Fortuna

C'est entendu. Many people are complex and will often change their position one the issues. I wouldn't deny that you nor anyone else can change their minds yet still retain what they believed in the past. But what is uncommon is the one who recognizes their own bias, even a change in bias, yet struggles with it and overcomes it with some success.

But does bias end with the individual's beliefs or is ther an even more sinister component ? for example, when the life after death was Hades was it underground, cold and damp ? (Perhaps with a mutli-headed K9 with a Styx anthem in the background ala Matt Groening's cartoon). When the latins called it infernum did ti become warm and torturous, metaphoric lakes and rivers of fire and the aroma of sulphur. Were the platonic elements little more than the baggage of language ? Now there is a dark bias, one that was unavoidable.
Could we agee that sans the baggage of hebraic aramaic, many of the original metaphors are lost to time ? Is that form of bias as dark as your own ?

Perhaps it is that one who really wants to find the truth is truly the most biased of all, because he comes to an almost postmodernic realization that it is only the known or recent layers of bias that might be brushed aside ?
How that for a dark bias ?

This one slays me. When the evangelicals quote it, I'm tempted to ask them about the "miracles" of Fatima and Lourdes. For other Christians and Jews, Mohammed and his trusty steed, or Apollo and Athena at the gates of Troy. Or more recently the personal revelation of Joe Smith. And what of Emily Rose ?

Was the Jesus of the gospels mythical ? Was it based on some historical person ? Well, that guy that Julius wrote the autobiography about seemed too good to be true. As I remember there is some anglais folk wisdom about things too good to be true. How did that read ?

Peter, I have to ask. Perhaps there an even darker bias that will be intrinsic to one whom would try to peel away layers of personal, literary and linguistic bias ?