Quote from: JimB on June 06, 2012, 05:20:51 AM
Quote from: Seth on June 03, 2012, 06:39:19 PM
Later, my ancestors believed that the Earth was flat ....
The flat Earth myth is just that: a myth, which still pervades modern views on our ancestors. The Earth's been known to be spherical since at least the time of the ancient Greeks, and the vast majority of scholars throughout history have known it to be so. The myth was propagated by fiction novelists in the 19th and early 20th Centuries, Washington Irving included. Being described as a flatearther at the time of Cyrnao de Bergerac was a gross insult to someone's credibility.
"The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church" Magellan
Take a look at some writing from Herodotus, Thales, Homere and Hesiode.
Germanic people and Vikings (or Norse, I am not sure) belived the Earth was flat.
the Japanese, in the Nihongi, describe Earth as flat.
Same thing for ancient Chinese people... they even thought it was square and flat.
as for Cyrano, it is not the middle-age but the Renaissance.
So I understand we should not patronize our ancestors and their believes but we must not give them more credit and modernity than what they were by the time.
Quote from: penang on June 05, 2012, 07:38:24 PM
I kinda get a feeling that some people here, those with attitude, have a penchant to find faults when there is none
Last time, on another thread, a Frenchman so courteously gave me a psycho-analysis, completely free of charge
And this time, on this thread ....
Hmm ....
But anyway, I do hope that you feel satisfy now, Seth, after that ranting of yours
Considering uor previous posts, on the threads you open on this forum (not in the image, animations, or files sharing, of course...), I think you know exactly what is a person with an attitude
And I am curious about your sentence on french people... Can you explain what you mean ?
because you had an argument one time and being criticize (I guess that is what you call psycho-analysis) another time by a french, you not even notice the nationality of your "opponent" but you write it publicly, with some "..." at the end, not finishing the idea you started.
Are you afraid to say outloud what you think ?