Franktalk wrote:Your grammar has nothing to do with it. The past has had many purges over time and much of our history is lost. So to claim some pictures you took on vacation gives you a complete idea of the past just seemed funny to me. I would suggest that you embrace the idea that much of the past can not be known because much of the history is just not available to us. What has made it through has been protected by some with agendas. Just do some research into book burning and fabricated history some time. So a picture of the past is made with what is available not with what actually happened. And don't trust scholars, they come in all flavors.
I talked nothing of history. History is mostly modified revisions of events as told by the winner. Most notable is how the history of women or the favorable characteristics of the losing groups are deleted.
You attempt, but not quite genuinely, to pass off your ridicule with a summary conclusion about what history is, or isn't.
Once again, I was not talking about history. Instead I talk about doing actual, on site, down and dirty, digging and classifying of materials. The drawing of conclusions, the writing of histories, is work I leave for others to do. But I remember the utter thrill of digging and finding a tiny, seven tile, piece of a large Roman mosaic in the coast town of Side, close to modern Manavgat, Turkey.
I stood watching a small group of Egyptian workers dig out one of the hundreds of small, dog-sized, sphinxes that line the royal approach into the Ramses temples in Karnak, Egypt. I was so excited I forgot to film the event and only snapped a shot as one of the bossmen raised his stick to hit one of the workers.
None of this is history. But it is the stuff that history manages to gloss over when trying to tell a bigger, less factual, story. The photos are only reminders to give flashes of momentary joy in reflection. I am neither scholar nor expert, just a happy amateur. I am of the opinion that there is great value in experiencing things first hand.
I asked my question in regards to your travel experiences to find out if you have actually travelled to the lands of the Sinai or Israel for actual insights or whether you base your opinions from reading only. My question still stands. Answer at your leisure.
And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love...you make. PMcC