amandaF said...

> On Jul 26, 5:00 am, "Edwin Pawlowski" > wrote:
>> "Andy" <q> wrote in message
>>
>> > India's gotta learn to eat more of those cows. Not just wait for them
>> > to die
>> > of exhausting worship!
>>
>> > Andy
>>
>> Watched a show about India a while back. If you own a couple of cows,
>> you are in good fiscal shape. They provide milk, they provide fuel and
>> building material in the form of dung. They make rather good use of
>> the available resources.
>
> Isn't it interesting that only with industrial revolution (and
> westerners leading in that arena), there has been so much wasteful
> activities in the name of competitive business. India has too big a
> population and so even with all the economic development, there will
> always be poor people but that is nothing new in a country with a old
> civilization. I bet there was a period in their ancients days where
> no one starved. In fact, reading Indus valley civilization, there
> were statement that there was no trace of warfare. May be there
> wasn't big weapon back then until the gun powder was invented. Come
> to think of it, the Chinese invented the gun powder but it was the
> west who used it large scale. Not trying to attack western culture; ma
> be the sneaky Chinese did not have the need to use it as they know how
> to swallow all their neighbor some other ways. Having said that, I
> hope people are aware that most Southeast Asians theses days have some
> Chinese blood. But the, the ancestors of these SE Asains were driven
> out to SE Asia by the Chinese anyway. I mean there were cousisns to
> begin with. But then everyone in the whole world is related anyway.
> http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/


amandaF,

Points taken, thanks!

By the same token, how many people were taught to associate the abacus with
the Chinese, when in fact, it was the Greeks that invented it?

Best,

Andy