Re: Book review: The Legend of Alexander the Great
- From: Mike Marotta <mercury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 14 May 2007 22:03:20 -0700
On May 5, 10:55 pm, Reid Goldsborough <reidgoldsboro...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On 5 May 2007 17:53:41 -0700, Anka <ank...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Aren't you forgetting my co-author?paradigm.
I didn't know if he still wanted to be associated with your new
MEIN EHRE HEISST TREU.
On May 5, 10:55 pm, Reid Goldsborough <reidgoldsboro...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On 5 May 2007 17:53:41 -0700, Anka <ank...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I didn't know if he still wanted to be associated with your new
paradigm.
We cited sources to show where the supporting facts came from. We did
not cite sources like some kind of Harris Survey or Delphi Poll where
you stop 10,823 people on the street and ask them what they believe.
If you want to know whether Alexander portrayed himself on his coins,
you have to consider the facts. Tallying the number of famous
numismatists who say this or who say that does not establish truth.
If you want to know where Pella was or when this or that part of it
was built and you cite a British Museum dig, well, yes, that cites an
authority to validate a fact. But you get nothing more by taking a
straw poll on that fact. So, too with Alexander as Herakles on the
coins of Alexander. The facts are what they are. We considered the
supporting facts. For 100 years before Alexander, hellenized satraps
put their images on coins. For 100 years before Alexander, kings of
Macedonia put their names on their coins. Before Alexander, two
successive generations of kings put their images qua Herakles on their
coins. We showed the direct connection between the court of Phillip
and the court of Mauseleos. We considered the classical and
hellenistic aesthetic standards. We factored in the ethnicity of the
Macedonians. We addressed many other issues to establish the FACT
that Alexander portrayed himself as Herakles on his coins.
We do not care who agrees with us. We know the truth and we will take
that to our graves if that is our fate. Nothing short of facts in
support of truth can dissuade us.
You, Mr. Reid Goldsborough, are dominated by the opinions of other
people, which you count, and tally, and mark, and weigh, and note, and
record and report because deep down, you are shallow. You live in a
demon haunted world of social metaphysics in which reality consists of
other people's opinions. You picked a fight with Ankaaz because you
are a coward and a bully, whch are two sides of the same coin. The
ethics of the muscle mystic derive from the epistemology of the witch
doctor. Ankaaz and I adhered to the standard of objective truth i.e.,
the scientific method:
Reality is real.
Existence exists.
A is A.
In the far future, when we are all dead, you will be bedded with John
J. Ford.
.
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