Dear Neil: Since it is a legitimate site with a wealth of excellent emails and materials that can offer help to others, especially others who are seeking ...
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Neil Fernandez
neil@...
Mar 14, 2001 12:36 pm
Hi. I just found out to my surprise that the archives of emails to this list are available to non-members - in fact, individual emails to the list will even be...
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Rolandmont@...
Mar 13, 2001 5:43 pm
Hi List, Thought this would interest you since the recent Taliban thread....
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alf@...
Mar 12, 2001 7:41 pm
Hello all - Here are a few curious geodetic facts you might find amusing. All measures are taken from International Astronomic Union ( IAU ) estimates for the...
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mikebispham@...
Mar 10, 2001 2:10 pm
Food for thought Nike now lets you personalize your shoes by submitting a word or phrase which they will stitch onto your shoes, under the swoosh. So Jonah...
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Mark Swaney
mswaney@...
Mar 10, 2001 1:39 am
... Well, ok, but most of the work will have to wind up on your web page, where we will organize the research findings to date, and post them as a finished...
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Dan Washburn
danw@...
Mar 9, 2001 3:42 am
... Hey, no problem. I enjoyed the exchange. I'm normally on the other side, feeling enraged about the rivers of muck flowing out of our tv sets, the rivers...
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Dan Washburn
danw@...
Mar 9, 2001 2:39 am
Bravo, Mark! This sounds like a fantastic find. You are certainly filling in all sorts of gaps in our knowledge of the history of the squares. When I think...
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Mark Swaney
mswaney@...
Mar 8, 2001 4:04 pm
Hey folks, In spite of my intense desire to inflame the sensibilities of every normal thinking person on this list with my searing radical opinions about the...
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mikebispham@...
Mar 8, 2001 9:45 am
Dan, I'd like to apologise. I feel like I've laid the sins of america at your door, personally. I think what happened was that I saw an opportunity to get my...
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David Seth Melchert
dmelchert@...
Mar 7, 2001 9:03 pm
mikebispham@... wrote: To contextualise this, I want to ask Seth to give us a quick run down on the reasoning behind the covering of women. (Seth?) OK,...
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CG
canuck@...
Mar 7, 2001 2:16 pm
Hi David, ... question, how do we >>>approach the sacred of another culture? Good point. Agreed. ... here in the States. Ditto re: Japan. As a Canadian ex-pat...
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Axe Kooi
xkooi@...
Mar 7, 2001 1:34 pm
Culture should be unifying, not driving people apart. Sadly western culture has had a tendency to fight differing cultures. As the Taliban just does now....
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mikebispham@...
Mar 7, 2001 11:26 am
In a message dated 06/03/01 23:57:36 GMT Standard Time, danw@... writes: Hi Dan I agree with Seth, (thanks for a lovely post Seth) this is a...
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David Seth Melchert
dmelchert@...
Mar 7, 2001 2:47 am
Dear All: I have been reading the passionate postings here and would like to contribute some thoughts of my own. I do not believe this is entirely off-subject,...
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Dan Washburn
danw@...
Mar 7, 2001 12:04 am
I asked to take the discussion with Mike on roots of the Taliban Destruction off line but I inadvertently sent a message that was meant only for him to the...
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Dan Washburn
danw@...
Mar 6, 2001 11:56 pm
... You are talking about a world business culture made up of multi-national corporations not an American enterprise. Tell it to Sony and British Telecom as...
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Dan Washburn
danw@...
Mar 6, 2001 10:03 pm
Hi, Mike: Be glad to continue the discussion with you, but I think we are getting a bit political here and hence off topic for sacred landscape. Lets take our...
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mikebispham@...
Mar 6, 2001 1:59 pm
In a message dated 06/03/01 11:44:21 GMT Standard Time, danw@... writes: Hi Dan ... How truly soulfull would you rate right-wing christianity? ...
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Dan Washburn
danw@...
Mar 6, 2001 11:44 am
Hi, Mike: Can't write a long reply because I have to get to work, but lordy man where do you get the idea that we are a soulless culture? We are up to our...
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mikebispham@...
Mar 6, 2001 10:20 am
... Hi Dan As you begin to demonstrate, the situation in Afghanistan actually quite complex. I think the deeper you look into it, the more complex it becomes,...
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Dan Washburn
danw@...
Mar 5, 2001 11:40 pm
... Hi, Mike: I've always thought of it as a kind of siezure of opportunity by the soviets. Back in '78 the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan siezed...
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Dan Washburn
danw@...
Mar 5, 2001 10:49 pm
Thanks, Chris, for the reference to Dr. Durham's address on Mormonism and Masonry. I especially liked the square and compass in the original design for the...
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mikebispham@...
Mar 5, 2001 10:03 pm
In a message dated 05/03/01 14:59:35 GMT Standard Time, ... Don't think it was that simple Dan. The Soviets went in in the first place to try to stop the...
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susie pan
ispan@...
Mar 5, 2001 6:44 pm
I am another one who is absolutely devastated by the Taliban incident so I was glad to know someone else felt the same way. Some days it would be wonderful to...
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Dan Washburn
danw@...
Mar 5, 2001 6:08 pm
Hi, Terrie: Gotta say, yes I do like art, all four of yours are great. Loved your self-portrait. I laughed out loud because it looks so much like you. ...
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Mark Swaney
mswaney@...
Mar 5, 2001 5:48 pm
... I feel the same way as you do Dan. It is a great sadness. I am not especially surprised given the circumstances (poverty and ignorance combined with...
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Dan Washburn
danw@...
Mar 5, 2001 2:58 pm
This is more than i can bear. Its like watching them burn the library at Alexandria and not being able to do anything about it. The ignorance and barbarity...
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Barry Carroll
palladin@...
Mar 5, 2001 1:10 pm
Well,it looks like they did it. Kabul, Afganistan-- Taliban soldiers blasted two towering ancient statues of Buddha with anti aircraft weapons, according to...
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Barry Carroll
palladin@...
Mar 2, 2001 2:23 pm
MONDAY Calling statuues an insult to Islam, Afganistan's hard-line Taliban rulers on Monday ordered that they all be destroyed, including this Fifth century ...
