Sextus Roscius

Please, can we not call them imperial. if you really look at what we've been doing and what imperialism is, then we aren't imperial, at least not in a territorial sense, perhaps culturaly, but the middle east and the U.S. are culturaly imperialistic

Exactly

Age:13 Male Student(if that really counts) well greg, that really depends, what aspects of the media are we considering. I think that when it comes to actually reporting the news, the T.V. stations are realitively non-biased and give a pretty good out look from their point of view. Different networks (fox, msnbc, etc) all have certain alignments. Fox, for example, is very conservative in its out look. While other networks are more liberal. I think over all that its how one interprets what the news gives them, and what parts of it they react to. Some higly patriotic people might see old glory being burnt on the news and go off and do something insane without learning the reason for that. Like wise, some one who is very scared of people dieing might see the troop causualty count a freak out while a more educated person would consider the numbers and etc. So I think its how people react to the news, not the news itself, that creates violence.

Hmmm..... another wierd roman practice.....I'd definately say the uses of the byproduct of being strigiled. When one was being strigiled, the oil and sweat and dirt and general muck would be flicked onto the floor creating a disgusting dog doo like substance with tons of sicking bacteria that (this is so typicaly Roman) would be picked up by doctors at the end of the day and mixed into medicines and ointments, sometimes even given to people directly (usualy only in the case of quack doctors)

Good point, I doubt any of those people were persecuted for crimes on those charges. Also if I may point out, one can classify any educational system as "perverted" , not just ones by those in history we consider "bad". In my town, the schools are almost obsessively leftist (we were among the top 3 most democraticly voting counties in the region I beleive) and I've been taught all my life tons of things that were only the positives or negatives. If some one was popularly beleived as bad where I lived. They would foucus hard core on the negatives bringing up the positives in passing statements which were ignored in the big picture. This did not however apply in a vice-versa manner. I, by my standards, was brought up in a completely biased educational system and the only reason I'm not the same way as others is becuase I loved history from a young age and there for learned things on my own. I am to this day thought of in a negative way becuase I mention both good and bad about every thing we bring up. I'll give the bads about gandhi and the goods about hitler in a way thats not ignorant of other things they've done. So, what I think might happen, is if we progress in this thought of prosecution of denial, perhaps we will eventualy (like what is sort of going on in my school to me) we will shun people for merely suggesting positives to a normaly negative thing. If I were to point out that the Nazi's did indeed profit off slave labour and it worked for them, and that the conflict was of ethics (the Nazi's being unethical to them, not having different ethics) then could I be prosecuted.

On an off question LW, are you a man or woman (since your an adult now) I never quite new. Anyways, congratulations on becoming an adult, you can vote now and all those jolly good things, though you can't drink. I'm only 13 so, I've still got 5 years, 5 years to pass a drivers test....that is....

With the current number of troops, no, with more, yes. The problem is, we have aproximately (as last I checked) 150,000 troops in Iraq about, which is barely enough to keep a very shaky peace in such a violent country of about 29,000,000 people divided into conflicting ethinic groups. Our gov't needs to put in at least 300,000 troops to soldify things. Its a bad war though, the politicians are conflicting with military intrest. I think if we gave the military an objective with a few rough guide lines (follow the law, etc) and allowed them to use what ever means nessacary as long as they remain in those boundaries then we could take and hold the country much more efficiently....though that is "unethical"

Its certainly not going to die down, this is most liekly just the beginning. I fear for the worst. Chances are this could escalate into civil war. Quite frankly, the U.S. forces there can't and couldn't keep a civil war under control. Personaly I've found a way out, a person to blame for all the violence. WINSTON CHURCHHILL!

two people are rivals for me. Cicero-a personal idol and a man who I strongly respect and who's philosophies I follow in daily life. A genius in terms of politics, oratory, philosophy, and law. He truely loved democracy and supported the republic, and faught Caesar's rise to power every step of the way. A truely ideal man. Motzart- A saddly misunderstood genius who was obviously too smart for the world around him. I also admire his cunning and wit, as well as his obvious talent as a musician and a composer. One of the greatest if not the greatest man to ever walk the earth. The one and only true prodigy.

Agreed Virgil, Arab Christians have it incredibly hard. As a comment to get back to the Topic here, I think it is sort of conflicting here that (as pointed out by another on page 1) that the most anti-Nazi & anti-Facist idea is individual liberty, which the Austrians are taking away by prohibiting a person to think what he wants. Also, I would like to point out that American Anti-racism laws are higly different from Austria anti-Halocaust denial laws. It is one thing to hate black people for there race, and an entirely different peice of cake to deny history happened. Irving's statements are like some one denying that Japanese americans were put into camps durring WWII and that there was no racial hatred towards them.

