University of Toronto archaeologists find...cuneiform tablets in 2,700-year old Turkish temple

University of Toronto ^ | August 7, 2009 | Unknown

[Nikas777]

I concur with Lucius Cornelius Sulla that the title is incorrectly worded. The temple was not Turkish but found inside modern Turkey.

This may seem like a minor point but it is actually very important.

[eleni121]

This may seem like a minor point but it is actually very important.

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Not minor at all-—it is typical of the conqueror - specifically Muslim Turk ones - appropriating the culture of others.

The U of T needs to get that moronic error corrected.

[Quix]

Love it.

Prissy detail correctors hereon are a riot. And they are ALWAYS around.

It’s a wonder they get any sleep at night . . . with so many facts to CORRECT VERY CORRECTLY!

[Quix]

Important in terms of what?

Will it decrease the national debt?

Will it banish globalism from the planet?

Will it prevent Armageddon?

Will it decrease the divorce rate?

Oh, alright . . . in terms of scientific “fact” . . . it might be slightly significant . . . for those staying up nights worrying about such things.

And, it is kind of nice to be precise and precisely accurate about scientific “facts.”

Nevertheless . . . methinks there’s already an overabundance of shallow, inconsequential prissiness in the world.

[Nikas777]

To be accurate is important,

[Quix]

Yes and no.

I’ve seen obsessions with accuracy destroy marriages and families and doom children to crime and prison.

[Quix]

And, . . .

far tooooo often . . .

at the root of obsessions with accuracy is

. . . .

PRIDE.

And Pride, arrogance, self-righteousness . . . are ALWAYS DEADLY, DESTRUCTIVE.

It is also a false sense of security to imagine that we CAN be extremely precise.

Even quantum physics illustrates that this most precise of sciences at the foundational level CANNOT be precise.

Given that . . . the rest of us are fooling ourselves to think that we can be exhaustively precise about much of anything else.

And when precision gets in the way of RELATIONSHIP AND CARING HEARTS . . . then that’s WRONG . . . NOT right.

[Nikas777]

I will tell you why I think this is important. Upon reading the headline I make the assumption that a Central Asian temple that was 2,700-years old - that is an amazing discovery in and of itself because historians and archeologists and so on do not think Turks were not yet formed as a people then or if they were they were nomads who did not put down any permanent buildings and on top of that they had in this central asian temple (the only place a Turkish temple could be in this era) cuneiform tablets which indicates trade with the Fertile Crescent and the possibility the Turks were literate in this trade language.

So it changes the dynamic of what is claimed greatly.

This was not a critique of minutia like dotting Is and crossing Ts.

I appreciated and valued your point regardless.

[Quix]

Thanks for your kind response.

I understood and agreed early on that in certain respects, those details were important for an accurate understanding of the period and region and people groups involved.

I confess . . . I do get weary hereon . . . of the nit picky ob-coms . . . which I’m a recovering one of, myself . . .

And, I tend to try and avoid missing a chance to speak up on behalf of parents, particularly . . . and spouses . . . and teachers . . . focusing on . . .

MAJORING IN MAJORS AND MINORING IN MINORS for the sake of those they love and their relationships.

Thx much for your kind response.

[Nikas777]

I understand and took no offense to your reasoned position and in fact would probably support you fully in another context.

I just wanted to explain to you that my position was not meant to be an excuse to be nit picky. I actually clicked and read the article because I assumed like I wrote before an ancient Turkish Central Asian temple from the shamanistic dawn of civilization was found and as such would be like a nuclear bomb to accepted history.

I know that sounds like hyperbole on my part but for those few seconds it took me to figure out that was where my head was at.

[Quix]

Likewise.

NO offense either way as far as I’m concerned.

Just blathering about a favorite hobby horse.

I don’t think much of “accepted history.”

Tooooooo much editorializing by powerful individuals and groups over the centuries.

Then there’s God hiding things.

e.g. India’s very very very ancient atomic weapons and UFO type craft.

[Nikas777]

I am new here. Quix wrote: e.g. India’s very very very ancient atomic weapons and UFO type craft. In my profile I write: My subjects of interests are in history, militaria, religions/theologies, archeology,myths and legends and while I do not generally believe in the following subjects, for fun (and to maintain an open mind) I love reading about alternate/revisionist history (subjects like pre-Columbian transatlantic voyages, etc), crypto-zoology, UFOs and other Fortean happenings. Politics have lost their appeal for me so I will try to avoid that subject for the foreseeable future. So Quix, if you run across any such posts like ancient astronauts, etc. Please ping me I got hooked on this stuff when I was a kid watching 'In Search Of with Leonard Nimoy". Like I said in my profile, I do not automatically believe in UFOs or bigfoot, etc but I am open minded and intrigued and I consider all possibilities without any knee jerk dismissals.

[Nikas777]

I am new here. Quix wrote: e.g. India’s very very very ancient atomic weapons and UFO type craft. In my profile I write: My subjects of interests are in history, militaria, religions/theologies, archeology,myths and legends and while I do not generally believe in the following subjects, for fun (and to maintain an open mind) I love reading about alternate/revisionist history (subjects like pre-Columbian transatlantic voyages, etc), crypto-zoology, UFOs and other Fortean happenings. Politics have lost their appeal for me so I will try to avoid that subject for the foreseeable future.

So Quix, if you run across any such posts like ancient astronauts, etc. Please ping me

I got hooked on this stuff when I was a kid watching 'In Search Of with Leonard Nimoy". Like I said in my profile, I do not automatically believe in UFOs or bigfoot, etc but I am open minded and intrigued and I consider all possibilities without any knee jerk dismissals.

[Quix]

i THINK

I understand.

IF you want on the

UFO ping list,

please let me know at what level.

“A” least frequent but can be frequent depending on events.

“B” moderate frequency depending

“C” more frequent.

“D” almost everything I find interesting on the topic.

Yeah, politics is . . . dradfully . . . problematic, at best, at present.

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, heh... If you get a chance, view the crockumentary, “Is There A StarGate?” on the extras disk of the DVD version of “StarGate” (the movie). vD is on there.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks go to everyone for keepin’ it lively around here. :’)

One of the rules of FR is posting using the original headline.

http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/main/release_tablets-in-Turkish-temple

[Quix]

And an important rule it is . . . for several reasons . . . avoiding duplications, searches, copyright . . .

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

We were bi-ching at the U of Toronto for this misleading title, you were following the rules.

[Nikas777]

Let’s try option D