The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5

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Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Saturday, April 21 2012, 14:13:07 (UTC)
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...have spent two days getting cross-eyed reading about how you actually get to add articles or comment on existing articles or chat...it isn't as easy as I thought and that's a good thing because otherwise every Tom whose Dick is Harry would be blathering all over the place...they try mighty hard to keep it dignified, though the chat talk can get more confrontational.

So, I have to go back through what I wrote and make it more "neutral", meaning get my bite marks off each page and just stick to the facts, as presented by Dr Joseph, and leave my own comments for anyone who decides to challenge Dr Joseph.

The greatest thing we have going for us, which is also most important at wikipedia, is SOURCES....as usual the blowhards over there are relying on their grandmothers and Parpola, yes HIM again, to state their "facts"....though I did see mention of Dr. Joseph, but no one actually cites him.

It's going to take more study and practice on my part before I can actually enter the article, but once entered, I don't think hysteria will get it removed, or even edited...because you need SOURCES to challenge Dr Joseph...and not even Parpola has the expertise to do it.

I did notice mention over there of an inscription found in Turkey from about 800 AD which purportedly uses "Syrian" to also mean "Assyrian"....I remember a friend once making a big deal of this, like it proved that Syrian always meant Assyrian too...so that the fact that we always called ourselves Suraye and not Aturaye, can now be shown to have always meant the same thing...except it proves no such thing...as Dr Joseph's sources point out...even IF Syria was derived from Assyria, it still doesn't prove that the PEOPLE were one and the same...also Toynbee and others point out that Assyria was mistakenly used to include Syria as well, as there was confusion among Classical writers...I'll find the citations in my article and put them here...so, this discovery doesn't change anything about anything...another false hope, like the ditzy self-appraisal of the DNA project.

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