>> This is thinking within the box, with all due respect. This is western >> mans perspective isn't it? That monasteries evolved out of a material >> benefit, rather than spiritual benefit. >> To think that a culture ( India) that all of Europe and the rest of the >> world was seeking desperately to do trade with, from antiquity up to the >> time of Columbus, Had zero effect on middle east culture and Europe? >> Michael Thames >> With CLOVES being the object of the trade, what do you imagine? >> RT > > Roman, I'm beginning to get the impression that you are a total western > materialist. God save us! > Michael Thames Eurocentrism does not preclude spirituality. RT
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