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  2. Holy Mastadon! Giant Tusks Unearthed

    in Archaeological News: The World

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    I think Caldrail's "big elephant thingies " is the most accurate scientific statement on this thread.

    However I have to ask as to the bio-engineered capabilities of said BET's...you know , laser cannons, gatling implants, excessive oestrogen, violent mood swings, irrational consumption of chocolate...

    I think the fundamental issue here is whether you should offer a pre-emptive apology for, or rather take personal pride in, the possibility that your cyborg descendants will reconstitute these big elephant thingies and outfit them with these enhancements.

  7. Sun Worship and Sunday

    in Templum Romae - Temple of Rome

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    I can't verify it, but I consider it obvious. Christianity was spread much like Roman rule and culture was. In addition to the mentioned correlation to Sun-day, many Saints are successors to pagan gods. St. Michael for instance replaced Bel and shrines are generally placed in the same places as the pagan shrines. Sorry I can't offer you any evidence at the moment.

  10. Pope: Other denominations not true churches

    in Hora Postilla Thermae

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    Isn't religion - any religion - just a way of getting people and their social habits to tow the line with one person's belief that life and teachings should be lived and taught his/her way? ...

    What IS religion anyway? ...

    Any more guesses?

    Here's my take:

    Religion is basically ideology. Ideologies can be collectivist or individualist. What I mean is, the same ideology can be a means to homogenize and control others or it can be something a person has accepted by their own judgement which gives them a sense of purpose or fulfillment.

     

    No one can ultimately prove their ideology, there is a certain measure of faith in almost every abstract thing that you believe.

  14. Rhetoric In The Classical Sense.

    in Hora Postilla Thermae

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    The academic track is usually populated by the .. smarter types ... if you know what I mean, and these could benefit from a more classics centered education.

    The Bell Curve, eh? This may be accurate for a fixed and standardized system, which then makes it seem to me like circular reasoning. A statistical quantification of something like the human mind will always be subjective.

  15. Rhetoric In The Classical Sense.

    in Hora Postilla Thermae

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    School is the system's method of creating employees and consumers (as opposed to entrepreneurs and independent producers) The schools we have are the schools that are required. Most 'classical' means of learning have been removed to make way for a scientifically designed method and environment. You can't measure rhetoric with standardized tests. If you want a return to classical subjects and methods, you're not going to get it in the Department of Education, unless perhaps in selective AP classes and in very watered down form. To recite one of my favorite quotes again:

     

    We want one class to have a liberal education. We want another class, a very much larger class of necessity, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

    - Woodrow Wilson

     

    The economy we have right now is solidly based on this. If you give every child a liberal education, you lose efficiency and the ability to centrally manage a large group of people. If you keep digging into this you will ultimately have to decide whether you think the current order should be maintained and your level of comfort within it, or whether it should be completely dismantled and be forced to confront considerable inconveniences.

     

    This sort of thing will truly only cause problems, are they the kind of problems you want? :lol:

  21. The aweful state of tuition in America

    in Hora Postilla Thermae

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    I see some misunderstanding here. MPC is saying that 'US university-based research generates more scientific publications and garners more Nobel prizes than any other nation by a very large margin,' not that 'the research labs of US universities are better.' One is an easily verified fact, the other is a subjective opinion. Let's not turn this into a 'no, you're not better than us' discussion. 'Better' and 'best' were not even uttered. MPCs rankings post is a response to the unreferenced claim made by Bryaxis Hecatee about the 'best' universities. If you want to dispute some of the information referenced here, use referenced information to do it.

  24. The aweful state of tuition in America

    in Hora Postilla Thermae

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    As a side note to MPC's last post, not only technological but also behavioral research is used in this way. G. Stanley Hall and John Dewey sprang from the earliest research universities in the United States. Practically everything you experience now is a result of more than a century of this research, designed to influence and/or make practical use of your behavior, especially in marketing and in every stage of education.

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