Keep The Stack Of Books Tight Under Your Arm

The highest point of humanity, the peak chapter of the cycles of the human race, is this precise moment, when some person, young or old, man or woman, runs across a town square (such as it may be, for instance, in ancient Tyre or Sidon, or Alexandria when it was burning to the ground - which happened several times of course) with a small pile of books or texts under their arm, their cloak flailing in the breeze and tumult swirling around them.

If it were not for some of these incidents, I assure you we would not know Euclid as we do today, nor Al Kindi, nor several other incalculably valuable masters, that is to say, their written works.

By some remarkable co-incidence, it was this fellow Jesus Christ, who made reference to Atlantis - and I again assure you that is what he meant - when he said the following: "...for if the miracles that had been performed in you had have been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long before (their destruction)."

At the time of the 'infamous' Atlantis, it was reported by the Greeks that 'the sons of Posiedon' ruled the world, and specifically, they possessed the mighty city-state of Atlantis.

Now I'm not going to go into who are 'the sons of Poseidon,' but if you go by the impression of the person (no such word as 'person' by the way, in Arabic, which is the main reason Islam doesn't get on with Christianity - in Arabic, the closest word is like 'animated cadaver; or 'mortal but living body.' And thusly it is problematic to translate that: 'God is a cadaver, though living for a time...' from the Christian texts back into Arabic!!) -,

anyway, if you go by the person who should have known in great detail, assuming they were indeed 'God,' Atlantis was destroyed by the great council of 'gods' (Plato's description, not mine) for far less than what modern societies behavior could be accounted as having 'achieved' in 'evilness.'

Now I see I'm going to have to revisit this subject at some later point and expand on what types of beings were allowed to survive the destruction of Atlantis, according to the Greeks.

For now I want to suggest that you keep an eye open for those things you know are truly important, and practice tucking them under your arm as you run across city squares at the moments of destruction of civilization - such as it is. If you can really call it 'civilization.'

Actually I hesitated to even approach what I need to talk about, because it was with a heavy heart and much misgiving that I was about to talk about certain things claimed to be 'in short supply' but which really are not. You see, if I talk about them, there is a chance that picture will change about their pricing and so on, and I'll readily admit I have an interest in exploiting lies people tell, if I happen to know they are lies.

Chef - we burnt the steak!

I don't really go around with this sense of moral duty to 'loudly proclaim the truth in the market square...' LOL

Now d'you see what I mean? I don't wish to save the people from anything. Not all of them, anyway. But I do wish to preserve the great ideas and technologies and texts and things like that, in case of flood. Although they do say 'the fire next time.'

Are we here yet?

We're here.