The tweleve days of christmas

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Sacramentalist:
misterX:

You obviously are unaware of some of the most basic principles of debate.

If someone comes up, ot of no where, and makes a positive affirmation, the burden of proof is on that person to prove his claim. This burden does not rest on the shoulders who oppose the person’s claim, or ask for evidence.

“There’s no proof it didn’t happen” is not a itself a proof for one’s positive seertion.
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I’m aware of debating rules. but i wasn’t debating anything…you believe what you think is right and i’ll believe was i know is right.
 
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misterX:
I’m aware of debating rules. but i wasn’t debating anything…you believe what you think is right and i’ll believe was i know is right.
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What I’m asking is: How do you know it’s right? Becuase you like it to be?
 
It seems like if this were true, it would be not so hard to find some documentation of the story that is not contemporary in origin.

I suddenly started hearing this story about the song around 2000 or 2001. Nothing ever before then. Is there any documentation that significantly pre-dates this? Even if this was previously obscure knowledge confined to a small field of research, it shouldn’t be too hard to find bibliographic references that can be traced back to primary source material. And yet in all the debate over this story, I’ve never heard its proponents ever provide a reliable reference older than the e-mails and Internet postings from a few years ago.

So that’s another reason I think it’s bogus.
 
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