Heed the Sicilians my brothers!

Oh ye Athenians... you who grasp blindly for glory. Your mighty
Pericles has fallen, but the desire for supremacy still burns like
quiet embers. Is there nothing more than petty rivalry and the fetid
business of daily life? Can we not assert our superior culture and
religion over the weaker heathens?

Your desire to triumph over Sparta would become your undoing. To
Sicily you will go with dreams of tribute and pillage. To spread the
Athenian way across an entire region. Only a fortnight you were
promised. There they arrived but were slaughtered by their own greed
from within. For years you would hear not a word, until the truth
leaked out from its shell like a caustic poison. A lone soldier would
bring the news home... dismal failure. Lack of direction and
conviction. We were doomed from the beginning as our leaders pulled us
into many divergent paths and spread the forces too thin to offer
meaningful resistance.

Years later the beasts you have roused will not forget your
transgressions. New alliances would be forged and multiple enemies
would strangle you upon the reins of your own arrogance. At the mercy
of your captors, braying like a jackass for their amusement. Such is
the fate of all who overreach their tenuous grasp of reality.

In this shame your children find newer heroes. Castrated by the
Spartans they can no longer seek glory in aggression. Reason is your
only army now. Sparta and its military heroes would eventually fade,
as all nations who rely on aristocracy devour themselves to feed their
own armies. But generations later, nurtured by the seeds of shame your
descendants know of mathematics, theatre, biology. Students of reason
would take the oath of Hippocrates and carry on the challenge posed so
long ago. They would create the scientific process that allows man's
formerly impotent mind to discern nature in ways that were once
ascribed to the Gods. How quickly the solider is forgotten, his tomb a
field to till. A face of ether that bleeds away from public view in
defeat and victory as the senators step in to have their fill. Yet no
one would dare plow over the libraries and universities. Theirs is a
quiet glory, immediately evident to all.

In the end, institutions built of reason were far more triumphant than
the Athenians' sword. They conquered every civilization that came into
contact with them long after Athens itself lay in ruin. And those who
stood in the path of reason? Momentary victors at best, undone by the
very insanity which drove them against it. But even the madmen of the
20th century would dare not profane those sacred ruins. They stood
tall while the blitzkrieg raged all around them.

America was the first renaissance nation built entirely on the
Aristotelian ideal. I ask you today, how many Americans can tell you
who Aristotle was?

 

Although I am not a merkin, I can tell you that Aristotle was a Greek bloke
with boats and stuff who married Jackie Kennedy after the man on the grassy
knoll offed her old man.

HTH (Twat)

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:
:Your desire to triumph

I was going to flame you for posting stupid political horseshit
to motorcycle groups, but I was wrong.

I love Triumph motorcycles.

 

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:27:25 GMT, "True Patriot[tm]"

<wibble>

Yeh, but will it enlarge my penis?

 

If you watched any of Drastic Plastic on 5 t'other night you wouldn't even
consider this.

 

<winces>

Buzby

 

ITYF I *have* a Triumph

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Dementrius, that is Deeply Profound...

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http://www.globalresearch.ca
http://www.911truth.org


Amount of tax payer dollars spent investigating
Bill Clinton's private life - $100 million.
Amount of tax payer dollars allocated to investigate
the Bu$h regime's gross negligence and possible
complicity regarding the attacks on 9-11 - $3 million.


"One of the things we don't want to do is destroy the
infrastructure in Iraq because in a few days we're going
to own that country." - Tom Brokaw 3-20-03


http://regulareverydaypeople.com
http://robertfisk.com

http://commondreams.org/
http://truthout.org
http://counterpunch.org
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com
http://home1.gte.net/res0k62m/home.htm

http://politics.slate.msn.com/?id=76886


"After all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy
and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether
it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a
communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be
brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to
do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers
for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works
the same in any country."
-- Hermann Goering, President of the Reichstag, Nazi Party, and
Luftwaffe Commander in Chief

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President,
or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is
not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable
to the American public."
Theodore Roosevelt (1918)

Don't let bu$h do to the United States what his very close
friend and top campaign contributor, Ken Lay, did to Enron...

 

Whilst strictly speaking being precluded from answering the question
as I am decidedly not American, I would just like to interject that
Aristotle was, allegedly, a bugger for the bottle.

 

Well, that's what Monty Python says, but just because some watery tart
lobbed a sword at you, that's no basis for any form of government.

Now, Renee Descartes, there's your drunken fart.

 

While Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.

 

Piss off, and start another land war in Asia.

Preferrably whilst going head to head with a Sicilian....

 

And thank _you_ for repeating the whole lot again, just in case any of us
missed it the first time.

Top marks as well for having a .sig that had more than *47* times as many
characters as your worthless comment.

You're a great bloke, I just wanted you to know that.


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The speccy Geordie twat.

 

Is death on the line though?

 

Well they were the master race of the day, motorbikes hadn't been invented
so booze was probably an occupation. Well, that and buggery.

 

And your sig rocks

 

Pip wrote:

thought he was just a bugger

 

Hey thanks, but believe it or not, some folks
don't share your view. I, of course, agree whole
heartedly. ;->

--

http://www.globalresearch.ca
http://www.911truth.org

Amount of tax payer dollars spent investigating
Bill Clinton's private life - $100 million.
Amount of tax payer dollars allocated to investigate
the Bu$h regime's gross negligence and possible
complicity regarding the attacks on 9-11 - $3 million.

"One of the things we don't want to do is destroy the
infrastructure in Iraq because in a few days we're going
to own that country." - Tom Brokaw 3-20-03

http://regulareverydaypeople.com
http://robertfisk.com

http://commondreams.org/
http://truthout.org
http://counterpunch.org
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com
http://home1.gte.net/res0k62m/home.htm
http://www.responsiblewealth.org/
http://www.ctj.org/

Don't let bu$h do to the United States what his very close
friend and top campaign contributor, Ken Lay, did to Enron...

 

****.

 

Was he part of the Diogenese crime family?

Learn how to spell bitch!