GREAT WALL OF CHINA - Why Was It Built?

[Ed Conrad]

>
(Rave reviews of the first two chapter's of ``Ed's Historical
Overhaul" -- ``Columbus' Riskless Journey to Discover America"
and ``Earliest Man Certainly Didn't Arrive in North America by
Crossing the Bering Strait" -- continue to pour in and the
really good news is that the book may be finished in time for
Christmas if I hustle and finish writing it.)
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Chapter III: THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA
>
One of the world's most perplexing of life's mysteries, along
with the construction of the pyramids, is WHY the Great Wall
of China was built.
>
Almost everyone gullibly accepts the proposition that the the
Great Wall was built for only one reason: to prevent China
from being invaded.
>
Then there are others ( i.e., some Chinese historical
scholars) who claim it was built to serve as a permanent
barrier between the agricultural Chinese in the south and the
Xiong Nu (the nomadic cattle-raisers) in the north, since they
apparently got along as well as cats and dogs.
>
Nonsense!
>
Anyone with a semblance of common sense realizes that, if the
Great Wall had been constructed to keep an enemy out or to
keep the peace within, it never would've have been extended to
such a great length -- nearly 4,000 miles -- and continue
through so many isolated areas, including the mountains and
along the borders of deserts, a great distance from
civilization.
>
And, besides, the Great Wall --- about 25 feet high --
couldn't have done an adequate job of protecting the Chinese
from an invasion anyway.
>
This was proven explicitly eight centuries ago when the
Mongolian hordes of Generalisimo Genghis Khan successfully
scaled the wall at numerous locations and eventually conquered
most of China.
>
The real reason The Great Wall of China was originally
constructed had nothing whatsoever to do with preventing an
invasion but, instead, to keep the Chinese inside China. <
China's leaders admantly opposed the mingling of their people
with those in neighboring countries -- preventing romantic
interludes and a mixing of the races -- that, with what would
be considered religious fervor, they ordered the start of the
mindboggling, gargantuan undertaking.
>
This is how concerned the leaders were about the possible
``contamination'' of the Chinese race by mingling -- and
mating -- with non-Chinese.
>
Many scientific textbooks claim that construction of the
original section of The Great Wall began around 400 B.C. but
various scientists, especially the Chinese, seriously question
this dating and believe it had begun much earlier.
>
Indeed, it did.
>
Granted, there may well have been a variety of good reasons
for extending the Great Wall later on (after it was almost
2,000 miles long).
>
But the sole purpose for starting construction in the first
place was to keep their race pure (which is precisely what a
Johnny-Come-Lately attempted to do -- in an evil, hideous,
horrible way -- in Nazi Germany in the 1930s.)
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[Beowulf Bo]

Ed Conrad wrote:
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[all snipped]

I take it Verizon is staffed by idiots who don't care about
Ed's posting of this OT crap into a bunch of uninterested
newsgroups. Complaints seem to be falling on deaf ears.

Biff

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[Pete McCut]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 04:40:08 GMT, Ed Conrad
<edconrad@verizon.net> wrote:

>One of the world's most perplexing of life's mysteries, along
>with the construction of the pyramids, is WHY the Great Wall
>of China was built.
>>
>Almost everyone gullibly accepts the proposition that the the
>Great Wall was built for only one reason: to prevent China
>from being invaded.
>>
>Then there are others ( i.e., some Chinese historical
>scholars) who claim it was built to serve as a permanent
>barrier between the agricultural Chinese in the south and the
>Xiong Nu (the nomadic cattle-raisers) in the north, since
>they apparently got along as well as cats and dogs.
>>
>Nonsense!

The Great Wall of China was built for one and only one reason.
It's obvious, once you think about it.

Kong!

--

Pete McCutchen

[Brion K. L]

"Beowulf Bolt" <abd.al-hazred@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:411A3E84.69B1@shaw.ca...
> Ed Conrad wrote:
> >
> [all snipped]
>
> I take it Verizon is staffed by idiots who don't care
> about Ed's posting of this OT crap into a bunch of
> uninterested newsgroups. Complaints seem to be falling on
> deaf ears.

Probably not against the terms of service. It's not
pornographic, or solicitations for products.
Mind-bogglingly-stupid is not against the law.

[Steph]

Brion K. Lienhart wrote:
> "Beowulf Bolt" <abd.al-hazred@shaw.ca> wrote in message
> news:411A3E84.69B1@shaw.ca...
>
>> I take it Verizon is staffed by idiots who don't care
>> about Ed's posting of this OT crap into a bunch of
>> uninterested newsgroups. Complaints seem to be falling on
>> deaf ears.
>
>
> Probably not against the terms of service. It's not
> pornographic, or solicitations for products.
> Mind-bogglingly-stupid is not against the law.
>
>

Just plonk the sucker. He doesn't change his headers AFAICT.

stePH
--
"A lion will exert himself to the utmost, even when entering
the tiger's den to throw baby rabbits off a cliff!" --
Moroboshi Ataru

[Bill Snyde]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:27:39 -0700, "Brion K. Lienhart"
<brionl@comcast.net> wrote:

>"Beowulf Bolt" <abd.al-hazred@shaw.ca> wrote in message
>news:411A3E84.69B1@shaw.ca...
>> Ed Conrad wrote:
>> >
>> [all snipped]
>>
>> I take it Verizon is staffed by idiots who don't care
>> about Ed's posting of this OT crap into a bunch of
>> uninterested newsgroups. Complaints seem to be falling on
>> deaf ears.
>
>Probably not against the terms of service. It's not
>pornographic, or solicitations for products.
>Mind-bogglingly-stupid is not against the law.

It violates section (1) of their written policy for newsgroup
posting, which bans deliberate off-charter posting even
non-commercially. If we assume (and AFAICS this is the only
reasonable assumption) that Man as Dumb as Dirt has no
legitimate expectation of finding converts to his lunacy on
rasfw, and is simply demonstrating how big an asshole he can
be, then it violates (2) as well.

"It is a violation of Verizon policy to add messages to
newsgroups 1) that are clearly inappropriate given the
intended purpose or scope of the newsgroup, including adding
commercial postings to newsgroups of a non-commercial nature,
or 2) in a manner that is clearly excessive and intended to
annoy or harass. Subscribers that Verizon determines to be in
violation of this policy shall be subject to immediate
termination of service without prior notice, or immediate
suspension of service without prior notice pending results of
an investigation."

(Quoted directly and in its entirety from:
<http://www2.verizon.net/policies/newsgroup_posting.asp>)

Apparently the policy is just for show, and they don't
actually give a rat's tuchis.

--
Bill Snyder [This space unintentionally left blank.]