Sir Gawain John Carl,
You are an excellent man! Marsha On Oct 6, 2010, at 12:10 PM, John Carl wrote: > Ron the sharp and cutting, Marsha the dear, and 118 the disparaged, > > > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 6:40 PM, X Acto <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So, 118, >> >> At least Marsha forwarded an interesting story, but you always seem >> to fail at even the smallest attempt at wit. > > > That WAS an interesting story, Marsha, and juxtapositioned nicely with two > of my recent readings, one concerning the welfare of the great grandmothers > of plato and socrates and dear old aristotle, the other, called *Favorite > Wife*, the memoirs of a cute blonde mormon girl, raised in a polygamous > colony and torn between two brothers, both prophets on earth and qualified > to bring the word of truth into human ken. > > Interesting eh, that the word of truth was that they could have their pick > of the cute young girls in the colony. > > Hal was reading it when he died but never finished it, so I thought I'd read > it. > > The other book, juxtapositioned in this cozy little serendipity club, was a > real old thing I picked up at a garage sale, called The Fifteen Most > Decisive Battles of the World, and is a fascinating read and available > online <http://www.standin.se/fifteen.htm>, as well as having it's own wiki > page. I got it because it was so old I thought it might be valuable, but > I've been reading it because it's so interesting. Very Victorian in > outlook, it starts with the battle of Marathon as the most important battle > in history. > > "Two thousand three hundred and forty years ago, a council of Athenian > Officers was summoned on the slope of one of the mountains that look over > the plain of Marathon, on the eastern coast of Attica. The immediate subject > of their meeting was to consider whether they should give battle to an enemy > that lay encamped on the shore beneath them; but on the result of their > deliberations depended, not merely the fate of two armies, but the whole > future progress of human civilization." > > When the author points out the vast control of all the world's known > civilizations by Darius, and only little Athen, the newly democratic > nation-state standing between the expansion of this mighty empire and the > unprotected and undeveloped west, we can get his point and appreciate the > drama of the situation. > > The relation to today's thesis in this regard of matrimonial matters is > pointed out by the author in comparing the two societies: > > "It is also a striking fact that the governments of all the great Asiatic > empires have in all ages been absolute despotisms. And Heeren is right in > connecting this with another great fact, which is important from its > influence both on the political and the social life of Asiatics. " Among all > the considerable nations of Inner Asia, the paternal government of every > household was corrupted by polygamy. where that custom exists, a good > political constitution is impossible. Fathers, being converted into domestic > despots, are ready to pay the same abject obedience to their sovereign which > they exact from their family and dependents in their domestic economy." > > The book by the Mormon girl, examines this same phenomena from the inside > and shows us the inevitable evolution of conflict when the male hierarchy is > deemed godlike by all the females in his life. It's this domination of the > female thinking by the male that weakens a society by enfeebling the > development of true individuals. For a community to produce strong > individuals, you need equal access to masculine and feminine consciousness > and a balance between those two forces. > > > Marsha's posting of Phyllis and Aristotle, points to the same struggle or > balancing act and the importance of this balancing act finding it's proper > equilibrium for the future health of society AND intellect. > ___ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
