>Google is your friend
This is questionable... :)
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingir
Then this one is more tempting. "Deity" and very old (and very
important, as a civilization).
>Here's what: A gun to your head creates necessity. Dumb nomads can
>force any religion onto their smart pacifist neighbors if they're >determined enough to use deadly force.
Nope. Only if they are strong enough in addition *otherwise* than
via military force. Many of the "Altaic" mounted invaders weren't
able to impose their culture onto their subdued victims; on the
contrary, in most cases they became zoroastrians, buddhist,
christians, moslems etc. Some of them lost their own language
(e.g. the ruling turkic warrior "class" of the Bulgarians and of the
Hungarians, the former got slavicized, the latter magyarized;
and to both, their ancestor overlords, the Iranian-speaking
Scythians/Alans merely left lexical traces). Only Turks managed
to imposed Turkish on much of Anatolia (although Armenians,
Greek, Kurds haven't vanished altogether) and on some Iranian-
speaking regions (but Turkish/Turkic variants are full of Iranian-
isms).
>>(the thing we call the earth) is a disc
>>and by no means a ball. And even if you'd add "it's fix, it doesn't
>>move", I won't veto with the wording "eppur si muove". :-)
>
>You got that backwards. Gallileo said that, not the pope.
There is no pope in my sentence. But in the figura rhaetorica
contained in it, it is you the one to assume the pope's role,
whilst I'm the one supposed to mumble eppur si muove. :)
>G. had no power to veto.
(I used "veto" only because it's shorter than "contradict".)
>Erh, what?
>I don't do sudden things, regardless of what impression you and the >other George might have.
You can't escape St. George: your rescue is Stefan Ralf, but he
is a Georg, i.e. George, too. And note that St. George is a
mounted knight, similar to those Altaic warriors wielding long
lances. (What if Herr Privatdozent sends me a message saying
"Er hat mich missverstanden. °Deus°, °dies°, °divus°, °tin°
und °denj° sind keineswegs am Jenissejufer erfunden worden."? :))
George