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And to think I thought there was no one nuttier than Steve.
Holger Dansk wrote: On Mon, 31 May 2004 23:24:48 -0400, Bob LeChevalier wrote: Holger Dansk wrote: Your ancestors were definitely black We have no idea what color anyone's ancestors were. Yes we do. Black people in America have relatives who are descendants in Africa of the relatives of the black people in America at the time they were captured by black savages in Africa. That sentence makes no sense. But how do you know what color their ancestors were? And how do you know what color their ancestors' ancestors were? I was there. :-) Through the travail of the ages, Midst the pomp and toil of war, Have I fought and strove and perished Countless times upon this star. In the form of many people In all panoplies of time Have I seen the luring vision Of the Victory Maid, sublime. I have battled for fresh mammoth, I have warred for pastures new, I have listed to the whispers When the race trek instinct grew. I have known the call to battle In each changeless changing shape From the high souled voice of conscience To the beastly lust for rape. I have sinned and I have suffered, Played the hero and the knave; Fought for belly, shame, or country, And for each have found a grave. I cannot name my battles For the visions are not clear, Yet, I see the twisted faces And I feel the rending spear. Perhaps I stabbed our Savior In His sacred helpless side. Yet, I've called His name in blessing When after times I died. In the dimness of the shadows Where we hairy heathens warred, I can taste in thought the lifeblood; We used teeth before the sword. While in later clearer vision I can sense the coppery sweat, Feel the pikes grow wet and slippery When our Phalanx, Cyrus met. Hear the rattle of the harness Where the Persian darts bounced clear, See their chariots wheel in panic From the Hoplite's leveled spear. See the goal grow monthly longer, Reaching for the walls of Tyre. Hear the crash of tons of granite, Smell the quenchless eastern fire. Still more clearly as a Roman, Can I see the Legion close, As our third rank moved in forward And the short sword found our foes. Once again I feel the anguish Of that blistering treeless plain When the Parthian showered death bolts, And our discipline was in vain. I remember all the suffering Of those arrows in my neck. Yet, I stabbed a grinning savage As I died upon my back. Once again I smell the heat sparks When my Flemish plate gave way And the lance ripped through my entrails As on Crecy's field I lay. In the windless, blinding stillness Of the glittering tropic sea I can see the bubbles rising Where we set the captives free. Midst the spume of half a tempest I have heard the bulwarks go When the crashing, point blank round shot Sent destruction to our foe. I have fought with gun and cutlass On the red and slippery deck With all Hell aflame within me And a rope around my neck. And still later as a General Have I galloped with Murat When we laughed at death and numbers Trusting in the Emperor's Star. Till at last our star faded, And we shouted to our doom Where the sunken road of Ohein Closed us in it's quivering gloom. So but now with Tanks a'clatter Have I waddled on the foe Belching death at twenty paces, By the star shell's ghastly glow. So as through a glass, and darkly The age long strife I see Where I fought in many guises, Many names, but always me. And I see not in my blindness What the objects were I wrought, But as God rules o'er our bickerings It was through His will I fought. So forever in the future, Shall I battle as of yore, Dying to be born a fighter, But to die again, once more. :-) Holger http://www.mindspring.com/~holger1/holger1.htm |
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Steve, this guy isn't a repub racist. He's simply completely crazy.
(Obviously). What a waste of bandwidth. R. Steve Walz wrote: Holger Dansk wrote: On Mon, 31 May 2004 01:36:55 GMT, "R. Steve Walz" wrote: Holger Dansk wrote: black-savage-Ethiopian-American women Holger --------------- You're a racist **** and you deserve to be killed. What part of black-savage-Ethiopian-American do you not understand? -------------------- You part where you lie like a racist ****. Your ancestors were definitely black -------------------------- Not in about 60,000 years. and were and had been savages for thousands of years hunting with spears and they may have even had bows and arrows. They ate wildebeest, antelope, monkeys, guineas, hyenas, wild dogs and each other, etc., etc., etc. -------------------------------- Actually, the out of Africa folks, if this is what you allude to, were South Africans, not Ethiopeans, and they were not savages, as there aren't any such thing. And no cannibalism is documented. They were captured by black savages and sold to white savages who took them across the ocean, primarily to Brazil, but they brought your ancestors to America. ------------------------------ Now you have history all confused. Most black American slaves were west coastal Africans. There is nothing racist about it. Although slavery is very wrong, and should be abolished all over the world, look how fortunate you are to be living in America instead of living like your relatives do today in Africa. -------------------- Are you under the delusion that I'm black? You repub racists can never figure out why whites would support blacks, can you? More of your racism! And, if your ancestors had been carried to Brazil, you, more than likely, would never have existed because most of them died. ----------------------------------- Nope, and nope. However, you do not owe anything to the descendants of the white people who owned you after you came here. In the first place they are, in no way, responsible for what their ancestors did. Holger ------------------ Except if they benefitted from it economically with respect to blacks. And again, you're of the delusion that I'm black, obviously. I'm German and English and Irish and Scot and Native American (1/8th). I'm as pink as you are! Steve |
