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Warpy

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5. I had a lot of friends back in Boston who fit exactly that description

Reply to wnylib (Reply #4)

Mon Mar 21, 2022, 10:23 PM

Mar 2022

People from the 16h-19th centuries who were searching in all the wrong places and looking at all the wrong people for the lost tribes were loath to admit there were Ethiopian or Chinese Jews, let alone those among the Lemba. It was the same bizarre mindset that caused them to twist themselves into logical pretzels to "prove" Great Zimbabwe was built by Mediaeval European monks with no sense of direction--it couldn't possibly have been built by Africans.

No, they wanted to find lost tribes that looked like the Nordic Jesus in most of the cathedrals.

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Human life in Canada's Yukon Territory 24,000 years ago [View all] wnylib Mar 2022 OP

Thanks, never did buy the land bridge hypothesis Warpy Mar 2022 #1

Agree. I was always skeptical of the wnylib Mar 2022 #2

Oh, yeah, the pig ignorant lost tribes people Warpy Mar 2022 #3

Well, pale, blond, and blue-eyed is not wnylib Mar 2022 #4

I had a lot of friends back in Boston who fit exactly that description Warpy Mar 2022 #5

The main reason why European Christians speculated about wnylib Mar 2022 #6

It's a bizarre mindset that I've never really understood Warpy Mar 2022 #7