did that. all acounts of her life do say she killed five of her husbans. All tells how they die. But one author took all five ways she killed her husbans and put it to how she killed one of her husbans and expain there diff stories on how this one husban dies.
Most do not tell the number of people she killed. Only one author say 59 people. I understand they can not put a number on the people she killed for no one knows for sure. At lest this one author explain why and how she killed all these people and why no one put her in jail for them. He say the men was horse thiefs. At lest that what she told the police of that time. No one challenge her word. There is one account of a shooting she did in a fort that most authors do put into they accounts for it was written in a international papers. It the account happen at a fort as a writer of a newpaperman was pasting thought he heard a gun goes off behind him and he turned to see a man with a gun drawn falling to the ground dead and a woman putting up her smokeing gun into her hip hoster. It was seft defend. Lot of people saw it with they own eyes.
All will write she can use both hands to shot with and use a rifle and a bullwhip too. she was killed some say by her last husban but one author say her mane came up someplace else in the west and it looks like her hand writing? guess she like Jesse James and Billy the kid; keep on liveing.
Wild Bill Cody also most authors do not wite a account of a indian comeing in the fort with a very large human leg bone and telling Cody he bought the bone in to show he was not lieing ot Cody. He told of man liveing long ago that could run fast and caught buffao picking them up and tearing off a leg as he ran with it and eat the leg then and keep on running. Told how they all die too. That it started to rain and the foold coved the mountians and the giants men all died then. I just read three diff authors reporting this which Cody did write it down in his writeings and no one say Cody lied about it.
I wrote this down to show that history is written by people and I guess if you wish the truth the best you going to get is read a lot of diff authors. History is the same on all subjects you looking up. So read a lot of diff authors to find out what happen and some history we will never know for all writeings was done by the ones who won the wars. or no writen history at all. Like who was the 200 giants they find bury on top of each other in Toronto in a field over grown with trees now? here a link to that site http://www.burlingtonnews.net/redhairedmummiesunitedstates.html
things like this site is interesting to the mind but do not show much history. Yes they was there but no way to show how they lived or what they did. So history will over look them. Only thing is that they the same height as the Indian mound builders but no real links to these indians and the snake mound builders of Noth Amerca?
Thanks for reading this and looking at my ashes of a fire I burned. It now history on all I burned and just ashes now as history is.
Comments (48)
myrrhluz
History is also in the eye of the reader. We all read, hear and see everything through the filter of our own biases. This is human nature and can't be changed but should be acknowledged. People also tend to choose sources for knowledge that agree with their own viewpoint. There is a very good history professor (Professor J. Rufus Fears) that states that we should read works of those we disagree with. I'll admit that I'm not the greatest at that, but he has a point. America is so polarized today and there is so much information out there that you could read a thousand books and never have your viewpoint challenged. You just have to choose the right books. There is no black and white to history or to much else. It is all shades of gray. Sometimes the gray is very light or very dark, but it is gray nonetheless. There is no Truth with a capital T. Just a lot of little truths that we each build together to form our own personal truth. That's mine anyway. Excellent image and interesting info.
RG19
I read a great apologetic book in the defense of Capt. William Bligh of "Mutiny on The Bounty" fame. The author argues that since Bligh lent Fletcher Christian (who was of upper class stature) a sizable amount of money, it was unlikely that he was a "tyrannt". And many other examples of Bligh's fair treatment of those under his command. Super photo and interesting take on "those who write history"!
DennisReed
Awesome Image Jock! I'd like more history on its making!
kawecki
The purpose of history is for us learn and extract the lessons of human past experiences. People do good and bad things, people have success and fracas, bridges work and brideges collapse, wars end in victory for some, end in defeat for the same some and the same some also end bankrupted, strategies are brilliant and strategies as masterpieces of stupidity. We can learn from this past experience and so know what can be done and what can't be done and if something failed analyze why has failed and how not repeat the mess again. A History that is twisted, distorted, biased or a bunch of lies is useless. We learn nothing from this, you learn nothing from a lie just because it never happened and you learn nothing from something that doesn't exist. Subverted History can make you happy believing glorious things, but when you act based on these lies you end doing the same stupid things that a caveman did and never worked. A caveman had no experience, he was in the evolving process, then people learned what to do and what not to do. But you are not a caveman, you are only an ignorant idiot based on twisted history.
Star4mation
Cool capture Jock! :)
UteBigSmile
Yes Jock, this is history, If you could read their memories....!! Have a nice shotday, hug's Ute
RodolfoCiminelli
Impressive shot my friend.....!!!!
Richardphotos
her real name was christened Sarah Jane.amazing history about her and outstanding shot Jock and almost looks like a skull
wjames
Great capture and a wonderful story!!!!!!!!
gojira
Fascinating, as Mr. Spock would say . . . !
MagikUnicorn
EXCELLENT STORY
auntietk
Thought provoking image and commentary. Thanks for this!
Chipka
This is a nicely mysterious shot! I can see what it is, but in light of what you also say, you really define the weirdness of history and how complex perception can be. I think the main thing is to always remember the difference between truth and facts...the truth is very different from what is a fact, and a fact is very different from what is true...ah, but that's where life becomes beautiful. The Truth does NOT have to fit the facts, because the bottom line is, the TRUTH is the way we FEEL about a fact! So you can't have one without the other. You shouldn't even try! That's what I see as the beauty of life, and photography really brings that out...more than words, which is a strange thing for me to say, since I'm a writer! Ah, but I'm weird! I really like this image! It looks like something from another world...and in many ways it IS something from another world! But that is the beauty of photography...you can always make THIS world into another world, and have a LOT of fun doing it. The more fun you have doing it, the more fun other people have LOOKING at it. This picture is proof of that. It's a really fantastic, almost abstract image that makes the viewer ask questions like What am I looking at? That is an important question in photography, because it allows the viewer to explore what the photographer is showing. You captured that perfectly! Yeah, this is a good shot!
DananJaya_Chef
Great capture & story, well done.
beatoangelico
Great story and fantastic capture my Friend..!!
mermaid
It somestimes is not easy to tell apart reality from fiction and you noramlly would have to hear all sides, who were involved in a certain part of history but alas this is not possible most of the time. Mostly written historie is by hear say and not written by the person who lived through it, and even ifg the person lived though it, everybody experiences life in his or her own way and this own way is changed by time too
bmac62
Very interesting Jocko. I've done a fair amount of research and history is an area that I am very interested in. Finding a human author without a bias is practically impossible. That's why I agree...you must read multiple sources to get at to the truth or some part of the truth. I also look at the sources an author uses to see how he substantiates what he has written. The Bible to me is a different matter...here we have God's inspired word.
three_grrr
It's odd that you speak of history, and there appears to be an ancient skull of some kind in the picture you posted of your burned out fire! See the eye sockets, and that metal stuff looks like fierce teeth! A skull of some ancient creature? Perhaps a precursor to man? History is a strange thing .. it's written and told by men .. as Claude said, each person sees things according his own interests, so each person writes or tells a different story of the same event. I hadn't heard of those giants in Toronto .. am goind to check out that link!