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Kool Musick wrote:
> > Not to put too fine a point on it, this was a most heinous crime against
> > humanity for which Christians and Muslims were jointly responsible. At one
> > of those burnings they were stoking the fires for over a week!! Imagine!!!
> > All those books and manuscripts lovingly gathered over the centuries just
> > GONE in wanton acts of sheer savagery.

Yoonchi wrote:
>Damn! These were the Talibans of the past.
>Lets bom the Vatican. No, just kidding, :-). No more wars please.

Hmm!!
I really didn't think I was suggesting a war, actually.

The various Alexandria burnings happened some 2,000 years ago now ... so I 
think it's kind of well past time that any sort of war of revenge or 
retribution should be initiated, to be honest! Please don't anyone start 
one on my behalf.

I also kind of thought that I was saying that I really don't see how a War 
On Books served any purpose, but that it had rather hurt things instead ... 
as all wars seem to do.

I guess I should have thought more clearly that someone or other might feel 
motivated to stand up and try to defend those burnings. I never thought of 
that. If anyone does want to stand up and defend them then I'll just say 
that I respectfully disagree with them and simply leave it at that. They 
are burned and they are gone and that's a fact.

Also ... on my mother's side, my grandfather was the first literate member 
of our family; and on my father's side my father was. I have relatives who 
still haven't learned to do this. My experience, therefore, is not that 
deep in this regard. And ... because of this, I guess, I have learned to 
love and appreciate books possibly in a way that's a bit different from 
those who, through a different heritage, are able to take it for granted. 
It is pretty close to incomprehensible to me why anyone would want to do 
something like this.

I was not suggesting a war. I was not trying to get one to start. I was 
just trying to say that as someone who loves books and learning and who has 
spent a lot of time studying ancient knowledge, it truly grieves me to 
think of everything that was lost. When I read GA Moore's post I remembered 
Alexandria from the few studies I did in early Christian and Muslim 
theology and that was about it, really. Nothing more. Certainly no 
incitement to violence.

>Peace,

Peace to you also.

Kool Musick
Keep Musick Kool


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