[Social Construct]

Re: Call me "Indiana Jones". I come in Peace.

Yes m'aam. I will keep my digging to the weekends. They do have weekends in this place, don't they?

I heard there's an ancient first nations burial ground which contains an artifact called the "rod of correction" - very Biblical sounding, that one. Also many different anointing oils and something called the "fist of thunder". It sounds like something the Mormons would come up with, but as a minority group they have Other Ways Of Knowing, so it's worth getting my hands dirty.

Don't worry, you won't have to teach me how to use a shovel, I used to make some mightly sandcastles before I was awakened to the fact that they might trigger Muslims who were historically oppressed by the crusades.

Rage Against the Machines may have been fresh, like, twenty years ago, but today they are a bit closer to their expiration date, don't you think?

I refuse to partake in any media produced after 9/11, with it's the orgy of islamolabia. And don't even get me started on how Justin Timberlake's onstage rape of Janet Jackson created rape culture. That's the only rotten thing here. Also my parents homeschooled me and it's very hard to catch up on popculture.

[Dennis Lukes]

Re: Call me "Indiana Jones". I come in Peace.

Islamophobia

I take exception to that word, boy. Phobia means an irrational fear. Oh yes, we all fear Muslims, but with good reason. There's nothing irrational about it. The supposed minority of "extremists" represent the true beliefs of the masses of "moderate" Muslims, who are equally as radical but pretend to be moderate under the principle of Taqiya. The sand people want to turn your daughter into a sex slave. They want to destroy our Western civilization. Good luck talking to Achmed and Omar about feminism, LGBT rights, and microaggressions as they saw your head off and mount it on a pike.

[Johny Joe Hold]

Re: Call me "Indiana Jones". I come in Peace.

Yes m'aam. I will keep my digging to the weekends. They do have weekends in this place, don't they?

I heard there's an ancient first nations burial ground which contains an artifact called the "rod of correction" - very Biblical sounding, that one. Also many different anointing oils and something called the "fist of thunder".
Don't worry, you won't have to teach me how to use a shovel,

Sir (Mame) I gather you intend to do an archaeological dig in Freehold. This is extremely unlikely. Let's start with what you will see when you arrive here.

Freehold, home of Landover Baptist Church, is a city that has no slums or areas waiting to be destroyed by "digs." The city is rows of houses, each with an identical lawn and flower garden. Our city has no room for "post moderism." A city with identical lawns is a city with uniform thinking.

Generations of True Christians™ have lived here without sin. You will find nothing underground because our Christian city has never had anything to cover up.
Let me assure you we are not looking forward to your arrival.

[Dolores de Barriga]

Re: Call me "Indiana Jones". I come in Peace.

Yes m'aam. I will keep my digging to the weekends. They do have weekends in this place, don't they?

I heard there's an ancient first nations burial ground

If you want to dig Native American graves, you have to be anything but an archaeologist in this country, because of NAGPRA. I'd recommend becoming a grave looter, like that Indiana Jones movie character, instead of becoming an archaeologist. Being a looter is more fun and you don't have to follow any ethics laws. And you keep what you find.

Don't worry, you won't have to teach me how to use a shovel, I used to make some mightly sandcastles before I was awakened to the fact that they might trigger Muslims who were historically oppressed by the crusades.

Actually, crusades "oppressed" - if by "oppressed" you mean murdered - local Middle Eastern Christians equally or even more than Muslims, because Western Christians weren't able to see a difference between the two.

Also my parents homeschooled me and it's very hard to catch up on popculture.

Yeah, that is quite obvious. To put it nicely, not just your knowledge of pop culture is lacking.

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

Re: Call me "Indiana Jones". I come in Peace.

I was talking to my eldest brother, James Allchurch, yesterday. He says that if anyone other than the gardener so much as touches the lawn on the old Keach family house, there will be no "trigger warning" - just the smooth clicks of more than one trigger. Just so you know.

(And, Mrs de Barriga, you'd be wise to take a very careful look at the contract your university signed before you were allowed to commence your so-called study. We could bankrupt them - and you - in a heartbeat.)

