First, I want to apologize to anyone reading these posts. I really had not intended this to be so darn serious. I was originally shooting for fun, comical, even whimsical (yes, I was planning to do whimsy!). However, I have not felt too comical of late. Thus the seriousness of the posts. So, if you are up to another lesson/rant - read on: I am reading The Columbia History of the World right now (maybe that explains the lack of whimsy - 1100 pages plus written in textbook form) I am reading now about the Roman empire/republic. I came to a passage that almost shocked me with it's relevance to my thoughts of today. Here it is: (and I quote giving all rights to the book) Rome ceded more easily to the demand for citizenship because her supply of citizen soldiers had continued to dwindle, and her mob of citizens without property, to grow. Of the attempts to reverse these changes the most famous were those of the Gracchi brothers in 133 and 123. Relyng on bourgeouis support, they advoc...
The universe, by definition, is infinite. It is arrogant for us to think mankind can formulate all the questions much less grasp all the answers.