Operator is a
game played by
children. It goes like this:
Everyone sits in a
circle.
One
person starts by
whispering a
phrase into their
neighbor's
ear.
That person then whispers the same phrase into
their neighbor's ear.
This continues until the
message gets back to the starter.
By then, the message has been
distorted, usually to the point that it makes no sense, whereas it was at least a
complete sentence to begin with.
The point.
Operator
illustrates the
disintegration of
facts and
events when they are
disseminated through
oral tradition.
Which is a
reason I
don't believe anything
written in the
Bible as being
historically correct. All (
ok, "all" is mighty inclusive, but we can assume most) the
stories of the Bible were
passed through generations as oral traditon before they were written down. And even then, they were
transcribed to
appease whoever was in power.