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A community understanding certainly can be transmitted over the generations. If we take as axiomatic that which our grandparents struggled to prove true, we can then work on to higher understanding. Truth does not cease to be true with time.
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But-but-but folk tales grow with time, old wives tales grow with time. Are they necessarily enlightening?

But-but-but folk tales grow with time, old wives tales grow with time. Are they necessarily enlightening?

So because of that you would wish to throw away the collective wisdom of civilization? Go back to living just on your own wits and avoid any knowledge that has been passed down?

I said that if we build on truth, truth remains true. If we build more truth on top of that, the original truth is still true, as is the new understanding of the truth. Obviously if we build up fallacy or "wives tales" they are not truth.

Unless you grew up in a vacuum you have been affected by history, including the history of the Church and the wisdom held there.