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[Paphitis]

The notion of race/ethnicity is very much outdated.

Really? Says who?

Most people, including Cypriots and Greeks!The younger generation, which you are clearly NOT! I swear you belong in 19th century, early 20th century, when 'Aussies' were going to war for 'King and Country'....

It is the 26th of March, 2010!

Doesn't hold true where I reside at the moment, or even where I reside temporarily.

Care to substantiate that statement?

All you have to do is travel the world to see how even the Americans, Australians and Canadians have invented their own ethnicity. This ethnicity also comprises a Cypriot element!

[insan]

Hmmm... Let's get back to the age of "homo sapiens" and forget all about the "country men"; wherever they had migrated and been named by...

I pray for a great disaster to occure that would lead feeling yourselves as "homo sapiens", not as Cypriots, Greks, Turks, Jews or any other gavvoloz...

[YFred]

Hmmm... Let's get back to the age of "homo sapiens" and forget all about the "country men"; wherever they had migrated and been named by...

I pray for a great disaster to occure that would lead feeling yourselves as "homo sapiens", not as Cypriots, Greks, Turks, Jews or any other gavvoloz...

Did you mean Goncoloz? Insan where have you been?

[insan]

Hmmm... Let's get back to the age of "homo sapiens" and forget all about the "country men"; wherever they had migrated and been named by...

I pray for a great disaster to occure that would lead feeling yourselves as "homo sapiens", not as Cypriots, Greks, Turks, Jews or any other gavvoloz...

Did you mean Goncoloz? Insan where have you been?

No! Gavvoloz! (Hello YFred. )

[Malapapa]

Acts 11:20
And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus.

So after reading this verse, who was the teacher and who was the pupil in Antioch?

Don't you just love Bible studies in the run up to Easter...?

This is Acts 11:20, in the original Koine...

Ἦσαν δέ τινες ἐξ αὐτῶν ἄνδρες Κύπριοι καὶ Κυρηναῖοι οἵτινες εἰσελθόντες εἰς Ἀντιόχειαν ἐλάλουν πρὸς τοὺς Ἑλληνιστάς, εὐαγγελιζόμενοι τὸν Κύριον Ἰησοῦν

The word Ἑλληνιστάς is more accurately translated, not as 'Greek'/'Grecian' (ie. a native of Greece), but as 'Hellenist'.

http://www.yourdictionary.com/hellenist

(ie. a non-Greek, esp. a Jew of the Hellenistic period, who adopted the Greek language, customs, etc.)

So, when our pioneering Cypriot teachers went to Antioch to spread the good news about Jesus, they were trying to convert Hellenized Jews, rather than Greeks living in Antioch.

If there were "Hellenised" Jews, then there were obviously Greek settlers who did the 'Hellenising'. How else could this be done?

And your point is? Mine is that it wasn't the Greek settlers (Hellenes) that the Cypriots were interested in converting but the Hellenists (ie. the Jews).

[Oracle]

The notion of race/ethnicity is very much outdated.

Really? Says who?

Most people, including Cypriots and Greeks!The younger generation, which you are clearly NOT! I swear you belong in 19th century, early 20th century, when 'Aussies' were going to war for 'King and Country'....

It is the 26th of March, 2010!

Doesn't hold true where I reside at the moment, or even where I reside temporarily.

Care to substantiate that statement?

All you have to do is travel the world to see how even the Americans, Australians and Canadians have invented their own ethnicity. This ethnicity also comprises a Cypriot element!

How do you fail to notice your own contradictions?

First you claim :

The notion of race/ethnicity is very much outdated.

Then you " attempt to "support" this by saying:

... even the Americans, Australians and Canadians have invented their own

So what's it to be?

Is ethnicity "outdated" or being "invented" to this day?

[Malapapa]

... to convert Hellenized Jews, rather than Greeks living in Antioch.

Care to explain the difference?

I think he is having a very slow evening!

I'm slow because Oracle doesn't know the difference between Antioch's Jews and Greeks? What does that make you then? Completely immobile?

[Paphitis]

The notion of race/ethnicity is very much outdated.

Really? Says who?

Most people .....

Doesn't hold true where I reside at the moment, or even where I reside temporarily.

Care to substantiate that statement?

Where are you residing? Taliban controlled Afghanistan perhaps!

There are exceptions of course!

[YFred]

... to convert Hellenized Jews, rather than Greeks living in Antioch.

Care to explain the difference?

I think he is having a very slow evening!

I'm slow because Oracle doesn't know the difference between Antioch's Jews and Greeks? What does that make you then? Completely immobile?

You will achieve better results by sealing it. Try Imbecile.

[Paphitis]

The notion of race/ethnicity is very much outdated.

Really? Says who?

Most people, including Cypriots and Greeks!The younger generation, which you are clearly NOT! I swear you belong in 19th century, early 20th century, when 'Aussies' were going to war for 'King and Country'....

It is the 26th of March, 2010!

Doesn't hold true where I reside at the moment, or even where I reside temporarily.

Care to substantiate that statement?

All you have to do is travel the world to see how even the Americans, Australians and Canadians have invented their own ethnicity. This ethnicity also comprises a Cypriot element!

How do you fail to notice your own contradictions?

First you claim :

The notion of race/ethnicity is very much outdated.

Then you " attempt to "support" this by saying:

... even the Americans, Australians and Canadians have invented their own

So what's it to be?

Is ethnicity "outdated" or being "invented" to this day?

Not a contradiction at all. The Americans, Australians and Canadians are the most internationalist of them all, and hence they are more 'Hellenic' than you, since they have the vision you don't, and have built a nation from all nations!