Do you believe

Is it Just George Washington whose existence you have a problem with,or was there something about Your History teacher in School that made you think they were yanking your chain about events they claim had happened before you were born? How much of what You've been told is History don't you accept as having been real?

If you put it that way you can't. Just like you can't believe in god. You can't believe in angels, elfs, walking on the moon or all the other things they talk about or wrote down in books or made movies out of. They are just fairy tales to me (most of them). Since I never met them and I never met anyone who did met them either. To me George Washington is not interesting since he has nothing to do with my history/history of my country so if you ask me he never exist just like all the others who lived at that time and nobody can remember.

I have the same doubt for queen Victoria, Napoleon, Caesar and a few others. Leaders of countries who changed the face of the world are not myths and I don't see why you are doubting of their existence. I remember I read a brilliant thesis written at the end of the 19th C proving that the Roman historian Tacitus never existed and that his books were forged at the end of the Middle Ages. I remember also to have read a book saying that Jesus Christ never existed. We cannot believe only on people we have seen or met : are you sure that your actual politicians are all real if you don't know all of them personally ? Speaking of historical people, we have to accept as proven what are telling... historians. PS : what do you want to prove with a DNA sample of George Washington ? If he has not existed, with what other DNA would you compare your sample ?

I keep stumbling on questions that conspiracy nuts would have a field day with. I highly doubt that with his own presidential library being placed on the grounds where there was at one point a george washington that owned the land, that it is a big made up mess. I highly doubt with the number of letters written by one person, that that one person was not who he says he was.

Firestorm0122, This is a very provocative discussion. Many people believe in Jesus, Buddha, even God with no real evidence except the writings about them. I believe George Washington did indeed exist, he was the first American president and a really great general. I have read quite a few biographies about him and I found him quite interesting.

hmm this is a good quesion i personally believe that he was real but i do not blame you for questioning this now that i think about it your right no one has every really found a skull or bones or anything that really proved that he was real how do we know he really chopped down a cherry tree or that he just "could not tell a lie" i mean come on its in human nature to lie i guess there really is no way to find out for sure the best advice i can give on this one is just to go with your gut instinct

For me not so but if they think it is be guided if they are to be true.

What a curious topic. Well much of his life could have been fabricated in the sense, but there are many facts about George Washington that are commonly agreed, such as he was the United States President. That is something that cannot really be disputed that he existed. Of course those days, records were not what they are today. There could have been a lot of things that have been lost to the fabric of time. I am sure that a lot of information is scrapped together. Still the man exists. I think that we have far more proof that George Washington exists than a lot of other figures that people tend to believe in. Now was a lot of his life, embellished? I think that is rather possible. History tends to be a tricky thing the further back you go. There is "evidence" that is discovered and so commonly accepted that people would not dispute it. I just wonder how much about history has been completely embellished at some point, just for everything to fit in, and everyone just went along with it.