Ah well, Another good moment I'd love go do back and change, is when man first tied a stone to a stick, I would've been there and said. Now look, I've got a much better deal for you, you see that metal, go fetch boy!

The End of major Political upheavals. I think after 3 very bloody civil wars almost directly after each other, Rome and her people wanted to relax. This was aided by An Emperor, all of Rome under one Decisive Rule. Infastructure Military might Etc.

I don't say that out of hatred of any Religion, but out of hatred of violence as the result of the stems of Judaism. No offense Flavius, I think you were interpreting what I said in the wrong way...

Irvings is half right on the point that Hitler himself did not over see the operations of the Halocaust personaly, that was the job of the S.S. which techniquely means Himmler Also, I personaly find that just about everying Irving states can be disproved by simnply skimming over Mein Kampf by A. Hitler himself.... Which clearly indicates that Hitler was aware of what was going on and was indeed, knowledgable of and assisted the construction of the execution devices in concentration camps.

Well, I had my palm read today. Not much of value. Stuff about I was going to either become a very religious man or die early in life, I will be married in my late 30s, I'm agressive and what not. I think palm reading is a bunch of huey though, after all, the outcome is purely a result of the conditions around you and more imporantly, your hand. If it is very cold out, you hand will have a lot of blood in it, or very little blood, which woul affect the "signs" appearing in your hand, this means that the "signs" that appear are different most likely and that can conflict with your previous "signs" etc. Also, I'm expecting a very boring day tomorrow, not much out of the ordinary... 1. Primetime (make up for your mistakes time) 2. Gym (warm up period) 3. Latin (best class ever, not to mention class with my best friend and the girl I admire) 4. Science (working on a project, not much of intrest) 5. Math (Boringness defined very blankly) 6. Lunch (Oh boy, 30 minutes of watching Olympic Hockey and chowing down with my friends) 7. L.A. (Boring as hell wouldn't have it becuase we are working *shackes* grammar which is now evil to me after taking some latin. What the hell is the point of Diagraming sentances anyway in a language I speak much better than just about any other kid in my grade.) 8. Social Studies (doing African history which stinks...just can't get into it) 9. Band (Our teacher is hyper insane-o now about getting all our songs perfect down to the last note, which is quite a strain for us trumpets becuase we have a very hard part for some of these songs) And then schools out... Thats just an example of a day for me.

History is like an unraveling coil, as it gets longer, the beginning becomes less and less firm, leaving what was once a strong and solid fact as weakly bound loose ends flailing away from the rope of knowledge

You are given the ability to go back to any event in history and change it. Stop Alexander the great from embarking on his journey by having him never be born, make sure Jesus doesn't die on the cross, Give Napolean a few extra hints which will lead him to take Russia. Go back and kill George Washington so America never existed, Expose Hitler for who he really was and stop WWII, Make sure the War in Iraq never happens, It's all up to you! Personaly, I go back and make sure Judaism was never founded, then we would all live as nice, easy to accept the other, pagans and polytheistics, making sure that most all religious conflicts (especialy the modern ones) never would happen.

Google was my choice anyway, I always hated yahoo. wasn't good for anything, except for checking stocks, though I use other things now. Though the schools tell us to use yahoo. It is better censored (in terms of inapropriate searches and pics....

While Irving is stupid and definately ignorant of facts and I can't agree with him, Austria can't and should not have jailed him. It is proof to the world that the Austrian Government is willing to override the right to free speech and freedom of opinion to some one becuase of there thoughts, as well as empowering a group of people to become better or more important than others. While I don't agree with Irving, Austia's decision is a conflicition and a debasement to democracy. Whether he is right or wrong, you can't jail him becuase of what he thinks. The very basis of democracy, is that all people are equal, no matter where they come from or what they've been through. Austria has just made sure they aren't

Professor has been around since the previous professor did a Q&A session way back when. Nothing new.

You shouldn't have a problem applying your morals to Nazi germany, though I don't. I judge them in the same way I judge the Romans (which is indeed highly controversial) and I have no problems doing so. Thats due to me learning about them from too young an age. Though to get off that subject. I think overall when it comes down to it, how we judge or view ancient cultures from a moral standpoint really is whether they come from a familiar world of standards as we do and what time period the people or person in question existed in. Also, the world around that peoples at the time in question would give us a level of how good were they compared to the rest of the world.

Personaly, my favorite documentaries (series) is the ancient discoveries series. Simply fascinating, comendable, and it completely reverses any though of the ancients being dumb. with the antikathera mechanism, roman supper mills, huge water wells, automaticly openning doors, and the bagdagh battery, there is so much more to it all. No substitute for that, it was my favorite series, and still is.