Is Solomon’s Glory Based on the Assyrian Shalmaneser III’s Exploits? – part 1
https://vridar.org/2020/10/31/is-solomo ... ts-part-1/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalmaneser_III
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Shalmaneser-III
This forum discusses that Solomon was a composite of several Kings (which is not atypical of how ancient texts were written.
https://groups.io/g/AncientBibleHistory/topic/75480993
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An Author by the name of James Rappai wrote a book called, The Bible Came From Syria (in 2004,) though I've not read it. He might actually have been arguing that the original Holy Land was Syria, which might align with ancient antiquity. It doesn't look like the book had much traction though.
One example of a temple in a very similar layout to Solomon is a Hitite ruin, called, Ain Dara (archaeological site).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain_Dara_ ... ical_site)
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I might have been getting slightly mixed up with the New Testament (which of course was based in the Syrian dialect of Aramaic, hence some confusion with the Old Testament and Syriac, namely with their version of the Bible, called Peshitta. Most of the Old Testament is without a doubt written in Hebrew from what we know of it, though many books over time have adapted differently based on the adoption of the traditions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac_ve ... _the_Bible
The first books were written there: "Syria played an important or even predominant role in the beginning of Christianity. Here is where the Gospel of Matthew, the Gospel of Luke, the Didache, Ignatiana, and the Gospel of Thomas are believed to have been written."
Also, for some strange reason, :
"The meadow outside the small village of Dabiq, Syria is a strange setting for one of the final battles of the Islamic apocalypse. Although close to the Turkish border, “Dabiq is not important militarily” observed a leader in the Syria opposition."
What are you reading?
Re: What are you reading?
Childhood's End - Arthur C Clarke (1953)
A story about the fate of the human race. A modern analogue would be the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy by Liu Cixin. The advantages of this book is the writing is a little better, the entire story is a fifth the length, and the universe it describes is slightly more hopeful. I'd consider this 'great' sci-fi.
A story about the fate of the human race. A modern analogue would be the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy by Liu Cixin. The advantages of this book is the writing is a little better, the entire story is a fifth the length, and the universe it describes is slightly more hopeful. I'd consider this 'great' sci-fi.
Re: What are you reading?
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"Our truest selves exist within the observational incongruencies among general first impressions and further analyses of the finer details."
- from my Ph.D. thesis in psychobabble
"Our truest selves exist within the observational incongruencies among general first impressions and further analyses of the finer details."
- from my Ph.D. thesis in psychobabble
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"Our truest selves exist within the observational incongruencies among general first impressions and further analyses of the finer details."
- from my Ph.D. thesis in psychobabble
"Our truest selves exist within the observational incongruencies among general first impressions and further analyses of the finer details."
- from my Ph.D. thesis in psychobabble
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Vintage newspaper (I was trying to look up information on some antique furniture, though most of it's probably nonexistent, including the buildings of the resellers.) It's insane how many pieces of furniture that would normally sell for thousands in the right marketplace, can't even be gotten rid of for less than $100. It's like the antique piano market, and things such as secretary desks or any vintage writing desks, are kind of unwanted furniture pieces.
Lancaster intelligencer., May 24, 1871, Image 3
An accident in the second column near the bottom suggests that locomotives intentionally used the whistle to startle horse buggies in order to panic them, which caused severe injury to the riders when they got throne off in a panic, as it happened on more occasions than to seem incidental.
https://panewsarchive.psu.edu/lccn/sn83 ... d-1/seq-3/
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Some decent books
https://archive.org/details/@fast_shadow777
Edit: in addition, I just got a physical copy of this book though found a digital copy:
Handbook of Photography (1939) by Henney, Keith, Dudley, Beverly
https://archive.org/details/handbookofp ... 5/mode/2up
It's the sort of thing I would have actually wanted to know about when getting into photography, though never found (the sort of stuff only found in vintage books before shit basically got really retarded.)
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When I last posted the above it has been several weeks and kind of aimlessly getting traction on other things; I was using a different computer which crashed the RAID 0 configuration and lost all primary drive data--though much had already been diligently copied onto other drives in the event of such a thing--I had saved probably over a hundred books on a folder within that drive. I might have to go over it again; currently I'm trying to get the various games I never play redownloaded (in the event I might actually play them. . . Stupid, I know.)
