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| Posted on 2008-12-10 00:07:42 |
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Of course, God is just a word.
God is either force, like the force of iron for example.
Or a living being, but not human.
For both, and it changes according to the culture or religion, some people use the word God.
There are forces everywhere. But some, like the nuclear energy, seems more new to us.
And there are beings. But it is not my role to talk about them.
There are also forces and beings far away.
We observe the space farther and farther, we see some of them. First, that influences some of us.
Secondly, we change the earth more and more (warming and explosions and pollution) and some of the beings see us. And some manage to influence us. It is just called communication, when you communicate with your best friends, you don't say "oh, this is very nasty, this is an attack". Beings can be friendly. Or hostile, like in any communication.
So, today, people like the word God. So I use it.
If you want to change and use more accurate words, just stop hiding so many documents in so many countries and so many armies, and even in laboratories. |
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| Posted on 2008-12-22 16:24:31 |
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Two comments about the same book.
While the reasons for postponing its publication are
unknown, the Prodromus is an important statement in the Copernican controversy.
The work remained virtually unkown and had no effect on the outcome of the debate between Copernicans and advocates of the geocentric/geostatic cosmology.
One comment is wrong, one is true.
Somebody should read this book, and other texts of the same period, and find which comment is true.
The book is called Prodromus pro Sole Mobili et Terra Stabili contra Galilaeum a Galileis. |
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| Posted on 2008-12-23 22:52:02 |
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My notebooks.
In fact, I need the notebooks to memorize what I read. So I can find again the information quickly 3 days later or 1 month later.
I never cared to publish a book (I told it to some people, because they want a reason when someone visits often libraries, so I create a reason).
Also, the people of the libraries never asked me to see the notebooks. I would consider normal, I mean to show to the staff of one library, most of my notes coming from this library. Nobody asked, and I never proposed, but I hope people are not angry because of that. If they don't ask, what do they expect ?
It is also true for the people of the german library. I don't really want to read there again, as that creates only quarelling relations. But if they want to see the notes, of course, it is just normal. And in fact, part of the notes, I don't need them any more (I note them, in order to memorize, but some, I never read them after, I can't foresee the future, and know which notes will be useful or not, so I note more than I really need in the future), and they can even take the pages. For the ones that I want to keep, there are machines that do good quality photocopies.
Yes, I was not very nice to mister Groβe (because the librarian proposed me to meet him when I was reading about geography). I don't understand yet the relation between religion (which is his main stuff) and geography, so I refused. I keep thinking that there is no relation between the two. And if religious people mainly care for geography, they should really stop praying on the old text called Bible, because there is nothing about west european geography inside it.
So, of course, for the notes, it is also true for the other libraries. Usually, I know from which library comes each book.
My notebooks are not "great", and all is written in books of those libraries, but they are not secrets here.
There is just some thing that I dislike. If someone likes a subject, and likes the notes about one subject, then he/she should read about it, and not try to influence me. For example, if someone likes geography, that is one point, but he should not try to ask me to enter a religious discussion just because, after Charlemagne, catholic church cared for geography. I don't care at all for the psychology of many people of the past. For some, I care, and for many, I don't care at all. |
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| Posted on 2008-12-23 23:07:53 |
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Also, why did I stop the relations with the oriental library ?
One librarian there watched me with a strange look. In turkish habit, this is called "sun look", and it is rather a way to prove feelings to a person. Rather personnal feelings.
It was surely not the meaning, but it was probably a polite way to create a connection.
There are enough secrets in books. If people can't use words to create a connection, I am not searching for secrets or for discovering the meaning of smiles of any kind. So this kind of atttitude "mysterious friendly way" made me a bit sad, and I decided to stop going there.
If people want to know something, why don't they ask ?
And if people read this forum, here, from any library, and never write, that is pretty unpolite. They could just write here, and if they want discussions, there are mails and private message.
And if nobody reads it here, then this message is useless. On the other hand, I am nearly sure that someone of the german library did read this forum in the past. This is why I wrote "you are my ennemy", because someone was reading without writing one answer, and because my level of diplomacy is below 0, and I was expecting a reaction here, at least one message.
I know, this forum is not made for that. It is not mine, and I could create my own website and blabla. But I am communist, so I can't create MY own website. |
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| Posted on 2008-12-29 20:32:30 |
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Wikipedia
The Second Lateran Council under Pope Innocent II in 1139 may have banned the use of crossbows against Christians.
The authenticity, interpretation and translation of this source is contested.
(with two references, one for each argument)
In the future, they will have such question for the 20th century.
