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[kurupetos]

Sadly (for you) you lost the argument You are less educated than a gypsy and what you write is nonsense.

That’s exactly what I think of your input Sotos… as they say in Greek “faskis tsie antifaskis”!

That Barnabas could not be “Greek” because he was a Jew was perhaps the icing on the cake!

A Christian Jew? Have you ever met a Christian Jew?

[yialousa1971]

It looks like the "Mycenaean" supporters have done a runner…

I will cook you with potatoes, chicken.

Haven't you forgot something. What about the Greek salad.

[Get Real!]

Barnabas was FROM Cyprus but his ETHNICITY was NOT Cypriot because such ethnicity did not exist, now or then. He COULD be Greek, because Greeks are an actual ethnicity,

Cyprus existed but Greece did not so a Greek ethnicity is a ridiculous impossibility you're trying to peddle.

but if you go by what the bible says then:

Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles called Barnabas

In Jewish tradition, a Levite (/ˈliːvaɪt/, Hebrew: לֵוִי, Modern Levi, Tiberian Lēwî ; "Attached") is a member of the Hebrew tribe of Levi, descended from Levi, the third son of Jacob and Leah.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levite

So Get Real ... are you going to dismiss another of your own sources? Because according to you everybody from Cyprus must be of the "Cypriot ethnicity"... and the bible doesn't seem to agree with you.

The bible is spot on... Joseph was Cypriot not Greek. The bible never uses "Greek" to describe any Cypriot.

Only you say such things because you're stupid.

[Paphitis]

It looks like the "Mycenaean" supporters have done a runner…

I will cook you with potatoes, chicken.

Haven't you forgot something. What about the Greek salad.

Feta Cheese is awful. Yuk!

[Nikitas]

"Imagine what would’ve happened to Cypriotness had the filthy Greeks gotten their way in 1974!"

Interesting question and there are pointers from post 1821 history. Basically what the Athenocentric state could not assimilate it neglected and ignored. Professor Christos Yannaras has written a lot and often on this very subject.

Inside the borders it used the education system to regimentalise language, which is probably why your Rodites hosts could not understand you, they were brought up in a school system that regarded their ntopiolalia with contempt and actively discouraged it.

The Greek communities outside the state, and thus beyond its control, were regarded with suspicion, never supported. The Greeks of Egypt, Lebanon, sub Saharan Africa were not helped in times of need. As Yannaras sees it they were envied by the Athenian state precisely because they had preserved their Greek "otherness" and could stand as equals with other ethnicities, whils the Greeks in Greece were a parochial culture with a chip on its shoulder blindly mimicking the west.

So what would have happened in Cyprus? Most likely intenisfication of the edcuation "aid" with more of those teachers they sent us to Grecofy us peasants. An importation of the Greek administrations system (an oxymoron).

On a lighter note, those peculiar junta sunglasses would have become the big fashion for the Cypriot nomenclatura who would fraternise with the new bosses.

In other words pretty much what happened in the north since 1974 but in a "lite" version.

[Get Real!]

Sotos, there’s not even a mention of Greeks or Greece in the Old Testament (written over 1,400 years between 1600BC and 200BC)…

because they didn’t exist!

Ah you poor sod... irrefutable evidence that no such thing existed!

[Oceanside50]

Corinthians 1:22

Verse 22. - Jews ask for signs; rather, Jews demand signs. This had been their incessant demand during our Lord's ministry; nor would they be content with any sign short of a sign from heaven (Matthew 12:38: 16:1; John 2:18; John 4:48, etc.). This had been steadily refused them by Christ, who wished them rather to see spiritual signs (Luke 17:20, 21). Greeks seek after wisdom. St. Paul at Athens had found himself surrounded with Stoics and Epicureans, and the same new thing which every one was looking for mainly took the shape of philosophic novelties (Acts 17:21).

[Sotos]

Just some examples from the Old Testament:

Isaiah 66:19: I will set a sign among them, and I will send some of those who survive to the nations—to Tarshish, to the Libyans and Lydians (famous as archers), to Tubal and Greece, and to the distant islands that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory. They will proclaim my glory among the nations.

Ezekiel 27:13: Greece, Tubal and Meshek did business with you; they traded human beings and articles of bronze for your wares.

Zechariah 9:13: I will bend Judah as I bend my bow and fill it with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, and make you like a warrior’s sword.

Joel 3:6: You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, that you might send them far from their homeland.

And there are more. But I can't find any mention of "Cypriots" Poor GR, even when using his own sources he can't win an argument GR... please understand: You are stupid and uneducated. In fact you are so stupid that you are unable to realize your own stupidity. Do you really think that universities around the world would have whole departments for teaching the ancient Greek civilization if that didn't exist? There are scientists of multiple disciplines that spend their whole or a great part of their career studying the Greek civilization ... and you are trying to convince us that such thing didn't exist??? Now think about it: Somebody must be as stupid and uneducated as you are to believe your nonsense. Now what are the chances of that happening?

[Get Real!]

Forget the New Int. version Sotiroulla... stick to King James version.

The NIV was written yesterday...

[Get Real!]

Corinthians

You call yourself a Christian?