alwayscurious said:
anyone else have anything to add before I jump in with both feet?
alwayscurious,
First, welcome to the forum. I hope you'll stay around long enough to learn what the forum is all about and to find out what JREF is all about. I also hope you won't be disappointed by what I predict will happen here, if you proceed with this approach. This forum is a skeptics forum. You will be asked to provide evidence. You will find the questions will continue and will probe deeply into the Ahora Covenant Inscription claim. This may end up frustrating you, we'll go through some screaming matches and you will disappear after piling on accusations of closed-mindedness. If you continue in this vein.
It doesn't have to be this way. I hope you will not view the questions as being directed at you personally. I hope you will also take the time to think about them carefully and considerately. Please don't lapse into the subject/motive shift fallacy as you do so. The motives here are simple: to understand and to get to the truth about various claims.
One of the first things you will be called upon to do is to present solid research papers. Those papers must be vetted through the peer-review process. We will be expecting evidence from respected, peer-reviewed archaelogy and archaeolinguistics journals, and we will accept nothing less. We will expect to see evidence that the tablet was given to other research teams to corroborate or refute claims about it. We expect to see the papers that resulted from that scientific sharing and intersubjective validation process. We expect that those papers, too, were published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
You can set the tone for this discourse by backing away from what looks, to this observer at least, like a classic troll. It is my hope that was not your intent, but look at your two posts from an outsider's perspective. With no prior participation in other threads, you begin one with an ostensible information-gathering question. But your very next post belies the first. Now you say you are about to "jump in with both feet." This isn't the type of post that will gain respect here. Neither is it the type of post to set the tone for a reasonable exchange.
So please do continue this in a genuine manner. Don't come in here thinking you are a wolf in sheep's clothing; you are more likely than not to come off as an irrational sheep in sheep's clothing. Come in here for a dialogue and with a willingness to listen considerately to what critical thinking is all about. Present evidence, please, and recognize the high standards of evidence that critical thinking requires.
Again, welcome to the forum.
The one thing looks clearly like a boat. So, go here in a boat, and walk here...
