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To: longnshort who wrote (39214)	7/21/2013 12:29:06 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Is that why you are not a Christian and posting on the Sabbath?

To: longnshort who wrote (39214)	7/21/2013 6:14:32 PM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 69300

First good information post ever made here , highly recommended. Farmers in medieval times used to build shelters by pilgrims roads just for traveling monks passing by, just hoping to attract one to marry their daughters. The equivilent now of having high hopes your daughter will find a good doctor or lawyer to marry. (they had a name for these little nook shelters, forget now what it was) You'll note the great emphasis on the liberal arts & sciences that later evolved into that expanded classic curriculum, this is what produced such great men & thinkers. Unfortunately we are left today with the watered down nimrods like the Jerry Falwells (and brumars) that don't even begin to measure up to this great noble lesson of the past that produced such quality minds. Let us look at the seven liberal arts (artes liberales), which formed the basis for most university studies. These arts were grammar, rhetoric, dialectical reasoning, music, astronomy, geometry, and arithmetic. They were called the “liberal” arts (from liberalis, which has its roots in the Latin word liber, meaning “free”) because they were held to be the proper course of study for free, i.e., non-servile, men. They were considered qualitatively different from and, indeed, much superior to the manual or mechanical arts and also to the practical and more mundane arts of law and medicine.