Christopher Columbus was Scottish

**Bugbear** · 11th March 09, 02:29 PM

Well, there are negative influences too... I guess the point was that cultures and people usually do not exist in a vacuum in relation to other cultures no matter how at war they are.

Sorry to have off topic-ed this, but it is interesting.

**macwilkin** · 11th March 09, 02:39 PM

Originally Posted by Ted Crocker

Well, there are negative influences too... I guess the point was that cultures and people usually do not exist in a vacuum in relation to other cultures no matter how at war they are.

Sorry to have off topic-ed this, but it is interesting.

Of course, Ted...google "middle ground" to learn about the varied relationship, good and bad, between Indians and Europeans.

T.

**Bugbear** · 11th March 09, 02:56 PM

Thanks, Todd, and I'm also trying to do a little reading research into my own subculture's history in Scotland. Very interesting stuff.

**Bugbear** · 12th March 09, 01:06 AM

Whack!!! You are now an American.

I'm kind of wondering what Ron is talking about with this, but I was afraid to ask.

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Nevermind, I very carefully read the post again several times.

**Bugbear** · 14th March 09, 07:09 PM

Where's David Hume when you need him?

**Nick** · 15th March 09, 04:17 AM

Originally Posted by Ted Crocker

Where's David Hume when you need him?

Outconsuming Schopenhauer and Hegel.

**Bugbear** · 15th March 09, 07:33 AM

Originally Posted by Nick

Outconsuming Schopenhauer and Hegel.

**Bugbear** · 17th March 09, 08:27 PM

Yep; don't know if it influenced our constatution; was around before our constatution, so may have been the first one in North America.

I don't have the resources to find the answers, but it is interesting.

**eiry** · 18th March 09, 12:14 PM

Originally Posted by Ted Crocker

Yep; don't know if it influenced our constatution; was around before our constatution, so may have been the first one in North America.

I don't have the resources to find the answers, but it is interesting.

This article makes me cringe with embarressment, I am ashamed that a lot of scots make preposterous claims on people and their achievments to basque in their glory, if its one thing we scots are good at it is basterdizing our culture.

Saying Christopher colombus was scottish is simply absurd and iridiculous no matter if he had a scots ancestor or two in his past (which I very much doubt).

**Bugbear** · 26th March 09, 11:20 AM

I'm just a little country boy, alone out here in the desert, so I don't know anything about these big words.

However, I have seen several myths, that were tought to me as historical fact, torn apart and exposed as myth. I also know that events of the past are now being looked at again in new ways, with new tools, and in ways that would have been over looked or written off not too long ago.

So, the history books are never really closed.