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by billd89
Sat Apr 20, 2024 3:26 am
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: Spackling over the Crumbly Bits
Replies: 9
Views: 1100

Re: Freedom?

Aren't you carrying ideas of Locke, Marx or some modern philosopher into a wholly anachronistic realm, though? Your stipulation bears no relevance to the excerpt provided nor the situation there, such as it was. Personally, I would not have wanted to work in the Timna stone mines either -- but someo...
by billd89
Fri Apr 19, 2024 3:19 pm
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: Spackling over the Crumbly Bits
Replies: 9
Views: 1100

Who Built the Pyramids, again?

https://allthatsinteresting.com/who-built-the-pyramids Excavations in the 1990s into what researchers sometimes call “pyramid city” were crucial in establishing a modern understanding of not just how the pyramids were built but also by whom. Specifically, it was the discovery of large quantities of ...
by billd89
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: 3085

"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...
by billd89
Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:41 am
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: Pompei: new paintings found
Replies: 2
Views: 160

Dating Pompeii, for the Waco TeeVee People

"AD 79 ... that's like Dinosaur Time, right?"

Right.

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by billd89
Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:26 am
Forum: General Religious Discussion
Topic: All christianity is “fundamentalism”
Replies: 6
Views: 12398

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...
by billd89
Fri Apr 19, 2024 3:55 am
Forum: Other Texts and History
Topic: Conflict Zone Artefacts
Replies: 0
Views: 52

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...
by billd89
Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:35 am
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: Article: Ancient Greeks Predicted Robots
Replies: 5
Views: 4803

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...
by billd89
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: 155

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...