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Praxus

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  1. A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear. -Marcus Tullius Cicero A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures? -Marcus Tullius Cicero The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. -Marcus Tullius Cicero
  2. I agree that it is naturalistic as you put it, but I still find it entertaining.
  3. To be honest I have no idea. He mentions once, maybe twice so far (Im into the third book now).
  4. From what I have read Rothbard's economics wasn't the problem, only Rothbard's philosophy.
  5. Look up the wage rate statistics from the end of the recession in 1919 to 1929. The artificial expansion of the money supply is the main cause. This causes malinvestment, which causes growth in the inappropriate sectors, bad allocation of the work of laborers, etc... On top of this is the high tariff rates around the world which stopped Americans from selling their surplus’ to overseas markets. For more read this... http://www.mises.org/tradcycl/econdepr.asp
  6. Herodotus mentions womenly virtue in his books, what could he be refering to there?
  7. During the nineteen twenties the lower class actually had a very significant growth (in fact some of the fastest growth in wages in American history) in wages. So what we have here, is basically a person who doesn't understand the difference between the actual rise and wages and the rise in wages relative to the rich. The later being completely irrelevant to their prosperity. Simply ask her to prove it. I bet she can't;)
  8. Favorite TV Shows: Stargate SG1 Stargate Atlantis Battlestar Galactica (The New Series) CSI House As you can tell I'm mainly a fan of scifi. House is great for the reasons mentioned above.
  9. What the article is about is not immortality, just an extremely long life time. This is to say where you can die from getting your head blown off but not from illness or old age.
  10. Yah, I'm missing the connection as well.
  11. Humans can never have immortallity. We can however have extremely long lifespans, and we all agree (more then likely) that, it is a good thing.
  12. I have Herodotus but I have to finish Livy's Early History of Rome first, so that will be a good introduction to Greek history:)
  13. Thanks for the advice; everyone, and I mean it. I am still doing research as to what type of "classics" minor I would like to get and which one's Rutgers (New Brunswick) has. This is to say one more tilted to the historical side or one more tilted to the language side of the classics. The idea of studying solely Roman History and solely the Latin language does sound the most appealing among the options. Luckily however I still have a little over a year to think about it before I go to college.
  14. Livy covers it in the end of Book I (Rome Under the Kings) and the beginning of Book II (The Beginnings of the Republic). The story goes that Tarquin the Proud and a few of his associates were quite drunk and decided to visit each other's wives and see who had the most beautiful one. Tarquin saw Lucretia and thought her the most beautiful; he thought he must have her. So he basically went in to her home and raped her. Brutus (I believe he was a relative of Lucretia) was so upset that he led the overthrow of Tarquin.
  15. I'm going to college to major in mechanical engineering, but what I also wanted to do was to get a minor in the classics (Latin and Greek). Alon, do you think it is necessary (or prudent) to have some background in foreign language before studying Latin or Greek?
  16. Praxus

    Book Suggestions

    Yah I noticed that, the book on the Third Punic War was 1 page long, and only had a very brief summary of the events.
  17. All we would have to do is hit the DPRK military on the border, with low yeild air bursting tacticle nukes. Once their military and weapons programs are gone, they will in all likelyhood sue for peace.
  18. Praxus

    Book Suggestions

    Hmm, I have Polybius, but it's an abridged version and there is only a relitivly small section on the war with Macedon. Is there more about it in the un-abridged version?
  19. Praxus

    Book Suggestions

    I'm reading Livy's first five books about the early history of Rome at the moment. After this I would like to read about Romes war with Philip V of Macedon. Would you guys happen to know if Livy's works about this time period still survive? And if it does what name it would carry? If not do you know of any other Historians who wrote about it?
  20. As for Israel hitting them with nukes, it would have to be an air strike. They do not have Ballistic Missiles (at least not publicly) with the range to hit the target. This means they would have to drop them from the air, which makes them just as vulnerable as a conventional strike, and therefore has the same chance of failure. So it seems there would be no reason to nuke the reactors.
  21. Nah, it's ok for sections in a book, but it needs something that will attract people but not take away from it's message.
  22. Praxus

    Book Suggestions

    Sounds great! If it's not to exspensive I could just buy. Do you know of anywhere on the Interent I can buy that specific translation?
  23. I don't know what your talking out, The Romans ruled most of Europe for an incredible ammount of time and they didn't use "long pointy sticks" like the ancient greeks.
  24. Praxus

    Book Suggestions

    Alon, your book recommendations would throw me into poverty;) But I guess, as the saying goes, "You get what you pay for".
  25. From what I have read (and I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong) the Macedonians used a Phalanx Formation (with 21 Foot Pikes) and Cavalry to protect the flanks. The Phalanx was difficult to maneuver because people had to stay a certain distance apart to stay effective. So if they encounter something that disrupts the formation, the enemy has a chance to exploit it. So this means that in order to win victory after victory you need a general that forces the enemy to fight on the land of his choosing and if he can't , he develops a strategy which enables him to triumph anyways. Alexander did this, and in my opinion was a brilliant strategist.
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