From:    Khephera                               Area: MagickNet
To:      Falcon                                  9 Jun 96 05:31:28
Subject: revelations                            UpdReq 

On Jun 06 11:09 96, Falcon of 93:9200/3 wrote:
K>> You do seem to enjoy being insulting, don't you?
F> no. I am precisely saying what I think. If not marking every single word 
F> with an "IMHO" is insulting to you - well, I don't care.
You misunderstand me (but have probably not seen my messages to you in Magick 
concerning this yet).  I know this is all your opinion, and that's fine.  
What bothers me is that we are discussing things of a philisophical and 
subjective nature- yet you are telling me I'm "wrong" with every word that 
comes from you.  We aren't dealing with things you can be "wrong" about in 
the first place- even if you do not agree with me and have ideas with 
particular conflict with mine.
Of course, that's not including this particular topic (origin of a language) 
which is something one can be "wrong" about.  But, after all the posts in 
Magick that featured every single line begining with "wrong"....I was testy.  
K>> I happen to know for a fact that much of the Greek alphabet came from
K>> the Hebrew.
F> then name your source. You haven't been there yourself, therefore your 
F> knowledge comes from secondary sources. Does that count as "fact"? 
Though I do not remember the title, I can assure you that this tid-bit did, 
indeed, come from a textbook on the Hebrew Language.  The Hebrew Alphabet was 
the first of it's kind in the world (note I said "of it's kind") and much of 
it was adopted by the Greeks for their own alphabet.  Once again, I point out 
the painfully obvious examples of "Alpha" (Hebrew Aleph), "Beta" (Beth), 
"Gamma" (Gimel), etc, etc, etc.
I retracted, long ago, my statment that the Greek _language_ developed from 
the Hebrew (it was nothing more than bad wording on my part).  But, to sit 
there and say that a good amount of the Hebrew _alphabet_ was not adopted 
from/influenced by the Hebrew alphabet is plain silly.
F> Yust a small sidenote: The word "fact" derived from latin facere which 
F> translates as "to make".
Interesting....I wonder why that word came to be tranlated as "fact".
K>> Such as Alpha (Aleph), Beta (Beth), Gamma (Gimel), etc.
F> in the mail that I replied to you were talking about the letters, not the 
F> names. I agree that about half of the names are similar.
The Names as well as the phonetic values of the letters.  This is what I was 
refering to...and all I was refering to.  I don't claim any great knowledge 
(hell, I don't claim any knowledge) of Greek.  Hebrew is my thing...with a 
little Egyptian and Sumer-Babylonian thrown in on the side.
Blessed Be, may Yahweh and His Asherah guide and keep thee,
Ar ReX Em SeXem Eref Neter Au-a
Rx
Khephera


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From:    Ulric                                  Area: MagickNet
To:      Paul Hume                               7 Jun 96 23:11:44
Subject: Witches Lose Court Decisi              UpdReq 

Thanks of the Info.
Lets Keep in touch ok
Blessed Be
Ulric


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