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Re: Deconstructing myths of the past

Postby Get Real! » Thu Dec 19, 2013 11:05 pm

Oceanside50 wrote:Why couldn't the Cypriot midgets jump on each other's shoulders and cut the fruit and not starve?...there's a missing link in your hypothesis..

They were too stupid to devise ways to reach things… midget size = midget brain.

Of course when the 6ft Spartans arrived it was just a matter of reaching up and cutting the fine fruit.

Thus they flourished… 8)
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Re: Deconstructing myths of the past

Postby Paphitis » Fri Dec 20, 2013 1:30 am

Get Real! wrote:Let’s recap the history of Cyprus according to the three stooges Kurupet, Sotos and Yialoser:

A long time ago Cyprus was inhabited by midgets who later became extinct because they were too short to reach the fruit on the trees which had by now grown too tall for them.

Once they all died of hunger and inbreeding and all of a sudden 200 cruise ships arrived from the port of Piraeus to drop off Spartan families who thought…

“What a lovely place and all the weird midgets have died out so let us make this our country… a Hellenic country… come on Aphrodite hurry hurry!”

So there you go kids… the history of Cyprus in just 2 minutes according to Greek secondary state schools. :wink:


They just want to put Cyprus down at every opportunity.

Midgets imish! Yeh I bloomin bet they would say that the Ancient Greeks were all 6ft tall.

Traitors! :roll:

I am still trying to work out how on earth the Eteocypriots did not survive and thrive just like humans did in all other places even in hostile environments.
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Re: Deconstructing myths of the past

Postby Get Real! » Fri Dec 20, 2013 1:50 am

Paphitis wrote:
Get Real! wrote:Let’s recap the history of Cyprus according to the three stooges Kurupet, Sotos and Yialoser:

A long time ago Cyprus was inhabited by midgets who later became extinct because they were too short to reach the fruit on the trees which had by now grown too tall for them.

Once they all died of hunger and inbreeding and all of a sudden 200 cruise ships arrived from the port of Piraeus to drop off Spartan families who thought…

“What a lovely place and all the weird midgets have died out so let us make this our country… a Hellenic country… come on Aphrodite hurry hurry!”

So there you go kids… the history of Cyprus in just 2 minutes according to Greek secondary state schools. :wink:


They just want to put Cyprus down at every opportunity.

Midgets imish! Yeh I bloomin bet they would say that the Ancient Greeks were all 6ft tall.

Traitors! :roll:

I am still trying to work out how on earth the Eteocypriots did not survive and thrive just like humans did in all other places even in hostile environments.

It serves foreign interests to make the natives vanish so that the island can then be “resettled” by their imaginary stock. :wink:
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Re: Deconstructing myths of the past

Postby supporttheunderdog » Fri Dec 20, 2013 9:55 pm

Archimedes wrote:
Sotos wrote:Anybody can write an article or a book these days. This one seems far more interesting to me. you should read it because it seems the way you see yourself is totally wrong. And I can give you more books and articles that will teach you who you are and what your identity should be if you want. No need to thank me.

National identity essentially resides in the mind: evolving over time it is inevitably selective in how it epitomizes the ideals and aspirations of a people. In this searching and deeply passionate book, Roy Strong reveals an iconography of England rooted in the cultural imagination. Rather than simply depicting reality, art and literature have often ennobled - and immortalised - reality in a way that has directly affected how we see ourselves.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1847921604/


When it's time to give the animals (GR, Dog, Paphitis etc.) their education I have the books for them to read. :wink: :mrgreen:

I have just been watching a bbc documentary on Greek myths and legends. Many in particular the theogony can probably be traced back to The Anatolian Hittite culture and entered Greece in the so called dark ages.
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Re: Deconstructing myths of the past

Postby kurupetos » Sat Dec 21, 2013 10:02 pm

Archimedes wrote:When it's time to give the animals (GR, Dog, Paphitis etc.) their education I have the books for them to read. :wink: :mrgreen:

Those three are bloody pathetic. :idea: We should put them in a cage, stop feeding them for a week, and then see which one survives... :wink:
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Re: Deconstructing myths of the past

Postby Archimedes » Sun Dec 22, 2013 5:15 am

kurupetos wrote:
Archimedes wrote:When it's time to give the animals (GR, Dog, Paphitis etc.) their education I have the books for them to read. :wink: :mrgreen:

Those three are bloody pathetic. :idea: We should put them in a cage, stop feeding them for a week, and then see which one survives... :wink:


Good idea, I bet the the Dog and the Koala will join forces and eat the Chicken. :cry: Then the Koala will turn on the Dog and eat it. :evil: Then the Koala will die of food poisoning from eating such a dirty creature (Dog). :D

But wait until after Christmas Day as the Chicken is on standby in case the Turkey doesn't turn up. :wink:
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Re: Deconstructing myths of the past

Postby Archimedes » Sun Dec 22, 2013 5:31 am

supporttheunderdog wrote:
Archimedes wrote:
Sotos wrote:Anybody can write an article or a book these days. This one seems far more interesting to me. you should read it because it seems the way you see yourself is totally wrong. And I can give you more books and articles that will teach you who you are and what your identity should be if you want. No need to thank me.

National identity essentially resides in the mind: evolving over time it is inevitably selective in how it epitomizes the ideals and aspirations of a people. In this searching and deeply passionate book, Roy Strong reveals an iconography of England rooted in the cultural imagination. Rather than simply depicting reality, art and literature have often ennobled - and immortalised - reality in a way that has directly affected how we see ourselves.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1847921604/


When it's time to give the animals (GR, Dog, Paphitis etc.) their education I have the books for them to read. :wink: :mrgreen:

I have just been watching a bbc documentary on Greek myths and legends. Many in particular the theogony can probably be traced back to The Anatolian Hittite culture and entered Greece in the so called dark ages.


The BBC, isn't that the same company that had known pedo's like Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall working for them. :roll:
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Re: Deconstructing myths of the past

Postby kurupetos » Sun Dec 22, 2013 3:58 pm

Archimedes wrote:
kurupetos wrote:
Archimedes wrote:When it's time to give the animals (GR, Dog, Paphitis etc.) their education I have the books for them to read. :wink: :mrgreen:

Those three are bloody pathetic. :idea: We should put them in a cage, stop feeding them for a week, and then see which one survives... :wink:


Good idea, I bet the the Dog and the Koala will join forces and eat the Chicken. :cry: Then the Koala will turn on the Dog and eat it. :evil: Then the Koala will die of food poisoning from eating such a dirty creature (Dog). :D

But wait until after Christmas Day as the Chicken is on standby in case the Turkey doesn't turn up. :wink:

Good. We will get rid of them. :D
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Re: Deconstructing myths of the past

Postby Oceanside50 » Sun Dec 22, 2013 4:25 pm

..."will,will will "...when man when?
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Re: Deconstructing myths of the past

Postby kurupetos » Sun Dec 22, 2013 4:57 pm

Oceanside50 wrote:..."will,will will "...when man when?

When the time comes...
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