Oilfield...
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  • Posted On: Dec 22 2005 7:44pm
Not the encampments, anyway, which he said were found on Mt. Sinai, which no one can find. Which was my point and further supports my previous statements. :]
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  • Posted On: Dec 23 2005 12:07am
Given that we're talking about 3000+ years, I am not surprised. ;)
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  • Posted On: Dec 23 2005 2:51am
The greatest blow to history was actually the conquering of the Western Roman Empire by the pagans because they relied on oral tradition and they burnt the ancient Greek and Roman texts. For hundreds of years the only people in the western world to read or write were monks.
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  • Posted On: Dec 23 2005 5:36am
Monks who read only in Greek and Hebrew for then sole purpose of the bible and communicating with other religous leaders.
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  • Posted On: Dec 23 2005 5:40am
It was Greek and Latin, which was mostly everything.
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  • Posted On: Dec 23 2005 8:52pm
Well that, and there are the non-religious morons (scientists) that dismiss history out of hand due to missing evidence and them come up with their own theories on what happened.
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  • Posted On: Dec 23 2005 9:12pm
Actually history is what people look at when trying to study history. Not fiction books written by goatherders 2,000 years ago.
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  • Posted On: Dec 24 2005 12:50am
Handed down orally by goat herders, then written down.
Plus, beyond the rare corpse in the snow, what else do we have to go on?
If you really think about it, everything you didn't see yourself (and some of that too) you cannot really verify without a doubt that it's true without extensive study.
Thus comes The Matrix Trilogy. o_O o_O o_O
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  • Posted On: Dec 24 2005 1:10am
You can verify lots of stuff. Don't pull that excuse.
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  • Posted On: Dec 24 2005 1:14am
Actually history is what people look at when trying to study history.

which is what exactly? :glance .. heh..