Posted on 04/05/2002 3:43:19 PM PST by vannrox
O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are never anything but children, and there is not an old man among you.
Solon in return asked him what he meant.
I mean to say, he replied, that in mind you are all young; there is no old opinion handed down among you by ancient tradition, nor any science which is hoary with age. And I will tell you why. There have been, and will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes; the greatest have been brought about by the agencies of fire and water, and other lesser ones by innumerable other causes...."
http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/timaeus.html
Keep in mind, the collective Western memory has been largely destroyed by the Burning of the Library of Alexandria, along with all the book burnings from the Sack of Rome, to the Dark Ages forward. We in the West suffer from a collective cultural amnesia.
Library of Alexandria #1
Library of Alexandria #2
Library of Alexandria #3
Personally, I will trust text that can be dated close to the original even.
I haven't heard anything about this. Could you please explain?
Isn't this one of the infamous UN projects? Money should be no problem. Of course since it is in town now, doing any work on adjacent lots to protect from flooding would require permits and buying up land, all requiring money.
Knowledge and history from the old days isn't really lost, it's just mixed in and jumbled together. Anyway, the contents of this library would be a private collection of contemporary works, and would bring this period to life. Whose ox could be gored; it's been a long time.
Almost 50 years later, the full text of the Dead Sea Scrolls has not been released to the public.
Like you, I would like to hear the reasons why.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are in three bodies today. The Isreali's have a few, there is an unknown number in private collections and the Catholic Church controls the rest of the scrolls in the Scrollery in Jerusalem. All scrolls published prior to 2000 can be contained in 3-4 books with extensive writings filling innumerable additional volumes. Since the Office of the Inquisition of the Holy Roman Catholic Church (actually they changed their name about 60 years ago but I can't remember it) lost control of the scrolls in about 2000, we now have 47 additional volumes of scrolls published.
Of course, the Catholic scholars claim they were just being careful for 56 years but they have put out a lot of "spin" and "smoke" in two years for a bunch of guys that were just figuring out what it says. They probably haven't learned too much more than they already have in the Vatican Libraries but they won't let us see that either. Now that the Huntington Library in Pasadena has photographs of all of the scrolls and will let any serious scholar look at them, the truth will begin to emerge.
Frankly, I am 47 years old and have waited most of my adult life to read the actual text.
What are they hiding?
While scholars disagree on most of the references to a "constitution", most do agree that the recuring use of "tinfoil, flame, and Clymer" in the same sections seem to indicate a relationship between these obtuse terms.
Dr. Seamus Johannson, head of the Dept. of Cyber-archeology at Princeton also noted the cyclic nature of complaints regarding "new format" which while cryptic seem to indicate separate periods of cyber-realignment,the largest seemingly occuring prior to the Oslo war of the first half of the 21st century.
Hehehe.
Thanks tet68, you did not let me down.
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