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To: Bernard Marx

Don't you have a dictionary?


93 posted on 12/08/2006 4:25:32 PM PST by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: bboop
Don't you have a dictionary?

The real question is: do you?

The Mayans were not a primitive civilization. In many respects their astronomy and mathematical calendrical skills surpassed those in Europe at the same time. They were amazing civil engineers. Take a walk through Tikal sometime.

If you want to talk about brutality you'd better think carefully on such things as the Roman Circus and persecution of Christians; the Spanish Inquisition; the ancient Greek and Carthaginian treatment of unwanted babies (and ours today!); the Viking Berserkers ... the list is very long and unbelievably brutal. Oh yes, the Conquistadores' slaughter of the Aztecs and near-total destruction of their culture and civilization. I think I might have preferred to have my heart quickly ripped out in a Mayan fertility rite than to be one of Napoleon's poor soldiers dying slowly of cold and starvation in the Russian winter.

These passions and frailties are neither Mayan nor European: they're human. Get a little perspective.

94 posted on 12/08/2006 4:56:40 PM PST by Bernard Marx
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