Ships of Tarshish

The lawyer show...Law and Order...was on....animal rights trial...defense was animals have rights and so can be justifiably defended...defendant stole monkeys from lab and one bit someone...and the experimental virus in the monkey caused the victim's death...well...that was all a complicated forum to try and come to grips with...'do animals have a soul?'....comparing the dilemma to the plight of American slaves didn't win the case!...the prosecution pointed out the rats carrying bubonic plague are killed mercilessly...and that's a good point....people do have the 'right' to defend themselves against menacing animals...and plants...and bugs and viruses...and surely these all...indeed all Nature...shows little regard for human suffering...which...is one of the big mysteries!...when I come to this point I always think of the movie where the vacationing family finds Bigfoot and brings him home...at first they are fearful...and cruel...but come to know the big fella...and become fast friends...brb...


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092657/





Often in war the enemy is "demonized"....seen as menacing animals...

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During World War I, the German threat was depicted as a mad, marauding gorilla with a bloody club.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=79071

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If I remember right...Diane Fosse did much to try and elevate our opinion of gorillas!




I think animal planet is on now...and appropriately they are eradicating rats!...and killer bees and roaches...





but to the Ships of Tarshish...the book 'Children of Noah'...came...and I've just read the intros and preface so far....but took note of Tarshish...I have some 'theories' about all this!...but will wait to read the whole book...brb...





for goodness sake...there's a kinda 'save the children' like charity to provide passage for Soviet Jews to come to Israel...and uses passages from Ezekiel and Isaiah...proclaiming prophecies are coming true...and you can contribute!...





http://www.tarshish.org.il/Tarshish%20Ship.htm





but that's a whole 'nother thing...brb...





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As a result of creating the Ships of Antiquity I have concluded that probably no other technology in the history of man has been more important to the spread of civilization, culture and trade in the world than that of the seafaring ship.





Ancient Ships: The Ships of Antiquity
Ancient Ships in art history: The navy of King Solomon and Isreal





http://www.artsales.com/ARTistory/Ancient_Ships/11_solomons_navy.html





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a nice page!!





That's kinda my thought too!...and was working with it in the canoe posts...anyway...for later...oh...the show had the Ghandi quote...brb...


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“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”


Ghandi

http://thinkexist.com/quotation/the_greatness_of_a_nation_and_its_moral_progress/189870.html

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on the TV...


They're giggling doing the roaches...

Do you kill them?
I never kill them..I just send them on their merry way...


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The pioneer immigrants brought their foul European diseases with them. Aboard their ships, filthy water and human and animal wastes sloshed around in the bilges for a month or more. Men and women who were healthy when they left Europe were sick when they landed —not only from malnutrition but also from infections picked up at sea. Some, such as smallpox, malaria and measles, proved effective biological-warfare weapons, ravaging the Indians, who had no immunity against them. But most of the disease-causing microbes of the Old World took readily to the fertile soil of the New World, and so did the insects and vermin that carry them. The result: for fully three centuries, North America was scourged by deadly epidemics.


Plagues of the Past


http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,914554,00.html?promoid=googlep

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