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Janina I would say just go with the simple truth, let god/dess into your heart and live your life in the light of that received wisdom. Of course we use the Jesus Prayer, and it works just fine, but all true paths will get you there, avoid the cults like a plague.

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Judaism
Hindu
Muslim
Sikh
Buddhist
etc etc
after that we start getting major cults and such like which i suppose is a whole new tree of its own ??
Excuse my not so educated example but i do find the religion system quite confusing at the best of times , i did try, hey and anyway i need not of drawn up a tree i was talking about something entirely different hmm…. what was i talking about oh yes….

So blindly joining forces with every tom-icles dick-icles and harry-icles they could just to protect thier well being and hoping to be looked after maybe when thier family flew the coop. Just like unions of the modern day apart from they had no set pension plan and a strike would of had no effect at all!
This also led to tyrannical rule , no one really knew anymore than thier trade and family unit , or the difference between the male and female form.
So the first person to come along with a half decent idea and a bit of ‘mojo’ shall we say , people would listen as they did not need to think themselves . well not that exactly but there was no real guidelines to expand upon really, the law was determined by whoever felt like it at the time i will use the phrase again ‘nothing was set in stone’.
So the real great thinkers were infact the tyrannts as they used a bit of the ole imagination or maybe it had come to them in a dream (or from hallucinations from they vast body odor) who knows ?
But these guys surely did not sit and learn this this was of thier own making!
This is until the first forms of government were introduced by one of these thinkers .
But this was a time for reform leader yes warlord not so much in this case. This guy just wanted a nice life firstly as a noble man he had access to wine women and song now why loose that and go and get killed at the first chance available NO build a structured society where everyone (men that is slightly sexist but never mind lol)
could sit and discuss what the collective thought was best for their lives. Well why not? Let them quibble amongst themselves while he had a wife and a bit on the side to keep up with (well you never know).
deep don he may of really been like that what do we have to prove his personality i am under the impression his best friend hasn’t just popped in for a cuppa after he thought up the idea for a time machine?? If he has i do apologize and now feel quite silly lol

No seriously, people tend to target others as a way of hiding their own behaviors and cimon seemed to prove this point by opposing the Spartans after all so we cant really say for sure can we??
And i have the feeling if no one cared about this judgment he would not of botherd to recall him???
And well if i was cimon i would of been rather too peeved about the whole pa-lava to come back anyway, but maybe the grudge was another thing not yet discovered in those times too?
And well in-the end had Pericles in fact been the great great thinker he was made out to be ? or was he in fact committing one of the very first acts of plagiarism known to man by taking on someone else s idea adding a few bits and cutting and pasting here and there?
That my friends is what makes ancient history such an exciting subject! As We do not hold a copy of the ancient Greeks ‘wikipedia’ to hand we can never be really sure of all of the facts. This in turn leads to great discussions theories and articles from many different people making the possibilities are endless! These sort of topics can be debated and debated until the end of time with no one really knowing for sure what exactly went on.
Then again if we have not managed to destroy our planet with nuclear war or such like in 200,000 years time who knows that our future generations will not be in the same position when explaining our slightly more organized yet still not perfected way of life in times to come.
Or will they be as we are with the Greeks?
To them we may be operating on windows 95 and they have bypassed windows 7, 700,000 and even linux 3,ooo,ooo
and be operating on a whole new platform which is in no way compatible with our neanderthal technology and not even worth attempting a boot disk nor even a data recovery mission, so hopefully we give them the gift the Greeks have given us…..uncertainty!
Would the ultimate existence not be when we have no need for government or political parties of any sort but instead every human being knowing instinctively what is wrong and right and abiding to these laws with no need for input from any sort of law giver. Paradise if you must.
But for some reason i do not expect that will ever be the case as human beings seem to thrive on conflict. If you went a whole year without an argument or something turning out not quite so well as you thought would you be happy?
With no need for debate what would we do to improve our minds and our instinctive yearning for knowledge?
We as a race learn from each other someone else is always bound to know something that you do not, and to come to the conclusion that they are in fact right about this do we not have to research and debate the point?
The human mind is advanced but also quite stubborn and we will not give in till we know we are really wrong, even then a lot of us still don’t give in due to principle!
We All know whats right and wrong, helping our fellow man is right (although not always appreciated) taking the life of another is wrong these are simple things that everyone knows from birth but for some reason we do not adhere to our instincts?? In our hearts we need not be reminded of this deep down we know and if we listened to our selves there would be no reason for these acts to be congratulated nor punishable.

That’s why we have that little nagging voice that we call a conscience! The fail safe of the human race which makes the guilty confess. But then we contradict ourselves …no wonder we get confused every so often after all establishments such as the church teach forgiveness and provide services such as confession which ultimately tell us
“well its not a good thing that you converted your brothers wife but if repent than it will be like nothing ever happened” please don’t get me wrong i am not attacking the church we do the same within the courts.
Who is to say how long you should be punished for an act that you should of known not to do in the first place. Really the real forgiveness comes from within the mind of the offender no one else. you may spend 15 years in prison but live the rest of your life entrapped in guilt in your own mind, which mite i add is a far worse punishment than anything we as a governing power can enforce.
Anyway…..(sorry about all the waffle (o: )

The Greeks yes started us on a track which has been changed along the way with both our growing intelligence as a race and with our ever expanding technologies and right to free speech. Although we still cannot prevent crimes would prevention not be better than cure?
The Greeks did the best they could with the options available to them and gave us many a great thinker and although being so far away still managed to have an impact on our modern lives so they must of been doing something right!
Maybe if we were able to give our knowledge of human behavior and the workings of the mind to the Greeks without passing down our technology and new found aggression then maybe….just maybe we would of created a easy peaceful life for all?
Then again…
its all greek to me!
JDFORDER

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His influence might well be said to have survived him not just by a quarter-century but by millennia ; this, however, is a specific reference to the Second (Great) Peloponnesian War, which we’ll be touching on in complementary articles next week.

So, not wishing to steal the next act’s thunder, so to speak, …

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He’s proving kack-handed and feeble at promoting cycling. The Congestion Charge got people on bikes. That wasn’t Boris Johnson.

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