tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post1229489959886636883..comments2024-03-28T17:25:36.666-04:00Comments on Farmers Letters: Airbrushed Memories-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-52046123919775771652014-09-13T03:54:19.465-04:002014-09-13T03:54:19.465-04:00Indeed. Indeed. nicraphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18405719003477902855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-84986271501612787132014-09-12T11:19:05.586-04:002014-09-12T11:19:05.586-04:00I'll take it (for Dummies)!
And it's one ...I'll take it (for Dummies)!<br /><br />And it's one of the things that I loved about the Greek tragedies... that the characters were always evolving and the stories changing. In the end, the reader keeps what representations of the gods and messengers makes the most sense to him.Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-49436203833220451482014-09-12T06:06:13.819-04:002014-09-12T06:06:13.819-04:00For dummies (sorry, that's the best i could do...<a href="http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/hindu-gods-and-goddesses.html" rel="nofollow">For dummies</a> (sorry, that's the best i could do). heh. But this is like scratching the surface, maybe not even that, as the number of Hindu gods and goddesses is said to be in millions — 330 millions, to be precise. However, the number may have been born of a misconception, and the real number may nicraphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18405719003477902855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-64222963567766677862014-09-11T14:58:49.007-04:002014-09-11T14:58:49.007-04:00I think I need the Vedic Guidebook for Dummies. I...I think I need the Vedic Guidebook for Dummies. Is there a genealogy chart for the Vedas like there is for <a href="http://www.theoi.com/TreeHesiod.html" rel="nofollow">Hesiod</a>?-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-11761814030044832962014-09-11T14:54:39.047-04:002014-09-11T14:54:39.047-04:00Thank you, Angel. Light one for me!Thank you, Angel. Light one for me!-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-19147911610519652882014-09-11T09:27:01.119-04:002014-09-11T09:27:01.119-04:00God bless you my patriotic friend on this Sept 11...God bless you my patriotic friend on this Sept 11th..I shall light candles at the Memorial ...WomanHonorThyselfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17211851365273181636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-62059532358903631322014-09-09T11:08:04.136-04:002014-09-09T11:08:04.136-04:00Here is the full account of the five brothers'...<a href="http://vedapuran.wordpress.com/short-stories/the-departure-of-shri-krishna-and-contemporaries/the-departure-of-the-pandavas/" rel="nofollow">Here</a> is the full account of the five brothers' (commonly known as Pandavas) journey to heaven. It's a very interesting account, at least i find it so. Draupadi (also called Panchali) who was wed to all of them also accomapnies them in nicraphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18405719003477902855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-90461395079886653102014-09-09T07:36:42.253-04:002014-09-09T07:36:42.253-04:00I've been playing with Vedic math lately, myse...<i>I've been playing with Vedic math lately, myself.</i><br /><br />Is it any good? I know next to nothing about it. :(nicraphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18405719003477902855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-7664054809980537592014-09-09T07:33:30.560-04:002014-09-09T07:33:30.560-04:00I am familiar with the paper you linked, fj. Actua...I am familiar with the paper you linked, fj. Actually, i read it not long ago... <br /><br />...Among other things, it recounts the story of an encounter between Yudhisthira and a <i>yaksha</i> (a water spirit.) Yudhisthria is one of the five brothers, who make the central cast of <i>Mahabharata</i>, one of the two great sanskrit epics. He is the eldest of the five and is the son of Yama (each isnicraphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18405719003477902855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-24103107227292659212014-09-08T13:25:19.724-04:002014-09-08T13:25:19.724-04:00AN interesting subject. Thanks for introducing it...AN interesting <a href="http://www.academia.edu/1515024/Alexanders_dialogue_with_Indian_philosophers_riddle_in_Indian_and_Greek_tradition" rel="nofollow">subject</a>. Thanks for introducing it!<br /><br />I've been playing with Vedic math lately, myself. ;)Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-14131269558933942472014-09-08T11:07:41.936-04:002014-09-08T11:07:41.936-04:00Actually, Calanus (along with Dandamis and other G...Actually, Calanus (along with Dandamis and other Gymnosophists who may or may not have been named) may not have been at all obscure in the Late Antiquity and the early Christian centuries when Alexander romances were very popular and proliferated greatly. I have a very interesting text on these 'naked philosophers' (as they were called) in case you would like a look at it: <a href="https:nicraphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18405719003477902855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-5623513532052913402014-09-08T10:26:47.170-04:002014-09-08T10:26:47.170-04:00p.s. I've been very well. thanks! :)p.s. I've been very well. thanks! :)nicraphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18405719003477902855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-36987745166130054702014-09-08T10:21:15.857-04:002014-09-08T10:21:15.857-04:00wow. Great find. I was not wrong to put my faith i...wow. Great find. I was not wrong to put my faith in you. ;) But to come to think of it, who else it could have been? Does any other instance come to mind? Calanus? (Who famously said to Alexander, <i>We shall meet in Babylon</i>.) But he was a rather obscure sage from India and largely forgotten today. Then there is 'the death of Peregrinus' by Lucian, but it's more a parody or a nicraphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18405719003477902855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-75347919248430301852014-09-08T09:26:05.369-04:002014-09-08T09:26:05.369-04:00Chapter XVI Plato's Theory of Immortality
THE...<i>Chapter XVI Plato's Theory of Immortality<br /><br />THE dialogue called after Phaedo is interesting in several respects. It purports to describe the last moments in the life of Socrates: his conversation immediately before drinking the hemlock, and after, until he loses consciousness. This presents Plato's ideal of a man who is both wise and good in the highest degree, and who is Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-35285378651832035842014-09-08T06:44:22.668-04:002014-09-08T06:44:22.668-04:00To meet one's pending execution in a willfully...To meet one's pending execution in a willfully celebratory manner? Christ does come to mind, and I can't think of any others, at present.<br /><br />Hope you have been well! Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-63248461482141559272014-09-08T02:39:02.953-04:002014-09-08T02:39:02.953-04:00Jowett?
The translation is by Jowett (btw, here i...<i>Jowett?</i><br /><br />The translation is by Jowett (btw, <a href="http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/1999_orig/1999-03-15-xlit.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> is a much better translation of Phaedo, if you are interested.) I don't know if the introduction is by him, too, or not ... it doesn't say.nicraphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18405719003477902855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-73964116743887455322014-09-08T02:07:23.897-04:002014-09-08T02:07:23.897-04:00Hello fj. How are you? It has been a long time. ...Hello fj. How are you? It has been a long time. o/t I have been revisiting "the cycle of Socrates' death" — Apology, Crito, Phaedo, in that order — and i finally picked up Phaedo today. As it has always been my custom to give book introductions a miss and to go straight to the text, i was doing just that, i.e., skipping the introduction, when my eyes caught something in it whichnicraphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18405719003477902855noreply@blogger.com