Ancient cultures Coming from the debate club.
#32
Posted 13 October 2005 - 03:08 PM
Egypt's was just a bunch of pussies with reused and rehashed names (which is a big pain in the butt when reading up on them). That and they had pretend gods on Earth. Well, if they were gods on earth, why did they never produce any miracles and get killed in battle? And they say that God is hard to believe in. Obviously the Egyptians were dipshits as well.
"And the Evil that was vanquished shall rise anew. Wrapped in the guise of man shall he walk amongst the innocent and Terror shall consume they that dwell upon the Earth. The skies will rain fire. The seas shall become as blood. The righteous shall fall before the wicked! And all creation shall tremble before the burning standards of Hell!" - Mephisto
Kurgan X showed me this web comic done with Legos. It pokes fun at all six Star Wars films and I found it to be extremely entertaining.
<a href="http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/cast/starwars.html" target="_blank">http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/cast/starwars.html</a>
#34
Posted 13 October 2005 - 03:43 PM
"And the Evil that was vanquished shall rise anew. Wrapped in the guise of man shall he walk amongst the innocent and Terror shall consume they that dwell upon the Earth. The skies will rain fire. The seas shall become as blood. The righteous shall fall before the wicked! And all creation shall tremble before the burning standards of Hell!" - Mephisto
Kurgan X showed me this web comic done with Legos. It pokes fun at all six Star Wars films and I found it to be extremely entertaining.
<a href="http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/cast/starwars.html" target="_blank">http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/cast/starwars.html</a>
#36
Posted 13 October 2005 - 03:54 PM
Greek gods are great! They have whole soap opera thing going on. They get crabby when people don't do what they want, but doing what they want, even being their favorite is no guaruntee they won't zap you with lighting. And they confuse all the poor humans by telling them to do one thing and then another, and lying to them and getting OTHER gods angry at everyone...
Zeus is the head god, but he doesn't actually get his way most of the time. He THREATENS, sure, but nobody listens to him because he never really backs up his threats with action. Hera annoys him, he yells at her, she yells back, he backs down.
And he pretty much lets Athena do whatever she wants. Very bad parenting. But she seems to manage herself fairly well. And Greek gods have more children on Earth. In fact, so many people in the Illiad are related to Zeus that there is severe risk of inbreeding. As my history teacher would put it, Zeus really gets around.
And for quite a while, Ancient Greeks didn't go in for simple addition and subtraction, which makes for the incredible ability of Achilles to fight a war at the age of two and his son to actually be older than he is....
#37
Posted 13 October 2005 - 04:02 PM
The Egyptians were all governed by one leader, chosen by the gods. This means that if you defied him, you were infact defying the gods. The greeks were based on city-states, where each city made it's own law and even altered it's religion. Every city-state in history has ended badly due to civil war.
When Sparta attacked Athens, the attack lasted for about 200 years, weakening their empire. At the end of the war, Athens surrendered but not before the damage was done. The two greatest cities were now the weakest and were easy targets for a just starting Roman Empire (at that time just a small army).
This in my opinion is why the Egyptians beat the Greeks ass.
This post has been edited by banned: 13 October 2005 - 04:03 PM
#38
Posted 13 October 2005 - 04:03 PM
Wrongo. They all were considered to be gods. It was one of the main reasons why they built the pyramids and had so many people and wealth entombed with them in the first place. To continue to serve them in the afterlife/heaven/their realms that they recieved when they died.
The sun god was nearly always their primary god. Under the direction of one pharoh (whose name I have forgotten) they worshipped just the head while he was in power. After his death, they went back to worshipping many gods.
"And the Evil that was vanquished shall rise anew. Wrapped in the guise of man shall he walk amongst the innocent and Terror shall consume they that dwell upon the Earth. The skies will rain fire. The seas shall become as blood. The righteous shall fall before the wicked! And all creation shall tremble before the burning standards of Hell!" - Mephisto
Kurgan X showed me this web comic done with Legos. It pokes fun at all six Star Wars films and I found it to be extremely entertaining.
<a href="http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/cast/starwars.html" target="_blank">http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/cast/starwars.html</a>
#39
Posted 13 October 2005 - 04:06 PM
#40
Posted 13 October 2005 - 04:09 PM
Greece is warm, but not opressively hot, and they have trees. And Egyptian mathematics is insanely hard to learn, whereas Greek mathematics is without quite so much extra work with ugly fractions.... *shudders*
Oh, and given that Egyptians had the wait three days before sending off an important person's wife or daughter to the embalmers policy and as far as I know, Greeks never had to do this, Greece pwns Egypt more.
This post has been edited by Mirithorn: 13 October 2005 - 04:10 PM
#41
Posted 13 October 2005 - 04:13 PM
#42
Posted 13 October 2005 - 04:16 PM
#44
Posted 13 October 2005 - 04:19 PM