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Call me "Indiana Jones". I come in Peace.

Actually, crusades "oppressed" - if by "oppressed" you mean murdered - local Middle Eastern Christians equally or even more than Muslims, because Western Christians weren't able to see a difference between the two.

If by local middle eastern "Christians" you mean people associated with The Church Of The Holy Sepulchre, surely the most wicked blasphemy imaginable, neither can I. Mohammedans are slightly less blasphemous I suppose in that they haven't set up a meretricious idol bazaar but "seen one idol seen ’em all" pretty much covers it and Jesus will terminate the whole shebang forever. Soon.

To put it nicely, not just your knowledge of pop culture is lacking.

The pop is a blight we need to address. Invented.—.or more accurately broadcasted.—.by the freak Warhol, the world Christ died for has been assailed with this muck for decades. God is no "hand-me-down dress from who knows where" and has distinguished the days from one another. Pop culture blends the days, morphing Thursday's rags as fit for Sunday's clown and Thursday's child into the clown itself. Jesus is that clown, according to pop culture, "For whom none will go mourning."

The singer pouts because she is a heathen.

[Social Construct]

Re: Call me "Indiana Jones". I come in Peace.

If you want to dig Native American graves, you have to be anything but an archaeologist in this country, because of NAGPRA.

I had been thinking that because I identify as part-Cherokee I would be allowed to borrow them. If that's illegal, well, the revolution allows for diversity of tactics.

But never mind digging, turns out the ground is frozen and will be for a long time. (Anthropologists are always pictured in tropical places - it's a lie!)

I've considered other ways of digging, like jackhammers and explosives, but that will destroy most of the artifacts. Of course, the revolution is not a tea-party, and we must break eggs to make omelets. But on the other hand I don't know how to use all that heavy equipment.

I'll just curb my enthusiasm for a while. I'll stick to talking to people. Who do you want me to talk to? About what?

[Dennis Lukes]

Re: Call me "Indiana Jones". I come in Peace.

If you want to dig Native American graves, you have to be anything but an archaeologist in this country, because of NAGPRA.

This law is a racist abomination! Dead Injuns have special privileges! I'll go to jail and lose $100,000 if I dig up a redskin's burial mound (the stupid savages didn't even know how to dig graves properly) and take their trash, but meanwhile redskins are free to loot white graveyards with impunity! How do we know there aren't Apaches roaming around the graves of our loved ones RIGHT NOW digging them out of the hallowed ground to rape their corpses and take their scalps, with no legal consequences whatsoever??!!


I'm stomping mad right now. No savages better show up at my motel today, or they might get a wounded knee, if you know what I mean.

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

Re: Call me "Indiana Jones". I come in Peace.

It sounds like something the Mormons would come up with, but as a minority group they have Other Ways Of Knowing

See what I said about us learning useful manipulation tricks? We can use this next time we're in a debate:

Unsaved Trash: "You say God needs me to give you money. That is not the scientific consensus".

True Christian: "Forget Science, as a minority we have Other Ways Of Knowing.

[Dolores de Barriga]

Re: Call me "Indiana Jones". I come in Peace.

If by local middle eastern "Christians" you mean people associated with The Church Of The Holy Sepulchre, surely the most wicked blasphemy imaginable, neither can I. Mohammedans are slightly less blasphemous I suppose in that they haven't set up a meretricious idol bazaar but "seen one idol seen ’em all" pretty much covers it and Jesus will terminate the whole shebang forever. Soon.

That is a fair point within your your culture's emic standpoint, and I respect that.

I had been thinking that because I identify as part-Cherokee

You may want to revise this statement. While claiming to be part Cherokee, and usually to be a descendant of a Cherokee princess, is quite popular in the US, as far as I know, most if not all Cherokee tribes require blood quantum to be an enrolled member. However, there are some tribes which are rather desperate, and enroll anyone who can prove even a tiny bit of indigenous lineage - you may want to look them up, maybe you'll get lucky and find out that you have a Native American ancestor belonging to one of them?

