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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Gravity/ reply to Pam Pincha
Message-ID: <730@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 15:57:43 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 16 15:57:43 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Sep-85 05:25:22 EDT
References: <389@imsvax.UUCP> <180@gargoyle.UUCP>
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In article <180@gargoyle.UUCP> carnes@gargoyle.UUCP (Richard Carnes) writes:
>
>In a supplementary section to *Earth in Upheaval*, Velikovsky,
>discussing Greek history, explains why it is "actually very simple."
>He says that there were no Greek Dark Ages (between Mycenaean and
>Archaic Greece) because "a literate people cannot forfeit completely
>a well-developed literacy..."  Silly historians, to have overlooked
>such an elementary point.  Anyway, since I am studying ancient Greek
>history, I am looking forward to Ted's explanation of why I need to
>revise radically my ideas about this historical period.
>
	Hmm, well V's concept here seems quite doubtfull to me too,
since in fact our own society seems to be heading in exactly that
direction! Of course the loss of literacy would destroy society as we
know it, but that is what makes a Dark Ages.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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