The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum
=> Re: undebatable...
| Re: undebatable... |
|
Posted by
Tiglath
(Guest)
- Sunday, July 24 2005, 16:40:17 (CEST) from 202.59.107.59 - 202-59-107-59.dyn.iinet.net.au  Australia -  Windows 2000 -  Internet ExplorerWebsite: Website title: |
*** hey its not silly at all. My claim came from those great assyrian stories, the images of those great assyrian warriors on those stone walls. No empire at the time was as powerful as the assyrians and to unify an empire such as the assyrian empire certainly we had to destroy and kill rebellion armies who refused to part of the empire. I ask u to take a look at these stories carved into the stone of the wars which the assyrians took part in. Certianly the assyrians were one of the bloodiest for we had to kill those that were a threat the empire, and we werent killed because we were the powerful assyrians. As for those hebrews they were killing themselves for weird things, afterall it was their father who almost killed his own son so whos to blame them if thats what they were taught thats wat they will do. >>> Enki there is a big difference between killing every man, woman, children and even sheep of the Cannanites because a mad jewish god told you too and defending civilisation against the barbarians that were poised to destroy the roots of today's Western and Eastern civilisation. But thank you for showing us in your respone just how much of an inferiority complex we truly have believeing in the barbaric lies of Jewish gods and madmen who wish our childrens' heads dashed on rocks (Psalm 137:8-9) rather than our own annals who recount not a story of bloodshed but a story of defending civilisation. But don't take my word for it here's someone neutral, Professor Simo Parpola's view on this subject: "Amongst all the aspects of ancient Mesopotamian life, there are few which have been more widely misunderstood and misrepresented than the nature of Assyrian imperialism. Few historians or other writers who touch upon Assyria in the period between 900 B.C. and its final fall just before 600 B.C. can resist the temptation to gather up their skirts and add yet another shocked comment upon barbarism, brutality and unmatched ruthlessness of the Assyrians. It is rare to find any attempt to look at Assyrian warfare and imperialism as a whole in its perspective. Yet, as it is hoped to show below, when one considers the whole functioning of the Assyrian Empire, and particularly when one passes judgement in accordance with the standards, not of our own times but of the other peoples of the ancient world, a very different picture emerges. The Assyrian Empire was efficient and would not gladly bear those who wished to upset the civilised world order, but it was not exceptionally bloody or barbaric. The number of people killed or mutilated in an average Assyrian campaign in the interest of efficient administration was, even in proportion to the population, probably no more than the number of dead and mangled humans that most Western countries offer annually as a sacrifice to the motor-car, in the supposed interest of efficient transport." (H.W.F. Saggs, Everyday Life In Babylonia and Assyria, p.99) --------------------- |
The full topic:
|
|
Content-length: 3253 Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, appli... Accept-encoding: gzip, deflate Accept-language: en-us Cache-control: no-cache Connection: Keep-Alive Cookie: *hidded* Host: www.insideassyria.com Referer: http://www.insideassyria.com/rkvsf3/rkvsf_core.php?Re_undebatable-JMfk.AOln.REPLY User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; DigExt; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) |
Powered by RedKernel V.S. Forum 1.2.b9