Thanks servo1969.
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Posted on 11/26/2013 1:15:20 AM PST by servo1969
Mount Etna has erupted and is dropping volcanic ash on nearby towns in Sicily.
What a video! Wish I was there.
Imagine what happened when Pompeii was engulfed !
Did it start out this way .. ?
Hey Alice ... C'mere ... look at this ...
A few years ago, my wife and I were able to visit Pompeii and Herculaneum. What a trip! It combined two of my greatest interests, archeology and geology. Mount Vesuvius towers over the entire Naples area — never out of sight and a menacing presence.
Lots of volcanic activity in the news lately.
New Island near Japan. Hope things stay cool at Yellowstone.
> Whether or not Empedocles believed it, the speaker writes that he is a divine being that has been exiled even by the elements and that at the end of his exile he will be a divine being once again. This fragment could be the religious or spiritual part of a larger work containing On Nature since there is proof that Empedocles intertwined philosophic and mystical belief. As for Empedocles’ idea of himself as a divine being, there are many stories of his death but the most famous is that to prove his godliness he threw himself into a crater on Etna.
http://www.egs.edu/library/empedocles/
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/empedocles/
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