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   From: comandante.banana@yahoo.com   
      
   On Jan 22, 10:28 pm, "Nobody in Particular"    
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   > "Son of man"  wrote in messagenews:87fadc72-2bf5-46f7-a11e-051   
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   > > On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 9:54:46 PM UTC-5, Nobody in Particular wrote:   
   > > > "Son of man"  wrote in message   
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   > > > > On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:36:28 AM UTC-5, His Highness the Wise   
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   > > > > TibetanMonkey, Most Humble Philosopher wrote:   
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   > > > > > If the Bible is true, we are all Jewish or stem from Jewish   
   > > > > > ancestors.   
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   > > > > > Maybe it's a reason to celebrate that we are all that close, or   
   > > > > > maybe   
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   > > > > > it's a reason to grab a Torah and start talking Yiddish. I have   
   > > > > > tried   
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   > > > > > talking to them and it's like they are in another world. Maybe they   
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   > > > > > should catch up with the rest of the world and stop trying being   
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   > > > > > different.   
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   > > > > > "According to the Book of Genesis, Noah saved his family and   
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   > > > > > representatives of every animal from a flood by constructing a boat.   
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   > > > > > So since all of humanity should be descended from Noah, does that   
   > > > > > mean   
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   > > > > > everyone is Jewish?"   
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   > > > > But if that were true the world would only know the Hebrew language,   
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   > > > > right?   
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   > > > There are many, many Jews that do not speak Hebrew.   
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   > > What did Noah speak? If everyone alive today came from Noah, why would   
   > > they make a new language? But I also read of tales similar to Noah outside   
   > > of Judaism.   
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   > Languages are not static.   
   > All Indo-European languages, for example, are considered to have developed   
   > from one original language, which was possibly close to Sanskrit. Yet a   
   > Hindi speaker would not be able to communicate with a Gaelic speaker. New   
   > languages are not "made", they just drift apart over the centuries.   
   > As far as Noah, the flood, and the ark goes, this story is on tablet eleven   
   > of the Epic of Gilgamesh, thousands of years before the Torah.   
      
   Do I read into your comment that we --Jews and gentiles-- are not   
   "brothers," but "cousins"?   
      
   That it's possible but it seems to me that monkeys --apes to be   
   proper-- and us can be thought of as "cousins." Of course, then we   
   humans are all brothers.   
      
   Everybody happy now?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)