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iossarian4/28/2011 11:59:00 am PDT

re: #754 LudwigVanQuixote

Umm no

It was the best answer I could give to a question you meant to be unanswerable in a specific case. What do you want me to say?

IS 1000 years as our cultural center not long enough for you? Is the intervening 2000 years where we still considered it our cultural center not long enough? What is?

Well, my point of course was that there is no standard. You can’t say “it’s ours because we’ve been there for X years.” Statements like that are not logical arguments, they are just cheerleading.

This is why, in my opinion, it’s problematic to start out from a position of “this is ours and always shall be, God says so”.