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The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe By Thomas Cahill "Patrick slept soundly and soberly," says Thomas Cahill in this charming and poetic disquisition, which describes what he calls Ireland's "one moment of unblemished glory" when, according to our author, the Irish saved classical civilization after the fall of the Roman Empire. The phrase, wry and pithy at the same time, is as good a way as any of suggesting Mr. Cahill's thesis. The Patrick in question was a former Celtic slave brought to Ireland from Roman-era Britain. His name was originally Patricius, but he came to be known to later generations as St. Patrick. Mr. Cahill's theory about him goes something like this: The Ireland of the early fifth century was a brooding, dank island whose inhabitants, while carefree and warlike on the outside, lived in "quaking fear" within, their terror of shape-changing monsters, of sudden death and the insubstantiality of their world so acute that they drank themselves into an insensate stupor in order to sleep. Patrick, however, provided "a living alternative." He was a serene man who slept well without drink, a man "in whom the sharp fear of death has been smoothed away." The Christianity he proposed to the Irish succeeded because it took away the dread from the magical world that was Ireland. And once they were Christianized, the Irish founded the monastic movement, copying the books being destroyed elsewhere by Germanic invaders, eventually bringing them back to the places from which the books had come. "And that," Mr. Cahill concludes with typically wry unabashedness, "is how the Irish saved civilization." The founder of the Cahill & Company Catalogue and the director of religious publishing at Doubleday, Mr. Cahill is a man of learning himself, and his writing is in the great Irish tradition he describes: lyrical, playful, penetrating and serious, but never too serious. And even when his conclusions are not entirely persuasive -- they do in places hang on rather slender reeds of evidence -- they are always plausible and certainly interesting. "How the Irish Saved Civilization" begins with a mission: to correct the standard history of European civilization, which, Mr. Cahill says, has unfairly portrayed the Irish as wild, not civilized. Along his often picaresque route, Mr. Cahill provides a personal and selective appreciation of the great events and the dramatis personae of the period when the Roman Empire ended and the Dark Ages began, beginning with an account of the reasons for the fall of Rome itself. While far from Gibbonesque in scope or tone, Mr. Cahill's book strikes some Gibbonesque themes, especially that of spiritual decay, the gradual loss of vigor, the onset of a static, effete, imitative and self-satisfied Roman world. Mr. Cahill's technique in this is to focus on some figure who marks the era. The poet and professor Ausonius, who lived in Bordeaux in the fourth century, is his representative of Rome's slide into emptiness and decay. Contrasting with him is Augustine of Hippo, the St. Augustine of history, whose remarkable codification of the early Christian orthodoxy made him "almost the last great classical man -- and very nearly the first medieval man." Mr. Cahill uses Augustine as a lens for viewing the great question he poses early on: "What was lost when the Roman Empire fell?" Augustine was a man whose blood boiled, who felt life in a way utterly foreign to the calculating Ausonius. But in the end, he settled on a rigid doctrine. "Augustine, father of many firsts, is also father of the Inquisition," Mr. Cahill writes. With his triumph in the Roman world, the spirit of classical civilization was defeated, and would have been defeated forever, Mr. Cahill argues, had it not been for those wild men in a faraway land that had never fallen under Roman rule and had never heard of Augustine: Ireland. There are other characters in Mr. Cahill's history, the most important of them clearly being Patrick, one of his heroes, a man of less intellectual refinement than Augustine but of greater humanity. Mr. Cahill credits him with being "the first human being in the history of the world to speak out unequivocally against slavery." There are several swashbuckling men and women of pre-Christian Ireland, like the sexually frank Queen Medb and her rival, the warrior Cuchulainn, both representatives of Irish "barbaric splendor." And there are the monkish scribes and the founders of monasteries, like the sixth-century Columcille, responsible, in Mr. Cahill's theory, for making possible a European world of books. Is Mr. Cahill's theory correct? One senses a touch of hyperbole when he says that the Irish "singlehandedly refounded European civilization throughout the continent." There is a good deal of speculation in much of this. How, for example, do we really know if Patrick slept well or badly, especially since, as Mr. Cahill notes, we know very little about Patrick at all? There is also a certain vagueness about the central assertion Mr. Cahill makes about the extent of the Irish contribution. Mr. Cahill does in the end allow, for example, that Greek literature might have been preserved elsewhere even without the Irish, which makes their achievement seem less single-handed than Mr. Cahill elsewhere claimed it to be. The Hebrew and Greek Bibles survived independently of them. "Latin literature," he concludes, "would almost surely have been lost without the Irish," and he further asserts, but without much argument, that the national literatures of Europe might not have emerged had the Irish not forged the first great vernacular literature of Europe. http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/09/bsp/irish.html Last edited by Steven L. Akins; September 26th, 2012 at 10:40 AM. |
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This has created racial disparities, has pushed many organisms into extinction, has produced 'immunity disorders' in both human and environment, and has promoted the genocide of various human genome, due to social pressure created by dissolution of Racial/National borders. There have been studies that have collected data for Eugenics studies. Studies regarding the association of inherent disposition of ethnicity and IQ. Many studies providing evidence that race is much more than skin deep. In this day and age when overpopulation of poverty stricken 3rd world nations, has exponentially grown. The rapid growth of Welfare system, and the environmental burden to maintain living space for these critters. It is time to put blame where it is due, and identify the disorder which is killing all things. International Banking System, the entertainment industry, religion, and selfish disposition. In order to produce a healthy environment, segregation is vital. There are governmental rules and regulation that must be enforced upon the people, designed to maintain a balanced population. Races are inherently different, and dispositions need to be categorized into population conducive to the rules/regulation that promote progress for the Nation. The birth rate between races and ethnicities vary. These differences have been historically recorded. There are vast differences in social interaction, and inherent disposition between races and cultures. As J. Lunz hypothesized, the mulatto will inherently be born with a mental disorder, due to unknown genetic dominant/recessive genetic combination. This unknown combination of disposition that will be passed on genetically with future offspring will continue on until extinction of critter, or genetic variant. Mixing races that have high birth rate verses low birth rate, will inevitably cause extinction for population with low birth rate. It has been recorded specific ethnicities produce low birth rate due to social pressure. I agree that we need a book, and addendum put into effect upon executive order 13112, that would include protection/segregation of 'human invasive species' upon the resources and Racial identity of a Nation. |
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Name calling? Do you know what that says about the depth of your thinking?
