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To: TigerPaw who wrote (60719)	10/18/2014 10:37:25 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 69300

Note that Mars didn't know that. And btw he'll suspect you of being Jewish now.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (60719)	10/18/2014 8:55:07 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

I knew that some seder's did incorporate this, not all, just a few drops (or sip) of wine for pause reflection on just what price in the narrative myth this legendary freedom really came. One thing we do know, there were no united tribes in 1500BC called Hebrews operating under any monotheism, there were scattered wandering tribes with god's like Baal, El and the attendant consort fertiltiy queens of heaven. And far before that the elementals, sun, moon & animimist worship or some sacred mountain etc. What is always inevitable from an evolutionary pov and just what we see happen in the Levant is that eventual grouping of loose sctatterd tribes occur which always finds itself naturally occurring around some central city trading locus. Every city of the ancient world & surrounding area was the "state" and everyone of them in the ancient world had its origin myths & legends.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (60719)	10/18/2014 9:10:15 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

We just look at all the tribes & groups that exist right now in the ME, most of these people haven't much of any direct knowledge of America but they know all about us. This would have been the case for those ancient tribes in the Arabian penninsula where the Herbews probably started out, all kinds of rumors of the great Pharoahs, their mighty structures (World Trade Centers) and would have similarly been cast as the great satan. What else are you going to compare & match yourself up against, for the Greeks early on it was Troy who they defeat finally thru Odysseus' cleverness. Later the Persians & Spartans and so on. But since you're a pretty tiny tribe with really not even 1/100th the powers, culture & prowess of the Greeks, sky's the limit, just invent the ultimate deus ex machina, a god that can part seas, flood the world, turn men into pillars of salt. Mythology, everyone was doing it and those tales incoporated the personality & psyches of the tribe, the human primate starts flooding the world literally with their fantasies & fears. From the floods, fires of hell, evil kings, damsels in distress, dragons & bellies of giant fish. And of course the major spirits from sky, woods, desert sands & seas...the tricksters, imps , spirits, jinns, angels & demons fill up their new imagined world cosmology. * They know more about the USA now, from McDonalds, Colonel Sanders, Coca Cola & internet, cell phones & pc's plus several invasions & 9/11 and many wars since mid 20th century. We are the Egypt super power or Roman invader and we have the eagle drones!

To: TigerPaw who wrote (60719)

10/20/2014 2:29:03 AM

From: 2MAR$

Respond to of 69300

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 19,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1.5 tons
~ Popular Mechanics, March 1949.

640Kb ought to be enough for anyone.
~Bill Gates.

There is not the slightest indication that [nuclear energy] will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.
~Albert Einstein, 1932.

They never will try to steal the phonograph. It is not of any commercial value.
~Thomas Edison (c. 1915).

A Few more :

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. Alexandre Dumas fils.

All great truths begins as blasphemies. Bernard Shaw.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The Buddha (Siddhartha Gotama).

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more. Oscar Wilde.

An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it. Mahatma Gandhi.

Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxley.

Formal Education will make you a living; Self education will make you a fortune. Jim Rohn.

Good timber does not grow under comfortable circumstances, the stronger the wind, the stronger the tree. J. Willard Marriott.

Great men's success should always be measured against the means they used to reached it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. Albert Einstein.

He that knows nothing doubts nothing. George Herbert.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying. Bob Dylan.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. Lord Kelvin, ca. 1895, British mathematician and physicist.

Help others, but when you do that, do not forget yourself. The Buddha (Siddhartha Gotama).

I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here ... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped. U.S. Senator Simon Cameron, on the Smithsonian Institute (1901).

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain.

I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive. Albert Einstein.

I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work. Thomas Edison.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. Noel Coward.

I love fool experiments, I am always making them. Darwin.

I must confess that my imagination, in spite even of spurring, refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. H.G. Wells, Anticipations (1901).

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