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Can you explain the Passover Lamb analogy a bit more, I think I only got part of that. The lamb's blood on the doors? I'm guessing something about a sacrificial lamb analogy. I assume your trying to make a claim of sacrosanct and congruence-incongruence trying your idea somehow into it being the right one.... but I literally am missing the mechanics of how you think this is so. Lamb Bloods = Your Right? I Dunno. Maybe, but you gotta explain that a bit more. Caldrail..... no, it can't explain everything, those Disciplines and Professions. But it presents a Metric to the Dialectic. Not everyone is going to agree in what kinds of principles or methods should be used..... hence why I am giving Gilius a chance to develop his position and work out a challenge once he grasps with time our assorted assertions. I am 30 years old. I am translating a latin work on History into English, a very important work.... but still one work. After this, it will be a military text. After that, another important philosophy work....... I am 30. Someday I will be 70, in theory with 40 years of background. I will be unavoidable as a authority on many subjects, because I will be the only English translation, period. I get to sit here and watch the transition already underway where history was dominated (but never fully) by college graduates. I learned how to make books by hand, good quality ones. Likewise, I can do the netherworld and sewing for older works. I take a lot of pride in this. I take a lot of pride in the diversity of my background, and how well rounded I turned out.... and look to the future. However, Gilius is Herald. Movies like 300 or Spartacus that like to change aspects, bend and wobble in ways I can't consent with. I gotta deal with a future of print in demand, where people are going to sell their works on Roman Alien Autopsy or Flavians Invented Christianity alongside of more legitimate works. If I have any responsibility, any duty as a soon to be, like it or not, December facto authority, it will be to the needs of explaining your position, via peer review, just as Descartes did.... and discuss the methods used, and the reliability of such methods. I don't see History Degrees dying out overnight, but I do see them beginning, as of now, beginning increasingly vestigial. I'm not jumping into the group chorus of pompous assclowns belittling a historical enthusiasts, hoping to scare them away to legitimize History Degrees of to improve our group feeling and sense of legitimacy. That's backwards and laughable, and smells of the method of the inquisition. I say it now, will die saying it, and people after me will say it, we will critique via method. Only way to deal with the tide of insanity to come. Eventually guys like Gilius will dramatically outnumber us. I intend to continue to assert the need for methods. I'm a Cynic. We teach for free, and make an effort. I'm not going to further ostracize the guy, I'm going to get him to adopt our methods. If he still finds aspects of his ideas valid, and can defend them, so be it.

Screw it, nothing much on the net, I'll release a free PDF on it. I've been attacked by bear while camping (have pictures if anyone want to see them). I hike a lot, am tired of everyone's crazy dog on a leash running at me, and live in a really bad neighborhood. I just want something that can guide me through hallway fencing close quarters against rifles or pistols, preferably with minimum injuries to my assailant, and to quickly dispatch wild animals charging me.

I used to live near the Monsanto holdings on Oahu, and made from a early start contact with all the environmental and farm groups th ere I could, it was my primary activity. I didn't find much evidence of evil mutations happening..... mostly because the vast majority of farms on Oahu, outside of the Pineapple farms in the central plains, don't grow food. They grow flowers. Or horses. Horse flowers for a state that imports 92 percent of its food. I can't see how GMF are unsafe or unhealthy. Doesn't make sense at a cellular level. But whatever, the obstruction against GMO foods is scientism, but one that plays out in a logical sequence that does raise awareness about Viroids (different from Viruses). In Hawaii's sad case, at least on Oahu, it's about the only food being produced, despite the very outspoken population of raw food enthusiasts, who have expert knowledge in all the facts except the facts you can observe and investigate in the field. I think what Europe did to Africa is horrible, many people died because they couldn't sell drought resistant crops in European markets, much less for themselves for contamination. I think the head of environmental groups in Europe should be tried for crimes against humanity like Taylor did, and Assad is being charged for. Same results..... shit load of dead people who die for the delusions and lifestyles of a insulated population that doesn't give a rat's ads about them. Very few countries in Europe even try to balance their parasitic insanity out. As much as I talk ill of Sweden, I will say at least they are very active peacekeepers. They actively deploy to the very countries the rest of the liberal world genocides via absurd policies (to which they are in part to blame, but none the less, I see the effort in a positive light). All I ask of Europe is not to delay progress for some backwards, medieval fears born of the university. It's okay to be cautious and investigate. If your European, and you've eaten Soy, you've eaten GMO foods. It's mostly imported from Brazil, and its all Genetically Modified. This said, stocks go up and down. Ignorance is the staple of every era, however supposedly enlightened. Europeans are still people, capable of folly and greatness, and are still evolving. We don't know what the attitudes will be in 30 years. Hear out their arguments, and my advice for dealing with Gilius holds to them..... have patience, and introduce them to concepts of Science, and ask them critically to elucidate themselves, and the structure of their belief. Where they are lacking, and the contradictions are. I can live with contradictions just fine, but science can't.

