FLavius Valerius Constantinus

No males or females??? Then how do we reproduce??? Obviously, Paul's theology (as well as his biology) was a jumbled hash of contradictions. How anyone manages to make a dogma of it is beyond me. I suppose that being that I take these kind of religious courses, I can simply say that Paul believes that Jesus is saying that everyone is the same and equal in the eyes of God. There is no greater or worse. You need to read and interpret everything deeply ya know.

1)Though Jesus may not be able to directly to speak to us, his actions, sayings, and stories still provide every generation to learn something.(Well especially for me and those who take academic courses such as faith/sac.,scripture survey, theology, and ethics. Yet I'm still in only high school, I've learned a lot.) 2)By the way, though you are right about the "preaching to the gentiles is wrong" view, well its only one side of a greater story about how the early Church was created and banded together. The Christians members you talk about were Jews who believed in Christ as Messiah, yet they thought it was exclusive to the Jews. But then you also have the gentiles believing in Christ too, now you can't discriminate both can't you, which is why the apostles made a compromise that Paul would preach to gentiles while the others would preach to Jews. There's more to the subject, but too time-consuming to explain everything about the history of a religion. 3)May I also ask where you got the "father of all lies" phrase?

I don't think you can post images in blogs, well I don't have one so I don't really know either. But you can easily upload images into the members gallery.

Why? I thought ursus was Latin for bear. Here's a very detailed pdf doc on the origin of Arthurs name and its latin forms, how it relates to bear etc. I believe the "bear" origin had to do with the name of celtic gods which meant bear. Ursus is not a proper noun/name. Just a regular word directly meaning referring to all types of bears, no specification of species. Link to pdf

Something tells me your laptops need an upgrade. As of speaking of laptops, I'm using one right now and works perfectly fine, and real fast too.

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Since I like putting up funny and interesting, but have no blog, I'll put it here. The story is downright dumb Forget the U.S. debate over intelligent design versus evolution. An Italian court is tackling Jesus -- and whether the Roman Catholic Church may be breaking the law by teaching that he existed 2,000 years ago. The case pits against each other two men in their 70s, who are from the same central Italian town and even went to the same seminary school in their teenage years. The defendant, Enrico Righi, went on to become a priest writing for the parish newspaper. The plaintiff, Luigi Cascioli, became a vocal atheist who, after years of legal wrangling, is set to get his day in court later this month. "I started this lawsuit because I wanted to deal the final blow against the Church, the bearer of obscurantism and regression," Cascioli told Reuters. Cascioli says Righi, and by extension the whole Church, broke two Italian laws. The first is "Abuso di Credulita Popolare" (Abuse of Popular Belief) meant to protect people against being swindled or conned. The second crime, he says, is "Sostituzione di Persona", or impersonation. "The Church constructed Christ upon the personality of John of Gamala," Cascioli claimed, referring to the 1st century Jew who fought against the Roman army. A court in Viterbo will hear from Righi, who has yet to be indicted, at a January 27 preliminary hearing meant to determine whether the case has enough merit to go forward. "In my book, The Fable of Christ, I present proof Jesus did not exist as a historic figure. He must now refute this by showing proof of Christ's existence," Cascioli said. Speaking to Reuters, Righi, 76, sounded frustrated by the case and baffled as to why Cascioli -- who, like him, came from the town of Bagnoregio -- singled him out in his crusade against the Church. "We're both from Bagnoregio, both of us. We were in seminary together. Then he took a different path and we didn't see each other anymore," Righi said. "Since I'm a priest, and I write in the parish newspaper, he is now suing me because I 'trick' the people." Righi claims there is plenty of evidence to support the existence of Jesus, including historical texts. He also claims that justice is on his side. The judge presiding over the hearing has tried, repeatedly, to dismiss the case -- prompting appeals from Cascioli. "Cascioli says he didn't exist. And I said that he did," he said. "The judge will to decide if Christ exists or not." Even Cascioli admits that the odds are against him, especially in Roman Catholic Italy. "It would take a miracle to win," he joked.

Thanks for helping out with my question guys.

As I remember from seeing in a documentary, the falx was also a farming tool which many of the Dacians used to tend their farms since they themselves were farmers too. So the idea of using something lowly in background was despicable to the Romans.

Just saying each system was perfect enough for its time for some time, yet they will eventually break down eventually, because history repeats itself. Sorry for bunching things up.

Have you ever read Paul? "Slaves obey your masters"? "Wives obey your husbands"? Christianity did nothing to curtail patriarchy, and patriarchy ruled Europe until about the Industrial Revolution. I agree, even to this day, the Church is very male oriented, as you see with the Church's position on restricting female priests. So really, even if patriarchy was curbed a little, females still don't have much equality in Church hierarchy.