But they will not ask : was this weapon banned or not. They know that we don't respect rules for banned weapons, or very little. And asking this question now, about nuclear weapons, is not really pleasant. And we can bet that some country will use it again, sooner or later.
The question will not be about "banned" weapons.
Rather those questions : was a war forbidden after 1950, if the armies were not bombing civilians with planes (or with suicide attacks) ? |
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| Posted on 2009-01-06 20:15:26 |
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De motu planetarum et orbitarum determinatione
from Euler
I read it again, because no one wants to read it.
There is only one mistake in what I read.
Else, it is really like most astronomy modern books. Except that he likes développements limités, and with calculators/computers, we don't need it any more.
In the with-mistake paragraph, he tries to hide the first mistake with a wrong développement limité. It is annoying, because the mistake is in the physical part. And he manages to reach the correct value with a wrong développement limité (and a second mistake, this time a mathematical one).
Strange. How could he know the correct value ?
In fact, searching for mistakes in this text is not interesting. But why 3 mistakes ? Usually, cheaters correct the first mistake with a second one, and that makes just 2 mistakes, not 3.
And all other paragraphs seem correct (to me). Why place 3 mistakes in one text (and not just 2), and all in the same paragraph (and this paragrah is short, less than 10 lines) ? |
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| Posted on 2009-01-07 14:24:50 |
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In fact, getting the correct value is easy. He gives one method in the previous paragraphs.
In these previous paragraphs, he calculates two other anomalies (the .. and ..) for an anomaly (the mean anomaly) of 80°.
Then in the erronated paragraph, he tries to get the values of the two other anomalies for a mean anomaly of 81°, with calculating the derivative.
He can also calculate directly these two other anomalies, with the formula of the previous paragraphs. Just replace 80° with 81° in the previous paragraphs.
He does not write this calculation, but he certainly did it. Then he knows the correct result.
And he tries to find it again, with calculating the derivative. And he makes 3 mistakes in this calculation. And magically find the correct result again. |
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| Posted on 2009-01-11 00:43:22 |
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Schumpeter
Théorie de l'évolution économique
The theory of economic development (in änglish)
Theorie der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung (original title)
I understand why those who read that are anticommunists.
His first model (of stable economy) is an image of what he was imagining for communism, and that is terribly mecanical. Mecanical or mathematical.
It is a terrible problem for economists. The goal of the theory is to reach a pure mathematical result, and we know that it is exactly something that humans can't stand.
It is not only true for the simple stable model of Schumpeter. It is true for any economical model.
Yet it is not a reason to do like Trichet, and to do exactly the opposite of the normal thing. But I don't say that he must bring the interest rates down (like the USans and japanese), because on this point, Hayek explains the problem.
Also, Schumpeter is not wrong either. In the meaning that his stable model fits with the texts of Marx. So Marx was adding "when we reach this model, people will stop caring for economy, and care for other things". That was probably also meaning : will have passions for other things, and fights and maybe die for other things. Is it much much better than capitalism ? Not much much. It is much much better than some forms of capitalism.
Also, Schumpeter explains really well this first model. Much better than von Mises.
My opinion is climbing about him about this point. But concerning the technological waves/changes, my opinion is going a bit down. Because I discovered austrian economists who were better. |
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| Posted on 2009-01-13 10:00:54 |
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About the heroid french pirates.
Those who were officers during the wars of Louis XIV.
They robbed 9500 boats in 20 years of war.
Around 1700.
They were giving to the king only 10% of the robbed merchandise. 90% stayed in their hands. A part probably went to the local population (as they were surely leaving a high way of life).
Where did the rest go ? Officially Dunkerque, Calais, Saint-Malo and Brest, the 4 main centers, are not rich cities today. Or they just keep it inside private home, and don't display it openly.
1820.
French attacks Algeria, a country of pirates.
Oh.
Were these pirates the pirate officers of Louis XIV ?
And about the heroism of pirates.
A loss of 0,1% each year, in one available study. Although it is just for a few years and one port, we can think that the global average value was not higher than 0,3%.
In Irak, the loss of american much-protected army are around 1% or 2%.
Hum. These pirates were probably good for geography, wind, and sailing boats. Courageous, yes, but not that much. And heroics, surely not. |
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| Posted on 2009-01-13 10:06:15 |
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Hum, and sorry for not writing the sources.
After all, when it is about thiefs, why tell the owner of the information ?
If you don't trust, just don't trust it, and enjoy the movies about french pirates, or english ones, which seemed to be of the same kind.
If you trust and want to learn, just learn that there are two opposite thesis, and search in libraries.. |
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| Posted on 2009-01-13 22:32:40 |
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I have a new card of reader of the german library.
As a punition for the previous card, I must a prepare a mail to someone. Hum.
