[ EVIL ] "...and there is no remedy for this"

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
22/01/2011 09:00

If you have time tomorrow, possibly between church and Sunday lunch, think a couple of minutes about the following:



"All of the world's peoples see evil in others, in foreigners and in their gods, and I fear there is no remedy for this."



(Callisthenes, pupil of Aristotle and historian in the service of Alexander III of Macedon, 356 – 323 B.C., commonly known as Alexander the Great).

BoTanica


Joined: 22/12/2009
Posts: 714

Message Posted:
22/01/2011 09:16

I remember in History lessons at school that in the middle ages the English believed that the French had tails, and visa versa and this belief persisted for many years!! Callisthenes was truly an enlightened man.............

Hippo


Joined: 02/02/2007
Posts: 2070

Message Posted:
22/01/2011 09:35

Havn't the French got tails then?

yenibob


Joined: 13/10/2010
Posts: 1203

Message Posted:
22/01/2011 09:59

The people in Hartlepool certainly thought so.

gooligan


Joined: 30/01/2007
Posts: 1591

Message Posted:
22/01/2011 12:35

Tiggy


Joined: 25/07/2007
Posts: 1994

Message Posted:
22/01/2011 12:37

and Manchester!

yenibob


Joined: 13/10/2010
Posts: 1203

Message Posted:
22/01/2011 13:14

Manchester?

cypgab


Joined: 09/01/2010
Posts: 338

Message Posted:
22/01/2011 13:43

Is that why they are called 'Cheese eating surrender monkeys?'

yenibob


Joined: 13/10/2010
Posts: 1203

Message Posted:
22/01/2011 13:52

http://tinypic.com/m/dzvxok/1

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
22/01/2011 17:47

What deep thoughts some have here.

gooligan


Joined: 30/01/2007
Posts: 1591

Message Posted:
22/01/2011 18:00

DC,read this,maybe then you will understand.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_hanger