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by billd89
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...
by billd89
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

Image

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"
by billd89
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...
by billd89
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...
by billd89
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
by billd89
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Has this book been translated, made available (unpublished somewhere) in English?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...
by billd89
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...
by billd89
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.
by billd89
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...
by billd89
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 ...