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Ancient Hangover Cure Discovered In Greek Texts
An anonymous reader writes with good news for people looking for an old cure for an old problem. Trying to ease a bad hangover? Wearing a necklace made from the leaves of a shrub called Alexandrian laurel would do the job, according to a newly translated Egyptian papyrus. The "drunken headache cure" appears in a 1,900-year-old text written in Greek and was discovered during the ongoing effort to translate more than half a million scraps of papyrus known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Housed at Oxford University's Sackler Library, the enormous collection of texts contains lost gospels, works by Sophocles and other Greek authors, public and personal records and medical treatises dating from the first century AD to the sixth century A.D.
I'm sad that this is the first post. What has /. sunk to?
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
So, is this why all those Greek scholars and such wore laurel wreaths on their heads? Just in case? :-)
Another text in this collected wisdom authoritatively cites Aristotle as saying that Pythagorus invented the Scroll Lock key. Literally. It's a little key you lock the scroll with.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Any baldness cures in there?
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Liberty - Security - Laziness - Pick any two.
The next thing to do, of course, is to test the claim and see if it's true or not. I'm sure that you'll find lots of college students who are willing to give themselves hangovers in the name of science, especially if they're going to be paid for it.
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Lost Gospels, Sophocles, and 1,800 other pages and someone posts about the hangover cure.
I guess we are living a new dark ages.
Don't drink in the first place.
haha, is it Christian Era, or Anno Domini? But, people didn't start systematically talking about the years Before the Christian Era until they had already stopped using Latin everywhere, so it's BC for Before Christ.
Well anyway, I'm sure we can call it Common Era, or Current Era, to pretend we're not using an estimate from hundreds of years later of when Christ was born to date things.
Why don't you start in the year 2000? That way you won't be basing your calendar on Christ.
Who is this "we" that is trying to suppress BC and AD? The dates are exactly the same, so are you trying to feel better about changing the name? The whole "BCE/CE" is so 90s. I thought we had moved beyond the PC "feel good" nomenclature.
To me it makes about as much sense as calling a horse a Equus [latin] because the first syllable of horse sounds too much like a woman of ill repute.
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More COWBELL!
FUCK you and your god damned bullshit.
Fuck you culture warrior identity politics fuckface asshole prick.
BC/AD is part of the fucking culture ass grabbing fuck puke.
FUCK YOU, history changer Goebbels re-writer.
I vote for renaming them BFC ("Before Fucking Christ") and AFD ("Anno Fucking Domini").
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That's putting it a bit harshly but why should anyone get bent out of shape over it?
Especially since we all know what we mean.
People can call it "Common Era" all they want and I won't get upset but it's interesting that they choose the year of what many believe was Christ's birth to separate the "Common Era" from the "Before Common Era".
One doesn't have to believe in Christ or any "god" to recognize that Christianity played a huge part in our history and even influenced how we refer to the current year.
"We" are perfectly content to use the terms "Before Christ" and "After Dead" or "Anno Domini" to distinguish years in history. It has nothing to do with our own faith or lack thereof and everything to do with recognizing it as an historical term which is commonly accepted throughout the world.
Sometimes it seems like militant atheists (as opposed to rational mind-their-own-business atheists) will only be satisfied when parents are no longer to even name their daughters "Mary" because you know - that would be forcing religion on everyone else.....or something.
Now you've got me wondering just what one would do (have done?) before fucking christ.
Genuflect? Give the kiss of peace? (Oh, baby....) Take your clothes off, at least. A glass of wine, a couple of figs dipped in honey to set the mood.
What would mary magdalene have done BFC?
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
It's normal that since we Greeks invented drunkardness (Dionysus was a great fellow... but a drunkard) to try cure its hangover - we invented aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) also, probably to help Dionysus: Hippocrates observed that the leaves of the tree (that i don't know how it's called in English, sorry!) producing acetylsalicylic acid helps cure pains and fever.
Wait, these things were discovered like a hundred years ago. They haven't finished translating them? All the folks who know ancient Greek have better things to do? Like what?
Wow. You've just made everyone stupider.
FUCK you and your god damned bullshit.
Fuck you culture warrior identity politics fuckface asshole prick.
BC/AD is part of the fucking culture ass grabbing fuck puke.
