fm wrote-
Quote:Drink your sudes spendi, itll make you feel like your thoughts are worth paying attention to.
You've done that fm. So has Ed. So has Chai. So has Settin' Aah-aah. So has dadpad. Not me though. Why do you continually say that nobody pays any attention to what I say when the evidence is directly contrary to that and it would be pointless being on A2K to act like that. Remarks of that nature are pointless.
Is that what you say everytime you have no answers. Bit girly innit? And what exactly does "go further" mean. You sound like Mr Obama with that tripe.
I pay attention to the thoughts of others. I've no choice.
I do admire being born in time thinking. I feel primitive because I am primitive.
Quote:So, the deeper "respect" for our forebears that you wish to embrace really would ring hollow if we didnt build upon what they left us and if we didnt try to go on farther.
That's pure materialism. It assumes there's such a thing as progress when really there is only destiny. You have read ci's Einstein quote haven't you?
And I didn't say that I embraced a deep respect for our forbears. You can't read. Do you unconsciously modify everything you see to fit what you want. I've always found that sort of thing a symptom of an inferiority complex.
I'm sorry for using the expression "when Nelson gets his eye back." It's an English idiom for something that will never happen. I never expected some pedantic twit to use it as an excuse to blare out some stuff from a history book.
Settin' Aah-aah wrote-
Quote:To the list of things that Spurious obviously doesn't know **** about, which includes but is not limited to history in general, the Merovingians, the legal system in the United States, the manner in which schools are organized and funded in the United States, jurisprudence in the United States, and anything remotely related to science--we can add the life of Horatio Nelson.
Same old stuff old boy. It's a claim to be an expert in those subjects.
Jeeze Settin' -- you haven't a scientific bone in your body. You are pure subjectivity. Your every thought is congruent with your perception of your self interest which is itself subjective and cock-eyed.
I know that the Merovingian-Carolingian era (500-900) led out of its primitive expression forms, its mystical symbolisms and its naive imitations into the Gothic (900-1500) and that its inner feeling is still alive today wherever there is a genuine peasantry. (Chucking out time on Friday nights in city centres for example). It's a pre-cultural expression with equivalents in the Egyptian Thinite period (3400-3000), the Mycenean in the Classical ( 1700-1600), and the Selucid period in the Persian.
The Courts of Love, the Romance of the Rose and all that funny stuff you know nothing about Settin' but which the Gothic Christian adjusted so that you could enjoy certain things in the Civilization period and not notice the exhaustion of ideas to such an extent that you actually think the quote above is brimming with ideas and creativity which it isn't. In fact you haven't a creative bone in your body either and you think that spouting arrogant simplicities is a substitute for what is necessary to get one. It may kid the folks around you but it doesn't kid me.
I recommend Braudel, Spengler and Flaubert's Salammbo if you want to get scientific about bloody dead history.
Superficial learning is a dangerous thing you know.
Nelson is no hero in my book. Had he never been born somebody else would have had his job and from I've read there were plenty at the time who sincerely wished somebody else had had.
Why don't you tell us all about these things you claim others don't know a **** about. Enough of negativity.
Bob Dylan wrote-
Quote:When you're lost in the rain in Juarez
And it's Eastertime too
And your gravity fails
And negativity don't pull you through
Don't put on any airs
When you're down on Rue Morgue Avenue
They got some hungry women there
And they really make a mess outa you.
