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Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum

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The Power of Mass Collective Belief

If she's telling her son that he's not necessarily just a descendant from Achilles, you know, many generations up the family tree, but perhaps that he's related to a God in a much more close way than that, that Philip II is not his dad. If they believed it, this is where the power of mass collective belief, right? These people don't believe in the Newtonian laws of physics like we do. They believe,. I mean, Plutarch's writing hundreds of years later and says this note that there is no question is the way he phrases it. Alexander on his father's side, he was a descendant of Heracles through Kareness and on his mother's

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