I spend a few hours trying to find ideas, that was boring.
Fortunately, it was in a cafe, and the people inside were much much more boring, so I could focus on my papers, and not on their discussions. |
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| Posted on 2009-01-15 10:01:05 |
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Excel.
These values fit really well, much too well.
That means... that some people did study that in the past, and it is nearly possible to place a date about the moment of their studies.
It is normal, in a crowdy earth. That removes the pleasure of the discovery, but that is normal. |
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| Posted on 2009-01-21 20:22:26 |
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Archäologische Beobachtungen (observations) zur (of the) Religion der (of the) fesländischen (continental) Angeln
from Jankuhn, 1977
It is about the northern sea, from -500 to +500.
One historian tells about the end of this period. He describes the violent invasion of England before 600, from the east, through attacks of Angeln and Saxons.
He was called Beda.
Archeology, at least for the moment (for the moment for me, some may know more of course), proves that the weapons were urns.
Clay urns. Archeology proves that urns travelled accross the sea.
These urns were kind of religious (offering-to-god/force/form of life and maybe burial), buried carefully in protected places.
According to Beda, the invasion was really violent.
Beda was probably just offering crosses. |
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| Posted on 2009-01-22 18:35:51 |
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Wikipedia + german books
There was a God called Nerthus in northern Europe, around the year 0.
Around the northern sea.
This god was a god of fertility.
Nerthus...
Let consider the third letter 'r'.
In greek, this letter is a 'p'.
Nepthus !
Like Neptunus in latin ?
Is this a serious possibility ?
One positive argument.
Neptunus is the god of the ocean.
In Tacitus text, the most sacred place for Nerthus is an island in the ocean.
One negative argument.
Neptune is male.
In most modern translations of Tacitus text, Nerthus is female.
There is one female in the celebration festivities for Nerthus, yes, in the latin text. But.. Is it the God or is it the priest ? Everybody considers that the high priest (the only one who can touch the vehicule of Nerthus) is a male. But which proof do we have ?
I think there is another possibility. Nerthus is male (an old nordic god with a bit similar name is male and also God of fertility ; the dictionnary "Lexikon des Mittelalters", index "Nerthus", tells the complicated spelling). And the high priest is a woman.
So this argument is weak.
Another positive argument.
The God Nerthus is connected to fertility.
Neptunus is the God of the oceans.
The oceans are connected to rain, and thus to fertility.
Another positive argument.
A few latin texts of +200 and +300 report that the tribes of the north, those who worship Nerthus, attack the coasts. They are pirates !
(concerning this last point, we shall not forget that Rome was attacking everybody ; the interesting part is not that the people of the north are attacking, but that they attack through seas, and not through lands or forest). |
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| Posted on 2009-01-23 14:25:32 |
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I'm reading old kind books written by Astrid Lindgren...Very funny! |
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| Posted on 2009-01-27 12:11:13 |
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hey bac, wot's up? |
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| Posted on 2009-01-27 12:15:01 |
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Les Miserables and War and Peace simultaneously. |
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| Posted on 2009-01-28 22:49:34 |
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A text about germans (not only saxons, but including saxon areas), in antic times, from +100 to +200.
A study based on graves, and on rivers.
It is interesting, and some points sound convincing (it is always difficult to tell for graves, because how many do we discover because we dig where we want to search, and how many do we miss because we don't dig there ? Yet I think the text manages to prove something).
From a madam Redlich.
Also there is little violence (although it is a period of history when the roman empire existed, and of course, there is a war in the story, but not against saxons).
And one thing also happens. In the interpretation of Redlich, the princes (the people buried in two rich graves, but without name/title written in/on the graves) are no more princes, but people who were doing long distance trade (I am rather convinced that the bronze coming-from-italian-workshops objects arrived there by trade, but I am not convinced with this second part).
And the text was published 31 years ago.
And since 30 years, american repeat "trade can create a pacific world". So either americans influenced the german author, either the americans did read a german text. The second one is hardly possible, so that it is probably the first possibility. |
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| Posted on 2009-01-29 20:09:00 |
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Some german books between 1800-1914.
Studies about the period +400 to +800. About objects of that periods (no more skeletons or things like that, just the objects).
One detail puzzles me. Why does the historian (german and swedish ones) regularly class hungarian among german people ?
(they do that for czech area, why not, it was part of the german empire)
One book is more strange. It classes all german objects in the category "saxon art".
Hum. There were two sources of metal for these objects, one was in saxon territory and one was not (it was in czech territory).
Why should a german buy to a saxon trader rather than to a czech trader ? They clients probably doing like now, considering the best quality or the cheapest prices. Nearly all our mobile computers are built in Asia, because the quality is correct and the prices lower..
