Sixteen myths · the receipts are in the back
You were told a lie.
The truth is better anyway.
You Were Told a Lie takes the things you are completely sure of, holds them up against what the page actually says, and watches the gap open. There was never an apple. The three kings weren't three, weren't kings, and turned up about a year late. It starts light and ends somewhere bigger. All checkable, no faith required.
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A taste of what's inside
Four of the sixteen. None of them survive a second look.
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01
There was never an apple.
Go and read the chapter. Genesis names the trees, the rivers, even the animals. It never once says the fruit was an apple.
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02
The three kings weren't three, or kings.
The number isn't in the text, the titles aren't either, and they turned up about a year late.
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03
"Money is the root of all evil" is missing two words.
Two small words that turn the meaning right over. Most people have never seen them.
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04
Jonah's whale was never a whale.
The text says a "great fish", every time. The whale swam in centuries later, and never left.
About the book
It starts small, then it doesn't
The apple, the carol, the whale that was never a whale. You take something you are sure you know, hold it against what the page actually says, and watch the gap open. The gap is almost always bigger and stranger than you would think, because nobody checks the lines they are surest of.
Then it gets less small. What begins as a game about the scenery turns into something with a lot more at stake, one page at a time. The truth is better anyway.
No faith required to read it. Everything is checkable, and the receipts are in the back. Written by Nick Dunse.
It doesn't stay small
It moves in three
You start with the apple. You don't end there.
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Part one
The Myths
Things that aren't even in the book. The apple, the three kings, the missing word in the money verse. Small stuff, no harm done. Call it the warm up.
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Part two
The Misinterpretations
Famous lines that mean close to the opposite of how everyone quotes them, said with total confidence. Now the corrections start to carry weight.
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Part three
The Misunderstanding
Every correction has been leaning the same way, toward one word. You already know the word. You have said it a hundred times, and almost nobody has it right.
It comes down to this one:
Redacted on purpose. You'll have to open the book.
Doing Alpha?
Read this before week one
Alpha is where the questions finally come out. This book clears the clutter first. The apple, the three kings, the famous lines everyone quotes with total confidence, none of which survive a second look. Get the scenery out of the way and the real questions get a fair run. No faith required, and nobody checks your homework.
“I wish I’d read it when I did Alpha. It would have helped.”
Nick’s mum, who did Alpha
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