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That's odd that you say that, because I just ordered Herodotus' Histories along with Livy's First Five Books and the ones on the Second Punis War.

Thanks.

I have recently finished reading Polybius’ Histories and I was wondering; what do you think would be the best work to read now? Particularly I’d like to read about the times prior to the 1st Punic War (where Polybius starts off) and after the war against Philip of Macedon (pretty much where he ends, or at least my translation ends) until the fall of the Republic. Would Livy be the best to read at this point? Also if you have any other recommendations, let me know.

Articles which I have read state Israel has several hundred nuclear weapons. Now if they can get them off in time, they would not cause "partial damage" to the Muslim World, they would devestate it. This is if the United States doesn't get involved, and as we all know we can hit them with not hundreds but thousands of warheads. Let's just hope it doesn't come to this.

The Government could make it easier to get a conviction so they save money. Although it is unlikely this would happen with a privately funded Government, I admit

Is it worth reading Book 12 (Criticisms of Timaeus and His Approach to History)? Doesn't seem to have much to do with Roman History.

Sounds like it could be exploited by the sate to easily.

Thanks for the more then adequate answer:)

An example of what I am talking about can be found in Book 2, Section 32 (I have an edition translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert). So what your saying is that anyone who lives in the region of Gaul was considered Gaulic, but Celts were simply a culture that happened to live in parts of Gaul, so thoose paticular Celts are also called Gauls?

I just started reading Polybius and I am now into his second book where he is describing the Gallic invasions of Italy. He seems to use the words "Celts" and "Gauls" interchangably. Now are these people the same or are they two different cultures? Or am I misreading it? Thanks <FC: Fixed the sloppy spelling error in the title. Sloppy, sloppy.>

O'Reilly really revealed himself last night, he actually said, "Perception is reality".

You are probably thinking the worst of it, having experience with modern teachers, she probably meant "those big books".

There is also Jonathan Hoenig from Capitalist Pig who is on one the show "Cashin' In". Most of the time he is recomending stocks, but every once in awhile throws in a mention of Ayn Rand. I don't know how much of an Objectivist he is in reality however (he does link to ARI, and not TOC when he refers to Objectivisim).

I have 6 invites, so if anyone wants one, just give me a PM.

It was sometime in October of 2001, I believe he was on it twice.

Perhaps from now on if you are refering to any book and you are giving away anything important about it, simply put "*Spoiler Alert*" or something to that effect at the begining of the post title.

I can't beleive that people actually care this much about the Lacy Peterson case.

Yah it's just finishing and it seem's he isn't going to be on. Maybe he's going to be on Hannity and Colmes?

Actually she did, here is the exact quote from page 932 in Atlas Shrugged. "My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: exsistence exsists -- and in a single choice: to live. The rest proceeds from these." But thanks, that quote helps to explain what she was saying.

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Isn't morality only for thoose who choose to live?

Ayn Rand said that her morality is based on one choice, that is to live. Now say if I choose to die, that is to say I do not want to achieve my values, I simply want to reject reality and go on a rampage until I die, would it be immoral for me to do so since my objective is not to live but to die?

Awsome! I was waiting for another one of the ARI guys to get on Major News.

Does someone who has violated someone's rights regain his own after his punishment is over?

Just wondering, but since when is running for public office a right? It seems to me that it is no more a right then voting.