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While the International Banking Industry promotes equality amongst races and gender. The blatant misrepresentation of racial disparities should be brought to public attention. We know that the media hides the real racial disparities, to push the Banking Industries agenda. But "if" they want to put this notion that all races are equal. Then they need to express this in way of military combatants, as well as media coverage of white on black crime, and birth/welfare rate demographics. Pushing the PC agenda has been destroying our ability to defend our Nation. When you mix races that enslave there own children, because 'muh dick' is on the mind rather than the awesome experience of having a life, which can represent value to something greater than self. With races that are Agrarian by nature...you promote violence and genocide upon the Agrarian communities. There is no way the rules and laws will deter the genocide, because, 'muh dick' cannot be removed from the mind of critters that enslave there own.. Unless we are once again permitted to burn there communities and string them from a tree for harming our communities with 'muh dick'. |
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October 15th, 2012 | #114 |
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Alrighty then, Slick, how's your fat boyfriend doing? Is he too a bitch?
(We'll box him in yet, Soldatul; you just watch... )
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I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. I don't have any friends of either gender, platonic or otherwise. I only associate with my immediate family. Everyone else are strangers.
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p.s. And I don't doubt for a minute that you're sans friends of either gender, platonic or otherwise. Shit, you're here 24/7 -- when the fuck would you have time for a normal social life? Just many posts are you averaging a day anyway?
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Who needs to enslave groups of people with weapons, when you can take over finance, and then media and politics, facilitate a Freudian culture of slave-like egotistical degenerates who think there is nothing greater than boning new people.
Could the condom industry and a society where the majority of young white women are running around on birth control, happen anywhere but an utterly judaized slave-like, valueless, raceless place like the cubicle-golem waste-o-life place called America? Clint Eastwood is an American icon? The money-chasing gunslinger fist full of dollars? Well, I'm not surprised he is sucking cocks at a 2012 Republican convention then. He's another slave. The American Dream is actually an individualist joke, that is designed to convince the masses to become slaves in trying to best their racial kin, even to the point of recruiting non-kin as their minions (or becoming the minions of Jews, or even niggers to dominate). And thus we have a nigger president. And no nigger, Jew, chink, or white shill, could EVER even begin to dream of building a society the likes of the models Albert Speer made, that Hitler planned to implement had those warmongering kikes and their lackeys not become so jealous. Because only the strong European stock ever had the mind and backbone for such beauty and grandeur, from Greece, to Rome, to what should have been World Capital Germania. The lower races only know how to fuck, drink, bitch, and then get to the end of their life not even remembering 99% of it, because it was fucking meaningless. Slaves. Well, one would have to be a complete blockhead to believe any noble stock left Europe to come to America. Mostly slave-like workers came here, and their materialistic mentalities combined with the material wealth of this country, is the reason this is a mechanized nihilist world today. People don't watch Hitler on the history channel or whatever to see planes, tanks, guns, bombs, and yapping. They watch it to see the tragedy of the slaves beating the masters, to see the men who can only think of their paycheck and today destroying the higher men who had ideals, visions, and posterity-focused goals for a better tomorrow for them and their children. They watch that tragedy, better than anything Aeschylus could ever create, before they turn the TV off and go back out into the resulting cesspool. Tragedy is bittersweet. The greater part of the tragedy, is that most Americans of European stock are not bad people, but they are childlike, chimerical, and unfortunately too trusting of others, they need to get their backbone again and disavow the shadow of their father that other peoples try to hang over them, much like Alexander the Great did with his father Philip II, and become their own legend. That shadow is why Jews and shills like Joe Biden can make whites submit to niggers. This mass of childlike adults submit to silly stories like they are kids watching Peter Pan and eating fish sticks. Grow the fuck up, and say fuck you to those who you know are not in the interest of the world you want to create. Last edited by P.E.; October 18th, 2012 at 05:08 AM. |
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