--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], off_world_beings > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], off_world_beings > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > --- In [email protected], off_world_beings > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > <snip> > > > > > > The Celts were here long before Columbus, and some native > > > > > > American languages have much gaelic in them. The > > > > > > similarities are striking. Place names (and meanings), > > > > > > names of rivers (and meanings) etc. They must have been > > > > > > friendly and respectful to each other. > > > > > > > > > > I've read that somewhere. What happened to > > > > > them, any idea? > > > > > > > > > > The only trouble is that for any given group > > > > > of people, there's *somebody* who is absolutely > > > > > positive they settled here at some point, > > > > > including Vedic Indians and Israelites (there > > > > > are claims that the Native Americans were the > > > > > Lost Tribes thereof), as well as various groups > > > > > of refugees from Atlantis. >> > > > > > > > > It is a scholarly fact that the Celts came to New England. Not > > > > some vague sectarian myth. > > > > > > Wasn't suggesting it was. That's why I went > > > on to ask what had happened to them. > > > > > > > Little is known of what happened to them. Perhaps you are > > > > thinking that because the Pilgrims were so vulnerable here that > > > > the Celts would be also. > > > > > > Uh, no, I was thinking that the Celts don't seem > > > to, you know, be here any longer.>>> > > > > > <snip> > > > > One must not assume just because they arrived that they did not > > > > go back and forth. > > > > > > I wasn't assuming that. > > > > > > <uncrossing eyes> > > > > > > Thanks for your speculations (about the Celts, at > > > any rate). >>> > > > > Another intelligent discussion at FFL is strarved of light and > > bites the dust. > > Did you want to discuss your speculations that > I had assumed the Celts coming to America was a > sectarian myth, that because the Pilgrims were > vulnerable the Celts were also, and that because > they arrived they did not go back and forth?>>>
You seem to confuse speculation and common sense. Perhaps your experience with the latter is limited. > Did I starve intelligent discussion of light by > telling you they weren't correct? >>> You didn't tell me anything wasn't correct, you just made an array of assumptions based on a meagre grasp of the topic in hand. Should I have > pretended they were correct? Should I have > added my own speculations about the Celts > themselves, about whom I know next to nothing?>>> Yes, you know next to nothing about the Celts and should not speculate about them until you have studied them for 25 years as I have. Then you may be ready for some common sense speculations. >>> Should I have argued with your speculations? > > What? >>> Seen the deeper significance which you have yet to grasp. Having said all that, its just a game. You are a wonderful and beautiful person and thats the bottom line. I love you. Adios. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
