Re: Robert Best is best on Noah (historical figure) and the Flood (local)

Carl <pchristainsen@xxxxxxxxx > wrote:

On Jul 2, 9:27 pm, Tom McDonald <kilt...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Carl wrote:

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For the sake of getting our thread I started back on track, here are
extracts
from the Robert Best website on archaeology per se. Way cool for a
change would
it be were somebody to make a decision... just buy Best's book off
amazon.com
and respond back to us, especially with an informed opinion on how
well
backed up be Best's archaeology and entire reconstruction.

Have you read the book? If so, why not bring an issue you find
interesting from the book here to talk about, referencing the
book? Just asking us to buy the book and review it, when it does
not seem to be of interest to many (any?) posters here is
presumptuous. Perhaps even rude.

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Your suggestion won't work; what would work is for some sci.archer (I
don't bother
to say somebody INTERESTED because we are all big boys and girls not
in
kindergarten anymore) to ask me DIRECT question(s).

That way our abundant foolish NG conversational static is sidestepped
because
I would know 100% that the questioner(s) is/are taking me seriously
and IS/ARE interested in the topic.

Also, I confide I absolutely and personally hate doing, or see others
doing, CONTRADICTION of
somebody else's point BECAUSE I am fully aware that some posters don't
even read follow-thru.
(In certain other venues than this specific thread on sci.arch free-
flowing contradiction in conversation is OK)

Thus, in our beloved thread SOMEBODY initially said the Flood was NOT
WORLDWIDE (true because
it was local, not even strictly regional) but that specific person
failed to CLICK the Robert Best website
to find out that Best agrees. I had expected people (at least some,
one even) to pore over Best for
clues/details on their own without even the hint of my scolding.

Bottom line - would somebody get the ball rolling by asking me a
question or a pool of questions?

BTW, it takes little effort for one to avoid being deliberately rude.
"They" (or a professor of mine way back
when originally from Communist Czechoslovakia) used to make the point
that Stalin was rude in seminary.

There are two accepted reasons to post on the Usenet.
1. To provide information others might be interested in.
2. To ask others for information you are interested in.

Saying 'Here I am, now ask me questions' will not work.
And when nobody shows interest or worse tells you to
get lost, there is no reason to hold on, or to come back
over and over again with what nobody is interested in.

And for posting in this group you first of all you have to
figure out what 'science' means, and 'archaeology'.
So far, you clearly have not managed that.

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p.a.


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