He had conquered a quarter of the known land of the world by the time he was twenty five
promethean75 wrote:He had conquered a quarter of the known land of the world by the time he was twenty five
the only thing this dude was conquering at twenty-five was his acne. a kid that young has no experience in anything, especially not warfare... not in planning it, financing it, organizing it, or executing it.
barbarianhorde wrote:"More and more, before the world of men, the only reaction is individualist. The man by himself is his only aim. All that one attempts for the good of all ends in failure. Even if one still wants to try, it is the norm to do it with deliberate contempt. To withdraw entirely and to play ones game. (Idiot.)"
-Camus, 1940, my translation
Meno_ wrote:barbarianhorde wrote:"More and more, before the world of men, the only reaction is individualist. The man by himself is his only aim. All that one attempts for the good of all ends in failure. Even if one still wants to try, it is the norm to do it with deliberate contempt. To withdraw entirely and to play ones game. (Idiot.)"
-Camus, 1940, my translation
And AI needs to speculate on his mode of operation well, if not to offer mere general suicide, out of ignorance of the general blindness.(Jonestown revisited !?!)
Karpel Tunnel wrote:All the hagiography makes me want to say the guy had male lovers, just to poke at some of his fans here. He was obviously an incredible leader, but what did he accomplish that we specifically admires as aftereffects`? He did spread Greek culture. I don't know how to weigh what that did for the world.
How to compare it what would have happened if greek culture hadn't come to some of the places it did. Once I was in a job center and heard a doctor say she'd been hired and everyone congratulated her. She was hired by a cigarrette company. She seemed like a nice responsible person. Not a genius like Alexander, but a good worker. But are we actually to feel good about her work at a tobacco company? Seems neutral at best. A lot of skill and knowledge going into something at best neutral. So, Alexander won lot of battles, but kept pushing until this no longer worked so well and has a huge conquested area of the work he couldn't maintain control over. He created much more diversity in any of the cultures he contacted. Increasing the number of races and cultural groups that mixed in these regions. I presume that's not a good legacy from the perspective of many.
He certainly did things most people cannot do and with a degree of skill and perseverance rarely seen in any field of expertise. But what did it do?
What makes his use of incredible skill important to you as far as results?
Artimas wrote:You can't be dependent on others in this world. It's what may kill you. Not to mention Alexander was tutored by Aristotle and took his education serious, you can't compare todays youth to then, it would be unbelievably foolish. At 20 back then, you were probably realistically 40-50 in mental age. Age is a number, doesn't mean shit, what you do with the time you're here is all that matters, and it shows in the history, he had no intent of wasting his, which he didn't. A kid can conquer the world and a kid today can build atom smashers in his garage, don't be so skeptical on the brilliance of a "child", especially when our deep mind isn't our own but instead an infinitely old archaic intelligence that feeds the conscious mind.
In Plato's Theages it is written: "Each one of us would like to be
master over all men, if possible, and best of all God." This attitude
must exist again. "
Painful as I might be to admit it but the homosexuality in Greece and Rome and in the Arab world flows from a profound contempt of women.
Graeco-Romans weren't "Gay" in the sexual sense.
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