Very well put!(nm)

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Posted by Steve from ppp-66.COL.cableone.net on February 13, 2000 at 21:30:12:

In Reply to: A cheery thought, inspired by our hero's vocation... posted by Inbanana Jones on February 13, 2000 at 20:49:15:

: Those folks seem to have made much of their time here.

: Even after life ends their lives may have impact beyond their wildest dreams.

: Think of the Iceman, dying alone thousands of years ago in the Alps, yet reborn today in a world he could not have imagined.

: Think of the prehistoric peasants, farmers, and traders whose forgotten settlements have provided us with so much incredible knowledge of the past.

: Think of those unknown thousands of people who lived before us, who had lives as rich, as personal, and as immediate as our own today.

: Think of the thousand moments of their lives, moments perhaps forgotten by them in the course of so many more important events, that left fragmentary traces in the earth; traces now considered so vitally important in trying to comprehend their distant time and their distant reality.

: Think of human lives as, perhaps, fleeting; but understand their achievements as eternal, no matter how seemingly insignificant.

: Archaeology can bestow a perspective that mitigates fear of death and the unknown, but without dismissing the very human need to mediate death through ceremony and ritual. Archaeology teaches that the scope of the universe and the immensity of time can be understood in terms of a single human being.

: Now, go have a cup of coffee and get back to the homework.




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