Thomas_More
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It was my fault, actually, that the piece referred to doesn’t work . My apologies to ALB.
I do not know which piece you are referring to, Ciudanado.
I had in fact asked to be removed from the forum, but no one would oblige and ignored my request.
But to concentrate on the thread instead of on me, you’re not bothered by the destruction of old books, are you?
” bring society back to the caveman.”
Which was a happy time, and most of human existence, before all this crap, including their Christian crap.
I have been excommunicated, age 20, from the Orthodox Church, so that makes me an apostate, like Julian, condemned to the lowest Hell of all. 😀 I’ll be in good company.
The bulk of Cassius Dio’s Roman History in 80 books are fragments compiled and preserved by Eastern Christian monks. Any religiously motivated interpolations would be obvious. It appears that in this case, as also in the preservation of Aesop’s Fables, the monks were honest and did not attempt anything spurious. We owe them gratitude for their preservation of these classics.
Humans legitimise their abuse of other animals by using the animals as abusive epithets.
“She’s a cow!”
“You pig!”
“He’s an animal! A bloody animal!”
He’s a right snake!”
“She’s a bitch!”
“You ape!”And to legitimise their abuse of other humans.
Also, in English, the denial of gender to nonhumans, some even referring to their own pets as “it.”
Some languages have different words for “eat” depending on the eater being human or not, even though it’s the same action.
Sensibility and love are mocked, ridiculed and sneered at.
When my dog died, a man told me another man had seen me crying. “What’s wrong with him?”
“His dog just died ”
“Jeez, is he sissy or something? It’s only a f*****g dog.”Old Fritz was how Frederick the Great preferred to be known. He would stroll in the public park every day in an old beaten tricorn and anyone could approach him and talk.
He had no truck with hunting, and loved his Italian greyhounds as companions. He protected materialist philosophers and was friends with Voltaire.
He offered shelter and land to any poor person in Europe, but foreign governments didn’t publicise it.
His will stipulated that he should be buried with his greyhounds, but it wasn’t until the fall of East Germany in 1989 that this was later done.I didn’t say I wanted to die, just that I’m glad that I will be dead by the time physical books disappear.
You see, they have been my whole life and my greatest joy, since early childhood.I know it’s capitalism. And physical books will disappear. Those who think one has a choice are naïve. People like me will have no choice, and I am glad I am not young, so will be dead before then.
I’m also sure that most here are not bothered by it at all.
William Morris is dead, lucky for him.
Impact on Rare Authors Like Restif de la Bretonne Vulnerable Editions: Restif de la Bretonne wrote close to two hundred volumes, many of which are rare, fragile, or self-printed historical artifacts from the pre-revolutionary and revolutionary eras in France.Loss of Artifacts: Because large language models require massive datasets of diverse historical prose, antiquarian booksellers have noticed secret bulk buying by tech entities, leading to the permanent loss of unique physical printings.Explore the broader capitalist incentives behind the trend in an analysis from The Journal.” Google
Restif, coined “communism.” His rare originals could be lost.
Similarly, we know nothing of Celtic resistance to Christianity.
Only that when Julian the Hellenist was made Emperor in Paris by the legions and was carried by them through Europe to oust the Christian Constantius, the Gauls (of whom the army mostly consisted) lined the roads and lanes all the way in rapturous support.
But one will not find any record of conflict; nor of how monotheism was enforced. Since the returning self-made “elite” were small trickles, it must have been bloody. They were, though, the only ones who could read and write.
Unrecorded of course, but there must have been conflict and persecution between the mass of the polytheist Hebrew peasantry and the returned-from-Babylon monotheist Hebrews who made themselves the ruling class and would have viciously trashed the people’s worship of Asherah and Baal. The vicious language against Baal and the Golden Calf etc., used by “Moses” in the OT was really the expression of the new elite, and did not take place when “Moses” was supposed to be living, but much later, after the return from Babylon in Cyrus’ time.