If you had a old fashion PC, and the monitor died, you would go and buy a new monitor, right? Same principle. If the laptop is otherwise okay, just a busted screen, then just change out the screen. Slap down the model and year, and I will google it for you. The official cost of fixing a Acer screen was 350 dollars, but I paid 50 or 70 dollars for the replacement, and like I said, did it in the woods with a butter knife. However, if it started flickering on and off right after you looked at a naughty site, then it is a virus, and changing out the screen wont do crap. Bringing it to a place like home depot to get it cleaned up will. I had a friend, she was a Marxist professor in Dalian, went to Tibet after I told her about the Buddhist and Christian Stupas and Alexander's empire...... we were chatting, and my computer got taken down by a shitload of viruses. They couldnt fix it. Dont piss the Chinese government off by talking about christianity and the military in tibet with someone IN Tibet.... everything we talked about topic wise was really old stuff, nothing modern, but the Chinese either dont care or cant tell the difference. It seriously messed my computer up beyond repair.

I found dates saying 1464 and 1471. I cant find a document saying one way or another

Phoenix of Colophon http://books.google.com/books?id=Vx2gJyWxrtMC&pg=PA218&lpg=PA218&ots=qj70Hdpsj5&focus=viewport&dq=Phoenix+of+Colophon&output=html_text So..... umm..... So, how do I say this..... Was ancient Rome one giant gay musical like the recent movie Les Miserables, where everyone is singing? I was checking him out due to his supposed links to Cynicism, and this is the first I have come across such a mention as a 'Traditional Begging Song'. Was there singing of Nessun Dorma? Did the Cynics invent the Opera?

I am thinking about buying two black Gladius for Christmas for myself. I know of medieval martial art Manuela, as well as Asian Manuals on sword fighting. I am a big fan of the book Kishido, and a huge background in philosophy, including Ethics, and have been working out..... so I got the Ethical stuff down, etc. I just want to start training with two swords now. I had a little fencing training with a sabre in San Francisco, but the Gladius is a different beast all together, especially two. I'm not interested in historical reenactments, or joining a western martial arts school. I just want a manual written on how to hold and strike with them from a modern perspective. I want them for home defence, and to build them into a Day Packs' frame stealth for when dogs attack me when I'm out hiking. I dislike firearms, and try to avoid the hobo look, as well as Rambo 1 scenarios with cops..... having them build into a packs frame seems a no brained. I can't find any modern manuals (or even ancient) on training and fencing, beyond striking non specifically at a wooden post. I got a million trees. Internet is drawing a blank. Any suggestions?

You do know Laptop screens are very cheap and simple to replace. You unscrew the frame, and there are two male-female connectors, you unplug them and plug the new screen in, them plop the frame back in. It's no harder that the old monitors we used to use for PC towers, same amount of cords, just smaller. Just google your models screen size and model number. It's stupid simple, I did it in the woods with a butter knife a half hour before dark with an old Acer I had. It really is that simple. Takes 3 minutes top.

I should also point out, the kindle app store is Android. A Kindle gift card works on items in their store, but not other android apps, however, kindle doesnt stop you from downloading them. The old 7 inch kindle fire is good enough to play games like Shogun Total War, watch TV shows like Sparticus, listen to music, read PDFs, buy books (or get them for free), and write with. In my case, I am able to just fine manage to translate a medieval latin text. I have my dictionaries, both paid, free, and PDF, and can jump back and forth in the word program (the one that keeps translating Cum into Fun) without loosing my place. If I have a grip, its the battery life. Plus, I can check the web. The work I am translating covers all aspects of Roman and Greek history, so I go online when I get stuck. Its a fantastic tool.