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On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 16:32:43 -0700, "Circe" wrote:
Holger Dansk wrote: On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 13:33:07 -0700, "Circe" wrote: Um, are you suggesting that Greek was the first language to have vowels in it? I'm not suggesting it but saying that it was. Nonsense. It is *impossible* to speak without making vowel sounds. Period. Vowel sounds are a necessary requirement of human speech. And Greek is hardly the first language invented by humans, let alone the first language to be represented by writing. Are you suggesting that the Egyptians (as just one example), who were capable of representing names like Osiris and Amenhotep in hieroglyphs 2000 years before the Greek alphabet was invented, did not use vowel sounds in their languages or did not have words? Or that the Chinese, who have been writing their language down without interruption since 1200 BC (fully 400 years before Homer and the dissemination of the Greek alphabet) do not now and did not when they began writing use vowels when they spoke? All I can say is that you are *sadly* misinformed. Greek Alphabets Apart from using the characters of the Greek alphabets as notations in my maths and science classes, I don't know how to read Greek. (Sigh. This is a real tragic.) Nor am I a linguist genius, since English is the only language I know. English is the only language I can read and write. (Judging by the number of spelling and grammar errors I had, I haven't even fully mastered English.) However, I can give you a brief history on the Greek alphabets. On the right, I have listed the Greek alphabets, with the last column being the English equivalent of each Greek character. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So what is the "alphabet"? To avoid going too deep with theory, the alphabets can be defined as a set of characters that represented the phonemic structure of the word. A word will have vowels and consonants. (Well that's enough of the theory!) The Greeks did not invent the alphabets. (Well, the writing system was actually named after them. The word "alphabets" was actually derived from the first two letters of the Greek alphabets – "alpha" and "beta".) The origin of the alphabets was probably invented between the 17th and 15th century BC, by the Phoenicians, those great sea-going nation in ancient time. Linguistically, the Phoenician belonged to the Semitic language, used by the people living in Phoenica (modern Lebanon). (As oppose to the Greek language being part of the Indo-European family language.) What the Greeks invented, was their own set of characters and their introduction to the vowels in the alphabets full of consonants. The Phoenician and other Semitic languages didn't have vowels. The Greek alphabets were invented some time between the 8th and 7th century BC, after the Dorian Invasion, thus the arrival of the Hellenic people (eg. Greeks, such as the Dorians, Aeolians and Ionians). Anyway, the Greek alphabets had greatly influence writing system in Europe. Because, the Roman or Latin alphabets had borrowed directly and indirectly the alphabets used by the Greeks. Latin had also borrowed (more directly) the characters used by the Etruscans, but then the Etruscans had also borrowed some of the characters from the Greeks as well. There was a period in the Republican Rome where the Greek language was used by the Roman elites and scholars more than their own language: Latin. The Latin alphabets would later become more widely use than the Greek, where it had directly influenced the Germanic language, including English. Though the Greek alphabets remained unchanged since its invention, regionally and racially the spoken language had undergone many phonetic changes over the centuries, so there were many different dialects in Greek. http://www.timelessmyths.com/classic...rld.html#Greek The Greeks made many contributions to the world in addition to putting vowels in language. Aristotle contributed more to the mind of western man than anyone who ever lived. John Locke, the great philosopher, studied Aristotle's philosophy and Thomas Jefferson studied Locke and Aristotle and their philosophy was used to write our constitution. To the extent that "Western Civilization" can be said to have an origin, it is the Ancient Greeks that have claim to it. Whereas the history of the Roman Empire is a chronology of its generals and emperors, the history of the Greeks is, with the exception of Alexander and his legacy in Egypt, one of philosophers, scientists, artists, and thinkers. http://www.naciente.com/essay46.htm And while we may never think of Plato or Aristotle as we carry on in our daily lives, it was their inquiry into knowledge that has served as the foundation for all subsequent inquiries. Indeed, many have argued with W. H. Auden that "had Greek civilization never existed we would never have become fully conscious, which is to say that we would never have become, for better or worse, fully human." http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/lecture8b.html Holger http://www.mindspring.com/~holger1/holger1.htm |
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greccogirl wrote:
None is required? You do live in fantasy land. What someone should or should not feel in a family situation you know nothing about is proof of nothing. ------------------------------ Don't pretend others are not your judge. Steve R. Steve Walz wrote: greccogirl wrote: What is your proof? ---------------------- None is required, because if the don't, they SHOULD, and they're LYING because of their abuse. Steve R. Steve Walz wrote: I think Cosby would tell you that they probably don't even know what good parenting is. Holger ------------------ Cosby is so hated by his own children that they'd tell you he doesn't. Steve |
