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Popular theology ... is a massive inconsistency derived from ignorance.... The gods exist because nature herself has imprinted a conception of them on the minds of men.
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The Reality of Dreams
Throughout Human history, dreams have fascinated, inspired and disturbed us. Where do they come from? Why do they happen? What do they mean? Different civilisations have tried to answer these questions. The Ancient Mesopotamians thought of dreams as divine messages. The most well known Mesopotamian story is the Epic of Gilgamesh, where Gilgamesh receives dreams about the future. They also had dream temples, where people would go in order to sleep and receive these divine messages in their […]https://johnbronze.wordpress.com/2026/07/24/the-reality-of-dreams/
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MARCUS: As a field, though fertile, cannot yield a harvest without cultivation, no more can the mind without learning.
[Ut ager quamvis fertilis sine cultura fructuosus esse non potest, sic sine doctrina animus.]Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 2, ch. 5 (2.5) / sec. 13 (2.13) (45 BC) [tr. Peabody (1886)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
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Hype for the Future 214/284: Chicago West (Inner Suburbs)
Overview The traditional inner suburbs of the western Chicago area, many of whose amenities are often described as “Chicago West,” often refer to the communities of Cicero, Berwyn, Oak Park, River Forest, and Forest Park in the western portion of the inner region. Today, the communities are each directly integrated into the urban grid system based on the Chicago city grid with public transit services often related to the inner city. Cicero The community of Cicero is a western suburban […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/06/02/hype-for-the-future-214-284-chicago-west-inner-suburbs/
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Let us spurn the rewards of today and look to future glory; let us deem best what is most honorable; let us hope for what we want, but bear what befalls us; finally, let us consider that even the bodies of brave men and great citizens are mortal; but that activity of the mind and the glory of virtue are for ever.
[Praesentis fructus neglegamus, posteritatis gloriae serviamus; id esse optimum putemus quod erit rectissimum; speremus quae volumus, sed quod acciderit feramus; cogitemus denique corpus virorum fortium magnorum hominum esse mortale, animi vero motus et virtutis gloriam sempiternam.]Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Pro Sestio [For Publius Sestius], ch. 68 / sec. 143 (56-02 BC) [tr. @sentantiq (2011)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
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The historian J. Ebbeller describes the period 200 to 600 CE as antiquity's "golden age of letter writing" (Barchiesi, 468) as the Roman elite embraced the sentiment of Cicero's comment in one of his own letters: "what could be more pleasing to me than to write to you or to read your letters when I am unable to speak with you in person" (Letter to His Friends, 12.30.1)