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Originally posted by TheNewAeon2012
Western culture is based on Greek culture.
Originally posted by TheNewAeon2012
Hi there, I found this really interesting word on dictionary.com that might help you deal with your problem against Greek culture.
By the way, I am dying to know what your racial background is.
Out of that massive reply of mine, you only picked on ONE thing...one thing.
I couldn't believe it when I saw it. I wonder why it bothers you so much that I said "mind-boggling"? You probably wanted me to say "average culture", right?
Tell me, friend, what is your native country??...
Originally posted by TheNewAeon2012
Our Roman-American friend...
I mean, the guy comes out of nowhere and has only ONE thing to say: "why was it mind-boggling"?
He'll never admit it on the forum but 99% (or there abouts) of Italians believe that the Romans "improved upon" Greek culture and were superior.
Truth be told: aside from Roman Law, the Romans didn't originate jack sh*t, but ripped off the Greeks wholesale & put a few of their own touches on Greek culture.
But the thing is, his second reply is what REALLY got me going. "they borrowed it from earlier ones". I take this statement as an attack on my heritage.
Borrowed? Yeah right! Dream on. They borrowed a certain part only. But the Romans, on the other hand...well, I don't know, maybe these guys borrowed a bit TOO heavily. And from the Greeks, no less.
But this Greek-Roman rivalry is something that annoys me to no end, so let's stop here. Greece is like the "Beatles of Western civilization" and that's the end of that. There is not even a debate. In an ideal world, I wouldn't even have to explain anything.
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
While not as easy to use as the Persian (actually based on Hindi) numerals Roman numerals used extraneous symbols as opposed to the Greek system which recycled letters for use in mathematics.
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Originally posted by TheNewAeon2012
Western culture is based on Greek culture.
And Greek culture borrows from others the predated it.
Originally posted by mikepopy
But the Greek language is very far more superior to any other language. It is the only language that each word explains itself, and each letter (by itself and as a word) as a numeral means deeper things which most of it is not known.
Originally posted by mikepopy
If you believe that a culture with monosyllable words is or was a culture...!
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Originally posted by mikepopy
But the Greek language is very far more superior to any other language. It is the only language that each word explains itself, and each letter (by itself and as a word) as a numeral means deeper things which most of it is not known.
Agreed that as a language it is superior to others but as a form of mathematics it is just as inferior. For pure mathematical calculation it is inferior (much like Roman numerals are) to the Hindu-Arabic based system. It is an accpeted fact that positional numbering systems are much less cubersome for calculating purposes then unary or sign value notated systems
Originally posted by mikepopy
Its not that simple.
So 2294/730 = 3,14246575
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Originally posted by mikepopy
Actually π equals 3.14159265, which in a way proves the point.
edit on 22-3-2011 by AugustusMasonicus because: Networkdude has no beer
So its off by one onethousanth or so. Maybe in the near future we will understand what is missing, or the rest of the world will find out that they were wrong. he he.
Originally posted by AugustusMasonicus
Originally posted by TheNewAeon2012
Western culture is based on Greek culture.
And Greek culture borrows from others the predated it.