Ancient Gold Book Inscribed with Sacred Paleo-Hebrew Writing Discovered In Saudi Arabia

[jonah747]

On 4/4/2024 at 12:22 PM, Calm said:

If you want to watch the part about the gold book, it starts around 15 minutes.

It's amazing that someone could etch this little book of gold.  But I wonder why the characters
protrude out of the little sheets instead of being imprinted, like you would expect when someone
is exerting force when writing on the sheet?
 

[mfbukowski]

18 hours ago, The Nehor said:

Predictably it is when the original hippies are in the oldest demographics

It's not possible that the Summer of Love, 1967, was 57 years ago. 

No wonder the world is messed up- we have babies in charge.  😱

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_Love

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Hippies, sometimes called flower children, were an eclectic group. Many opposed the Vietnam War, were suspicious of the government, and rejected consumerist values. A few were interested in politics; others were concerned more with art (music, painting, poetry in particular) or spiritual and meditative practices.

That last category was me. 

 

Edited April 6, 2024 by mfbukowski

[Zosimus]

Dan McClellan discusses the gold book:
Ancient Gold Plates From Saudi Arabia? w/ Dan McClellan

[3DOP]

2nd thoughts. No comments yet.

 

 

Edited April 8, 2024 by 3DOP

[mfbukowski]

1 hour ago, 3DOP said:

Except they are not babies. Mark...stop thinking about thoughts...what matter are thoughts? Just throw the ball to Dwight Clark for "The Catch". C'mon. 49 'ers. No Cal...Was Bill Walsh (head coach of the niners) a Neo-Platonist? We (good wife and me), are reading that neo-Platonist St. Augustine, the City of God. He seems not. all on board with the platonists of his times. I am posting. God bless.

 

 

Luv ya, mi amigo!

Please tell me what you think that is not a thought? 😱

What's a "ball" and why would I want to "throw" it to anybody? What good would that do for the world?  

And then we have this....

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/

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 Throughout his work he engages with pre- and non-Christian philosophy, much of which he knew from firsthand. Platonism in particular remained a decisive ingredient of his thought. He is therefore best read as a Christian philosopher of late antiquity shaped by and in constant dialogue with the classical tradition....

The most lasting philosophical influence on Augustine is Neoplatonism. He does not specify the authors and the exact subjects of the “books of the Platonists” (Confessiones 7.13) translated into Latin by the fourth century Christian Neoplatonist Marius Victorinus (ib. 8.3) he read in 386. In the twentieth century there was an ongoing and sometimes heated debate on whether to privilege Plotinus (who is mentioned in De beata vita 4) or Porphyry (who is named first in De consensus evangelistarum 1.23 ca. 400) as the main Neoplatonic influence on Augustine (for summaries of the debate see O’Donnell 1992: II 421–424; Kany 2007: 50–61). Today most scholars accept the compromise that the “books of the Platonists” comprised some treatises of Plotinus (e.g., Enneads I.6, I.2, V.1, VI.4–5) and a selection from Porphyry (Sententiae and, perhaps, Symmikta Zetemata). In any event, the importance of this problem should not be overrated because Augustine seems to have continued his Neoplatonic readings after 386. Around 400 he had Porphyry’s Philosophy from the Oracles at his disposal; in De civitate dei 10 (ca. 417) he quotes from his Letter to Anebo and from an otherwise unattested anagogic treatise titled, in the translation used by Augustine,

 

 

 

Edited April 8, 2024 by mfbukowski

[MiserereNobis]

1 hour ago, 3DOP said:

Except they are not babies. Mark...stop thinking about thoughts...what matter are thoughts? Just throw the ball to Dwight Clark for "The Catch". C'mon. 49 'ers. No Cal...Was Bill Walsh (head coach of the niners) a Neo-Platonist? We (good wife and me), are reading that neo-Platonist St. Augustine, the City of God. He seems not. all on board with the platonists of his times. I am posting. God bless.

 

 

Good to see you post again, Rory my friend!