FUCK YOU, history changer Goebbels re-writer.
I vote for renaming them BFC ("Before Fucking Christ") and AFD ("Anno Fucking Domini").
While i prefer BC ("Before Christ") and AD ("Anno Domini"), i find your proposal better than the proposal of all those left-wing libtards that try to attack my faith (i am an Greek Orthodox Christian) by eliminating historic/cultural references because they are religious Atheists - at least in your proposal i keep my religious reference (yes, Christ is fucking great - by the way, "Christos Anesti" brother)...
I didn't even know they had mobile phones!
Sometimes it seems like militant atheists
Please get the terms right, the name of the religion is not militant atheism but evangelical atheism.
No, it should start on Dec 22, 2012.
Looks like the text didn't pass quality assurance back then and was discarded.
...how is this news?
Whether stringing its leaves and wearing the strand around the neck had any effect to relieve headaches in alcohol victims isnâ(TM)t known.
This doesn't seem like it would have been that difficult to test, but there is no indication that anyone who read it has done so yet.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
What I don't like about BC/AD is that one is English and one is Latin. Pick one, not some ugly mixture! The mixture also means that the placement of the abbreviation is either inconsistent (traditional usage) or grammatically incorrect (getting more common). The grammatically correct placement is to put BC after the date, but AD before the date:
330 BC vs. AD 1983
You could write "1983 AD", but then you are not even being correctly traditional, at which point you might as well just give up and use the newer English abbreviations, which always go at the end.
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Why don't you start in the year 2000?
Why not Jan 1, 1970?
You are asking for the Slashdot "editors" to be accurate, or even care about being accurate.
Ain't gonna happen :-(
Fuck you and your religion/faith.
In Latin aCn (ante Christum natum) is written for BC; anno Domini is one Latin way of expressing what we mean by AD, but often I've seen it written as anno Salutis (in the year of Salvation), and there are countless variations. Sometimes, especially in texts referring to Greek and Hebrew affairs, you find a different system, aM or anno Mundi, but in general the aD system is so prevalent that variation is desirable (Latin loves variety), hence anno Salutis and its friends.
Alithos Anesti, adelfe!
Mhn tous dineis simasia ... oi apistoi panta tha yparxoun.
As koitaxoume thn dikia mas sotiria.
C.E. = Christian Era, Common Era, Current Era
B.C.E. = Before Christian/Common/Current Era
All English, no latin, and it lets Christians keep their shibboleth if they want to - and it's been in use since the early 1700s by both scholars and theologians.
Since the AD stuff only started in the 500s (CE) it's not like it has any theological importance in either scripture or revelation, whiny Xian claims (boo hoo hoo, we only have 90% mindshare and two national holidays, we're so fucking oppressed) to the contrary.
According to Wikipedia "In Cambodia, the leaves are inhaled as a treatment for migraines and vertigo."
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
But does it work on Romulan Ale?
For a moment you would feel as if somebody had touched off a bomb inside the old bean and was strolling down your throat with a lighted torch, and then everything would suddenly seem to get all right. The sun would shine in through the window; birds would twitter in the tree-tops; and, generally speaking, hope would dawn once more.
It is time tested and well recorded. Really, there is an actual historical record of this recipe working its magic in the morning after an incredible bacchanalian revelry in the Drones club to celebrate the engagement of Augustus Fink-Nottle to Madeline Bassett.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Wouldn't starting in the year 2000 still be basing the calendar on Christ as you're picking precise point in time that's in reference to the old calendar? The year 2000 is only the year 2000 because it was 2000 years after the estimated birth of Christ and you'd still be using it as the basis for the new calendar.
You'd have to pick some other human event to set the start date. You could go with the moon landing or the first atomic bomb test or any other number of historic dates that are well established. Or perhaps you could choose based on some celestial event or even something more mundane like the founding of Slashdot.
Can we stop using the unscientific term "lost gospels"? Not only are many of these writings simply letters, and not accounts of the life and teachings of Jesus, they were never widely accepted and rarely cited by early Christian writers. They're apocrypha.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
I am not going to say that people shouldn't drink, but if you drink responsibly then you shouldn't get a hangover in the first place.
I can imagine that hangovers were more common in earlier times because alcoholic drinks could have been of lower quality - with more of the chemicals that would worsen hangover. Production and quality control these days are done using scientific methods.