Or maybe the clients were buying to the closest. For some areas of Germany, czech area was closer. |
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| Posted on 2009-01-29 22:24:59 |
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Hum. In fact, it is not completely correct.
The second book is half-art, half-history.
Maybe the author care more for art.
So he tries to detect "tendencies" and some kind of "schools" in arts. He was not saying "saxons manufactured all that", just "the saxon art".
It is different, I was not convinced (about a "saxon school of art"), but it is different.
For example, many people today are programming the american way (because the most modern computer languages were created by american individuals/commitees, who never cared for the opinion of other cultures).
But all programs are not written in the USA. |
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| Posted on 2009-01-31 00:24:10 |
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The life of Agnès Gonxhe Bojaxhi, also called "mother Teresa".
I learn (in fact, I never cared much) that she was born in Skopje.
From an albanian family (according to historian, but maybe from Romania), but she never returned to Albania.
When she was 18, in 1918, just at the end of the war, she left for Western Europe to Ireland.
And later to India.
I wonder why we heard so much about her in France. She had no connection with France during all her life long. |
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| Posted on 2009-02-03 20:54:33 |
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לא וְעָשִׂיתָ מְנֹרַת, זָהָב טָהוֹר; מִקְ . . . . . . .
תֵּעָשֶׂה הַמְּנוֹרָה, יְרֵכָהּ וְקָנָהּ, גְּבִיעֶיהָ
כַּפְתֹּרֶיהָ וּפְרָחֶיהָ, מִמֶּנָּה יִהְיוּ . . . . ..
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And you [...] a candlestick [....]
לב וְשִׁשָּׁה קָנִים, יֹצְאִים מִצִּדֶּיהָ: . . . . . .
שְׁלֹשָׁה קְנֵי מְנֹרָה, מִצִּדָּהּ הָאֶחָד, . . . . .
וּשְׁלֹשָׁה קְנֵי מְנֹרָה, מִצִּדָּהּ הַשֵּׁנִי. . ..
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And [...] six branches [...] three [...] and three [...]
Ah ok. It does not look like 6, but it is 6. |
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| Posted on 2009-02-09 23:28:49 |
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Anglo-saxon pottery and the settlement of England
From an historian, Myres, who was also teacher in the famous university of Oxford
Very interesting maps.
In fact, I watche mainly the maps.
For this map, one point is lacking, unfortunately. There are no excavations in norther France or Belgium (or no results about these excavations).
There is England, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark. But nothing for France and Belgium.
The book is a bit old (1969), and most recent books probably offer more complete results.
Secondly, there is a discrepancy, an important one between the maps and the text of the book.
According to the map, the Buckelurnen (a category of potteries), for categories called I to IV, spread nearly onto the full England area. All England north of Thames.
The text tells something different. For Myres, there is no Buckelurnen around York (more accurately, and according to his words, around the river Humber), but I just counted on the maps, and the sum is far from 0.
He builds an explanation around this point of his text (a foreign origin of these potteries, coming through the sea, brought by people who landed East of Cambridge).
As the maps show something different from the text, I am confused about this explanation.
Also, there are interesting things about two other periods.
First, various kind of potteries (Myres uses 4 sentences to describe the style), that appear between 400 and 450, in many countries in Europe, and in many places in England. A bit like a "rebirth" after the fall of the roman empire.
And for the period 500-580.
We see on two maps the division (for the style of potteries) of England in two. Along a north-south line. And that fits with historical texts (of war, which is a bit sad).
Myres conclusion sounds convincing : two kingdoms were fighting and each one was promoting or using or believing (as a religious fact) in one style of decoration/shape for the potteries.
This book proves that we can learn through excavations and a careful analyze of the art of the potteries.
And the knowledge of Myres about this art is really helpful. A normal reader can appreciate this book, there is no need to know about the different styles of art.
Myres explains about it in the two first chapters, and with this, a reader can understand the rest of the book. |
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| Posted on 2009-02-10 15:19:49 |
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Second body. http://www.khazars.com/en/second-body/
I read it few weeks ago,and I just found it online.Interesting way of reading a book.. |
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| Posted on 2009-02-10 18:34:15 |
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Le Lièvre de Vatanen from Arto Paasilinna
(Jäniksen vuosi in original finnish)
It is perfect for the actual period, when everybody is bored at work.
The main character suddenly stops working, and starts a new life in natural places (villages, forests, lakes..), with his new friend, a hare.
There are surprises in the story.
Like a huge forest fire (reading that during the forest fire in Australia is a bit strange, it makes it more real). |
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