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Gwyddyon
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Message 1 of 5 (125444)
07-18-2004 11:37 AM


Three cheers for the most annoying (and vain) type of thread in Forumdom.
I suppose I may as well give some brief background if I'm going to do this properly. I'm currently a sophomore at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities College of Liberal Arts, majoring in linguistics (at the moment working on Castilian Spanish, Modern Irish, Finnish, German, and Old English) and anthropology (with a focus in archaeology), with minors in history and medieval studies (huzzah for overlapping course requirements). I've focused most of my studies in post-Alesia Celtic Europe, especially Ireland, but I still dabble in matters Egyptian, Roman, medieval, and pre-Neolithic.
As far as forums and debate go, I found this place through Lysimachus. I'm a long-time member of the forums at http://www.someplacesomwhere.com, where I've debated both Lys and his brother Hydarnes sporadically for years. Specifically, he linked here in a 'debate' over The Exodus Case, which I find to be total bunk. Which moves nicely into the last bit of my ego's airtime. When it comes to basic beliefs, I'm a non-denominational neo-Pagan and former strong atheist with a very strong evolutionist bent (or, to put it another way, 99.9% certainty that modern evolutionary theory is fact), slightly less faith in the Big Bang theory (I don't know, 70%?), and a predilection for the type of mytho-historical analysis of history employed by authors like Jean Markale.
So. Yeah.

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Message 2 of 5 (125448)
07-18-2004 11:58 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Gwyddyon
07-18-2004 11:37 AM


W e l c o m e !
Glad to have you here. It sounds like you may be another source for us to learn from.
I think you'll do well, but I'm supposed to suggest that you read over the forum guidelines anyway. Have fun!

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jar
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Message 3 of 5 (125467)
07-18-2004 2:09 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Gwyddyon
07-18-2004 11:37 AM


Welcome home. Looks like you will bring an impressive box of tools to our little corner. Looking forward to learning from you.

Aslan is not a Tame Lion

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coffee_addict
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Message 4 of 5 (125486)
07-18-2004 4:38 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Gwyddyon
07-18-2004 11:37 AM


Bah! If you want to make yourself useful here, forget evolution and become a creationist. The evolutionists on this forum outnumber the creationists like 100 to 1. And out of the 1 rep creationist, about .90 of him represent crackpots.

The Laminator

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Message 5 of 5 (125535)
07-18-2004 10:45 PM
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07-18-2004 4:38 PM


Harsh Lam
At most it's .75 at best.

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