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To: Carry_Okie
>Sorry, but those LONG files are long gone from their original sources...

That really frustrating, isn't it? Been there and done that.

The way to solve that problem is to set up a subdirectory on the home page which comes with your ISP account. Then store all the good stuff you want to post in that directory, and link to it.

Works great! Costs nothing. I do it all the time.

50 posted on 07/14/2002 11:54:23 PM PDT by LostTribe
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To: LostTribe
LOL! That screws up the hit counts, the site data, and means that I have to maintain it. I also keep a LOT of material there for my principle interests which is environmental issues, including photographs. With the 50 post limit and the fact that this thread had been moribund most of the day, I made a conscious choice.

I read the original thread article to my kids this evening. Its conclusions are very similar to my rationale for their course studies in ancient history. I didn't come to the conclusion of global Phonecian maritime dominance recently or by the Bible. To me, as a former boat builder and student of architecture, art, engineering, and nature, I was drawn to those conclusions by observation. The architectural details were too similar. The glyphs were too similar in both use and detail. I also understood what a unique resource for shipbuilding that cedar really was. There are only 370 such trees left, most of them in a single grove. The hillside above them has been denuded by goats. It's political, and government land control is the culprit, just like it is here.

I suspect that a great deal more than we realize was lost with the sack of Carthage. What bits and pieces were left were probably buried even earlier in the conquest of Sicily and Sardinia.

The course I teach starts with geology and geography. It proceeds to weather and resource distribution. It then progresses through civilizations discussing how their technologies and cultures reflect those boundary conditions. I do wish I did have a better understanding of the migrations of the tribes of Israel. Some clearly displaced the Harrapans and the western migration to Ireland is fairly well established. Then there are the children of Ishmael. Clearly, the Phonecian culture is very influential today through its apparent influences in freemasonry. I don't know much about Zoroastrians. There are plenty of gaps that have to be filled opportunistically in instances such as this.

I am coming to the conclusion that God is making the progress of the tribes more obvious without giving us enough for the history to be totally proven. I am convinced He will demand a leap of faith to the end. I don't think that's really necessary seeing as those who would deny Him would do so even if He provided incontravertible evidence and put it up in lights. Whatever. I just do as I am told.

54 posted on 07/15/2002 12:33:22 AM PDT by Carry_Okie
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