دانستنیها-ترجمه-شایعه

                            شایعه 

               مترجم: غلام مرادی  

شایعه ممکن است خوب و دلپسند باشد و همانطور که تحت تاثیر کینه و بغض قرار می گیرد، اغلب مورد لطف و مرحمت هم قرار می گیرد.

مثلاً روستایی را تصور کنید که در آن هیچ شایعه ای وجود ندارد. به عبارت ساده می توان گفت که هر یک از ساکنان آن به کار خود سرگرم هستند و کاری به کار دیگران ندارند. در یک چنین محیطی نه کار خیری انجام می شود، نه آمد و شدی صورت می گیرد، نه مهمانی و ضیافتی، نه جلسه خیاطی و لباس دوزی، نه جلسه ای با حضور معلمین و والدین و در واقع نه خبری، چون اخبار چیزی جز شایعات تایید شده نمی باشند.

خبر شایعه تایید شده و تاریخ خبر تایید شده است – تایید شده در یک برهه نامحدود از زمان، چون این تایید ممکن است چند ساعت یا چند هزار سال طول بکشد. امروزه محققان به شدت به دنبال این هستند که افسانه پیروزیهای چنگیزخان را مورد بررسی قرار دهند و شواهد ضد و نقیض را با کلام دقیق عیسی مسیح تطبیق دهند. زیرا همه می دانیم که شایعات تایید نشده زیادی وارد تاریخ شده است. نسل ها طول می کشد تا شواهد گم شده یافت شوند و ما را به حقیقت امر نزدیک کنند.

این یک واقعیت است و نمی شود کاری کرد. داستان هایی که از پدارن به پسران نقل شده اند ممکن است با توجه به مقتضیات زمان و برای خوش آمدن به مذاق شنونده عمداً تغییر یافته باشند، بدون اینکه قصد و غرضی در تحریف آنها باشد؛ یا شاید به دقت تعریف شوند، اما درست درک نشوند و به غلط تکرار شوند.    

منبع: انجمن تحقیقات علمی آمریکا 

Gossip can be gracious and kindly and as often affected by good will as by rancor. Try to Imagine, for instance, a village where there is no gossip. Every citizen in it is, to use a common expression, minding his own business, never caring to see what any one else doing. In such a place, there would probably be no charities, no getting together, no luncheon club, no sewing bees, no rotary, no parent teacher Associations, and in fact, no local news, for news is nothing but verified gossip.

News is verified gossip and history is verified news – verified in the unlimited passage of time, for this verification may take a few hours or a few thousand of years. Scholars today are endlessly checking the legendry accounts of victories of Genghis khan or seeking to reconcile conflicting testimony as to the exact words of Jesus. For we know that a vast deal of unverified gossips slips into historys pages to linger there for generations until the discovery of lost 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brings us closer to the truth.

It is inevitable that this should be so. Stories which are passed from father to son can be intentionally altered to suit the age or taste of the listener, without intent to distort; or they may be told with accuracy, but inaccurately heard, and still more inaccurately repeat.