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sarbajit roy [sroy...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 1:15 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Palenque, Chichen Itza and Katyn
Hi
Where would one place say the Taj Mahal in the context of the Mughal
(alternatively Indo-Islamic
In my experience, mathematicians tell this joke on themselves.
There's another one they tell:
Two guys in a balloon dip down to a field to ask a farmer where they
are. The answer comes: You're in a balloon. The one guy says to the
other, He must be a mathematician. The answer is absolutely
Were these activities there to support a reign of terror, or was there
another motivation? I think it was Joseph Campbell who pointed out
that only agricultural civilizations practiced large scale human
sacrifice. If the basis of your economy depends on mysterious and
capricious weather forces
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Palenque, Chichen Itza and Katyn
But don't forget that often times the grand structures we see today were
built atop previous and smaller versions, which were built atop previous and
smaller version, etc. It's turtles all the way down.
-tom
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- Original Message - From: Tom Johnson
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 5:49 AM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Palenque, Chichen Itza and Katyn
But don't forget that often times the grand structures we see today
were built atop previous
Hi
Where would one place say the Taj Mahal in the context of the Mughal
(alternatively Indo-Islamic) civilisation's ascendancy? Or the Eiffel
Tower in the context of French (alternatively Gallic) civilisation?
Mr Sabloff's observation reminds me of the old saw, A priest, a
scientist and a
Grandiosity of civilizations is easily observed but that same
grandiosity
applies to Buildings architecture as well as death circuses.
The Human need for Grand Gestures may be at the root of civilization.
Jerry Sabloff, the president of the Santa Fe Institute, whose
specialty is the
Having recently been in Abu Dhabi and Dubai and writing now from
Istanbul, I am inclined to agree with Pamela. Grand gestures, however,
may well be more short-lived within the contemporary economies.
Pamela McCorduck wrote:
Grandiosity of civilizations is easily observed but that same
But don't forget that often times the grand structures we see today were
built atop previous and smaller versions, which were built atop previous and
smaller version, etc. It's turtles all the way down.
-tom
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Merle Lefkoff me...@arspublica.org wrote:
Having
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To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
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Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 2:08 AM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Palenque, Chichen Itza and Katyn
My my how elitist we are discussing the brutalities of vanished
civilizations. Those ancient butchers were so grotesque
: ERIC P. CHARLES
To: Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
Cc: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Sent: 4/28/2010 6:30:22 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Palenque, Chichen Itza and Katyn
I would suggest that what is at stake is efficiency. Those who can do
civilization efficiently can also do
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From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On
Behalf
Of Jochen Fromm
Sent: April 28, 2010 3:30 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Palenque, Chichen Itza and Katyn
In the book The ancient Maya from Robert
My my how elitist we are discussing the brutalities of vanished
civilizations. Those ancient butchers were so grotesque they did each murder
one at a time. Just imagine the effort involved, each methodical death blow
by death blow. Such brutes, in retrospect. They must have had tag teams of
This discussion needs to be continued over (non-elitist) Vodka.
Although I would prefer Irish Whiskey.
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky
vbur...@shaw.cawrote:
My my how elitist we are discussing the brutalities of vanished
civilizations. Those ancient butchers were so
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