Shiting bull (bullshit)
- Published on Thursday, 21 May 2009 07:59
- Written by Zamil
It is kinda interesting that there is so much stuff out there on the Net but close to no real information. If you are looking for serious information about rope bondage in the past, all you find are texts written by various people but close to none of the text tells you where all this information is coming from. No sources, no reference, no nothing. Just "information".
What do you make out of that? Is it the case, that all theses writers have lived during the past centuries and are eye-whiteness of the occurrences? I don't think so, do you? So where does all this "knowledge" come from? How do they know that there was something called "ebizeme" during the Edo period and how do they know that this is related to rope bondage? They just don't tell you. The just tell you that the Tokugawa punishment edicts (!) are describing two different rope related techniques, ebizeme (!) and tsurizeme (!). Without sources and references the information might be correct but the only chance I have is to believe, not in God but in the author. I simply don't.
Well, what I make out of it is that I treat all those books and pages without any reference to the sources of their "wisdom" as worthless. As long as an author is not able to tell you exactly where he gained his knowledge from, I treat him as a storyteller and his writings as tales.
As I said, the information provided may be correct; but nobody can proof it to be correct as long as they conceal their sources.
I argue that a lot of the internet pages I have read on this topic are just copies or rewritings of a few pages publish a few years ago which have been wrong in some ways and incomplete in some others.
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