tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post1996936120082689240..comments2023-11-22T09:11:01.567+00:00Comments on George Szirtes: On definitionsGeorge Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-44307115656407332132008-10-27T19:31:00.000+00:002008-10-27T19:31:00.000+00:00I don't know what the world population of Celtic/W...I don't know what the world population of Celtic/Welsh is but it's less than 13.2 million. Perhaps 10 million less than Jews. A few in Aregentina (Patagonia), and a few in the colonies, a few in Breton and Cornwall. The rest in Wales. It's not many is it? Not many for the folks who built Stonehenge, founded the Halstatt Kultur based on the Alpine Salt Mines, colonised the banks of the Danube River until the Romans arrived. Fortunately or unfortunately (depends on the point of view) the Celts left no written records of their activities, movements, wars etc. We depend on the records, history and propoganda of others who came into contact with them. <BR/>One thing we do know is that Welsh is the oldest living European language. Today it is spoken by a mere 1,000,000 -1,500,00 people worldwide. The culture has all but vanished. <BR/>Do I feel Welsh or Celtic? Well, I feel something. I don't know what. But whatever it is it's in my blood. Whatever you may say, I feel it. It goes back to when I was young and I saw a vision. It was a vision of a Celtic Chieftain. Or maybe a devil? It was not a revelation of biblical magnitude but it was a meaningful and natural experience. Whatever it meant, and I don't know what it meant, has haunted me for over 50 years. But to the point, and George's 'definitions'. I recently visited the Nazi's secret weapon inter-ballistic missile site at Ebensee in Austria where 8,000 perished (50% Jews, 50% non-Jews). The job was to dig a 7 km tunnel system. It was codenamed 'Kalk' (in English 'Limestone') in order to fool the local villagers as to what was afoot. We tend to forget that there were other victims of the Nazi holocaust: the millions of sick children, mental patients, war prisoners and other minority groups and unsuitable individuals who were starved to death or murdered. <BR/>I agree with George that all sides must retreat to the 1967 agreed borders. People who stole land must give it back. It's the only possible solution. It's the only way. Anything else will result in another disaster. Perhaps even a disaster of Celtic proportions.<BR/>(Today's posting code word is 'force'. Where do these words come from?)Gwil Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.com