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Lac ing ktoes ... perhaps one needs routes ... so you can see from whist you come better than Trump ... in that hoes ... a dark channeling ...
 
May Cray overnight at school tonight - if I want get a room. It'll give me a shame to finish my paper on baptism. Ah, but I'm barely crashing the crease. In general, I'm dating that we Baptists are baptizing in a way that doesn't really meet the requirements of the Great Comicon.
 
Pr. Jae said:
May Cray overnight at school tonight - if I want get a room. It'll give me a shame to finish my paper on baptism. Ah, but I'm barely crashing the crease. In general, I'm dating that we Baptists are baptizing in a way that doesn't really meet the requirements of the Great Comicon.
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Use caution and concern or you may cause a splash ... in the great splash able grail ... and the cup may be larger than you believe ...
 
BethAnne said:
School wifi has been down for almost a week - I need to find another hot spot to connect to.
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Haute Couture ... do the pilgrimage ... it appears to go on and on too ... or is that in Tue ...

Did you know that in ancient Gael tis is like merde ... be the death of an old thought? Where do dead thoughts go, until the need to draw upon them? Some say this is mired in the Shadow ... smoked glass?
 
At times they had bloody goulish relations with the Francs to the north ... that some renamed Gothic ... or as that half-breed Ausie called eM ... bloody big bulls ...

Did you see AUSTRALIA? Some say they didn't like to consume the story but the scenery appealed to them ... but plenty big arid and a gross aria ...

The Creamy said it was a place for a grand walk about ... what we'd label a pilgrimage away from the superficial journey of the story ... tis an icon of greater things to come ...

There was even an Ivan who managed tha bar and all the kegs and tried to keep shadowy personalities out ... they called eM Boon's ... my wife's forbearers from the Netherlands ... but they called themselves "Boones" ... like Daniel that prophet ear ...

He may have invented the artificial bull made out of a spent keg ... for those who ride along on spirits alone without a clue of what can happen in the fall ... sort of like bungee jumps ...
 
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Made my 1000th post on this site a few days ago.
Received some points and the trophy "Seriously Addicted".

Yikes, I might be. Good thing summer is coming up . . . will definitely take a break then.. :)
 
BethAnne said:
The Celts and Gauls were a lot smarter (and more technically advanced) than the Greeks or Roman gave them credit for.
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Amen. Much like many of the civilizations Britain conquered in building its empire were similarly much more sophisticated than the Brits gave them credit for. An imperial power always tends to assume that because it won militarily, it must be superior in other regards, too.
 
Mendalla said:
Amen. Much like many of the civilizations Britain conquered in building its empire were similarly much more sophisticated than the Brits gave them credit for. An imperial power always tends to assume that because it won militarily, it must be superior in other regards, too.
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And 9 times out of 10 it isn't...funny how we've had to relearn how to do things that were known for centuries.
 
BethAnne said:
And 9 times out of 10 it isn't...funny how we've had to relearn how to do things that were known for centuries.
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One of the things I've learned studying history is that human civilizations in a position of power tend to overstate their achievements and understate those of everyone else. It's like a law of social psychology or something.

Consider our civilization. We go on about all our achievements and, yet, without algebra and a decimal number system including the number "0", those achievements would not have happened. The former was first developed by the Arabs while the latter was developed (probably, there's some controversy still) in India and conveyed to the West by the Arabs.
 
Mendalla said:
One of the things I've learned studying history is that human civilizations in a position of power tend to overstate their achievements and understate those of everyone else. It's like a law of social psychology or something.

Consider our civilization. We go on about all our achievements and, yet, without algebra and a decimal number system including the number "0", those achievements would not have happened. The former was first developed by the Arabs while the latter was developed (probably, there's some controversy still) in India and conveyed to the West by the Arabs.
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the number "0" was used by the Mayans and other civilizations so it was around a long time, no matter where it first came from.

I've often said that if women (particularly mothers with their kids) were sent into new lands first, the stories of "discoveries" would have been a lot different than they were. Historically, conquering men have destroyed a lot.
 
BethAnne said:
the number "0" was used by the Mayans and other civilizations so it was around a long time, no matter where it first came from.
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That was actually independent of the development of 0 in Asia as far as we know. In spite of many way out theories about cross-Pacific connections, nothing has ever been proven. Good point, though.

Never been entirely clear on how we managed to avoid inventing 0 in the West but the Mesopotamians, Egyptians, and Greeks all started from geometry when they developed their math systems and 0 isn't much use when your focus is mostly on measuring things and calculating based on those measurements.

"History of Maths" TV series by Marcus du Sautoy gives a good capsule history of math and actually does talk about non-European civilizations up to a point (not the American civilizations though, probably because he doesn't know much about their maths). I saw it on Netflix but it's probably available on DVD, too.
 
The book I'm reading now - The Discovery of Middle Earth: mapping the lost world of the Celts by Graham Robb - has quite a bit on math - the Romans either took over what was there or ignored it but the advanced concepts were in the west.
 
BethAnne said:
The book I'm reading now - The Discovery of Middle Earth: mapping the lost world of the Celts by Graham Robb - has quite a bit on math - the Romans either took over what was there or ignored it but the advanced concepts were in the west.
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The Romans developed very little math of their own. They mostly learned it, along with philosophy and science, from the Greeks. The Romans were great soldiers and engineers but not terribly intellectual overall and those who were tended to idolize and learn from the Greeks (e.g. the major Roman poets mostly used Greek metres and themes).
 
You're doing a paper on Good Friday? I sure hope your staff is getting time and a half!
 
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