I can read them just fine on my kindle 7 inch. Just annoying I have to go into the web browser, then downloads, then stream down a list. I have a bunch, cant always tell the difference from the PDF file title. I can enlarge the screen as much as I want, size isnt a issue.

Can I not say this about the vast majority of works out there? The problem arises in claiming this when I seriously contemplated making a free equivelent, Alexander Invented Buddha book.... to parallel this and Atwill. As a Satire and a Critique, I'm quite certain I can easily do this, and even build a more convincing case, and then systematically tear down both, using historical principles. It slowly dawned on me I could do this for most any work. He is young in mind, and is very enthuisiastic. These are not bad traits, they are the basis of positive growth. Im just going to encourage him, given his interest in 'typology', to investigate the topics above. It has take at least half a year to align as otherwise unincorporated aspect of the mind into the conscious mix of routines we call 'the self'. He will eventually drop the grudge against the learning, will take it up to understand it. Give it time. 6 months, 5 years, whatever. I just wont attack his right to hold a central belief, just because I know otherwise. There is no Empiricism without faith in some form of concepts. The root of all thought is paradox. Logic is merely how we shuffle the cards. At worst, this become a cult. Harrassing and laughing at him like this ensures this. He'll keep pointing at Aliens, North Korea, Gnostic Ninjas, or 9-11 truthers. I can see why mentally this makes sense, having a understanding of the psychology. This really is a matter of asserting the basic, underlining science behind history. We developed it as such, it overcame the silliness called history in the middle ages. How? By the slow, drawn out process of explaining to such historians better historical methods. It is a ongoing process. The university historian no longer has a monopoly on publication. Demanding we only read their works isnt going to cut it. Its back down to the basics. This is how it is from now on. We have to explain the methods, because these 'wally works' are going to outnumber everything soon as more and more turn to self publishing. Laughing or turning away isnt going to change it.

No.... Its a aspect of Roman and Greek life not exactly touched upon..... the Dietary aspect (you said omnivore). I spent one month in Iraq, out of boredom more than anything, eating no meat. Also spent time in my travels only eating Spam. I held a discussion in Hawaii on the philosophy of food, no one, including the Raw Food Vegetarians, could find out exactly why we ate ultimately the food we eat, the instinct to adopting a dietary lifestyle. We could explain easily why we didnt eat foods, just not the actual choices when we did. And dont give up on the rant, the diatribe is the cornerstone of Dialectics, it's the best method in some cases actually.

How does the Amazon Prime work when it comes to "Streaming"..... I get internet on my phone, but not at home..... I can download stuff pretty fast at work (checking this out after the gym, job sucks but it has a few perks). Will Amazon Prime allow me to download those movies and tv shows for free, or is it only streaming? Secondly, what is the price cap on your free book downloads? Can I download three hundred dollar specialist history books for free?

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24351460 They have been slowly leaving London, at a snails pace, but were caught by Archeologists trying to sneak away. Its going to be much harder for them to leave now. A Story 2000 years in the making, the worlds slowest prison break!

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24478532 There is something deeply disturbing about the Brits lust for killing small pets.

Also, if you have a kindle fire, you can download Overdrive. A Overdrive One account allows you to download library books from the Amazon.com store for free. All you need is a library card from a state that participates in this. I downloaded a bunch of free history audiobooks off amazon.com for free, just needed my library card. So long as a library in my state carried it, I could download it. Finnegans Wake sucked balls, dont download that.

We were talking about the Roman Uncle Sam, but got side tracked on a reply that I inserted a late Roman Rhetorical Formula into,, which sounded like I was being a chauvenistic American. One has to be well read to spot the difference. Anyway.... Roman Uncle Sam.... yes. I completely forgot about this thread, the Gilius thread has dominated this section for so long I thought it was the only topic here. We were talking about Rome, Uncle Sam, Cincinnatus, Civil and Martial Division of courtly administration, and Europeans being a bunch of taters for dissing Cincinnatus.

