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   From: thetibetanmonkey@gmail.com   
      
   On Jan 23, 1:15 pm, Son of man wrote:   
   > On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 1:00:12 PM UTC-5, His Highness the Wise   
   TibetanMonkey, Most Humble Philosopher wrote:   
   > > On Jan 23, 11:47 am, x wrote:   
   >   
   > > > On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 08:45:04 -0800, His Highness the Wise TibetanMonkey,   
   >   
   > > > Most Humble Philosopher wrote:   
   >   
   > > > > On Jan 22, 10:28 pm, "Nobody in Particular" wrote:   
   >   
   > > > >> "Son of man" wrote in   
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   > > > >> messagenews:87fadc72-2bf5-46f7-a11e-051e60021065@googlegroups.com...   
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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   
   >   
   > > > >> > >news:081423d0-8a71-417f-8505-0afdf96fd492@googlegroups.com...   
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   > > > >> > > > On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:36:28 AM UTC-5, His Highness the   
   >   
   > > > >> > > > Wise   
   >   
   > > > >> > > > 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   
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   > > > >> > > > > maybe   
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   > > > >> > > > > it's a reason to grab a Torah and start talking Yiddish. I   
   have   
   >   
   > > > >> > > > > tried   
   >   
   > > > >> > > > > talking to them and it's like they are in another world. Maybe   
   >   
   > > > >> > > > > they   
   >   
   > > > >> > > > > 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   
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   > > > >> > > > > 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?"   
   >   
   > > > >> > > > But if that were true the world would only know the Hebrew   
   >   
   > > > >> > > > language,   
   >   
   > > > >> > > > right?   
   >   
   > > > >> > > There are many, many Jews that do not speak Hebrew.   
   >   
   > > > >> > 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.   
   >   
   > > > >> Languages are not static.   
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   > > > >> 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   
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   > > > >> 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.   
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   > > > > 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.   
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   > > > > Everybody happy now?   
   >   
   > > > you're forgetting the feminists.   
   >   
   > > Is siblings a better word? I just want to make everybody happy.   
   >   
   > > Is God a he or she? Whatever!   
   >   
   > God is an all-in-one, so both. Actually it's neither.   
      
   I thought we determined here God is a HE-SHE.   
      
   You know, those sexy creatures that feature both a banana and female   
   attributes. That's the only way he would know what is like to be male   
   or female.   
      
   God being perfect, of course, chose to be two in one.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   
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