One of those chemicals is methanol, which I would expect there to be more of in moonshine than in store-bought vodka.
Another cause of hangover is dehydration.
So... Know your limit and stick to it, drink high-quality drinks and let every other glass contain a non-alcoholic drink, and then you should avoid the hangover.
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
Anno Domini means "In the year of the Lord," not "after death."
Ever wonder if these scholars that translate ancient texts are just making it up as they go along?
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The best hangover cure is the Michelada.
We play the game with the bravery of being out of range
It's an atheist thing.
It's also far more accurate.
Jesus (that Christ guy) was likely born in about 4 BCE. But nobody really knows for sure because the people making the calendar were seemingly unable to do basic math. So calling it "Before the Common Era (BCE)" instead of "Before Christ['s birth] (BC)" makes sense when there could be a multi-year drift in the calculation. The common era is a way of basically saying "we made up a starting point for our calendar's year numbering and it came to be in common use".
And just as a point of correction, "AD" does not stand for "After Death", but instead "Anno Domini" (Latin for "in the year of our lord"). Since Jesus wasn't considered to be the "lord" until his baptism at (approximately) age 30, there's a multi-decade span of time that technically doesn't fit into either BC or AD.
BCE/CE fixes all of these issues entirely. That's why it should be used, not because of any secularist agenda.
That's the Unix Epoch.
If it were "after dead" this would be the year 1985, give or take, assuming you're taking the date of Christ's crucifixion (circa year 30). Of course Christians would argue that He's not dead yet. Others would argue that that would make him a zombie (risen from the dead and all that), but it's clear what with the whole communion "blood of christ" thing and the understandable aversion to crosses (he was nailed to one, after all, that has to be traumatic), that the undead JC is clearly a vampire.
"Wearing a necklace of alexandrian laurel" probably just means "sleep it off in a bush", much like "hair of the dog that bit you" isn't at all related to biting dogs, except alexandrian laurel's probably smell a bit nicer than the average bush.
In Latin aCn (ante Christum natum) is written for BC; anno Domini is one Latin way of expressing what we mean by AD, but often I've seen it written as anno Salutis (in the year of Salvation), and there are countless variations. Sometimes, especially in texts referring to Greek and Hebrew affairs, you find a different system, aM or anno Mundi, but in general the aD system is so prevalent that variation is desirable (Latin loves variety), hence anno Salutis and its friends.
anno Mundi (year of the world) is used in the Jewish calendar. anno Domini translates to "year of the Lord". Much of the ancient world used a system of "the Xth year of the reign of Y"
Why stop there? The days of the week are named after the gods associated with the seven celestial bodies (only Saturday wasn't converted from a Roman deity to a German one, as there was no equivalent of Saturn in the Norse pantheon). And the first 6 months of the calendar are all named after Roman gods or religious festivals, so we should rename those as well. Even how we divide time into hours, minutes, and seconds is associated with Babylonian numerology and astrology, which has deep religious significance.
If we are going to start changing names to remove religious connotations, we have a lot of work to do. Or is it just the Christian origin of the name you object to, and not religion in general?
Who is this "we" that is trying to suppress BC and AD? The dates are exactly the same, so are you trying to feel better about changing the name? The whole "BCE/CE" is so 90s. I thought we had moved beyond the PC "feel good" nomenclature.
To me it makes about as much sense as calling a horse a Equus [latin] because the first syllable of horse sounds too much like a woman of ill repute. .
Moved beyond PC "feel good" nomenclature? What, are you trying to "fat shame" us all? Quit contributing to "rape culture", and lets all work towards making sure that in school there are "no winners and no losers" - damn, just because "yoor kid kant spel" doesn't mean he should get one of those "Failure" things, it might hurt his ego. Don't worry though, big Pharma I'm sure has a drug for you... "just ask your doctor about (insert drug name here)" as the commercials all tell you.
You'd have to pick some other human event to set the start date. You could go with the moon landing or the first atomic bomb test or any other number of historic dates that are well established... more mundane like the founding of Slashdot.
It should be based on the first time the ball dropped in Times Square.
He effected a bored affect.
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because they are religious Atheists
What is that?
"Methys" actually means "wine", hence the name. But we know now that's false.. why would this be amy different?