Commentary (how I categorize this)
A Short Introduction to the History of Human Stupidity by Walter B Pitkin
https://ia601501.us.archive.org/13/item ... t_text.pdf
I was getting caught up into misanthropy about whether membrane keyboards were to be avoided, while seeing hundreds of overpriced mechanical keyboards being tossed around online, with all these different issues (a lot stemming from software integration issues, and even the one that I bought which the seller falsely claimed was mechanical, showed tons of weird problems in reviews, such as what sounds like electrical problems. And then people swapp keys which costs more than most keyboards on the market, and even then aren't satisfied, and then sell their keyboard with various extra keys for less than what they paid for the keys, on a $200 keyboard.
Is it mechanical switches or just indecision? And when you get down into the details of a lot of it, the problem seems to have more to do with insecurity and feeling inadequate (so gamers that get into a lot of the computer crap are more about bragging rights and feeling better than others, or to have some aspect in which they like to brag or feel validated in some way.)
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A lot of stageplay-related content.
https://archive.org/details/@altheab
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Bl ... frontcover
Lancaster intelligencer., May 24, 1871, Image 3
An accident in the second column near the bottom suggests that locomotives intentionally used the whistle to startle horse buggies in order to panic them, which caused severe injury to the riders when they got throne off in a panic, as it happened on more occasions than to seem incidental.
https://panewsarchive.psu.edu/lccn/sn83 ... d-1/seq-3/
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Some decent books
https://archive.org/details/@fast_shadow777
Edit: in addition, I just got a physical copy of this book though found a digital copy:
Handbook of Photography (1939) by Henney, Keith, Dudley, Beverly
https://archive.org/details/handbookofp ... 5/mode/2up
It's the sort of thing I would have actually wanted to know about when getting into photography, though never found (the sort of stuff only found in vintage books before shit basically got really retarded.)
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When I last posted the above it has been several weeks and kind of aimlessly getting traction on other things; I was using a different computer which crashed the RAID 0 configuration and lost all primary drive data--though much had already been diligently copied onto other drives in the event of such a thing--I had saved probably over a hundred books on a folder within that drive. I might have to go over it again; currently I'm trying to get the various games I never play redownloaded (in the event I might actually play them. . . Stupid, I know.)
Commentary (how I categorize this)
A Short Introduction to the History of Human Stupidity by Walter B Pitkin
https://ia601501.us.archive.org/13/item ... t_text.pdf
I was getting caught up into misanthropy about whether membrane keyboards were to be avoided, while seeing hundreds of overpriced mechanical keyboards being tossed around online, with all these different issues (a lot stemming from software integration issues, and even the one that I bought which the seller falsely claimed was mechanical, showed tons of weird problems in reviews, such as what sounds like electrical problems. And then people swapp keys which costs more than most keyboards on the market, and even then aren't satisfied, and then sell their keyboard with various extra keys for less than what they paid for the keys, on a $200 keyboard.
Is it mechanical switches or just indecision? And when you get down into the details of a lot of it, the problem seems to have more to do with insecurity and feeling inadequate (so gamers that get into a lot of the computer crap are more about bragging rights and feeling better than others, or to have some aspect in which they like to brag or feel validated in some way.)
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A lot of stageplay-related content.
https://archive.org/details/@altheab
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Bl ... frontcover
Re: What are you reading?
Screenplay - Napoleon by Stanley Kubrick (circa 1969)
https://alexcassun.files.wordpress.com/ ... poleon.pdf
I've been hesitant to watch the Ridley Scott movie as I could see nothing that compelled me with how I would want the story to unfold. . . An example would be, when the French Revolution broke out it should be Napoleon taking charge of the canon artillery as he's taking control of the crowd. When he's involved in correspondence with his spouse it should hallmark all the unusual aspects of their relation including how he communicated with her (though much of this might be "lost in translation" to modern audiences. . .)
