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Cool.Firstly I don't think that offending people is necessarily a bad thing, in fact sometimes it causes people to check their own ideas.
Insulting people is quite different. What I am trying to say is that: if what you say causes people to think then that is a good thing.
I have a problem with the notion of "agreeing to disagree" because in my experience it has virtually always been used as an escape hatch or to add an unsubstantiated air of legitimacy to a weaker position. So with me, there's no "agree to disagree". There are only one option: The truth. From that our only honest positions are to discover whatever that truth is, or to say "I don't know", or "I'm wrong and am not afraid to admit it." So returning to Remembrance Day as an example, I see that there is a truth in your words. I accept that. No need to "agree to disagree" there. There's also truth in what I say. So still no need to disagree. We're good .I believe that History is about interpretation. If we take Remembrance Day for example: My interpretation is different than yours, I see it as a kind of funeral service for all people who have died in War (from all sides). It is a reminder of how easily it is for us to revert to our base instincts and kill our brothers and sisters. This does not mean that I think war is just, or that they are not partly the result of "industrialists, politicians, and bankers".
We can agree to disagree and remain respectful of each others point of view, in other words we can both be right, for we are the masters of our own minds.
CoolNow back to this thread, I agree that it is going to be a challenge, and people will inevitably get offended along the way, so be it, as long as the discussion is civil.
You've got more patience than me. I was finding CJ's initial posts fairly interesting. On the other hand, although RB makes some valid points here and there, I'm not all that interested in hearing about all the thousands of other posts and files he's created that make him eminently qualified to judge the content of other people's posts. I'd be happier if he'd stick to the issues and provide valid counterpoint rather than leaving us to assume his awe inspiring greatness is enough. Is that being too harsh?From what I have read in the other thread, I seem to be in the middle, with Cat Jockey believing History started in 1000 AD and Robert Baird saying that it is far older. But again this is my interpretation based on a few post from both parties. What I would really like is to read very simplified summaries of both theories, lets not forget that the forum is also visited by people who don't contribute but are interested in learning.
I'm a troll.It is interesting to me that you take it upon yourself to make offensive remarks about me - a person who has done the actual WORK and lists the facts - you do not wish to inform yourself about. How anyone can find CJ rational or his sources credible is beyond me. I have shown his own statements and sources disagree with what he says - numerous times - Plato for one.
All of you would do well (if you were actual students of reality) to follow this example of discourse from one of those sources I refer you to most often.
The Golden Bough and More
Amending this post to include an appropriate response to the troll who never addresses a fact we have.
Reality for me has much to do with FACTS. Your comments are personal or ad hominem - - totally lacking in grace - learn to understand the language and comprehend what YOU do. Then quote facts or what another person says and make a reasoned argument.
On the other hand I do not care if you are impressed. You do care if people bow to your collective ignorance. Ignorance is what happens in absence of fact.
Agreed.OK so I made this thread so I suppose that I will have to be the referee.
I request that we all cease to insult each other, and stick to the topic the thread was designed to discuss.
If this is not done with immediate effect I will request that the thread be locked.
I repeat my request that: a simple and concise explanation be given on: individual positions regarding the falsification or deliberate misinterpretation of history.
Heyerdahl used many different local technologies to demonstrate people travelled the whole Earth. His discipline was botany and he makes more scholarly proofs from it than the sensational trips in these different crafts. From the Persian Gulf he went in craft using pitch and weaving of sticks (not unlike what you will find was done at Tiahuanaco high in the Andes). He used different building methods when doing his trip across the Pacific - and different again in his trip across the Atlantic.
The dug out technology used in Vancouver Island went to the Caroline Islanders who took it to New Zealand - look for Martin Doutre's work on the Moriori Keltoi. The Mayans used these dug outs larger than the ships of Columbus - there are drawings of them which a high Mayan chief showed me photos of at Tulum - with white people alongside paddling or rowing.
In the following link you will find history reports an ancient story about a year's voyage from Peru mentioning the Galapagos. The people returned with a throne made of metal and a person who is probably Hawaiian. You will find mention of Gene Savoy and Gary Buchanan who found cities with buildings nine stories high at the 8,000 foot level of the Andes. They built one of those Phoenician designed ships they found drawings of there - and almost made it to Hawaii.
