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childoftheking

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« Reply #15 on: January 09, 2010, 12:38:10 PM »

I realized when I commented that I made assumptions about what he was speaking about and I qualified it by saying "if Publius Ovid was talking about what I think he was talking about". So, what do you think he was speaking about since he made a generalization or stereotype about women? Was he speaking about asking a wonan if she wanted catsup on her vegiburger?
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« Reply #16 on: January 09, 2010, 02:23:25 PM »

Actually I do not know what he meant. I used the quotation to provoke your pure (poor?) soul to expose what is in your mind. Is what you state the only possibility?
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« Reply #17 on: January 09, 2010, 03:34:22 PM »

I had a problem finding the source of the quotation, but finally found it. It appears that Ovid had a perverse mind, and the quote comes from a work on how to seduce or commit adultery.

I won't provide a link to such trash.

A lot of folks who find that quote isolated from its context would wonder what he was talking about, Johann. Many might suspect, but the isolated quote doesn't really say. And that's what you find most given, is just those few words, or a similar translation of the Latin.
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« Reply #18 on: January 09, 2010, 08:20:39 PM »

Thank you Bob.
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« Reply #19 on: January 10, 2010, 07:13:21 AM »

Different interpretations. Here is some I found:

Throughout time, the majority of women have been held as inferior. Today even with our entire equal rights ...

"Women: are you glad that you have been liberated from being a housewife into being an employee?"

I'm glad you asked… How Lani got the address for this blog, ...
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« Reply #20 on: January 10, 2010, 08:31:40 AM »

Anyone reading what Ovid actually wrote would not come up with any other interpretation. He described in detail how he believed women to be lustful, regardless of what they say, and cited numerous stories of godesses or famous women, and even discussed a famous woman longing for beastiality.

And that is why Ellen White was adamantly opposed to the study of Greek and Latin classics in our schools, since they often teach immorality.

Why the human race is so prone to glorify the corrupt and profane is beyond me. Ovid should be confined to the trash heap.
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« Reply #21 on: January 10, 2010, 03:27:28 PM »

I have no intention of reading Ovid. I was only copying from a book of quotations for speakers and only took the words at face value. I have seen that Alice in Wonderland - though I have never read the book - states that she decided herself which meaning to put into the words she used.
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« Reply #22 on: January 10, 2010, 03:30:53 PM »

Rest assured that I knew you didn't know the context of his words.
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« Reply #23 on: January 10, 2010, 04:54:12 PM »

The world is full of conundrums. Greek and Latin literature, art, architecture, philosophy, science, and government are the foundations on which much of the good in our society is built. The time during which Greek and Latin art and literature were consigned to the trash heaps of history is generally refered to as the Dark Ages. The Rennaisance brought open thought, debate, and freedom that philosophers such as Ovid taught, yet never experienced to the extent that we do. Neither the Roman Catholic Church, or the Protestant movements approved of freedom of thought and religion. With few exceptions, both sides mandated their own opinions and theologies with a heavy hand. Calvin had Catholics burned at the stake in Geneva, just as the Catholic Church had Protestants burned, yet the humanist Rennaisance reformers ended up starting a movement that within a few centuries brought freedoms in thought and religion that were unheard of under any of the religious systems that abhorred Greek and Latin influence, and allowed for both to practice their religious convictions in peace.
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« Reply #24 on: July 25, 2010, 05:12:55 AM »

"Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. . . . Stick to Facts, sir!"  -- Charles Dickens in Hard Times. (1812-1870)

Just now I ventured into another site and see that the people who once in a great while post a word or two there - these people state this quote made them laugh!

Isn't that good that we are able to entertain some people and make them laugh!
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