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Isn't it natural for all of us in here, born and raised in a "judeo-christian" environment, to be "influenced" by this same environment we were born into? When some of us decide to "denounce" god isn't it only natural to denounce the "judeo-christian" god? This is the god we know. I've read extensively about several other religions, but it's one thing to read about something and a different thing to experience it. In any case, going back to your guys' previous discussion, I find it interesting that most people who have a pro extreme right-wing agenda seem to hate the Jews with a passion. Why is this? Granted that the extreme right-wing folks hate a number of other people too (blacks etc.) but hating the Jews is a must. I wonder why this is when most pro extreme right-wing people seem to also be pretty religious (of the Christian type...) too.

Satyr, you're really confusing the shit out of me with your conflicting ideas For example, on one hand you seem to embrace the ideals and admire people like Nietzsche and on the other hand you say that "nihilism creates mental zombies". Spoiler alert: Nietzsche is a nihilist... I agree that Christianity is a hybrid but it's not a hybrid of just Judaism and Hellenism. There are also sprinkles of other religions and philosophies of the time in there, and that's normal. Most religions, like most philosophical ideas, are "borrowing" things from contemporary or previous religions and philosophies, mix everything together and then pass it to the "converted" as something new to believe in. You seem to believe that the "philosophical ideas" of ancient Greeks to be "untouchable", but the reality is that many Greek "philosophers" (and I use this term loosely to include people like Aristotle and Plato but also Pythagoras, Thales and Archimedes) got some things - many things - very very wrong. They also held absolutist thinking in high regard (read Plato for example...). Saying this, some of them were amongst the first human beings (as recorded by our known history...) who started using a precursor of what we call today the scientific method, however crude their methods might have been at the time. For this alone humanity owes them a great deal.

Welcome to Hellenism.Net Satyr. We've had a discussion about Liantinis a few years back. I was in fact in Greece this past summer and I visited Lakonia, and drove by that spot where Liantinis took his life. He was certainly a controversial personality. Some like his teachings and think he was an exceptional teacher and philosopher, others think he was a mediocre teacher and philosopher who did not add anything new to the philosophical thinking. I haven't studied his works and I only know him from reading 3rd party opinions about his work, and also about listening to some short excerpts of him speaking in classes etc. (as the ones you provided earlier in this post). Based on this I cannot take sides as to whether he was an important teacher and philosopher or not. I guess it's up to those who enjoyed his teachings and his works to introduce to the rest of us the man and the philosopher.

Excellent guide. I haven't been to Corfu in ages (close to 25 years now!). Lovely island, I'd certainly love to visit again at some point. There used to be an English fellow, regular in this forum up until last year, who's visiting Corfu often (at least once a year from what I can remember from his posts). I hope he's still around to give you his honest opinion about your piece.

Come on now! You're Canadian and you don't know Joni Mitchell??? Shame on you!

Not to mention of course that travelling those vast distances to find those "aliens" would be virtually impossible with our current technology (even if we somehow manage to travel at the speed of light...). On the other hand, alien life may be present even in our own solar system in the form of microorganisms living in one of the planets or their moons. Who knows...

And I meant that in a sense we're aliens ourselves. We came from the stars. There's a theory saying that most of the material that we're made of comes out of dying stars, or stars that died in explosions (supernovas). This material travelled (and still travels...) through the universe for millennia and landed on earth, so today there are traces of this material in our bodies. Not sure if you know a well-known singer from the 1970's, Joni Mitchell. In one of her songs (Woodstock) she sang: "we are stardust". Well, seems that this may be true in a literal way.

I think that it's generally accepted that "alien" life exists somewhere (or most likely in several places) in the universe. It will most certainly not look like what we have imagined in movies and books. In a sense we're "aliens" too. We are children of the universe.

Γεια σου φιλε Βασιλη. Ευχαριστουμε για το βιντεακι.

He's not a socialist. He's a sociopath.

Even if she's a "mail order bride", so what?

Ευχαριστουμε για τις πληροφοριες φιλε μου.

A thought provoking article in the Guardian today about democracy and the voting system in modern democracies. Worth a read. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/29/why-elections-are-bad-for-democracy

I guess the England national team voted in favour of a Brexit yesterday too. They lost to lowly Iceland and they're out of Euro 2016.

Great article at the Guardian. At least there's hope for the UK since its youth in huge numbers see themselves as European citizens and they want to be part of a united Europe. They will eventually join EU again when the xenophobic elders pass away. In Greece it's the opposite. The young people want to see Greece out of Europe. This is a scary thought for Greece's future.

They sure do. Even though I find that educated "elite" in Greece handle their language much better as compared to the educated "elite" in the US or Canada.

Greek grammar is no more difficult or different than the grammar of the latin languages. Greek is easier to learn for French, Italians, Spaniards etc. (and vice versa...) because the grammatical rules are very similar. English is in a league of its own when it comes to grammar Even though the grammatical rules in English are in the most part simpler and easier to learn, there are so many exceptions to the rule which make it almost impossible even for native speakers to speak the language properly It never ceases to amaze me how native English speakers in executive positions (mainly Americans and Canadians, Brits are a bit better) make a ton of grammatical errors when they speak and especially when they write in English.

I think you captured this perfectly right "drama - not pessimism".

Ha ha, that's true. There's no information provided so that we can see if we can help. What's your friend's name? Where does he live? Anything else you can share so that we'll look and ask around and see if we can help?

I don't see it this way, but anyway, this is not important. What's important is that Greeks - in my opinion - are anything but pessimists. I guess our non-Greek friends should step in and tell us how they see Greeks in general from their perspective.

You understand that these are literary characters right? Also, different people see/understand things in different ways. I see nothing about embracing defeat in Kazantzakis' characters, especially Alexis Zorbas.

So basically you discount writers and poets as Kazantzakis, Kavafis, Elytis, Ritsos etc. as unimportant. The literary world disagrees with you.

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Excellent read.

Interesting read