Excavation

A question that has crossed my mind – that needs someone learned to explain to me – is, how come if we need to find details of former generations, do we need to always dig?

Sure in Pompeii where it was covered by a volcanic eruption, you need to did to locate the existing remnants of a “lost” city, but everywhere else, previous civilizations (if they even WERE civilized) you need to dig! From Egypt to the Andes, even in Britain, relics are discovered by digging! Where do the “experts” think that all of this soil came from?  There are heaps of digs that discover things like ancient boats, and it defeats me why the ancients took the effort to bury things like buildings or boats?

The desire to dig up history is fairly universal as I said from Ancient Britain through Egypt to the Incas of Peru.

I can see the “need” to dig up graves to find out history, as if civilized man actually “needs” to disturb the burial places of former populations. Does the quest for knowledge allow us to selectively desecrate graves or tombs? I know in Egypt there was great excitement at the discovery of tombs of ancient kings – mainly because of the wealth that people such as King Tutankhamen were buried alongside.

Another thing that astounds me is that the “learned” interpret what is uncovered, and expound their theories on what details are unveiled. It always amazes me that their theories are taken at face value by the general population to be absolute truth, and are taught as absolute fact in schools and universities!

This extends to such things like carbon dating of artifacts! They commonly show that bones etc are carbon dated to thousands or millions of years old. Surely THAT is a theory, maybe impossible to disprove, but the way I feel now, the absence of alternative explanations is hardly proof of a theory!

The way things are

Life here is interesting to say the least. The delivery drivers wanted more pay so they all went on strike. Consequently the delivery of fuel country wide was disrupted. I heard there were rumblings so I refuelled both of my Landrovers beforehand. Now I attend Church in Port Durnford, that gave me around 3 months of fuel. The fuel delivery drivers threatened to strike for 6 months if they had to, but 3 weeks with no pay, they decided to accept the offer of 10% increase. They are not ediucated enough to realise that they messed up the economy for 3 weeks, all for 1.5% increase, The way I see it is, 1 day without pay (official that no work = no pay (no strike pay either!) they are massively behind the curve. They will NEVER recover the wages they gave up. They do not think of higher taxes, higher costs at the supermarket till and everything that goes with higher wages. If they were getting any pay, they would receive less than they used to!

I have been blessed to move from Richards Bay branch, to Port Durnford branch. Now Church is virtually within spitting distance, not 120 kilometers a week round trip away! Since the strike, I have used less than a quarter (WAY less) of a tank of fuel in my V8 Discovery and a quarter of a tank of diesel in my Freelander.

Port Durnford branch is mainly a Black membership branch. There is no other way to "politically correcvtly" say that. I dont believe that they see much difference in colour to us "mhlungu's"

It makes no sense to me that the darker USA citizens claim to be "African Americans"! Does that mean that the native races of Africa need to claim to be "African Africans!" The government of SA had a series of court sanctioned operations - "Reconciliation" - to get to the causes of displeasure after Apartheid and to resolve the differences. Now everyone born in Africa (like me and my members) are South Africans, even though I was born in Southern Rhodesia. I was born there before it was called Rhodesia, and I left Zimbabwe for a better life in SA!