It should also make it very evident he's a Corsican who rose to the position he did in France, but also that his background made him somewhat suited to distance himself from his actions towards the French crowd (and it also explains how he would go about his ambitions the way he did, using the soldiers like battering rams. . .)
I could tell immediately from just seeing various glimpses of the movie that in no shape or form was this the Napoleon from the history books. The very personality he has was completely off the mark (so basically a constantly brooding character that seemed incapable of directing people or being antsy for things that upset him, was completely at odds with how Ridley scott was trying to appeal to movie goers that had very little more than a cursory interest in an historical figure.)
People don't want history it seems, and I suspect Ridley Scott being British probably cast a bias against how France behaved while in Egypt, etc. . .
https://alexcassun.files.wordpress.com/ ... poleon.pdf
I've been hesitant to watch the Ridley Scott movie as I could see nothing that compelled me with how I would want the story to unfold. . . An example would be, when the French Revolution broke out it should be Napoleon taking charge of the canon artillery as he's taking control of the crowd. When he's involved in correspondence with his spouse it should hallmark all the unusual aspects of their relation including how he communicated with her (though much of this might be "lost in translation" to modern audiences. . .)
It should also make it very evident he's a Corsican who rose to the position he did in France, but also that his background made him somewhat suited to distance himself from his actions towards the French crowd (and it also explains how he would go about his ambitions the way he did, using the soldiers like battering rams. . .)
I could tell immediately from just seeing various glimpses of the movie that in no shape or form was this the Napoleon from the history books. The very personality he has was completely off the mark (so basically a constantly brooding character that seemed incapable of directing people or being antsy for things that upset him, was completely at odds with how Ridley scott was trying to appeal to movie goers that had very little more than a cursory interest in an historical figure.)
People don't want history it seems, and I suspect Ridley Scott being British probably cast a bias against how France behaved while in Egypt, etc. . .
Re: What are you reading?
Government of the Shadows - Parapolitics and criminal sovereignty - Wilson (ed) 2009
https://ia803406.us.archive.org/34/item ... 202009.pdf
Pretty rare now
https://www.amazon.sg/Government-Shadow ... 0745326242
I was looking for a book by Casey Michel called “American Kleptocracy.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_West
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_West
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Harold-II
https://ia803406.us.archive.org/34/item ... 202009.pdf
Pretty rare now
https://www.amazon.sg/Government-Shadow ... 0745326242
I was looking for a book by Casey Michel called “American Kleptocracy.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_West
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_West
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Harold-II
Re: What are you reading?
Very little time, but I read A Christmas Carol by Dickens, why not.
Re: What are you reading?
The Goblin Universe. . .
https://archive.org/details/@l_archiviste
Moreso
Egyptian Book Of The Dead, The by E. A. Wallis Budge
https://archive.org/details/e.-a.-walli ... f-the-dead
The vast majority of the books are either scams or con artists with dubious agendas.
Japan was primitive in many ways:
https://social.benzinga.com/s/odd-facts ... 0008c89c71
https://archive.org/details/@l_archiviste
Moreso
Egyptian Book Of The Dead, The by E. A. Wallis Budge
https://archive.org/details/e.-a.-walli ... f-the-dead
The vast majority of the books are either scams or con artists with dubious agendas.
Japan was primitive in many ways:
https://social.benzinga.com/s/odd-facts ... 0008c89c71
Re: What are you reading?
Great American Bathroom book (GABB) vol 1
https://archive.org/details/greatamericanbat00salt
Supposedly this has an actual file (though not sure I trust it.)
https://annas-archive.org/md5/17fe5bbe1 ... dd076cb8bb
I have the hardcopy, though was looking into vol 2 and 3.
Ebay tends to be cheapest (though will have "gently soiled" copies.)
Vol 2
https://archive.org/details/greatamericanbat02ande
https://archive.org/details/greatamericanbat00salt
Supposedly this has an actual file (though not sure I trust it.)
https://annas-archive.org/md5/17fe5bbe1 ... dd076cb8bb
I have the hardcopy, though was looking into vol 2 and 3.
Ebay tends to be cheapest (though will have "gently soiled" copies.)
Vol 2
https://archive.org/details/greatamericanbat02ande