Works on you just fine.

Wait until after christmas, and get a kindle fire. The older Kindle is a joke. Also, dont buy a nook. Most of my good stuff are PDFs. If you get a kindle fire, you can get videos, apps, games, music, etc. I moved my translation work from the computer to my kindle. You can download the kindle app to most any device. Honestly, dont get the old black and white kindle.... its a joke. I bough this kindle fire a month ago for a little over a hundred, its the demo one in Radioshack. The Nook I had in Hawaii had better specs, a handful of good books, but was worthless.

I'm actually in the process of translating a work from Medieval Latin into English for kindle. There are alot of books, almost all, you can download free samples of. I have several hundred downloaded, the ones on Rome: 1) Soma's Dictionary of Latin Quotations and Phrases 2) SPQR Study Guide Latin Frequency Dictionary 3) Inflected Digital Latin Dictionary 4) Doderlein's Handbook of Latin Synonymes 4) The Last Pagans of Rome 5)Unrivaled Influence: Women and Empire in Byzantium 6)Margins and Metropolis: Authority Across the Byzantine Empire 7) The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire 8) The Seven Deadly Sins: Their Origin in the Spiritual Teachings of Evagrius the Hermit 9)Readings from Latin Verse with Notes 10) The Book of Memory: A Study of Medieval Culture 11) Francis Yates and the Hermetic Tradition 12) The Art of Memory 13)SPQR Study Guide 'The Aeneid' Line by Line 14) The Oxford Book of Latin Verse 15) Latin English Lexicon 16)Helps to Latin Translation at Sight 17) New Latin Grammar 18) Kiss My Relics: Hermaphroditic Fictions of the Middle Ages 19) Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin 20) The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite 21) Seneca: Dialogue and Essays 22) Ante-Nicene Fathers (multiple volumns of it) 23)Belisarius: The Last Roman General 24) Michael Psellos: Rhetoric and Authorship in Byzantium 25)Eusebius of Caesarea: Ecclesiastical History 26) The Cambridge Medieval History "The Eastern Roman Empire 717-1453" 27)Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (multiple volumns) 28) A Companion to Petronius 29) Polybius: The Histories 30) Juvenile: The Sixteen Satires 31) Petronius 'The Satyricon/ Seneca 'The Apocolocyniosis 32) The Greek and Roman Novel 33) Erotica: Satyricon, Kisses of Johannes Secundus, Love Epistles of Aristaenetus 34)Stoic Virtues: Chrysippus and the Religious Character of Stoic Ethics 35) Dialogue with Trypho 36) The Temple of Solomon the King 37) Sepher Yetzirah 38) Sepher Yetzirah: In Theory and Practice 39) Sepher Yetzirah (yet another) 40) Sepher Yetzirah (a fucking other one) 41) Plutarch: Isis and Osiris 42) Classical Cynicism: A Critical Study 43) The Cynic Philosophers from Diogenes to Julian 44) The Art of Living: The Stoics on the Nature and Function of Philosophy 45) Stoic Pragmatism 46)Turning Points (Decisive Moments in the history of christianity. 47) The Origins of the Christian Mythical Tradition 48) Porphyry's Against the Christians 49) Plotinius 50) Ancient Epistemology 51) The Gnostics 52) Origen: Scholarship in the Service of the Church 53) Origen: Homilies 1-14 on Ezekiel 54) John Cassian 'The Conferences 55) Evagrius Ponticus 'Ad Monachos 56) The Wisdom of the Desert 57) The Desert Fathers 58) Evagrius Ponticus 59) Evagrius of Pontus Talking Back 60) Rome and the Arabs before the Rise of Islam 61) Leo the Wise 62) The Byzantine Economy 63) John Skylitzes 'A Synopsis of Byzantine History 811-1057 64)The Trivium 'The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric 65) Plotinius 'The Enneads 66)Titus Lucius Carus 'The Nature of Things 67) Plotinus 68)Return to the One 'Plotinus Guide to God Realization 69) Pholosophy and Theurgy in late antiquity 70)Julian's Gods 71) Musonius Rufus 72) Livy History of Rome Books 1-8 73)Ancient Rome: From the earliest of Times to 476AD 74)Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans 75)Boetheus Theological Tractates 76) The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy 77) Saint Athanasius The Father of Orthodoxy 78) God and the Existence of Evil John Chrysostom 79)An Archeology of Duty Pus Dei 80) Procopius The Secret Histories The Wars of Justinian 81) The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession 82) Flavius Aetius 'The Last Conqueror 83) The Auxiliary Of The Roman Imperial Army 84) The Tyrants of Syracus 85) Stilicho The Vandal Who Saved Rome 86) Arnth 87) City 'A Story of Roman Planning and Construction 88) Theories of the World from Antiquity to the Copernican Revolution 89) Pyrrhonism 'How the Ancient Greeks Reinvented Buddhism 90) De Amicitia, Scipio's Dreams 91) Treatise on Friendship and old age 92) Life of Cicero Vol. 2 93) The Letters of Cicero Vol. 1 94-102) Bunch of books on Cicero and Plutarch 103)Simon Magus 104) A Guide to Stoicism 105) Sextus Empericus and Greek Skepticism 106) The Golden Sayings of Epictetus 107)An Essay on the Beautiful (plotinus) 108.... lots and lots of crap on plato and aristotle

