History Forum / General / General Topics / March 2004

Moral Issue
What would YOU do????  With all your honor and dignity what would  you do?
This test only has one question, but it's a very important one.
Please don't answer it without giving it some serious thought.

Why is Columbus credited as proving the world is round, when he never made
it to the indies by sailing west?
Magellan was the first to circle the globe.

The conquistadors were small as atoms compared to a whole nation!!!
Were the incas and aztecs just retarded or something?  This is a
serious question, it just boggles the mind!

Remembering Red victims
By Jeffrey T. Kuhner
   The 20th century will be remembered as the bloodiest century in
history. A major reason was the 1917 establishment by Vladimir Lenin

Did the ancient Romans have any laws prohibiting the possession of
weapons by private citizens or subjugated people like most
dictatorships?

Sometimes I wonder if the dust of World War II is ever
going to settle enough to allow people to look at that
terrible conflict sensibly and perhaps right a few wrongs.
Now, what I am going to say might strike some people

I suspect this question has never really been researched as to past
history and researched from a scientific point-of-view. I say that
with the keeping in mind of the last 4 superpowerdoms and if some
pattern emerges. Starting with Greek, then Roman, then HolyRoman, and

how many f.cking tanks and nukes and rockets do yah think they need.
it's not like they're a solvent business. It's like we are paying money to
some retarded kids with a lemonade stand where they beat up passerby!
cheers!

Point 23 states...
23. No village or individual shall be compelled to make bridges at river
banks, except those who from of old were legally bound to do so.
What's this all about?, why was it a big enough issue to be raised in Magna

I had a discussion the other day with a friend of mine who is a theology
professor at a US university that I won't name, but after a couple of hours
and a couple of beers, I posed the question of Christianity and war.  My
friend and I have interesting debates because, in contrast to ...

I have avoided having a clear favorite in the Democratic primary (other than
having clear disdain for people like Kerry and to a lesser extent,
Edwards), but I was at a McDonald's the other day and saw a few people who
had visited me with literature for Gov. Dean a month ago.

A rich white male Northeastern ultra-"Progressive"
from the super-Liberal, Teddy "Lie-after-Lie-after-Lie-after-Lie"
Chappaquiddick Kennedy-controlled tiny state of Massachusetts
wants to take more money out of your paycheck

Hmm...another "spook" who was Catholic:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13885-2004Feb27.html
I've speculated in this newsgroup in the past about whether the U.S.
intelligence agencies have ever been unusually weighted toward

The Greeks never practised democracy. This is myth that we are still
taught in schools. Power was held by all citizens, but women were not
citizens. And of course neither were the slaves.
How can you judge the greatest literature when most literature was

Never thought that I would ever be cheering Bush on most things he says, but
the following hit home :
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/23/elec04.prez.bush/index.html
" ... an interesting group with diverse opinions -- for tax cuts and against