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2008-09-21 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Fred 2008-09-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 There's a lot more to sex appeal than strictly physical beauty. And even there, tastes vary....

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2008-09-21 01:00|| 2008-09-21 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Also she could be a beaty at fourteen, when Caesra met her and no longer ten or twenty years later when she killed herself. Roymas have access to far too many delicacies for theior own good.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-09-21 05:55|| 2008-09-21 05:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Persians still nursing that 2500 year old slap down by the Greeks.

ABC = Arab Broadcasting Corp? I always suspected it.

The French leader Napoleon Bonaparte looted the mummy case of Cleopatra VII, which was found by workers in the 1940s, and emptied it into the sewers.
Iranians discover time travel? Perhaps they will locate the madhi next.

Posted by ed 2008-09-21 07:06|| 2008-09-21 07:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Persians still nursing that 2500 year old slap down by the Greeks. LOL - yup.

The Iranians have learned that the West has this powerful activity called 'science' so they decided to get some of their own. Not clear on the concepts yet, though.

Posted by lotp 2008-09-21 07:34|| 2008-09-21 07:34|| Front Page Top

#5 *rolls eyes* The Egyptian Book of the Dead was not a record of those who died, but a guidebook to instruct individuals on the path from this world to the Judgement Seat, and what to expect based on the verdict. It was believed that the soul that learned stuff in this life would be able to apply that knowledge in the journey to the next.

My on-line nym, Ptah, was selected when I first visited another website where some of the members also selected Egyptian-god names as nyms. I selected it as a means of reminding people of the very poor way we treat those dieties who do us well: Ptah was the Architect of the World and the primal creator. When man was created, it was Ptah who initially set up the Egyptian worship system and devised the ceremony that, after death, separated the soul from the corpse and initiated its journey to the Judgement Seat and the Afterlife. As a "reward" for creating everything and sparing the souls of men from the horror of being trapped within a rotting corpse, he was relegated to being a Janitor worshipped in Memphis in a catch-all temple while other egyptian gods were made the bosses, ran things, got cities named after them, and got all the sacrifices made in elaborate dedicated temples. Kinda like the way the engineers in a company who actually get the shit done are treated while the managers bask in the praise, get the credit, and get all the goodies and fat bonuses.

One interesting thing about the Book of the Dead: the reader was supposed to memorize spells that would transform the soul into various creatures and entities to help them overcome obstacles and defeat hostiles during various parts of the Journey. There was only one spell that transformed the soul into one of the Egyptian gods.

That god was Ptah.

Figures. Live in the world he made worshipping every god except him, start the Journey using a ceremony devised by him, and when your soul is in deep shit and you need some real firepower to get your soulish butt out of that sling, you run, not walk, to the guy who built everything.

Sound familiar? I knew it would...

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2008-09-21 08:06|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2008-09-21 08:06|| Front Page Top

#6 I believe the Book of the Dead reference was meant to be humorous. At least I found it amusing.

Posted by Excalibur 2008-09-21 08:29|| 2008-09-21 08:29|| Front Page Top

#7 she was beautiful. Looked just like Elizabeth Taylor in her prime

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-09-21 08:41|| 2008-09-21 08:41|| Front Page Top

#8 She had a great asp

Posted by .5MT 2008-09-21 09:39|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-09-21 09:39|| Front Page Top

#9 complimentary of her nose and her hair

As long as they weren't talking about nosehair...

Posted by OldSpook 2008-09-21 12:45|| 2008-09-21 12:45|| Front Page Top

#10 Book of the Dead? Had they invented the chainsaw too?

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2008-09-21 13:42|| 2008-09-21 13:42|| Front Page Top

#11 Different "Book of the Dead."

Real title the Egyptians used:

_The Book of Going Forth By Day_.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-09-21 14:43|| 2008-09-21 14:43|| Front Page Top

#12 Plutarch commented on her remarkable voice, as well as her ability to communicate with ambassadors in their own language.

Brains can generate a lot of sex appeal.

Posted by mom ">mom 2008-09-21 17:57|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2008-09-21 17:57|| Front Page Top

#13 "*rolls eyes* The Egyptian Book of the Dead was not a record of those who died, but a guidebook to instruct individuals on the path from this world to the Judgement Seat..."

Seems there's always somebody who's going to be offended by something.

Posted by Milton Fandango 2008-09-21 22:49|| 2008-09-21 22:49|| Front Page Top

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