OT: Galactic sterilisation

[President_Elect_Shang]

Tesco you are a History Major (?)! I am working on a Major in History and Minor in Anthropology. Any advice?

[dogscoff]

I read that Last year.

The Merriam-Webster Online dictionary? What's wrong with a nice bit of scifi, or a detective thriller?

[tesco samoa]

No. I was psychology with a minor in political science. Then I went back to school and studied Electronics. ( Oh and somewhere inbetween EMCA studies as well )

But I did take 3 history courses. and 2 anthropology courses.

I was going to go back and pick up an engineering degree.

But I think I want to get out of the corp world.

And with my love of history. I am thinking of taking History major and Geology Minor and fill out the anthropology electives to add it to my list.

Then as this dream plays out I would like to travel to battle grounds and write some new materials on the battles from a geological point of view.

But right now that is a dream.


Advice. Always make sure you read the course material before it is presented in class , that way classes are used for questions and answers. Attend the History and Anthropology Social events and get involved in the society. Take part in any field trips that are available that you can afford. Don't mix red with white wine on a boat.

History are you going to specialize or keep general. What is you goal with your studies.

It is an interesting combination. I do think some geology would really help round it all out. As the lay of the land itself is very important.

[Fyron]

Hehehe well it might seem so for an American who doesn't know whats really happening There is no one "European" nation... and that is the core of the whole idea. We don't need one nation and one language to work together. Ergo one nation doesn't need to kill off all other "natives". We tried that in 2 world war recenty but it din't work out.

Umm... thanks for stereotyping me. I know fully well what is going on over there. It was a joke...

Also, the EU will in all probability eventually fall apart in another bloody war in Europe. You can not deny the fundamental aspects of the human psyche.

And besides since we don't need to kill off everybody else we won't need to build those nasty reservations and getos in the cities... think off all the trouble we are avoiding

Umm... there are plenty of ghettos in cities in Europe and all over the world... that has nothing to do with killing anyone off. Furthermore, US killed off fewer native American peoples than the Spanish did. The vast majority of them that died died because they had no immunity at all to a whole range of European diseases that they had never had any experience with. Certainly many were moved to other locations, but only rarely did that erupt into bloodshed. And you can hardly say that the US is alone in this sort of action. European nations have had done plenty of things far more evil than this throughout history (even recent history). I realize it is trendy to bash the US, but at least get your facts straight...

[President_Elect_Shang]

I was going to get my degree in Psychology and after the move to Texas changed my mind back to History, I love the field although my wife has declared it a “Soft Degree”.

Why not mix the wine?

I would like to specialize in either the Hellenistic or the Roman “time frame”. But then I am sure you can appreciate the tie in. Don’t get me wrong I am not ignoring the Greek part of the picture. I have extra electives so I will most certainly look into the Geology aspect. I have decided to take an intro course to geology (by coincidence) this semester. You have a good point about that tie in, The Battle of Thermopylae.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by President Elect Shang:

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Those are rather crude and irrelevant definitions...

Three words and one link baby:

Merriam-Webster Online

http://www.m-w.com/home.htm

Look it up yourself.

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Dictionary definitions are almost always lacking in their definitions of complex terms.

[President_Elect_Shang]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Dictionary definitions are almost always lacking in their definitions of complex terms.

Sure, whatever you say, or convenient ones for that matter.

[Fyron]

Its interesting that you completely ignored the post and just focused on the aside...

Perhaps you need to stop looking at the military from the bottom up, and look from it from the top down. You will then be able to see other points of view on this issue.

[President_Elect_Shang]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Its interesting that you completely ignored the post and just focused on the aside...

Perhaps you need to stop looking at the military from the bottom up, and look from it from the top down. You will then be able to see other points of view on this issue.

Umm sure OK. It's amazing how you can pick and choose what you want. Can you define bottom up and top down, I don’t want to apply it differently than you. When I think of bottoms up I think of drinking.

[ January 09, 2004, 17:08: Message edited by: President Elect Shang ]

[Fyron]

Ok... try to think of the military as the military, not as the faces of the soldiers themselves. The soldiers make up the forces of the military, but not the ideal of the military, nor the decisions of the military, nor the overall purpose and goals of the military, etc. Just looking at the specific people in the military is looking at it from the bottom (the people) up (the abstract nature). It is focusing not on the military itself, but on people. Looking from the top down is instead focusing on the military itself. It is directly akin to saying that the tech supporters and the programmers working for Microsoft are evil people because Microsoft has some evil business practices. The people working those jobs do not necessarily represent or embody what is done with their skills overall by the company (and its top level executives). It is looking at the issue from the wrong angle.

As for your definition of military, it is most certainly not the definitions on m-w.com.

1 a : of or relating to soldiers, arms, or war b : of or relating to armed forces; especially : of or relating to ground or sometimes ground and air forces as opposed to naval forces
2 a : performed or made by armed forces b : supported by armed force
3 : of or relating to the army

Even from these partial definitions, it can be seen that "military" does not necessarily mean "the soldiers in the army."