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Posts posted by Sextus Roscius
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my nomination for bad but enjoyable, has got to be, if you can count this as historical really... Master and Comander, horrible plot that drags on for a couple hours, but some humor and the final few sences make it enjoyable
as for books, i've got to say.... well, not sure...
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I'm here to say that I can not help you, sorry, but you must send back some pictures, and good luck with the lecture.
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In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
Translate that please.
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That, flavius, was the point.
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Personaly I'm hoping some one goes on with a Galen discussion.
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I hope you are able to do this , as the "plumbing" fits well with the medicines , I have tried to start debates about sanitation and water supply previously.
Yes, I'm actually writing a peice about aqueducts now, I plan on writing a article on Roman Plumbing at some point or another.
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not to mention any dictators will have to deal with my bad manners and a habit for not being killed. Oh yes, did I say wealth.
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no no no, I'm all for Americans emmigrating back to europe, or maybe some of our illegal immigrants going back where they came from too, but what i don't want, Arvioustus, is for the motavation to be immoral issues, people should be moving some place becuase it is a better place, to help that place, not to indulge ones self in its physical plesantries.
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Personaly, I think its a good thing and a bad thing. I think it is perfectly acceptable for a person to go into the army, make their rank upto a a generals assistant or something of the sort, a legionary comander persay, and then to go into politics still at a young age. This allows the person time to gain experiance in politics, but in making their political decisions they know the horrors war can bring better than any of the pure politicians, but they also know their effect on the world politics and the situation back home that many pure generals just don't have a decent grasp on. I think its the problem of the pure politicians decideing to become generals, or vice versa.
A prime example of this problem is Hitler in WWII, he tried to comand his troops down to the battalion level, like a comander or general, rather than giving a general goal and guidelines, which is the only thing a pure politician should do.
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I must agree with germanicus, homosexuals aren't going to produce children anyways. It wouldn't make a difference whether they were married or not, would it?
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Personaly, the republic could've held a republic, but to do so the Romans would've had to cease expanding, and eventually draw back the borders. This would, of course, mean that the Roman Empire we know today would not exist, and neither would all the greats we know, the Romans would mearly fall in place with the other mediteranian powers. Eventualy Rome would be conquered, but remain a republic to the end.
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Well, sorry to counter the statement but the same results can be the product of a society that is strickly following its morals, or is more concerned about its affect on world wide population rather than that of national population. It all really depends on ones standing.
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Maybe it would help if we merged the Dakotas and the Carolinas (North and South
I live in North Carolina and I'll have you know that we don't want to merge with South Carolina, but if you're going at it, why don't you make Virginia and West Virgina on state all together, and don't you think its annoying having those tiny annoying states like delaware and Maryland around to mess up the electoral college, not to mention the senatorial vote. Personaly if we merge Viginia and West Virginia, while we're at it we can throw in delaware and Maryland. And let me make the additional suggestion of taking those annoying North Eastern States, e.g. vermont, maine, new hampshire, and stick them together into Vermaineshire, good ideas eh?
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I think the Red flag-waving revolutionaries of the 20th century taught us that organized atheism isn't necessarily more logical or moral than organized religion.
Very true Urus, it is no wiser to have organized atheism that it is organized religion, and so we shouldn't have either perhaps, becuase both at the same time can have, literaly, deadly consquences. The better choice would be each person beleives what they want to beleive, worships when they need to, not on a particular sabbath, and that every person's religion is taliored to their own way of life, rather than the worship en masse.
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Indeed, the medicine and herbal information would tie in with the idea as well, falling under the medical abilities, technology, etc.
Personaly I've always wanted to do some peices on Roman engineering and water works in particular. I've always found that area in particular fasansting. How they could do things not heard of until world war 1, like provide running water to everyone in a city. I've acumulated alot of knowledge about Roman engineering technology from various places.
But there really seems to be no good place to discuss it on this website. The general purpose Imperium Romanum always works for most things, but some how it seems to me to be obscure from the general things, as Imperium Romanum is usualy about political issues.
So I'm very glad we've changed the Ethics Forum to a wider range of topics, and if needed we can expanded to more specialized forums.
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Feel free to help out however you think you can, however the only real affirmation is support of the Admin, which I'm fairly confident will see the usefullness of the suggested Idea.
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I'm more so worried about our government making a response without significant provokation by the Iranians. In a few years the Iranians will be ruled by the young adults, though if a civil war happens I think America will step in, and that might make things bad, considering our government would side with the young adult rebels, which would be a furthur provocation to islamic radicals and other groups such as korea, etc. Not to mention the group we would be fighting would undoubtably have control of the nukes, which could end very badly.
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Ciceronian philosphy is definatly on track, but not quite exactly, with what I'm like. Strict Republican values.
Also, to Cato, the Traditional Republican Values allow you to make your own decisions in a sense, and you at some point need to decide for yourself which is right, which is wrong, and what is more important. The goal of philosophy is give people a guide to life on what they need to do in every situation, but to give a general idea of things that are important and one decides.
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Yes, that would add on a significant amount that would allow the forum to function better. Personaly I'm incredibly interested and amazed by all the things they could do two thousand years ago.
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my town, or any town in the near area is listed, or the capital of my state for that matter. Thanks for the info Flavius
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sorry Ursus, I don't care to proclaim you god-king. How ever personaly I feel that I must be named Emperor of America, and from there I can take over the world.
Or maybe I could be allowed comand of Islamic Radical forces and use them for somethign worth while other than meaningless (in my opinion) destruction.
Anyways, sorry to be off topic. Just wondering right now though, for world politics, what are anyone's opinions about the Iran Nuclear situation and the whispers of us going to war?
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While I'm a hard atheist, I don't think what this man is doing is possible, though Cato's explaination from the plaintiff's persepctive is very accurate and if I remain an Atheist up till that age, I might be driven to do something just as unlikely to win.
Though, thats the way the world is, and the Italian government can't risk having this trial. Besides, I find it immpossible for the trial to work, since the "Impartial" jury can in no way be impartial becuase in matters of religion you've got to have some opinion on it. Becuase of a large majority of Italians being Catholic, I'm assuming that the jury will be largely catholic, and I doubt that their opinions on the existance of christ is going to waver becuase of the words of a 80 year old atheist.
Just thinking....
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I was just wondering, since both the Architeture and the Technology of the ancient world are highly interesting and surprisingly advanced, not to mention there is so much to it. Why don't we have a forum for it. We have one dedicated to religion, military, ethics, and general history, why not fill in the major gap of technology?
Ideas, thoughts, etc.
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and monasticism--come to think of it: what difference would it have made if Rome had gone Buddhist?
I don't think we should go there cato, thats about as realistic, or possible, as the "Roman Legions vs Aztec Warriors" threads.
Lead poisoning and it's effetcs.
in Imperium Romanorum
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I've long had the wonder of how the Romans had not realized that lead was a toxic substance. It seemed to me that with the Romans, having people like Galen that did such advanced things, would've been able to figure that lead=poisen.
As we all know, in fact, the Romans made their water pipes out of lead. Curiously enough, there is little, if not no reports of people dieing from this. Why did this happen? I've yet to find out, ideas, thoughts, feel free to do so.