Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
Wouldn't Petraeus be inclined to get us involved in more wars? He might very well be a good president I don't know, but I doubt he would want to draw us down from the war on terror having come from the military industrial complex himself.
The key is, if the government can regulate one aspect of your life, it can do so in others as well. It is a slippery slope.
The only problem for me being a Christian is the account in Genesis. If I didn't have that, I could be way more open minded. I do think Natural Selection takes place, but only as a temporary means of adjusting to environmental changes that are out of the norm. Usually these changes will revert back to the norm when abnormal conditions go away.
I'm not against thisObesity Rating for Every AmericanIt's against my personal liberty to pay higher health care premiums because of fat, lazy slobs.While they're at it, I hope they mandate lower salt in processed foods too. The amount of sodium in some of these foods is ridiculously high.
Food Nazi. LOL
I got burned out too, and had to step away from it (and I was almost done!)I have come to understand that there is no need to rush. What do you gain by rushing? Nothing. It will always be there when you get back to it. Just don't beat yourself up over it if you do decide to take a break....and don't take too long a break either because it will be harder to get back at it.
I would like to believe Arthur was real, but then again, if he was, he most certainly won't live up to the imagery we've grown accustomed to.
I certainly can not condense an explanation to three sentences, and it seems the custom here to keep post very short. Donald Kagan's book "Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy", uses a full chapter to explain the Parthenon, and that would be just the beginning of the explanation of change. The change occurs over a long time before the Parthenon was built and following the building of the Parthenon. Perhaps it is easier for you to explain to me, how Athens became a naval force that could defeat Persia and the political ramifications of meeting this urgent military need.
Athens had help in defeating Persia, actually a lot of help. 🙂 Athens came to dominate a confederation of smaller surrounding city-states and subsequently began extracting tribute from them which lined their coffers. Athens was as militaristic and opportunistic as Sparta in their drive for Peloponnesian hegemony. Athens was also home of tyrants such as Pisistratus and Cylon who were no different than Sparta's Lycurgus or Leonidas. Yes Athens experimented with constitutional democracy (see Aristotle and Xenophon), but that democracy was limited and very exclusive.
Oh my, I could almost write a book in response to your questions. The Parthenon would be idea of possible the most important building in history, because it does mark the time in history when there was a shift from rule by whim to rule by reason.
Hi Athena! Welcome to WCF! Be careful now. Hammurabi, Akhneton, Moses, Solomon, Xerxes among others were trying to implement rule by reason and law long before the Greeks got around to it. Don't get me wrong, I love the Greek contribution to our civilization, but we sometimes forget that they were newcomers to the game and only perfected what others tried before. In fact, the Greeks were imitators of the Egyptians whom they revered just like the Romans would later imitate them. 😉
Actually England had a slight overpopulation problem (well in terms of employment there was a surplus of laborers) so taking a chance in the colonies was a risk worth taking because of the opportunity to rise out of poverty.
Ignore the message. You have to admit that the graphics were pretty cool.
Oh no doubt the graphics were very impressive. I believe Industrial Light & Magic were involved weren't they? Can't get any better than that bunch.
I would suspect that you buy into much more than you may think you do. But I do realize that the explicit study of it as a discipline isn't to everyone's liking. As the saying goes, concerning taste, no one can dispute.
I doubt it. There is a place for speculation but most of Philosophy in the last two hundred years or so, seems to me to have contributed to increasing human misery rather than creating new knowledge or giving us new insights.This thread can veer completely off the subject if we follow this route you know?
Like into the secret snake cult world of Queen Elizabeth? LOL
I would not consider 9-11 a non-wartime event. The attack was clearly an Act of War even though perpretrated by a non-state actor.I would add the McKinley assassination that put Teddy Roosevelt into office. Roosevelt entirely changed US foreign policy and had a profound effect on the business climate in the US as well.
If I made it 11 McKinnley assassination would be in there... Absolutely...As for 9/11, it pre-empted any conflict... hence it's inclusion...Donald, some othe events you referred to were during Vietnam (sticklers will say it wasn't a war...declared... true enough.. but ask anyone who served if it was a war) so those events would be excluded.Obviously the list could be huge... I picked things that defined a moment in our history and were instrumental in future change.
None of the events I listed were combat or war related. All were domestic events involving civilians (including Kent State).
