Knowledge

"Nobody really knows his own father"

The Odyssey Book 1 line 216

This line got me thinking about an interesting concept that I have considered. All the knowledge you receive and gain (except empirical or scientific fact) is passed on from generation to generation and you have no way to be one hundred percent sure that what are being told is the truth. Let's take this line for example. Unless you take a paternity test, which you have no knowledge of in the early years of your life, you have absolutely no reason to call that man who sleeps upstairs and eats food with you your father. But if that hits to close to home lets take any and everything from history. Fact; Julius Caesar lived and ruled the Roman Empire. Now you are taught this every since your first history class but what actually proof do you have as an individual living at this time that he really existed. Now people may say there were witnesses who wrote down what they say and therefore are first hand accounts. However; like it is said about the Bible a group of random Romans could have gotten together and wrote books upon books about this guy "Julius Caesar." Now I am not saying I don't believe that Julius Caesar lived but what I am saying is that it is interesting who has authority to say what is what and why we should listen to them. My friend gave a chapel talk where he lied to us about a verse in the Bible and no one stopped him. This is a prime example that just because you convince people that something is true does not make it so. Think about what people tell you; no matter who it is.