My town has the LARGEST metal working mill produced in western civilization, at the height of its industrial revolution..... Though parallels can be drawn, I doubt it can much compare. It was declared by Time magazine to be the most polluted city on earth. We produced a children's book called 'No Star Nights' about little kids playing on industrial slang heaps (I used to). This combined with the power plant I was stationed in Iraq.... I have my doubts certain kinds of land can be reclaimed. You can terra form, like what the Army did in the Tennessee Basin in Presidio, San Fransisco...... they turned a desert into a Eucalptus forest, then slapped a non-indigenous Bison farm in the middle of the non native forest. It's lasted so long (the forest, as Golden Gate Park and Presidio) people forget it was originally a waste land, and started planting native shrubbery to it along the shore to make it look like it's a ecological lush-land. It's basically what Herbert based the transformation of Arrakis in Dune off of. I was there when they destroyed the last surface Versace of the Tennessee creek..... brought to mind the Idaho River in The God Emperor of Dune. Frank Herbert made Heidi Prime a industrial waste land, with oil saturating it. It took thousands of years of cleanup to recover. Oil naturally occurs here, so I doubt ever. This land has always been damned.

There is a huge difference between voluntary and involuntary sex, at least with women. I'm told Gay men find it very traumatic when they are raped. Part of me doubts it, how traumatised would I be if a attractive woman raped me? But I'll take their word on this.

http://sofiaglobe.com/2013/11/26/fourth-century-ce-magistrate-statue-uncovered-in-bulgarias-plovdiv/ The most interesting thing to happen in Bulgaria in a decade.

I am almost done with the Sparticus TV series, and just saw Julius Caesar introduced to scandanavian hospitality. S Im almost certain I would of heard of him being raped if it was in a history, near positive had it happened, he would of seen to it that we never would of heard of it. So, did Caesar ever have the misfortune of taking Popeye without any Olive Oil? http://TopPun.com/Rainbow-Store/Gay-Pride-Pictures/I-am-what-I-am--Popeye-Et-Tu-Brutus-Pink-Triangle.gif

http://www.monemvasia-apartments.com/en/monemvasia.html This website puts Thomas' eventual sale of Monemvasia to the Vatican in 1471, ten years after Trebizond fell. From this point on, the de jure final, complete fall of all Roman possessions, commonly identified as Roman lands, is extended this extra decade. Roman Empire, died 1471. Im also a eyeing a Island near Chios that managed to last several centuries before the Ottomans sent a tax collector, and he was killed. They also built 7 towers to fend off venetian attacks. Supposedly is at some sort of relation to the Knights of St. John, but I am unsure what that means, if any were stationed there, if they they thought they were owned by them, or if they just sold supplies to them. Besides, lack of foreign invasion doesnt necessarily imply they still thought themselves Roman.... but Monvasia is 100% pure, still under the imperial banner Roman territory in its case until 1471. You gotta love that.