Please note, though, that no tribes enroll members based solely on DNA analysis - you actually need to provide documentation. Properly so, as these tests which supposedly show your ancestry are bogus, as they (1) test only a minuscule percentage of your actual ancestry and (2) run on the assumption that certain ethnic groups possess exclusivity of certain alleles, which is obviously bogus.

I would be allowed to borrow them. If that's illegal, well, the revolution allows for diversity of tactics.

Have you been talking with Red Army too much? As a pacifist, I cannot endorse any revolutionary movements.

But never mind digging, turns out the ground is frozen and will be for a long time. (Anthropologists are always pictured in tropical places - it's a lie!)

You are confusing archaeologists with cultural anthropologists, again. Technically we are all anthropologists, but we don't do the same things, we don't think the same way, so please don't confuse us.

I've considered other ways of digging, like jackhammers and explosives, but that will destroy most of the artifacts.

OK, I see a path for you, then. The methodology you are describing here is known as "cultural resource management" (CRM), which basically boils down to testing whether there are any archaeological remains on private-owned grounds where some construction is being planned. The advantages of being a CRM archaeologist over an academic archaeologist are multiple:

(1) You earn much more money than academic archaeologists - who, as university employees, work for peanuts.
(2) You earn even more money if you don't find any archaeological remains - or, if your report says so, regardless of the actual findings.
(3) You don't have to be careful, actually, you don't want to be careful, especially since your ultimate goal is to prove that there are no significant archaeological remains.
(4) You don't have to spend months in the field, as they pay you to be done with your report very quickly.
(5) You don't have to spend months in the lab analyzing the remains, as the whole point of your work is to prove that there aren't any.
(6) You don't have to teach, which means you don't interact with ignorant spoiled brats undergraduate students.

I'll stick to talking to people. Who do you want me to talk to? About what?

I don't want you to talk to anybody. There are strict ethics rules I have to obey in order to proceed with my research. In order for you to conduct some of the interviews, I'd have to revise my IRB, and trust me, IRB people are worse than Malinowski's Trobrianders, so the only thing you are allowed to do is to transcribe the interviews I recorded.

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

Re: Call me "Indiana Jones". I come in Peace.

You are confusing archaeologists with cultural anthropologists, again.

Mrs de Barriga, this person says he's a freshman. Given that we're in January, doesn't that mean he's only been at college for one semester? I'm kind of surprised at them letting him loose on fieldwork so soon, but - assuming he hasn't been thrown out - maybe that's a thing at the University of New Dworkin or wherever? But my point is that perhaps they haven't yet covered the difference between the two disciplines. I'm told that a lot of the first semester is devoted to basic literacy skills.

I don't want you to talk to anybody.

Thank you for that!

[Johny Joe Hold]

Re: Call me "Indiana Jones". I come in Peace.

But never mind digging, turns out the ground is frozen and will be for a long time. (Anthropologists are always pictured in tropical places - it's a lie!)

I can't begin to tell you how hard the soil is in Freehold. It's like a big piece of ice. "....ground is frozen and will be for a long time" yes that is true. I'm thinking call us in 20 years of so, maybe it will be thawed out.

We don't want anyone digging or poking around where they do not belong in our Christian City.

[Brother Gonzalez]

Re: Call me "Indiana Jones". I come in Peace.

Sorry Mr Construct, but I did not red everything on this thread. I have a question. What color is your skin?

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

Re: Call me "Indiana Jones". I come in Peace.

I'm told that a lot of the first semester is devoted to basic literacy skills.

Is that they're calling binge drinking these days?

[Social Construct]

Re: Call me "Indiana Jones". I come in Peace.

I'm looking at a vacant lot that was formerly the "Men's Prayer House" before it moved next door. The heat from the sauna has prevented most of the dirt from freezing, and there's lots of hot water out-flowing from the hot tubs that could be used. Oppression does not stop for winter, so neither will the revolution!

What color is your skin?

Don't try to pull rank on me, I have far more freckles than you, each one crying out for the sacred African homeland they were cruelly torn from.