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2007-03-23 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by gorb 2007-03-23 16:37|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What makes an expert (on anything)?

On another note, I don't watch movies in order to quote them as fact. I watch them for entertainment. Doesn't an assistant professor know the difference between entertainment and the study of history?

These people need to learn life is too short to go through it being offended.

Posted by Xenophon 2007-03-23 18:08|| 2007-03-23 18:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Estrada persisted, stating that representations in the movie that the Mayans engaged in sacrificial ceremonies and had bloodthirsty tendencies were both wrong and racist.

Yeah, I guess prolonged ritualistic public torture followed by beheading [the preferred sacrificial method of the Maya - attested to by their own records] doesn't qualify as "sacrificial ceremonies and had bloodthirsty tendencies."

Posted by xbalanke 2007-03-23 18:09|| 2007-03-23 18:09|| Front Page Top

#3 I am so embarrassed for CSUN... I got my English degree from there, back in the day when you could be fairly sure of getting a good education from a state school.
There was a small radical fringe, in the 70ies, but they mostly behaved themselves.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2007-03-23 18:11|| www.ncobrief.com]">[www.ncobrief.com] 2007-03-23 18:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Disclaimer: I have only suoperficial knowledge of the Mayan civilization.

The Mayan civilization at its peak ws not a bloodthirsty one. I am not even sure it practiced human sacrifice. However when decadebnce began and perhaps because of influence of Aztecs human sacrifice on large scale beacme common.

Movie depicts Mayan civilization when it was near its downfall so it is accurate.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-03-23 18:45|| 2007-03-23 18:45|| Front Page Top

#5 These people need to learn life is too short to go through it being offended.

Try telling that to the Muslims!!! Guffaw!

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-03-23 18:48|| 2007-03-23 18:48|| Front Page Top

#6 A Hollywood movie that played loose with historical facts? Say it isn't so.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-03-23 19:06|| rjschwarz.com]">[rjschwarz.com] 2007-03-23 19:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Good for Mel. That's exactly what the Muzzys need to hear, loudly and often.

Posted by Mac 2007-03-23 19:38|| 2007-03-23 19:38|| Front Page Top

#8 The Mayan Community? Are there meetings? Do they split a room with the Visigoth Community?

Posted by tu3031 2007-03-23 21:21|| 2007-03-23 21:21|| Front Page Top

#9 I am not even sure it practiced human sacrifice.

JFM - visit Chichen Itza and Uxmal - see the sacrificial sites. They were not quite as bad as the Aztecs, but that's like being called a "humanitarian - compared to Stalin"...I've visited, seen the evidence

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-03-23 22:51|| 2007-03-23 22:51|| Front Page Top

#10 I don't see the problem. F&ck off is just Strine for 'Have a nice day (d!ckhead)'.

Posted by phil_b 2007-03-23 22:59|| 2007-03-23 22:59|| Front Page Top

#11 Oh no, another trip to PC school for Mel? (scarasm)

Posted by Captain America 2007-03-23 23:52|| 2007-03-23 23:52|| Front Page Top

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