Hmm, I thought the show had contract and budget problems. Sadly, I have no HBO, so I can't watch it. But if I still had HBO, it really wouldn't interest me that much as Six Feet Under. Repetitive mafia murdering people stuff seems boring to me. No Six Feet Under, they come up with new ways of dying every episode.

I agree with you Flavius, though I wish the Tetrachy was an option all it's own though the Dominate is kinda combined with it. Either arguement we each take, one side has more pros and cons and each is for given situations. Systems change and evolve to deal with current or contemporary issues and problems. The Republic used Dicatorship in cases of emergency, while the regional procons and governors dealth with civil and military matters in thier respective regions. The Principate was the evolution from using a dictatorship in emergencies to using it all the time to deal with any and all issues not just dire ones. The Tetrarchy was the transition to rivert back to a more spread out power-base. Two Augustii, (one Senior the other Junior), and two Caesars one for each Augustus. While there was a clear chain of command each had realitive free reign, (so to speak), in thier assigned areas and dealth with the thier own important issues. Instead of proconsul or praetorian prefect, (as we know the change in the office in the later empire), handling the tasks you had a man with an army to back him up and with strong Imperium. Perhaps the later empire needed more hands on, iron-fist administration and control given the times and conditions it was used. Though I am inclined to think the Tetrarchy would have been an excellent system had it not been for men in power wishing to see themselves and sole-ruler. The main problem with the Tetrarchy was that the place of Augustus and Caesar was not defined well enough, in the sense of succession I mean. The Tetrarchy was funcitioning quite well until Constantinus Chorlus passed away and Constantine was proclaimed to the purple by his father's army. IIRC the problem with Diocletian and Maximian's, (forced for him it would seem), abidication was that it led to other men proclaiming themselves Augustus thus started the civil war. Perhaps if a better system had been prepared or at least tinkered with we would have a lasting system that was not a one time deal. To basically sum it up, you need real competent people in any form of a successful government, but in all three systems, they all failed because inevitably, there will always be people out there with opposing views that eventually incurs a new movement and so as we know, history repeats itself. There's no way to avoid it. Just look at all the examples of civil war outside of Roman history (even in democracies), we got the American civil war, we have the British civil war between the King and Parliament, the Korean War(basically North and South), Vietnam was another type of civil war, and constant many occuring today. So really, each had its own flaws. We can be biased towards others the other systems and support our own favorite. In my opinion, each system did great for its current time and so they could be equal in terms of being the best system, but history wouldn't allow it.

Hare with chocolate sauce. Are we actually talking about the animal hare?

Oh boy, lets not talk about US politics and its sytem again. I've learned from my mistakes. Unless someone can make a thread on this in the After Hours Lounge. And please don't accuse the US executive branch as being an monarchy or failed system. We have something the called the Checks & Balances you know. By the way, did someone just vote for anarchy.

Link STONE circles are evocative places and the stones at Callanish on the Isle of Lewis must be one of the most haunting. Not only is there the imposing physical presence of the stones and their spectacular landscape setting, there is also the atmosphere of mystery. Callanish (or Calanais) is one of the larger stone settings of Britain. The stones tower to a height of nearly four metres and the main monument covers an area of some 5,000 square metres. The circle itself is relatively modest and comprises 13 upright stones with a huge megalith at the centre marking a later burial cairn. Callanish is set apart, however, by two things: The stone settings that run away from the circle in the form of a cross and the presence of at least six other stone circles in the vicinity. More at site, click on link

LInk Rome, January 2 - An Italian archaeological team is patch together an ancient statue from Crete, restoring it to its original condition and helping smooth over political tension sparked by the breakage . The statue of the goddess Hera, unearthed on the Greek island of Crete by the Italian Archaeological School, was broken last September while under Italian care, attracting extensive media coverage and resulting in parliamentary questions in both countries .

Pantagathus, who's the artist of that sculpture?

Link to article Analysis of stencilled handprints found on the walls of an Indonesian cave suggest that prehistoric men and women chose not to mix genders when it came to this enigmatic art form. Experts from France's National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) looked at handprints left at the Gua Masri II cave in Indonesia, using a new computer model to determine whether the hand which made the mark was male or female.

Sadly, they are just as easily open to bribery and corruption like the tribunes who take Caesar's side. So I doubt that should be considered.

I don't think you can use neminem as another option, the verb credo strictly takes only the dative case. Just to add, the dative and genitive are seldom used. As quoted from my Latin grammar book: