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Ab, first of all, this reconstruction of
Samuel 1650 is a gift to Don, made at his personal request. I don't know why you saw fit to disparage the value of this gift. Maybe it's a kind of peculiar elegance that I don't have, although this gift was neither intended for you nor was it intended to satisfy your personal tastes, and this reconstruction is reliable, being in line with the sources, and does not require any "necessary adaptations" according to your expressed, personal and seemingly only momentary criteria.
As an example I may perhaps remind you of your first totally wrong analysis of Samuel, about which I tried to correct you as diplomatic as I could.
My "first totally wrong analysis", as you put it, of
Samuel 1650 was in fact too closely based on the archaeological documentation and also on your paper "Een theoretisch bekekens scheepswrak", published in 2020 and dealing with this shipwreck. It took quite a lot of effort to break out of the conclusions of these previous attempts, which indeed misled me initially, and to find a much better, more correct solution, and this is my personal achievement.
It is also debatable how elegant it is that you publicly turn me down over an offer I made you in a private conversation.
I was only trying to help you to spread the interesting news you discovered
I have reason to believe that it is quite the opposite, because privately you ask the things you want to know from me, and publicly you constantly try to judge my creations in a rather condescending way, as in this case, and look for errors in them that are not there, and in the process you yourself seem to forget the content of the sources. This is quite inconsistent behaviour, which I find difficult to get over. My preference is for clearly expressed intentions and consistent conduct, equal in both private and public spaces. In this context, too, I find it difficult to accept instructions on elegant behaviour.
the point is that I have been playing around with this stuff for over 50 years
People lived on a flat Earth for hundreds of years and did not even allow the thought that things could be different. Those who remained were burned at the stake, but in the end even that did not help.
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