The discussion about ancient Chinese coming to the Americas is a no-brainer. There is a book titled 1482 that demonstrates one era of such voyages. DNA maps prove the Ainu (like Kennewick Man) are the people who populated all of the Pacific. It is recent proof of what I wrote over a decade ago but it also can take us to a lot more interesting things including who interbred humans to make the Denisovan Man near their homeland - and the DNN (D'Ainu) or white people such as the red-heads on Easter Island's Moa.
The Incas and The Prince of Palenque
David Pratt, Gloria Farley and Dillehay, Guidon, Jesse Jennings and a thousand more all prove up to 200,000 years of travel to the Americas from all over the world. Pratt says 2,000,000. I support that but usually stick to the 1 million (I put the link to this in the other thread - not one person read as far as I can tell) which has a lot more proof, as each 100,000 years less is discussed I have ten times the proof.
The Ancient Americas (1)
Many of the tribes you referred to were rounded up after the battle at Little Big Horn. Most of these Native Americans were placed on reservations. We can see the results of the white man's efforts to secure the lands west of the Mississippi.If nobody is really "indigenous" then how do we look at land claims? I've heard so many conflicting opinions. I've heard it expressed by some natives that ownership of land was a "white man's" concept and that the land belonged to their great spirit(s). I've also heard that is not true and that some kind of documents exist prior to "white man" arriving that indicate land was divided up between tribes. It's not clear whether that involved ownership, or simply hunting and fishing rights. I've never actually seen these alleged documents. Does some tribe west of the Rockies get to lay claim on the rest of North America because they were there first, even though they had no idea about the scale of the continent? Should people alive now be bound by outdated contracts made by generations past that they have no relationship to? I know these are all contentious issues. What is your opinion on them?
All true. But then again ( and I'm not taking sides here ), tribes also fought among themselves and had their own wars. They weren't all perfectly at peace and in harmony with each other all the time, and their combat was as messy as any other barbaric warring tribes. So the "white-man" comes along and was just better at it, and ultimately won. So maybe it's also fair to say these tribes are just resentful because they lost, and if the situation been reversed, where the native Americans had been the ones in the early industrial age, rather than barely out of stone age, it's just as likely that the "white-man" would have been the losers, with the Native Americans taking over Europe. Now there's a thought.Many of the tribes you referred to were rounded up after the battle at Little Big Horn. Most of these Native Americans were placed on reservations. We can see the results of the white man's efforts to secure the lands west of the Mississippi.
The whites basically took what they wanted by force of arms and gave the Indians worthless documents. Even today, after the Native Americans have discovered minerals on reservation land, the whites would love to get their hands on that as well. Can you blame the Indians for not trusting the American government?
If I read you properly, you are saying that 'might makes right.' If you were rounded up and made to live in undesirable lands, I would imagine you might be very resentful. I don't exactly see your point other than the Native Americans are sore losers.All true. But then again ( and I'm not taking sides here ), tribes also fought among themselves and had their own wars. They weren't all perfectly at peace and in harmony with each other all the time, and their combat was as messy as any other barbaric warring tribes. So the "white-man" comes along and was just better at it, and ultimately won. So maybe it's also fair to say these tribes are just resentful because they lost, and if the situation been reversed, where the native Americans had been the ones in the early industrial age, rather than barely out of stone age, it's just as likely that the "white-man" would have been the losers, with the Native Americans taking over Europe. Now there's a thought.
I wasn't making any moral judgements. Just making observations and asking questions. The conquering and exploitation of weaker cultures has gone on since the dawn of human history, and like I said, the Native Americans weren't always at peace with each other. So if using war to gain power and control was OK for them, why should they be given some kind of immunity from it? They got into a war and lost. It's just history. Don't blame "the white man". That's as racist as blaming the Native Americans or the Africans or whatever race happens to be the winners or the losers. Instead, leave race out of it and blame greed and corruption and the worst of human nature. Otherwise all that we're doing is reinforcing the walls that divide the races rather than finding ways to bridge that divide.If I read you properly, you are saying that 'might makes right.' If you were rounded up and made to live in undesirable lands, I would imagine you might be very resentful. I don't exactly see your point other than the Native Americans are sore losers.