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  1. Re:Hypocracy? by PsiPsiStar · · Score: 2, Informative · on Gamers Divorced From Reality?


    There are many ancient sources on the career of the Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great: the Library of world history of Diodorus of Sicily, Quintus Curtius Rufus' History of Alexander the Great of Macedonia, a Life of Alexander by Plutarch of Chaeronea and the Anabasis by Arrian of Nicomedia are the best-known. All these authors lived more than three centuries after the events they described, but they used older, nearly contemporary sources, that are now lost.
    (emphasis added)source, source

    Alexander the Great didn't have much first hand evidence to reccomend his existance.

    It's a bit silly to discuss history when you haven't a clue.

    You're hardly in a place to lecture people on having a clue about history since you seem to know very little either about ancient Greek historiography or Greco-Roman historiography around the destruction of the second temple.

    Most historians, even those who are atheists, believe that Jesus existed as an historical figure.

    This is like saying the world is flat or that the moon is a liberal myth.

    No, this is like saying that there are enough primary sources regarding Jesus that if you disqualify his existance based on a lack of first hand (not contemporaneous, but first hand) sources that you'd have to disqualify quite a few other historical figures as well.
    Including Alexander the Great.
  2. There's a komodo in your commode-o by tepples · · Score: 1 · on Neopets Gambling Controversy

    You were beaten to this question by about a minute. Anyway, if you think komodo dragons aren't real, it appears you need to sit on the commode-o and think about it for a while.

  3. Re:They are REAL! by SamSim · · Score: 1 · on Neopets Gambling Controversy

    Or Japanese fauna?

  4. Re:nativism by Theatetus · · Score: 1 · on Green Party Candidate David Cobb Answers Your Questions
    I demand your blood in the soil from birth to know where your loyalties are rooted.

    Good idea, because where you are born determines your loyalty so accurately.

  5. Re:My favorite character was the by mcmonkey · · Score: 1 · on Oryx and Crake
    When it's hungry it doesn't bother rooting through rubbish, it just bites a higher mammal, waits until they drop dead, and then starts gnawing.

    And if anybody ever made one, could you ever be sure that there were none in the wild?

    Nature already has, and they are already in the wild--"prey they merely injure are brought down shortly by the deadly bacteria in their mouths."

  6. Spirit by Quirk · · Score: 1 · on Australian Pilot Stranded In Antarctica

    Granted he should have had the foresight and planning in place to deal with foreseeable contingencies, but the spirit of adventures like Francis Chichester, Richard Halliburton, Richard Burton and others is a staple of our lore. Maybe the world has grown to small to make allowances.

  7. Re:Why Columbus discovered America by nickos · · Score: 1 · on Chinese Explorers 'Discovered America'?

    Did the chinese or vikings made maps of the world? They didn't.
    Yes they did - http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/vinland/