Yes, these peoples actually believed the BIBLE to be holy truth and that anyone who engaged in similar slights of fancy in the modrin wurld to be a really BAD person. Lying is a sin. So, how many sinners does it take to make a BIBLE?

In the Christian addendum to the Scriptures, an odd anthology of strange goings-ons called the NEW testament (remind me not to tell you the relationship between the words testament and testes some time), the fictional elements and talents displayed and deployed by a stand-up commentator named Mort... No, that's not it. Irving? No. Somebody help me with this... Jesse? Nah, but that'll do. This Jesse guy told stories and he called them parables. Well, not necessarily he, as he didn't write any of the Christian addendum as far as we know, although ghost-writing is not unhistorical, but somebody then or now decided to call them parables. Anyway, these little stories were designed to prove a point or to illustrate a bit of logic or religious truth (as opposed to the other kind, y'know) and it didn't matter that they weren't true, about real people, because they were about truth, and the human condition... Which made him a philosopher, despite the fact that his name did not begin with the letter "S" like Schopenhauer.

Now, a philostopher is a bit like a scientist, only without the coat and the lab, although it could be said that the entire universe is his lab, in which case someone forgot to hire an assistant, as there's a few messes to be be cleaned up that have been being left for a long, long, long...

Now, a philostopher is a bit like a scientist, only he gets stoned while the scientist is supposed to stay sober... Well, LSD was discovered by a scientist, so that's not exactly true. Silly Putty was discovered by a scientist, as was the Slinky, and Lurex....
Remind me again why we need philosophers?

So, anyway, there are basically two kinds of philosophers:

Them that want to punish people

and Them that think people are basically fine, just that a few need to bathe more often and change their thoughts more often than their sheets.

And philosophers write a lot more books than most other people, except liars. It's not really fair to call a philosopher a liar, or , for that matter, a liar a philosopher. They have different guilds, you see, and wear slightly different hats on their annual trek to the convention in Brighton and if a liar's wife ever caught him with a philosopher's wife, well... I don't think she'd know the difference, since the pre-nup would be void...