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- Fri Apr 19, 2024 10:07 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Dating a Project: Edelstein 'Asclepius' ms. (c.1933/4)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3047
"We Stood at the Turning Point"
Discussing "Hercules at the Crossroad" by Albrecht Dürer c.1498 and aspects of this Myth as recounted by Xenophon and studied by Erwin Panofsky and further developed his student, Emma (Renata) Edelstein. A trivial coincidence? (On Herakles' helmet, note the Khnum/ Ammon horns and Hermes wi...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:41 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Pompei: new paintings found
- Replies: 2
- Views: 144
Dating Pompeii, for the Waco TeeVee People
"AD 79 ... that's like Dinosaur Time, right?"Secret Alias wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:03 am https://www.facebook.com/share/v/7AgQ2y ... tid=xfxF2i
Right.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:26 am
- Forum: General Religious Discussion
- Topic: All christianity is “fundamentalism”
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12354
Re: American Fundamentalists are like Duck Dynasty
Today’s Evangelicals reject the label fundamentalist because of its connotations of aggressiveness and stupidity ; but they are fundamentalists. ... Neither militancy nor hostility to evolution nor “literalism” nor a method of non-rational propagation is distinctive of modern Protestant “fundamenta...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 3:55 am
- Forum: Other Texts and History
- Topic: Conflict Zone Artefacts
- Replies: 0
- Views: 23
Conflict Zone Artefacts
Maybe it's 'looting.' Personally, I don't like that term; it doesn't feel right for abandoned 'stuff' (philosophically, dead 'people' aren't (viz., corpses are not 'people'); 'they' cannot own 'property') -- rival claims should default to actual heir designees & living finders, not lineage chain...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:37 pm
- Forum: General Religious Discussion
- Topic: The Ghost in the Machine is heeeeeeerre ....
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8438
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:35 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Article: Ancient Greeks Predicted Robots
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4798
Re: Predicted
https://news.stanford.edu/2019/02/28/ancient-myths-reveal-early-fantasies-artificial-life/ "Jason and the Argonauts" [1963]. https://www.historytoday.com/sites/default/files/talos_crete.jpg Q&A w/ Boston Dynamics CEO on its new "humanoid." Today's peek: 29ECwExc-_M We're gett...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 4:36 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: "Rediscovered Fragments Shed New Light on a Proto-Masoretic Torah Scroll"
- Replies: 1
- Views: 136
Re: "Brickwork Layout," Symetry, and Coincidence
pp.16- 3.COLUMNS WITH THE SONG OF THE SEA The textual layouts within the columns that include the text of the Song of the Sea (Exod 15:1–19) were discussed extensively in my previous article,46 with the exception of the arrangement in the codex HP. Plate 2 at the end of that article displays AS’s da...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:46 am
- Forum: General Religious Discussion
- Topic: The History & Mythology of Eclipses
- Replies: 3
- Views: 281
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:48 am
- Forum: Other Texts and History
- Topic: Ötzi's Tats
- Replies: 0
- Views: 109
Ötzi's Tats
Ötzi the Iceman has never been mentioned here before? What I find telling, the initial Bad Theory of expert scientists was overwritten by artisan-craftspeople who actually knew what they were talking about: yep, living tattoo artists. Found high in the Tyrolean Alps in 1991, Ötzi the Iceman had dark...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:55 am
- Forum: Other Texts and History
- Topic: Can we have an AI Translator Thread?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 684
Re: That Uncanny Vibe; The Future
https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/5-ish-things-on-ai-go-talk-to-claude-famed-apple-designer-eyes-wearables-and-more/ Anthropic's Claude chatbot 'isn't sentient, but it certainly feels sentient' The most popular generative AI chatbots, based on user engagement with the tools, are OpenAI's ChatGPT, ...