tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298055147607304087.comments2023-06-23T07:16:59.149-07:00Sufficiently WrongMiekkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03254032879671190589noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298055147607304087.post-63038982532575033772023-04-16T09:57:59.421-07:002023-04-16T09:57:59.421-07:00Could you please comment on the claim : Thomas is ...Could you please comment on the claim : Thomas is a derivative of Tammuz?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298055147607304087.post-12918204802521448352022-11-09T13:46:42.698-08:002022-11-09T13:46:42.698-08:00Thanks forr writing thisThanks forr writing thisUnderpinning Miamihttps://www.under-pinning.com/us/basement-underpinning-florida/underpinning-miami.shtmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298055147607304087.post-10848448689398671552022-06-15T02:51:55.753-07:002022-06-15T02:51:55.753-07:00Hi great readingg your blogHi great readingg your blogTania Khttps://www.taniakline.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298055147607304087.post-87991707781797133982019-12-08T07:22:25.676-08:002019-12-08T07:22:25.676-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.siculihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16457606183347254165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298055147607304087.post-12787076839502537892019-10-20T19:09:19.711-07:002019-10-20T19:09:19.711-07:00Regarding the Stradivarius argument:
Luthiers do ...Regarding the Stradivarius argument:<br /><br />Luthiers do tune the many complex resonances of violins. The claim is not that these violins ONLY resonate at 432, but that they were crafted to be *optimally resonant* when tuned to A-432. <br /><br />IF this were true, it would prove only that his clients were intending to tune the instrument to 432 hz, and then one could reasonably deduce that this was the standard in that place at that time. <br /><br />A thorough and unbiased analysis of the instruments of the past would provide real evidence about what tunings were popular with the people who built and used those instruments, so your criticism sort of misses the mark here. <br /><br />A better rebuttal, without resorting to a laughably weak straw-man, is this:<br /> Stradivarius built his violins to sound their best in whatever tuning they were likely to be used in, and there is no reason to believe that we must tune exactly the way they tuned in 18th century Cremona.<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07766657715998468547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298055147607304087.post-5312870047657964732017-05-01T09:45:47.444-07:002017-05-01T09:45:47.444-07:00The Talmud is a huge work, compiled from things sa...The Talmud is a huge work, compiled from things said by rabbis over several centuries (if we count the mishnah and the gemara, three-four centuries, if we count some of the later commentaries that often are included, you can add several centuries to that). <br /><br />What does the Talmud teach? It's not like it teaches a unified, codified set of doctrines - it teaches ways to think about the Torah, ways the rabbis have thought and taught about the Torah, and often in a kind of snapshot form: rabbi so-and-so taught so-and-so about such-and-such a topic.<br /><br />Of course there's going to be negative opinions about gentiles in there. Of course there's going to be negative opinions of Jesus in there - keep in mind, the rabbis and the early Christians were competing groups, and it's not like you won't find a lot of hatred for judaism in the church fathers' writings either. Those church fathers hated judaism quite vigorously. And with such a starting point, obviously there will be hatred for Jesus in the Talmud as well - both for strawman Jesuses, and for Jesus as the Christians believed in him. But here, one also has to keep in mind that literacy back then was not as common as now, and many who were "literate" were not very good at it, and you'd probably find some of the strawman-Jesuses actually are based on what actual Christians actually believed in those days.<br /><br />Finally, it's not like the Jesus-of-the-NT doesn't teach things that Judaism shouldn't have a legitimate gripe with - several things in the NT do skate very close to justifying, from either an OT-biblical or rabbinic point of view, calling him a false prophet. <br /><br />The most famous Jewish work criticizing Jesus was in fact not written by a rabbinic Jew, but by a karaite - the karaites are a group of Jews who vigorously reject rabbinic traditions in favour of the Bible; a kind of Jewish protestantism, if you like, even if the analogy is not perfect.<br /><br />So, obviously you'll find that kind of thing in the Talmud. Why wouldn't you? Does this make the Talmud worse? Does this make Judaism somehow worse?<br /><br />No, the Talmud is a compilation of traditions. Take it as it is.Miekkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03254032879671190589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298055147607304087.post-76497926512554023312017-04-30T13:07:52.126-07:002017-04-30T13:07:52.126-07:00Thank you for this work. I am still reviewing oth...Thank you for this work. I am still reviewing other quotes, and hope that Talmud does not teach hatred toward gentiles or to Yehusha.Jerry Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07525733495135095355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298055147607304087.post-12588211254888632332017-04-20T13:20:11.546-07:002017-04-20T13:20:11.546-07:00G.O.D. The Grand Orchestral DesignG.O.D. The Grand Orchestral DesignChazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10986304986069320432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298055147607304087.post-83402235739380252712017-01-19T06:51:13.615-08:002017-01-19T06:51:13.615-08:00It's all related to the human voice and its re...It's all related to the human voice and its registers.. Tuning A4=440Hz with 12-TET places the notes in the scale at a wonky high annoying resonance which is to far from the natural relaxed A4 at ~432Hz. I am not a new age believer or anything like that.. Just a musician and singer for 22 odd years. THe highest pitch for A4 is 438Hz.. Anything above that and the second passaggio gets to tough for heavy voices to operate safely.. You have to constant due exercises to get the balance correct which is not needed with a small 11.8 cents detune to 437Hz for exampel. The former European pitch at 435Hz was due to singer and physician recommendation. At 435Hz you have to do some transition at the second passaggio but you can still blend some lower resonance into the sound which creates a much more pleasent sound.. At 432Hz (-31.8 cents) then almost no transition have to be made at a certain passaggio note and the resonance of the singers voices on countless tracks I detuned -30 cetns (after getting used to the downtune) it that it sound much more honest and a true reflection of the person who is singing as the notes in the 12-TET scale is much closer to that persons natural relaxed talking pitch.. But sometimes you need a little lift and tension and hence why 435Hz is a good middle ground.. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11595402793127178815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298055147607304087.post-86595535887143225702016-05-25T07:11:32.313-07:002016-05-25T07:11:32.313-07:00Seriously, I've already fucking provided sourc...Seriously, I've already fucking provided sources for my statements regarding that thing, and someone like you coming and making a drive-by comment that just pretends I didn't do research is fucking insulting and I won't stand for your kind of bullshit.Miekkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03254032879671190589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298055147607304087.post-54423650377846812682016-05-25T07:10:46.906-07:002016-05-25T07:10:46.906-07:00oh my, you're a thick idiot, aren't you?oh my, you're a thick idiot, aren't you?Miekkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03254032879671190589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298055147607304087.post-68952199819605754392016-05-25T05:08:40.757-07:002016-05-25T05:08:40.757-07:00he speaks about the language of the scribes in bab...he speaks about the language of the scribes in babylon and how they compressed for whatever reason the language of the pentatuech and other writings that may have been concealed in mimum form or for lack or resources,abbreviated.//it is no rant....liar...it's an observation and possibly correct....he expresses that at the time of the great punishment they left out vowel and didnot include itallics....boy he was right about religious bigotry but I carried on.....not you...you got stuck in the preface.mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13686092012667453897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298055147607304087.post-50891080280266041592016-05-25T04:41:38.243-07:002016-05-25T04:41:38.243-07:00all your critiques carry one mode or fault...that ...all your critiques carry one mode or fault...that is the injurous nature your belief system has felt....he may be found in fault but never was the faith....?says god to the contrary.mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13686092012667453897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298055147607304087.post-47881654561829362452016-01-20T23:04:32.732-08:002016-01-20T23:04:32.732-08:00From a moralist point of view, the distinction bet...From a moralist point of view, the distinction between "factual" and "moral" wrongs is also complicated by the category of "culpable ignorance", where being factually wrong constitutes a "moral error" in itself. This distinction doesn't really rebut Lewis (merely pointing out that he stacked the odds in his favour by choosing a bad counter-argument to his claim, as you did, does), but not considering the interaction between the two is a sign of how facile Lewis' treatment of the issue is. Every "moral wrong" eventually acquires a list of "factual" justifications.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17213751411076474586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298055147607304087.post-11336681671126470992015-12-27T11:06:29.188-08:002015-12-27T11:06:29.188-08:00This promises to be quite a yummy reading.This promises to be quite a yummy reading.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17213751411076474586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298055147607304087.post-71437516486219263822015-12-08T04:27:15.848-08:002015-12-08T04:27:15.848-08:00Thank you for this post. I gave Walker's book ...Thank you for this post. I gave Walker's book to my wife as a present back in the early 90s and used it as a resource for a long time. Several fellow academics (female) had recommended it. However, after reading many of her definitions and doing some fact checking, I was dismayed. Not only is she all too often highly opinionated rather then objective, she makes leaps of logic and false associations that hardly qualify as sound scholarship. One simple example is the definition for Queen Mab, a fairy mentioned in Romeo and Juliet. Not only is Shakespeare not even mentioned, she associates Mab with Celtic folklore, which is only half true. The original source, as Ernest Weekly points out, is Middle English and associated with the Latin amabilis, lovable. She says that Mab equates to "mead" and makes yet another association with wine and menstrual blood. Talk about creative scholarship! I'm relegating this book to the trash heap.Tom Lanninhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14486046944302292411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298055147607304087.post-12362937202477284032015-07-27T19:23:53.452-07:002015-07-27T19:23:53.452-07:00I'm citing you in this new post:
http://www.la...I'm citing you in this new post:<br />http://www.languagesoftheworld.info/australia-and-papua-new-guinea/are-languages-of-primitive-peoples-primitive.htmlAsya Pereltsvaighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06111831062274618509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298055147607304087.post-46042805192375518472015-07-27T15:28:50.460-07:002015-07-27T15:28:50.460-07:00You make some great points here!
One thing that s...You make some great points here!<br /><br />One thing that should be noted with respect to your "vowel-less Semitic is primitive" example is that claims such as this confuse LANGUAGE and SCRIPT, two entirely different things. The same language can be represented by using different scripts and the same script can be used for very different languages. Whether the vowel-less Semitic script is more primitive is a question that can be debated (one could even claim that while Semitic peoples had a writing system, however imperfect or "primitive", the linguistic ancestors of the critics had NONE!), but it has nothing to do with Semitic languages per se.Asya Pereltsvaighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06111831062274618509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298055147607304087.post-52434472737406010982015-07-27T15:13:02.326-07:002015-07-27T15:13:02.326-07:00That's a great post and a great blog all-aroun...That's a great post and a great blog all-around! One point that is worth adding is that for someone to debunk a certain claim, one has to have doubts as to one's validity to begin with. All too often people believe claims simply because these claims are being made. So to use your example at the top of the post, to debunk the claim that "Science thinks humans have spoken language for about 10,000 years now.", one has to have an inkling that this may not be so, that scientists give different dates, that this is a controversial issue, etc.Asya Pereltsvaighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06111831062274618509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298055147607304087.post-48284037455536410632015-07-27T15:06:04.561-07:002015-07-27T15:06:04.561-07:00Excellent post. More on this topic here:
http://w...Excellent post. More on this topic here:<br /><br />http://www.languagesoftheworld.info/historical-linguistics/which-language-is-the-oldest.htmlAsya Pereltsvaighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06111831062274618509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298055147607304087.post-22444889090241864112015-07-27T13:55:04.580-07:002015-07-27T13:55:04.580-07:00Thank you for a great review and for emphasizing t...Thank you for a great review and for emphasizing the important contributions of our book! We tried to contain our combativeness and the general dismay at the sort of work we've criticized so it's great to hear that we've succeeded. What a great phrase about "the sanity of the model [being] excruciatingly questionable" :)Asya Pereltsvaighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06111831062274618509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298055147607304087.post-9128372275797983602015-07-12T11:41:20.569-07:002015-07-12T11:41:20.569-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Miekkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03254032879671190589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298055147607304087.post-12589589602181834332015-06-22T05:54:57.992-07:002015-06-22T05:54:57.992-07:00Regardless, Augustine admitting that we do not kno...Regardless, Augustine admitting that we do not know what Jesus looked like does not support her overarching thesis that Jesus did not exist. We know very little about the appearance of most ancient figures.Victor Emeritahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05677963399835398349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298055147607304087.post-38013429684691078502015-03-16T21:25:57.292-07:002015-03-16T21:25:57.292-07:00Just a teensy musicological quibble to your fundam...Just a teensy musicological quibble to your fundamentally excellent piece: The continual vibrato we hear today on string instruments is a relatively modern invention, popularized by Fritz Kreisler around the 'teens of the last century. The farther back you go in the history of recorded violin, the less vibrato - but the more portamento - you hear.Mark Arnesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00405144110125493735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1298055147607304087.post-61304553787782981422014-12-21T11:23:13.138-08:002014-12-21T11:23:13.138-08:00You have to expect attacks by many of the brain ea...You have to expect attacks by many of the brain eating zombie mythicists. If scholarly discussion and review by actual credentialed scholars in that field aren't acceptable then personal attacks and appeals to conspiracy are soon to follow. Mayonardohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13519243031719427874noreply@blogger.com