Posted on 03/13/2007 7:30:21 PM PDT by Max01
It is splendid that you are a scholar of Spartan military sex habits. Tell us more.
They sure as hell hadn't learned anything 1500 years later when the padishah of the place burned the beards off of four of Chengis Khan's ambassadors and sent them back to Chengis Khan like that to show Chengis Khan how bad he was. Talk about an unhappy ending.....
Just saw Patton...again.
Patton did not want cowards in his army. Xerxes and Leonidas would be i n same company. Times change, dress, armor and tactics change, warriors don't.
Down in front!
Best damn movie in a long time. Bet the PC crowd is soiling their diapers.
I say Oscar for Best Movie, Music, Actor, etc.
LOL.
The leftist that have hijacked the Oscars would never allow such a thing.
Kind of an analogy of George Bush fighting the democrats? Or of George Bush fighting the islamofascists? Which is worse???
Send the link to Iamjihadmad in Iran to let him know whats going to happen to him soon.
Film will make BIG bucks (Their god) & not religious (The Passion which should have one an Oscar or two) so they may hold their nose & vote for it
Blistering post.Great job by the way.
I agree.
LOL. Are you channelling Ann Coulter?
Right. Fokes who ain’t let’n group like yours do their think’n for’m must be with them queers…Sparta
Our poor knowledge on Spartan traditions is the result of Sparta's secrecy. Most modern theories are based on assumptions derived from ancient sources and parallels drawn between Sparta and contemporary Dorian Greek societies such as Crete. Some scholars assume that the custom of pederasty paralleled the mentoring relations between Spartan males and adolescent boys, common in Dorian societies. Some of the ancient scholars seem to have supported an opposing view: Xenophon writes that Lycurgus efficiently managed to cultivate chaste pederasty in the Spartan society.[16] This however tends to be viewed as an attempt of praise towards Sparta, and not necessarily as a sincere remark. Aristotle also wrote that Sparta belonged to the type of military society that was based on heterosexual relationship, unlike other Greek states of his time. However, an examination of the historical details reveals that "references to particular homosexual attachments of Spartans are conspicuous even by Greek standards".[16] Cicero furthermore asserts that, "The Lacedaemonians, while they permit all things except outrage (hubris, referring here to homosexual coitus) in the love of youths, certainly distinguish the forbidden by a thin wall of partition from the sanctioned, for they allow embraces and a common couch to lovers.'[17] In antiquity it was thought that a youth was expected to find himself an older lover, and that Pederasty, a social practice common throughout most of Greece, was especially so in Sparta, where the ephors fined any eligible man who did not have chaste relationships with youths.[18]
It's a movie..it entertained me by showing noble truths and giving visual/audio entertainment that shows sacrifices of life and limb without a chance of me getting killed other than choking on popcorn or cheering so hard I get a hernia...
. if I wanted realism in personal sacrifices all I've got to do is go through my photo albums.
If I wanted to know the realism of fudgepackers in history.... I guess I'll come to you.
thanks for the history lesson.... I never new about Thebos, Athenians, Macedonian....heck, I didn't even know about buggery in the British Navy... because when I saw Mutiny on the Bounty, Sink the Bismark....or read To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World. .... all I could think about was the "gayness" of everyone involved.
That's a nice lens you use to look at the past.... the "Gay" lens.... enjoy the view. I'll look for other higher, universal messages about the pursuit of individual freedom, self sacrifice, delayed gratification, keeping faith to moral obligations, the ability to channel fear into action when confronted by evil...... little things like that...
My guys..
you see, this
That’s an unusual trigger you possess, an 8 word aside commenting on your “no gays in the Spartan military” joke that sends you off on an paranoid diatribe accusing me of “trying something” and obsession with “"gayness".
You see a film you like that has nothing to do with homosexuals, your only comment about it is of what you call “fudgepackers” and then you accuse “ME” of seeing the world through a “gay lense”?
You accuse “ME” of only seeing this photo?
The Photo That’s On Our Own Home Freak ’n Page?
Judging by your profile, queers are the defining issue in your life. Then you go on image posting self projection rampages if someone briefly corrects your misperception of them in the Spartan Army. What kind of gay obsessed nut are you? Never mind, I don’t want to know.
I’m as against openly serving gays in the military as much as any reasonable person, but you’re way over the emotionally disturbed edge. Gook luck with that.
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