Witness credibility

[Turnagain]

Nessie wrote:

How do you know what Solzhenitsyn wrote was true?

So tell us why you think that Solzhenitsyn lied or "exaggerated" or used "hyperbole" or made "mistakes".

[Nessie]

Nessie wrote:

How do you know what Solzhenitsyn wrote was true?

So tell us why you think that Solzhenitsyn lied or "exaggerated" or used "hyperbole" or made "mistakes".

Like everyone, his memory is flawed, so his description of events is not going to be perfect. He was not prone to exaggerations etc. But that is not why I think he told the truth. I think he told the truth because his claims about the gulags are corroborated by other evidence.

How do you know what Solzhenitsyn wrote was true?

[Turnagain]

Nessie wrote:

I think he told the truth because his claims about the gulags are corroborated by other evidence.

What other evidence? Be specific.

[Nessie]

Nessie wrote:

I think he told the truth because his claims about the gulags are corroborated by other evidence.

What other evidence? Be specific.

Other prisoners and guards, photos, documents, the physical remains of the prisons.

How do you know what Solzhenitsyn wrote was true?

[Huntinger]

How do you know what Solzhenitsyn wrote was true?

His reports are corroborated by totally independent people and government officials, including the government of the Russian Federation. If these people were fellow gulag prisoners and juden they would not be believed except by other juden.

[Nessie]

How do you know what Solzhenitsyn wrote was true?

His reports are corroborated by totally independent people and government officials, including the government of the Russian Federation. If these people were fellow gulag prisoners and juden they would not be believed except by other juden.

Exactly, his claims were corroborated, that is how we know he told the truth about conditions in the gulags.

[Huntinger]

Exactly, his claims were corroborated, that is how we know he told the truth about conditions in the gulags.

There were no exaggerations of corpses burning by themselves, fountains of blood and all the other nonsense. His writing was professional.

[Turnagain]

Nessie wrote:

Other prisoners and guards, photos, documents, the physical remains of the prisons.

What other prisoners and guards? Name and quote them. Show the photos you claim to have seen. Have you been to Russia to inspect those prisons or their remains?

How do you know what Solzhenitsyn wrote was true?

How do I know that what Solzhenitsyn wrote was 100% unequivocally accurate? I don't. However, he doesn't claim any impossibilities or blue sky fantasies as do the holyhoax authors. His work is CREDIBLE. Can you understand that, Nessie? Just as your witnesses AREN'T credible.

[Nessie]

Exactly, his claims were corroborated, that is how we know he told the truth about conditions in the gulags.

There were no exaggerations of corpses burning by themselves, fountains of blood and all the other nonsense. His writing was professional.

Explain and evidence how someone writes about something, is a more accurate way of assessing their truthfulness, than corroboration.

[Nessie]

Nessie wrote:

Other prisoners and guards, photos, documents, the physical remains of the prisons.

What other prisoners and guards? Name and quote them. Show the photos you claim to have seen. Have you been to Russia to inspect those prisons or their remains?

All you need to do is search "gulags" and there is a ton of information, all evidenced, about the prisoner camp punishment system the Soviets ran.

How do you know what Solzhenitsyn wrote was true?

How do I know that what Solzhenitsyn wrote was 100% unequivocally accurate? I don't. However, he doesn't claim any impossibilities or blue sky fantasies as do the holyhoax authors. His work is CREDIBLE. Can you understand that, Nessie? Just as your witnesses AREN'T credible.

Explain and evidence how someone writes about something, is a more accurate way of assessing their truthfulness, than corroboration.

Remember, the Nazis did not use anything like the same amount of hyperbole, emotive language etc, and they say the same as the Jewish Sonderkommados. Remember, the Jewish witnesses such as Avraham Lindwasser who did not see the gas chambers, but worked in property sorting did not say anything incredible. That alone tells us how someone writes about something is an unreliable indicator of truthfulness.