Lost_Warrior

ROTFLOL

That topic does greatly interest me actually, but I just love all sorts of discussion on the "cultural" side of history.

I think that the old ideas never actually disappeared. They *evolved* into new ideas, and some became less prominent, but they never truely disappeared (obviously, as some of us still worship the old gods and follow the old ways today)

Haha I like your idea Antichus! Moonlapse, I gave myself the needed resolve to eat more than two pieces of chicken and a bunch of candy over the course of two days...I have blood sugar issues. And then last night I went to bed at 7:30. This day went MUCH better.

My car is OK, my mom thinks that I did not accidentally run into something but rather the car was strategically soaped to make me believe that I had. Because someone soaped my mom's truck as well.

Well, good news bad news time. Good news: next week I'll be on my favorite evening shift ALL week. Bad news: this week is HELL. Monday night I had to work till 10:30, but I didn't actually get to leave untill 11, because of some issues with the shift change. I had to be in again at 6 am. OK, well that's sucky, but I can deal with it. So I get home yesterday, work went very well, and I am happy. I get online and find that this jackdonkey who I have had nothing but issues with in the past has posted an "essay" about the "psychology of bullies" giving detailed report of how he has been the victim of "my favorite bully". Of course, by "my favorite bully" he clearly meant ME. So, I tell him off in no uncertain terms, delete my account from his site, block him and delete the site from my favorites list. Then, I allowed myself a few hours of angry bitching about him, before making an addition to my Samhain ritual: I ritually banished him from my life. "I mean you no further harm, but I am freeing myself of you. Do not speak to me, do not think of me. You are dead to me." This leaves me no longer angry with him, or what he has done. However I cannot help but be hurt by it, and I think, understandably so. I got online later that night to find that he had posted the same thing on another site, of which I was a member first. I made sure my friends knew *my side* of the story, and reported his post to the admin. Of course, the admin publically praised him for making the post, AFTER I had reported it I then proceed to spend the evening with my friends. Much fun is had, until I return home. Knowing that I want to get some *decent sleep* I get to bed as soon as I think I will be able to sleep. A half an hour later, I get up. Someone has shot our house (with brand new, not even finished yet- siding!) with pink paintballs. I think, "I hope they didn't get my car too!" and go to check. I find that my car has been egged. The egging was done a while before, because it was already dried. Fortunately, though I was out at 11 PM cleaning eggs off of the back of my car, I got to it in time to save my paint. The only damage done was a few scratches caused by the shell hitting. As I am checking my car for further vandalism, I find that the front bumper is scratched, the paint is slightly (barely noticably) cracked, and it is covered in white streaks. The streaks cleaned off easily, but it appears as though I have hit something. I don't know what, where, or when. I would think it would be difficult to hit something and not know about it. However fortunately the damage is very minimal, only noticable if you look really close, and can probably be repaired by good use of rubbing compound. At 12 AM I finally am able to go to bed. (I gave up waiting for the cops, but my mom stayed up.) I get to sleep probably around 12:30, and I have to be up again at 5 and in to work at 6. My day at work sucked, this morning I felt as if I were on the verge of a nervous breakdown until about 10 AM. I am very grateful to my coworker, who helped me a great deal, and I did my best to help her to, when I started feeling more like myself again. There was something going on, I don't know what, but whatever it was, it wasn't good as our district manager was there, and everyone was in a frantic search for something, going through trash etc. I have suspicions...don't think I should discuss them though. Anyway, I wasn't the only one having "one of those days" and the district manager asked if I could stay a while longer, as they were changing the schedule around a bit as a result of the assistant manager needing to do management instead of deli duties. I agreed, and he thanked me as I left. "What for?" I asked, considering staying after as needed to be part of my job. My drawer was off a bit, and I hope that it is found, however I am not going to worry too much about it. I am too tired to care much at this point. I cannot wait for this week to be over!!!!

I read about this in Ancient Rome; People and Places. There are a few of the Roman watermills around still, and one of them is even still functioning!

ROTFLOL!!! :lol: erm...carry on..

I don't know what version of firefox I'm using but it doesn't seem to have the spellcheck. I hate spellchecks. Generally, I mean what I type, and they tell me its spelled wrong. I hate that. Though I do find my self occasionally typing something into MS Works to get correct spelling, it's rare.

Do you mean Gladius? They were extremely efficient, a gladius in the hands of a trained Legionary was more than likely the most deadly sword in history. The gladius was originally from Spain, or at least, something similar was developed in Spain and in typical Roman fashion, the Legions adapted it for their own use.

I believe that is a misconception about the Corona Civica. Or else, perhaps the Corona Civica had two functions. I'm still wondering how they kept the grass or leaves fresh.

Happy B-day! I'll spare you the singing

I'm afraid I must correct you there dear Antiochus! The correct form of that equation is AOL=evil^3 I use Trillian. I had to use AIM at my neighbor's house and it SUCKED. My SN is TheWarriorHealer

Thank gods you guys are ok! Holy crap!! That would scare the hell out of me... I am very glad that no one was hurt, and that he did not manage to burn your house. About the underwear; LOL well, that sure is interesting!

Haha I've been called alot of things, but "lady" was never one of them.

It really isn't all that obvious. lol

Oftentimes the upper class had "live-in" teachers; slaves who were educated and who acted as teachers to the children. (Slaves from Greece were prized for this it seems)

What's so funny about that?

YAY!!!! Congrats Pantagathus! And Welcome Back Germanicus! You have been missed!

haha thanks to an aweful connection, I didn't see this thread until now. Happy Bday anyway! Hope you didn't get TOO drunk!

Koi is still there. I haven't noticed her doing anything bad, but I tend to avoid the Christianity threads as there is really nothing of interest to me there, and I have nothing to contribute really

You know, my friend and I were just talking about the construction of Stonehenge earlier. we don't know how it was built, but we were wondering what it was used for. He thinks that it was used to mark the start of the growing season, the harvest, etc.

A tax on what? Are you serious?

As you've probably noticed, I've been a bit absent on the forums lately. I spent the past week or so at my neighbor's house, dogsitting. They had a computer (that works better than mine) but my time has been spent cleaning up messes and exploring new sites (I found an awesome Pagan Forum and have been spending time playing on there. I've also been stuck on the early shift (Oh, joy!) lately, and work has been taking up alot of my time. Between work, my internet not working, and trying to find time still to further my spiritual path (which I am taking much more seriously now) I've not had too much time to mess around on UNRV. Hopefully, that will change very soon. I still have several books that I plan on reading and reviewing for UNRV, but reading has been slow, I must find time to read as well. I swear, it didn't used to take me two months to finish one book I'm very happy to be home from the neighbors, I will not miss the sheer *joy* of climbing into bed at 1 am to find that the dog had pissed in it Also, theres something about the carpet at their house which makes it impossible to see stains. They can only be found by stepping in them, preferrably at 2:30 AM when I must be up to go to work at 4:30. It's great to be home. Yesterday we went to Sonestown Heritage where I found an awesome necklace for my mom (we bought each other early christmas presents, this pendant is worth far more than the fifteen bucks I paid for it. She bought me an amber and silver bracelet with celtic crosses.) and last weekend I bought a beautiful set of brass things for her for $6. I'm giving them to her as a solstice gift. She's pagan/taoist/buddhist so, the brass singing bowl (worth far more that the $6 I paid for it...and I got a whole set for that much!) incensce burner, little bowl, ashtray and silver thing, will be perfect for her.

I agree. I'm not sure why we're celebrating the guy who "discovered" america (when he didn't discover it at all because there were already people living here) by getting LOST. Lol. He thought he was in india