tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2113520706057661449.post3385875986113035603..comments2023-09-21T07:37:58.714-04:00Comments on Pastor Bob's Musings: YOU COME FROM WHERE?Pastor Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10510081361292855641noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2113520706057661449.post-54857012316399171542010-08-19T12:36:52.707-04:002010-08-19T12:36:52.707-04:00Question: was the area dry when the bones first la...Question: was the area dry when the bones first lay there or when the footsteps first appeared or is it later drying that does it. I ask because frankly I don't know. I do know that dry air preserves papyrus and the ink on leather but don't know a thing about fossils and dry air.<br /><br />As for fighting over the dry places my guess would be that it is because we humans are territorial. <br /><br />Weird story from Northern Ireland. Every year the Orangemen celebrate the Battle of the Boyne with parades. They insist on using their traditional routes. The traditional routes go through areas where Protestants used to live but have moved out and Catholics have moved in. The Orangemen refuse to move the route of the parade so they march through Catholic neighborhoods which starts a riot every year. I suspect that ticking off the Catholics has something to do with their insistence. The Orangemen still claim their old territory even though they don't live there anymore and haven't for years! And just to make us all feel good, the Orangemen are Presbyterians.Pastor Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10510081361292855641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2113520706057661449.post-40242232920524549002010-08-18T21:47:17.800-04:002010-08-18T21:47:17.800-04:00Interesting. Dry weather preserves archeological e...Interesting. Dry weather preserves archeological evidence which is why you find it in dry weather places. <br /><br />But even the ancestral homelands people seem to fight over are dry as well. Wonder what that is all about.Jodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15447125159108080797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2113520706057661449.post-28435884341719147292010-08-18T10:51:20.699-04:002010-08-18T10:51:20.699-04:00Don't know about that particular gorge but a l...Don't know about that particular gorge but a lot of the places people dig looking for humanity's ancestors are pretty dry. Don't think the Ethiopian or Sundanese desert would support all of us. In any case we better be careful or the folks there may say "you can have it!" and move to a place with more water.Pastor Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10510081361292855641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2113520706057661449.post-90158853404003529312010-08-15T23:28:40.132-04:002010-08-15T23:28:40.132-04:00Hey Bob,
Had an interesting feeling last month, s...Hey Bob,<br /><br />Had an interesting feeling last month, standing on the edge of the Olduvai gorge, looking at the footprints our ancestors left in the ash about one and half million years ago... <br /><br />I was thinking: "People here didn't come from anywhere. All people came from here, but the people here, they never came from anywhere else." <br /><br />I was home at last.<br /><br />(I don't suppose that means we all have a right to our ancestral homeland then, huh?)Jodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15447125159108080797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2113520706057661449.post-54400224274720900412010-08-06T09:45:35.565-04:002010-08-06T09:45:35.565-04:00Enjoy your r & r!Enjoy your r & r!Christinenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2113520706057661449.post-168495049578926722010-08-06T03:54:38.413-04:002010-08-06T03:54:38.413-04:00Anyone interested in what I have to say about Span...Anyone interested in what I have to say about Spaniards needs to check the previous blog. And clearly I need to take some vacation time "to sleep, perchance to dream." Shakespeare somewhere, I think.Pastor Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10510081361292855641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2113520706057661449.post-1285290911017112342010-08-06T03:16:27.071-04:002010-08-06T03:16:27.071-04:00AND there are some theories that suggest people ca...AND there are some theories that suggest people came from east Asia by boat several centuries earlier. But to be fair we will blame the Romanish Spaniards!<br /><br />Seriously I really don't care that some of my ancestors arrived pre revolution. I mainly consider myself Scots-Irish because of my great grandfather who came here to sell Irish Whiskey and later became an elder at a church in Montclair NJ<br /><br />And I still refuse to join the Mayflower Society . . . unless they give some of that deep pocket money to descendants! Then I will be there with genealogy in hand!Pastor Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10510081361292855641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2113520706057661449.post-83597939866626412092010-08-04T18:08:24.317-04:002010-08-04T18:08:24.317-04:00Hmm . . . some Vikings actually can claim that hon...Hmm . . . some Vikings actually can claim that honor. But they didn't stick aroundPastor Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10510081361292855641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2113520706057661449.post-43360919810668888562010-08-04T10:40:00.717-04:002010-08-04T10:40:00.717-04:00And let's not forget that the first Europeans ...And let's not forget that the first Europeans to explore these shores were in fact "Romanish"--the Spaniards in the south and west. Having recently visited Plimoth Plantation I can tell you the Mayflower Society has deep pockets, which it used to propagate the myth that the Protestant English were here first.Christinenoreply@blogger.com