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Ancient Tablets May Reveal What Destroyed Minoan Civilization
Haaretz ^
| Sep 10, 2019
| Philippe Bohstrom
Posted on 09/16/2019 4:21:23 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: yarddog
as soon as I see BCE, I quit reading.Why?
To: Openurmind
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posted on
09/16/2019 5:15:13 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Openurmind
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posted on
09/16/2019 5:17:19 PM PDT
by
stockpirate
(Anyone who believes Epstein killed himself is a fool)
To: goldbux
Any civilization that doesn’t change its default type font from Times New Roman to a more readable sans-serif font is doomed.
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posted on
09/16/2019 5:22:37 PM PDT
by
goldbux
(No sufficiently rich interpreted language can represent its own semantics. — Alfred Tarski, 1936)
To: Openurmind
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posted on
09/16/2019 5:24:14 PM PDT
by
salmon76
(Socialism has a perfect track record. It wrecks nations' economies 100% of the time.)
To: Poison Pill
It is an obvious slap at Christians.
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posted on
09/16/2019 5:26:59 PM PDT
by
yarddog
To: Larry Lucido
One possibility. It could be that Minoan civilization’s upper classes taxed their productive people so much, that when Greek cities arose, the skilled Minoan craftsmen left for other places with less of a tax burden
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posted on
09/16/2019 5:30:25 PM PDT
by
SauronOfMordor
(Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
To: yarddog
No, it's not, it's an obvious use of a dating system common to non-Christians, such as the Israeli source of the story. So knock it off.
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posted on
09/16/2019 5:41:24 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: yarddog
It is an obvious slap at Christians.It's an Israeli publication. The writers and primary readership are Jewish. Why would you expect them to use Christian nomenclature?
To: yarddog
Its a Jewish website. That is how BC is always expressed
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posted on
09/16/2019 5:44:43 PM PDT
by
BigEdLB
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To: SunkenCiv
Yes it is and you are right. It is used by people who are not Christians but don’t want to create their own system. They use the Christian system but want to dis them at the same time.
And yes it is intended to be.
Sort of like a person who doesn’t like Greeks but uses their alphabet and refers to it as the common letters.
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posted on
09/16/2019 5:47:17 PM PDT
by
yarddog
( For I am persuaded.)
To: Poison Pill
Because they use a Christian system. If they don’t want to use a system created by Christians then create their own system.
Don’t use it then make a point of dissing them by calling it something else.
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posted on
09/16/2019 5:50:15 PM PDT
by
yarddog
( For I am persuaded.)
To: BigEdLB
Jews say before Christ by changing it to a meaningless phrase?
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posted on
09/16/2019 5:52:13 PM PDT
by
yarddog
( For I am persuaded.)
To: yarddog
I would bet money that Disraeli never said BCE.
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posted on
09/16/2019 5:53:44 PM PDT
by
yarddog
( For I am persuaded.)
To: yarddog
You should have mentioned what an ignorant bigot you are, I wouldn't have bothered with a reply. I'd be surprised if you don't put the very same wheel to work in the very same rut in many a science and history topic here on FR, because that's what trolls do.
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posted on
09/16/2019 5:58:22 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: yarddog
If they dont want to use a system created by Christians then create their own system.Every culture has a dating system. Most of them are older than the Gregorian system which only goes back to the 16th Century. The world standardized on the Gregorian system for ease of communication. That's a compliment to us, not a slap in the face.
To: yarddog
Thats a safe bet considering Disraeli was an Anglcan, although CE was in scholarly use by then, first as Common Era of Christ.
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posted on
09/16/2019 6:00:07 PM PDT
by
jjotto
(Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
To: SunkenCiv
Common era was used by 16th-18th Christian scholars as well. The Vulgaris Aerae means common era/vulgar era (different meaning used today) or “our Christian Era”. The fact that they are using the Gregorian calendar and thinking they side-step the Christian aspects of notation is hilarious in my opinion.
On topic, Mycenaeans, how, gradual and maybe instances of opportunities to exploit.
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posted on
09/16/2019 6:01:32 PM PDT
by
rollo tomasi
(Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
To: Openurmind
They should do a movie called National Lampoons Vacation Time where the Griswolds time-travel and accidentally wreak havoc everwhen they go.
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posted on
09/16/2019 6:04:25 PM PDT
by
Rastus
To: yarddog
A Jewish person using AD may believe they are breaking the First Commandment
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posted on
09/16/2019 6:05:55 PM PDT
by
rollo tomasi
(Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
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