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And you know that Moses, as an actual person, existed ...how? Have you looked at any secular historical sources that would support this premise? When you resort to personal attacks, it diminishes the value of your response. Edit: It may seem like a discussion of Moses is off topic but it is not. After all, we have to verify the existence of the messenger before we can examine the message.

I've just started reading Schindler's Ark (the book upon which the hit movie Schindler's List is based, and now re-released under that title). The author, Thomas Keneally, is a novelist by trade. He has collected many accounts of Schindler from Jewish survivors and other sources, and put this book together in novel-style, though he is at pains to point out that only the dialogue is fictional, and that that follows known patterns or summarises known conversations. It's what's known as a "non-fiction novel" and the author won the Booker Prize for it. We all know the story. I thought the book might be more pacey. It's not at all pacey. Some sentences are short, graphic. Others are long, covering five or six or eight or more lines, quite convoluted, lots of clauses and subclauses, asides, details: you have to read twice if not more to get the sense of the sentence. Keneally is anxious to sketch out this man Schindler, to show the readers his complexity; and to show the slow, inexorable, degradation of the Jewish population of Crakow. And, indeed, the slow, inexorable, degradation of the German population, to think that such treatment of other human beings is acceptable. I believe that's what the author intended. So far, I've read four chapters; it's taking time. As it happens, I've visited Crakow [Krakow]. I can picture some of the locations. I know the official view of the current population; in fact, they claim to treasure the Jewish population now, by way of apology, and there's a nice Jewish centre. But the populace has changed its mind once, from companionable living together in a thriving community, to rabid hatred and mass murder; and now they treasure this population group? I wonder. I wonder at myself - what would it take for me to behave like that? Would I be sucked in (I was sucked in by one organisation that we all know)? Or would I take a stand against? Such thoughts come from a slower-moving piece of literature. https://www.amazon.com/Schindlers-List/dp/B00NBELTP2/ref=sr_1_13?crid=1VFRMYE62F86Z&dchild=1&keywords=schindlers+ark&qid=1587823061&s=books&sprefix=schindlers+ar%2Caps%2C223&sr=1-13

Thanks. I brush lightly with butter or oil, and sprinkle kosher salt, pepper, and a spray of sesame and flax seeds.

Never use Oly or Schlitz. Uggggg