Rameses the Great

Jesus was a Jew, meaning to fulfill the prophesies of the prophets. He said to the Jews, "I'm not hear to destroy the Torah, rather than fulfill it." The apostles were the ones responsible for spreading what we call today 'Christianity.' The thing is Jesus did not tell them to spread 'Christianity,' but the word, the word of God. As they preached many learned about Jesus and his teachings. As time progressed Greeks called this religion Cristos or the annointed one. Many of the disciples believed that the people who would accept this knew teaching would have to become Jews first such as James and Peter. However Paul thought that to know Jesus works would be important above all else. It has been confirmed in a council that Paul was right. Jesus has dispelled many other Jewish traditions. He abolished the policy of 'eye for an eye tooth for a tooth,' instead using the policy of, 'turn the other cheek.' One out of many new things that shows a lean away from Judaism. So, how do we know that Jesus was out there to start a new religion? He calimed himself the Messiah and the Jews did not believe him thinking Christ has not yet come. God said of the Jews, "I came to my people and they rejected me."

I find it hard to believe a camel would do hard manual labor since they're just so lazy. They're not worth the maintenance. There is a term we use in the Middle East, 'horses don't need much and do a lot of work and camels need a lot and do not do much work.' The only good thing camels are good for was to transport things across the desert other than that they're worthless. BTW, mules and camels are VERY stuborn.

I don't understand who they are targeting here. 98% of Greece's population is Greek Orthodox and 98% is baptised into the Greek Orthodox church. Greeks are often proud of their past, but I've never seen them wanting to revert to ancient ways. Either way I think that this is for people who migrate from other parts of the world rather than Greeks. Many have been arrested in Greece for preaching another religion, now we're going to make a case for the revival of paganism? This is meant for others who want to partake in ancient rites not Greeks by any means.

He still made his victories in the way of a lot of Roman blood.

Also, the people of Cyprus are known for making the sign of the cross in that way.

Not today, not tomorrow, and CERTAINLY NOT YESTERDAY! BTW Roman, my 'Hannibal is Rising.'

The MONSTERS of the MIDWAY advanced fairly soundly as they beat the Saints 39-14. No surprise here, playing in your elements is an advatage especially when a fair weather team practices in a dome all week. Congragulations to the Saints on the season they had. For the New England Patriots fans, look away. The Colts advance on the arm of Peyton Manning, being down at one point by 18 points the biggest comeback in Championship history. Now Indianapolis fans can rest easy, knowing they beat the Pats and Tom Brady. Peyton finally showed up, and the bravado of the Patriots finally came back and bit them in the ***. Or as Nostradamis would say, 'the old lion (Peyton) shall defeat the young lion (Tom). Bears vs Colts, so I ask again and you have two weeks to answer America who you got?

I think Peyton will put away the terrible luck in the playoffs especially again the Patriots. If he doesen't then just never mind. I think old coach Mora will have a talk to them about the playoffs if the Colts lose again.

Oklahoma City news helicopter pilot Mason Dunn and Greg Ward, a news operations manager for KWTV NEWS 9, used the station's helicopter, SkyNEWS9, Wednesday for something other than chasing a criminal or filming a fire Wednesday, 17 January 2007. This time, they used its noise and its rotor wash to rescue a deer stuck on ice at Lake Thunderbird. Something had to be used to scare the deer to get it to shore. The only other possibility the Oklahoma Highway Patrol could come up with was to send a remote-controlled car onto the ice to try to scare the animal. Dunn lowered the helicopter, initially sending the deer into a break in the ice. The deer struggled enough to get its front hooves back on the ice. A second pass sent the deer sliding across the ice toward shore.

Glad you and your family are alright.

I really do believe the Patriots are classless. I remember being there in the 2005 AFC Championship Game. We lost by 14 to New England, and the guy 4 seats left of me was being scolded by a Patriot wide receiver saying, 'Where's your terribel towl now?' It was on television by the way. LT was right, they're not exactly the classiest of people.

