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Sam Salmon wrote:

There are people who swear that this burned cheese sandwich is the image of "jesus."

Just looks like a garden variety hippie to me!

Well, Jesus was an unemployed good-for-nothing hobo vagabond tramp too, wasn't he?

And that's being charitable!

Minimalist wrote:

Min, they were here and remembered the impacts.

Mythology, E.P. Many cultures made up stories about the beginning of the world and/or humanity.


Doesn't make it true.

min, the difference between "myth" and "memory" is the layer of impactites.

Get over it.

Rokcet Scientist wrote:

Minimalist wrote:They have used that fairy tale to try to stop scientific research, as with Kennewick man.

...and succeeded! While Kennewick Man has genetically been demonstrated not to be related to them!

After 400,000 years of hominid immigration waves the 'first nations' in reality are the umpteenth nations. And not the brightest either.

I think I need to try and explain their position to you, though my own and others are somewhat different.

In sum, they view that they have responsibility to ensure that the remains are treated with respect, as they define it, no matter whose they are.

Me, I'd like to dig up Jackson's remains to check for VD, or signs of other mental illness, to see if we can explain why he was so evil.

Then perhaps we could display them somewhere, where people could examine them for themselves.

E.P. Grondine wrote:

Rokcet Scientist wrote:

Minimalist wrote:They have used that fairy tale to try to stop scientific research, as with Kennewick man.

...and succeeded! While Kennewick Man has genetically been demonstrated not to be related to them!

After 400,000 years of hominid immigration waves the 'first nations' in reality are the umpteenth nations. And not the brightest either.

I think I need to try and explain their position to you, though my own and others are somewhat different.

In sum, they view that they have responsibility to ensure that the remains are treated with respect, as they define it, no matter whose they are.

No more, or less, "responsibility to ensure that the remains are treated with respect" than other Americans have, no matter who they are.

Me, I'd like to dig up Jackson's remains to check for VD, or signs of other mental illness, to see if we can explain why he was so evil.

Eeeew! You gotta be joking! Which Jackson BTW? There's a lot of those. OK, dig 'm all up for all I care. They were all mad after all.
But keep your morbid hobby far from me please!

Then perhaps we could display them somewhere, where people could examine them for themselves.

"Somewhere"? You're looking at it: the internet!