Moonlapse

*chuckles*

Praise the Lord!

Not where I was at, but I was on foothills overlooking plains during the strange thunderstorm weather we have here in the summer.

That's crazy! The strangest thing I've seen is a full circle rainbow high up in the sky.

Very nice find. I'm particularly fond of placenames.

A bronze seal has been discovered (search for Donald Easton) that ties the city to the Hittites in some way. Some scholars postulate that Hisarlik was the royal seat of a vassal kigdom of the Hittites.

What was the educational level of most Americans at the founding? The question relies on an abstract 'standardized' measurement. It is in itself based on the modern schooling paradigm. Remove the television and radios, the Scholastics Aptitude Tests and Intelligence Quotients created in the early 20th century. People involved themselves in reading the exceptional literature of the time, discussing current politics and philosphy at the local tavern, writing and distributing rhetorical pamphlets or analyzing and responding with their own pamphlets, participating as entrepreurs in local economies, etc. Who has more REAL human education, these types or your literal 'run of the mill' college graduate who has been purposefully guided by instructors, learning by rote? People like Thomas Paine, Ben Franklin and George Washington had very little schooling. While they are considered as some sort of elite in modern conception, there was actually little that differentiated them from other colonists. Think about this: between the time independence was declared and the time an actual constitution was drafted, the colonists essentially self-governed. Try that today with all of our dependencies. Not to say that there are not any truly educated people... just that other factors than forced state schooling have more to do with someone aquiring an intellectual education. Usually, its the influence of people your life that appreciate intellect and your natural desires to find the truth in whatever you experience.

Yeah, mushrooms will do that to you.

1) It was in a region of Mysia called Troas (or the Troad), in the northwest of modern Turkey, just south of where the Hellespontus meets the Aegean. It's been called Ilium, Ilion and Troia but the site is now called Hisarlik. It was resettled by Aeolian Greeks at about 700 BC and rebuilt by Sulla after being sacked in the First Mithridatic War. 2) Tyre (Tyrus) was the coastal Phoenician city that spawned Carthage, located in the south of what became the province of Syria (modern Lebanon). The only relevance I can think of is that the Romans supposedly descended from Troy and the Carthaginians descended from Tyre.

Better or worse according to whom? If you read that man's Wikipedia entry, you'll see that he had concluded that democracy is now defective and that the herd of citizens needs to be governed by a group of elites. I'm curious to know if he concluded this after seeing the product of universal, forced, homogenizing schools or if, ironically, he feels that people should be governed by elites but also educated in our original 'cultural tradition' - two opposite ideologies. The metaphor 'melting pot' became widespread at the beginning of the 20th century, indicating assimilation and homogeneity, giving up Old World identity to become 'American' - but American by what definition? Henry Ford's? Anyways, the 'better or worse' question I feel can be answered, either way or the other, based on this aspect.

Here's some other areas around the Pontus Euxinus that you might enjoy investigating: Hylaia/Olbia Getarum Solitudo Chersonesus Taurica

In 1938, Benito Mussolini was awarded the Grand Cross of the Supreme Order of the German Eagle by the Nazis... so was Henry Ford.

Walter Lippmann, 1940

Colchis (modern Georgia) was immediately north of modern Turkey on the Black Sea. Bithynia, Pontus and Iberia were in modern Turkey on the Black Sea.

Like to be... librarian. Not like to be... miner.

LOL, that guy is a giant toddler, one of the many strange anomalies of mass media. Strangely enough, I do like to watch him abuse fast cars.

Did you notice the other occurances that this person was involved in? BTW, if you agree about the personal data, do you agree with the 'continuous control' statement? Who controls information?

Sayyid Qutb and Ayman al-Zawahiri supposedly became progressively more radical after being tortured in Egypt.

As long as the air fare is relatively inexpensive or the drive is within about 10 hours of Colorado, I'll go anywhere.

I just started reading it. Unfortunately, my method of reading books is chaotic, so it may be a while before I really develop any opinion on it. I usually read and meditate on short sections of 4 or 5 different books, sometimes dropping books out of the loop for a few months. I can say that even though his treatment of Ice Age history is very summarized, it's concise and covers most viewpoints while presenting his personal opinion as such.

This is from Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1970.

It gives me the impression that the current situation in the U.S. is a double blind, which I agree with.

Maybe this will clarify:

At the end of the initial hardware post screen but before Windows starts to load, start tapping the F8 key. A Windows startup menu should appear, giving you the option to start in safe-mode. Basically, safe-mode is running only what Windows needs in order to function for troubleshooting purposes. The graphics will look horrible, and you won't be able to use any peripheral devices. This also usually allows your scan software to run without interference from adware, spyware, viruses, etc.

http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2004/virus.asp One thing you may want to do is run all your anti-whatever software while Windows is in safe-mode. Hitting the F8 key right before windows starts to load will allow you to do so.