FVC, put it best we just don't know. I'll let it go on that note.

The Library of Alexandria Destruction of the Library of Alexandria I agree the Christians could have a motive, but it would not to be to burn the library and all its contents. Many Christians works and poems were held in the library itself. Also, how dumb would the Christians be to burn the books of their own heritage? To the Arab Muslim invaders, this was seen in a different light differing from Quranic law. Also a lot of Persian and Iraqi works have also been destroyed by Muslims. Your lying biggot, happens to be a bunch of Egyptian intellectuals. Again, you are assuming a biased postion in this matter. Caesar's theory has a better case of not being in this discussion then the Muslims. He burnt his ships in an effort to destroy the Ptolemaic fleet. The fire spread to the harbor, and burnt a part of the library. BTW, a crew of Polish and Egyptian archeologists are trying to find out the cause so we should find out in time.

Where did I say that? Your taking my reply out of context. So, can I say that Romans copied everything from the Greeks? No. Can I say that all Roman pagans were self hating Christians? No. Can I say that the Muslims definantly did not burn the library? No. There are people who believe in many theories about how the library was burned, so why disclaim this one? Yes I did, and I challenged your stance. There are four explanations: Caesar's conquest 48 BC; the attack of Aurelian in the 3rd century; the decree of Theophilus in 391; the Muslim conquest in 642 or thereafter. All have explanation, pros and cons. The point is it is a legitimate theory, and if people find the need to bring it up by all means do so.

Gladius, what motive would anyone else have for burning the library? If the entire library was burned included all the books, then I have a hard time thinking the entire situation was an accident. The Muslims usually did burn a lot of things that have no correlation to their religion. They were strict and had many reasons for the burning for the library. By the way, it is not a myth it has recently sparked new research. Whether it is a true theory or not, we don't know but it is certainly respected to more then just anti-Muslims.

We got the AFC and NFC conference games all decided. I thought that the Divisional Games this weekend were the best I've ever seen. I was really pulling for the Chargers, what heartbreak. The Bears won, which means the Saints will visit Chicago in the NFC Championship Game. The classless Patriots, will visit Peyton Manning and the Colts. Where have we seen this before. New Orleans at Chicago 3:00 ET pm 12:00 PT pm FOX New England at Indianapolis 6:30 ET pm 3:30 PT pm CBS Who you got? I just thought I should add these in honor of the two home teams playing this Sunday. Coors Light Mike Ditka Press Conference Ad Coors Light Mike Ditka Press Conference Ad 2 Coors Light Jim Mora Press Conference Ad

If we find nice Italian women, I'll pay for you and for me...because they can cook.

Winter? Here it's like Spring, rain and temps in the 10' and 15's.

Would you say that you have a good representation of ethnic minorities where you live? Here among the mountains and hills they are all either Scots/Irish, German, and Italian.

The Egyptian invented the stove closed on three sides, and cooked on an open fire. They heavily relied on grain and later discovered beer. That's why they say, 'Egypt was built on bread and beer.' The Egyptians believed that Osiris taught them to make beer. It was often used as payment, for lower wage workers. Mesopatamians were said to have first stored grain and gave it to other various groups, I believe.

Happy Birthday to the man of the North!

I just want to discuss the state of Rome relative to these Greek beliefs. To my understanding, many Romans fround upong Greek philosophy partly for its complex nature. However in these three philosophies: Epicureanism, Stoticism, and Cynicism one had to apply to Roman life. Epicureanism-a pure materialistic view of things. Stoticism-the search for an inner life with religion. Cynicism-criticism of mankind and society. Obviously the Greek subscribed to all these philosophies, given their mindset. However many Roman hate philosophy, but had to follow one of the three above. Bear with me here, where do the Romans stand on these three ideas?

Thank God I'm from Egypt.

I heard of Asterix in French class. The teacher said it was a story about a Viking who came to liberate Gaul from the Romans.