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Boring Tablets
Posted by Farid (Moderator) - Saturday, November 15 2003, 15:53:02 (EST)
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Boring Business Documents


That's often the reason given for the neglect and indifference of modern "scientists and scholars" towards those thousands and tens of thousands of cuneiform tablets mouldering away in museum vaults and basements. Despite the fact that the Epic of Gilgamesh was discovered among such boring documents as well as the "Ennuma Elish"...and the beautiful love hymn credited to Enkheduanna, high priestess of Ishtar and daughter of Sargon the Great...no one seems particulary interested in combing through all those unread and re-buried cunieform tablets to see what else might be hidden there. Or are people afraid to look? You'll forgive the seeming paranoia in that question...but it would appear rather that we people are the ones surrounded by paranoid people terribly afraid to have their dinky applecarts overturned.

How can a scientist worth anything...and let's remember that the overwheling majority of Assyriologists and experts in the field have been and are Jews...while we've been busy praying on our knees to be rescued from this infamy we call "being saved though Jesus", NOT be even vaguely interested?. Any true researcher, on seeing just one masterpiece such as the Epic...would have spent the rest of his or her life on his or her knees combing through those boring documents we assume ten thousand cuneiform tablets to be...on what authority I don't know...looking for even a scrap of another such gem. At least you know damn well this would have been standard procedure, well funded and endowed, had those documents been in Hebrew. Instead a phalanx of Jew Assyriologists has been most comfortable seeing those tablets safely locked away while their Jew breathern, the Jewologists, have been pouring over the sheer and repetitive nonsense "discovered" in the Dead Sea Scrolls for decades now.

Oates has the decency to refer to this in passing...

"...evidence from ECONOMIC ARCHIVES (caps mine), particularly those relating to manufacturing industries, from letters and other types of text, together with that from other archaeological investigation, indicates both a wide knowledge and understanding of the properties of many of the substances listed in the lexical texts and a considerable technological skill in such fields as practical chemistry and engineering."

In other words if all you ever found of our modern world 4000 years from now were the buried business documents...bills and orders and manufacturing records and contracts...all of them addmittedly BORING reading, of Rabdom House Publishers and Dupont and Metro Goldwyn Mayer and Microsoft and Time/Warner Music...you'd still get a very impressive list of achievements...even if none of the computers, films, chemicals, concerts or books remained to be discovered.

Those boring old tabets would reveal...some more...just how developed and refined and complex the people of BetNahrain were, especially when compared to those sheepshit herding "geniuses" who gave us this timeless morality through which we're still killing and slitting and burning each other..."For God". Imagine if, alongside the dull and repetitive lists of orders received and product manufactured by Babylonians, you were to place a similar "business" transaction of the Hebrews. What could their's be for? Ten pounds of goat turds? Or perhaps three bushels of locust..."prepared to perfection" in exchange for a beaded necklace made of sheep pucky. And if comparing those people in this one category shows exactly who did more of what...imagine then comparing their achievemts in ethics...in morals...in religion...in humanity...in civilized behavior and manners. Yet we're shouted at and exhorted to go back to "the good old moral days" and bend our "stubborn necks" to Yahwe's tutelege...he of the attempted murder and then the accomplished murder of his own son...paving the way for centuries to come for his followers to kill children.



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