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Assumptions, in every case, determine conclusions.

Accept a fraudulent time line, and everything looks like it was copied from something older.

If, on the other hand, there was more or less one common tradition that coalesced into increasingly parochial (and arbitrary) recombinations as time passed (much as, on a smaller scale and shorter time span, Christian denominations have multiplied), you'd have the same state of affairs and without anybody copying from anybody. It would come about through selective exclusion rather than "borrowings."

In consequence you'd find (as you do when you look) quite a number of "odd coincidences" like (Hebrew) Pharisee (one set apart) and Parish (an area with a boundary) -- both illustrating a common term and concept [P(h)RS(h)] that supposedly have next to no connexion, from the traditions they appear in being only distantly and tangentally related.

Similarly, the Virgin Many and Baby Jesus would not have been cribbed from Isis and Horus, but both would have been contemporary. It would only seem that the Doors "copied" from Pink Floyd if PF were reassigned to a time long before them.

The Russians laid this out in detail, years ago.

The Doors just wish they could copy Pink Floyd.

uniface wrote: The Russians laid this out in detail, years ago.

You make it sound like The Russians compete in anthropology as if it were an organized team sport.

They still have a functional school system, and people who take an intelligent interest in such things.

E.g., when Alexander Solzhenytzin (then living in Vermont) and his wife didn't like the way their son was being taught calculus (at a private school), they kept him home and taught him properly. Themselves.

uniface wrote:They still have a functional school system, and people who take an intelligent interest in such things.

E.g., when Alexander Solzhenytzin (then living in Vermont) and his wife didn't like the way their son was being taught calculus (at a private school), they kept him home and taught him properly. Themselves.

How refreshing! When people in the US home school, the children seem to come out failing to understand that when you remove oxygen from a flame...it dies out. I'm actually not kidding about this. I know a homeschooled woman that was amazed to know why candles went out when you put your hand over them.

These are the same people that have been banging the Republicans' "America Speaking Out" site with comments like, "A 'teacher' told my child in class that dolphins were mammals and not fish! And the same thing about whales! We need TRADITIONAL VALUES in all areas of education. If it swims in the water, ...it is a FISH. Period! End of Story."

You really can't make this stuff up.

Sadly...one does not need to make it up. Idiots like that are eveywhere.


Probably thinks they found the "ark", too.