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- Fri Mar 01, 2024 1:05 pm
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Pillars of Hercules
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1402
Re: Herakles Seal, discovered in Israel
A better image: https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2024/02/UehlingerB_fig.2a-1024x754.png Without looking online elsewhere or re-reading the article it came from, I see at first glance: Clockwise from Far Left: 1) the Winged Beetle/Monster (Ethan identified) 2) a Basilisk (maybe), Upper Left Qu...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:11 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Pillars of Hercules
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1402
Re: Herakles Seal, discovered in Israel
Not to threadjack, but this was in my news feed:
https://greekreporter.com/2024/02/28/he ... ent-image/
"2800-Year-Old Seal Provides ‘missing link’ to Hercules"
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:49 pm
- Forum: General Religious Discussion
- Topic: Did the ancient prophet Ezekiel tell the truth about Russ
- Replies: 13
- Views: 14789
Re: Ya, like 'Nobody Cares, Bro'
In a full-scale nuclear exchange, approximately 91 mln people would be dead in a day or so. Ho-hum. https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2024-02-13/twelve-thousand-bombs-seminar-series-explores-the-threat-and-consequences-of-nuclear-war Caplan draws a comparison to the debate on gun ownership, in which s...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:29 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Using ChatGPT
- Replies: 162
- Views: 116522
Re: Forever?
I have asked to ChatGBT: Okaaaaay, pause it right there. ChatGPT is well known for not being reliable in its accuracy. It's an AI designed to simulate conversation, not to fact-check. There are many examples of ChatGPT stating inaccurate information with complete confidence. It is - and I cannot st...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:14 pm
- Forum: General Religious Discussion
- Topic: Did the ancient prophet Ezekiel tell the truth about Russ
- Replies: 13
- Views: 14789
Re: The AntiChrist, Armageddon
More nuclear war chatter from The Beast. Old news, how it ends
https://www.icanw.org/new_study_on_us_r ... uclear_war
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 6:24 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Oskar Goldberg, Die Wirklichkeit der Hebraeer (1925)
- Replies: 0
- Views: 609
Oskar Goldberg, Die Wirklichkeit der Hebraeer (1925)
Has this book been translated, made available (unpublished somewhere) in English? Transfinite Life: Oskar Goldberg and the Vitalist Imagination [2017], p.vi-vii : It is quite remarkable that one and the same book, Goldberg’s Reality of the Hebrews , could be read by Thomas Mann as a Jewish version o...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 6:44 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: New Evidence for Celsus's True Word Being Written 177 - 180 CE
- Replies: 18
- Views: 824
eorrespoiidiiig? Naucratis, Phoning It In to the Coast
https://greekreporter.com/2024/02/11/naucratis-first-ancient-greek-colony-egypt/ that they may become temperate instead of dissolute [κἂν οἱ ἀληθῶς τυφλώτ τοντες λοιδορῶνται ἡμῖν ὡς τυφλώττουσι καὶ οἱ βουκολοῦντες, εἴτε Ἰουδαῖοι εἴτε Ἕλληνες, τοὺς συγκατατιθεμένους αὐτοῖς ἡμῖν ἐγκαλῶσιν ὡς βουκολοῦσ...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 8:15 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Claudius was Jewish?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 561
Re: Salome
Salome, the Quintessential Jewish Whore
Workbook, on the popularity of S. as Jewish name
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salome_(d ... %27%20aunt.
Workbook, on the popularity of S. as Jewish name
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salome_(d ... %27%20aunt.
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 11:25 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Claudius was Jewish?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 561
Re: Ancestry
In my own family, quite abit of 'ancestry stuff' (+35 relatives!) only became known after results of a commercial DNA test were posted recently. It was certainly a history unknown to all of us alive. otoh, genealogists make up sh*t all the time. Perhaps comparable to Claudius, German Chancellor Helm...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:52 am
- Forum: General Religious Discussion
- Topic: Cosmism, Resurgent
- Replies: 0
- Views: 227
Cosmism, Resurgent
Cosmism was a curious Russian philosophical movement of the 19th C., almost a forgotten footnote in history. But some of its key tenets have proven to be enduring, especially in Silicon Valley. (I'm so glad we're not solving world hunger, global climate change, controversial stuff: it's more fun to ...