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greccogirl wrote:
Oreo is simply an insult you use when a person of color doesn't agree with you. --------------------- When they are more racist than *I* am it GIVES me the right! Steve R. Steve Walz wrote: greccogirl wrote: --------------- Cosby is a rich rightist asshole, he always has been, he has played golf with Nixon and Reagan, and he's a black racist. The "I don't give a damn" attitide is a form of disrespect that the white society has earned with its racist and economic brutality and unfairness!!! Steve Well I've heard a lot of weird stuff but labeling Cosby as a racist is quite amusing. Besides what you're not getting, is the form of "disrespect" that you think hurts white America is really just hurting black America. It isn't hurting those they think they are hurting. That is what Cosby is trying to say ----------------------- Cosby has always hung out with the GOP, he's a log-cabin repub dildo. Or didn't you know that, he's a ****ing Oreo. Steve |
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greccogirl wrote:
----------------- **** rescue, I only want that sad little liar to shut the **** up! Steve I'll just bet you do, Steve, I'll just bet you do. It's clear how much he irritates you! People of color who don't agree with you about the world generally **** you off I'm sure. --------------------------------------- Has nothing whatsoever to do with color. Steve |
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I'll just bet you do, Steve, I'll just bet you do. It's clear how
much he irritates you! People of color who don't agree with you about the world generally **** you off I'm sure. --------------------------------------- Has nothing whatsoever to do with color. Steve "Or didn't you know that, he's a ****ing Oreo." -- Steve No, nothing to do with color. Everyone knows the color-blind nature of the hackneyed Oreo comment. Slainte, Fletch |
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R. Steve Walz wrote:
greccogirl wrote: Oreo is simply an insult you use when a person of color doesn't agree with you. --------------------- When they are more racist than *I* am it GIVES me the right! Steve Actually, you have the right irrespective of that. But it shows how full of crap you are when you say it has nothing to do with race whatsoever. Slainte, Fletch |
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Holger Dansk wrote:
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 16:32:43 -0700, "Circe" wrote: Holger Dansk wrote: On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 13:33:07 -0700, "Circe" wrote: Um, are you suggesting that Greek was the first language to have vowels in it? I'm not suggesting it but saying that it was. Nonsense. It is *impossible* to speak without making vowel sounds. Period. Vowel sounds are a necessary requirement of human speech. And Greek is hardly the first language invented by humans, let alone the first language to be represented by writing. Are you suggesting that the Egyptians (as just one example), who were capable of representing names like Osiris and Amenhotep in hieroglyphs 2000 years before the Greek alphabet was invented, did not use vowel sounds in their languages or did not have words? Or that the Chinese, who have been writing their language down without interruption since 1200 BC (fully 400 years before Homer and the dissemination of the Greek alphabet) do not now and did not when they began writing use vowels when they spoke? All I can say is that you are *sadly* misinformed. Greek Alphabets Apart from using the characters of the Greek alphabets as notations in my maths and science classes, I don't know how to read Greek. (Sigh. This is a real tragic.) Nor am I a linguist genius, since English is the only language I know. English is the only language I can read and write. (Judging by the number of spelling and grammar errors I had, I haven't even fully mastered English.) However, I can give you a brief history on the Greek alphabets. Which is totally irrelevant. Language is primarily a spoken phenomenon. Alphabets are merely one way to write down a language to preserve it in readable form. Every language of the world before Greek had vowels. Most of them had NO way of being written, but they existed nonetheless. Some, the Semitic languages, had ways of being written without vowels, because if you know the language you can figure out the vowels, jst s ths sntnc s ndrstndbl t mst ppl wh knw nglsh. Some, like Chinese, used individual symbols for entire words, and thus displayed neither consonants nor vowels. But written Chinese notwithstanding, Chinese does have both consonants and vowels. lojbab -- lojbab Bob LeChevalier, Founder, The Logical Language Group (Opinions are my own; I do not speak for the organization.) Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org |
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On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 12:33:32 GMT, "Fletch F. Fletch"
wrote: R. Steve Walz wrote: greccogirl wrote: Oreo is simply an insult you use when a person of color doesn't agree with you. --------------------- When they are more racist than *I* am it GIVES me the right! Steve Actually, you have the right irrespective of that. But it shows how full of crap you are when you say it has nothing to do with race whatsoever. It just now occurred to me. You must be some of Ike Newkirk's Sunday morning listeners that call in almost every Sunday. Slainte, Fletch Holger http://www.mindspring.com/~holger1/holger1.htm |
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