diagknowz wrote:Quite welcome, DH!
But nope, unfortch, I don't live in Rome. GoldRushLand's my present abode (altho someone might quip that this state in many ways resembles the decadence of waning Rome...)
As for my quote, it's a challenge to the folks who'd like to believe that secularism is spiritually neutral. The blog called "No Illusions" sums it up nicely: "A secular religion, like many more traditional faiths, might logically seek to promulgate its own set of values and beliefs in opposition to competing value and belief systems. Since such a religion would by its nature have no churches, congregations or pulpits, its forum might be the outlets of popular culture such as media and entertainment. It might also include the court system."
BTW, it's great that there are still parents who try to convey to their children that Latin is still a viable language!
This is so neat! Am I DH?
i do not yet know the short hand of this global language we communicate through. Like you said, Raphillon, I am having fun learning you the two of you.
You are the only folks I dialog with on the Web. Or should I say Tri-alog?
Diaknowz, I agree that folks tend to think that Secularism is neutral. I have known parents who believe it is better to raise children with no faith so that the children can decide for themselves when grown.
They think the 'nothingness' is a place holder rather than a vacuum ready to suck in what ever floats their boats...
Latin is not only viable, but a good percentage of English and most other European languages, is it not? Along with Greek, Viking, and native American vocabularies, we would not be speaking with one another today, let alone via internet satellite - Remember the tower of Babel? What is the root word of Confusion, you Babbling idiot!
I use PowerGlide Latin for children, some basic flash cards, and my two favorites are :English from the Roots up" and the card game "Rummy Roots" as I homeschool / 4H club / afterschool kids. Any kid willing that is.
Sadly, few are interested beyond the span of a TV commercial or a quick Game Over on the GameBoy device.
Too bad we don't have Thrilling Latin Adventures for GameBoy - centurions, gladiators, Queens, fair handmaidens, milkmaids, farm boys, peasants, knights in shining armor, jesters, characters both boys and girls would be intrigued with... ah, well, probably no money in it for the run-of-the-mill corporate techies... homeschool market would swallow it whole! I do many of the huge conventions here in the U.S.A. and wowwie zowie Batman, if you could just see for yourself the outpouring of desperate parents trying to do right, but so brainwashed by their own mediocre education they know somethings not right but just can not seem to put their thumbs on it... sorry, off the Translation theme...
Let me know if you are interested by the topic, I could go on for years.
When I home schooled my eldest daughter (now nearly 30 yrs old) we hid our children to avoid truancy charges, despite the fact of American history and the actual documentation (now conveniently mislabeled / mis filed in the Library of Congress - although I have it on line documents of the original origin of compulsory schooling in this country... ok, enough already)
Good Day, Evening, Afternoon, or morning to you both from Me in Michigan
PS - are you both men?
As you have inferred, i am rather on the maternal myself!
where do i find help w xlations? I am looking for a Latin phrase meaning Daughters or My Girls and mailbox or address or something nifty 
now if i could just get the hang of all these icons, site rules, and syntax, i just may manage this tiny laptop keyboard... when i started w computers, we donned white lab coats to keep warm in the overgrown refrigerator rooms (what, you thought we were impressive scientists with magic potions back there, along the lines of Frank Baum'z Wizard of Oz behind the green velvet drapes in the Emerald City 
I'm quite a madman, strange Italian guy who love to write about stupid things like history and to go around looking ecstatically at old buildings and drawings... 
, but you don't have to bother with that. Simply click on my "profile" button, and there, under "member info," you'll find my personal email that you can write to from your own email.
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