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To: ohioWfan
Great philosophers and thinkers have come from that region.

LOL...Like whom? In what has been called "the barbarous and unspeakable cruelty of the Babylon Assyrians," the names of such kings as Ashurnasirpal (883-859 B.C.), Tiglath-Pileser III (745- 727 B.C.), Sennacherib (704-681 B.C.), and Ashurbanipal (669-626 B.C.) continue to evoke images of powerful brutally savage conquerors. Tiglath-Pileser III, Nebuchanezzar, Hammurabi and Cyrus the Great were no better, IMHO... They all enslaved conquered lands (Nebuchanezzar took the entire population of ancient Israel, according to the Bible), threw virgins to the ovens to quench the taste of Baal, killed innocent babies and put their own mothers to the sword. Yeah, I know, Hammurabi gave us a so-called "code" but it is in no way comparable to the Magna Carta or anything else a CIVILIZED society produced...

...go back to school, professor, you FAIL!

407 posted on 12/12/2005 2:12:50 PM PST by meandog (FUDU)
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To: meandog; billbears
LOL...Like whom?

Like al Ghazali, al Kindi, and al Farabi for starters.

Great philosophers and theologians.

(btw, it's not a good idea to laugh at people who have more information than you do..........it just makes you look.................dumb).

414 posted on 12/12/2005 6:59:01 PM PST by ohioWfan (PROUD Mom of an Iraq War VET! THANKS, son!!!!)
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To: meandog

Oh...........meandog...........do a report on al Kindi's view of Aristotle's teaching on metaphysics, and get back to me when you've finished finding out how little you know.....


415 posted on 12/12/2005 7:02:59 PM PST by ohioWfan (PROUD Mom of an Iraq War VET! THANKS, son!!!!)
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