I have been participating in this forum for nearly 19 years now.
I had read various documents of ancient history before I joined the forum.
To this day, my most important note was one and remains to be so. It is about the biblical narrative of the main figure in Exodus: Moses.
A very interesting account of history by Sigmund Freud completely negated the biblical narrative of the identity of Moses.
In addition, it completely contradicted the biblical narrative of painting the Pharaoh as sinful because Sigmund Freud suggested that Moses himself was a Pharaoh.
Therefore, it is conceivable that the same historical figure cannot realistically be painted as both a sinful and a prophet.
This conception would naturally lead to a deeper interest to discuss about it, especially with one’s own country’s folks literate enough to take it seriously.
I started to look for literate people on this forum in all seriousness.
Participants by the name Horus and Semira were among those I started to consider.
Both of them quickly disappointed me in not taking my intended discussions seriously or by failing to live up to my expectations of a discourse among literate people.
Each forced me to ignore one quickly as not a literate enough person.
Another participant by the name hmantes came across as a literate enough person to engage in a discourse among literate people even though we had different views. He argued in favor of Eritrea whereas I argued in favor of Ethiopia.
He is no longer participating on this forum by that name or not a participant in the serious topic of history that I have been interested in for a long while now.
For over 18 years now, I have been reading each of the two participants as some of the best we have but not as the best we could have in dealing with Ethiopia’s sectarian politics.
I have read them exchanging views as mortal political opponents in the same country.
I have read one giving counsel to the other that he leave Ethiopian politics.
Having read their exchanges, I have provided my unsolicited counsel that they work together, asking them if I as a younger person should advise them older persons to work together for the sake of our country. I have also asked if advising someone who calls himself a political scientist leave his country’s politics isn’t ግፍ, a local word close to sin in meaning.
In the meantime, my serious topic of discussion when I joined this forum remains to this day.
As if to corroborate my serious topic of discussion, I stumbled upon a narrative by the late Ethiopian Laureate Tsegaye Ghebremedin, which he wrote in 1971 or 1972 in Dirre Liban, Borana, Ethiopia.
Even though I am not certain that he talked about the same historical figure Moses when he wrote ለካ ኣንተ ነህ! more than fifty years ago, my interpretation of his narrative suggests that both of us understood about exactly the same serious matter.
He talked about it in traditional spiritual terms in Ethiopia.
I am not a student of divine matters.
I have no trained knowledge if providence would avail Moses’ prophecy before the Exodus or a Messiah.
I remain unable to decipher unexplainable happenstances of this time. I don’t think that The Vatican or the Council of Nicaea can explain them.
If I remember correctly, the late Pope Francis stated something to the effect that there are somethings we don’t know yet when he released Laudato Si’ in 2015.
Divine matters can be left to those who are able to decipher these unexplainable happenstances. There is eternal amount of time for it.
The two characters I mention here appear to be in a colossal state of faithlessness to relegate that divine matters don’t matter because they have the capacities to prove it.
What I find unfathomable is each one’s relentless efforts to irrationally hammer down their thinking processes despite any and all evidences, despite any and all happenstances, that are contrary to their beholden views.