This is a good point. Mohammad, for example, often mentions his life and experiences in the Koran, and much of the Muslim rituals are based on various parts of his life. And there are enough contemporary accounts of his life that much Islamic law is based on what people who actually knew Mohammad wrote that he said.
Yet are we to conclude that Arab tribesmen were somehow more literate than the Jewish citizens of the Roman Empire?
There's a certainly similarity between those sermons and sayings throughout the Gospels that have cause textual experts to conclude they're based on another book they are calling "Q". One theory is that many decades before what we consider as the time of Christ there was another religious leader who traveled throughout the mid-east preaching, and his followers collected together his sayings in this book "Q". As time went on he became a mythological figure, with various sects creating a person behind these sayings. During the years before the Jewish Revolt it was only natural that this mythological figure becomes a sort of resistance fighter against the Romans. Then, after the Jews lost so badly, Jesus became a figure that resisted the Jewish establishment.
Sorry to tell you this, but your biological clock is running out. Women your age have either had their kids, or can't have kids. And no woman wants to have kids with a man who's going to be on social security when it's time to pay for college.
I did know a girl in college who's father was in his 70's. She said it was very weird go be the only kid in high school with a very elderly father.
Officially the Ferengi are based on Yankee traders of the 1800's. They're more anti-capitalist than anti-jews. The older episodes stuck pretty closely to that idea, but as time went on the Ferengi did seem to get more like caricatures of jews.
You only need money in a society of scarcity. Once your technology has progressed past the point where it can provide for everybody, you don't need money.
Too bad he didn't defend Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson was a greater artist, and at least went after older children. And MJ wasn't nearly as brutal with them as Polanski.
No, there's six pages of posts because most of us don't see why some people find this complicated. A 2nd rate hollywood director abuses his position of authority to get a 13 year old girl naked, drunk and high so he can butt fuck her. Then, rather than face the music like a man, he flees the country.
There doesn't seem any complicated about it. Rosemary's baby wasn't some artistic masterpiece that changed cinema. Yea I'm sure the judge hated pedophiles. None of that shit makes this case complicated.
That movie is probably what got him arrested. Polanski still sees nothing wrong in what he did, and he keeps shoving this shit in front of the prosecutors.
What happened with the plea bargain was the judge found out he gave her champaign and Quaaludes. That made him an active danger to society. Would you want a man who gets 13 year old girls drunk and high so he can fuck them directing your daughter?
Well, the thing is that in countries like India and Pakistan, where the average yearly income is only a few thousand dollars, people have to engage in various scams and underground trading just to survive. Former commnunist countries like Russia operated underground is a similar fashion.
It's not a lack of morals, it's just the way the people of their culture have learned to survive.
Convenience stores and gas stations are perfect businesses for laundering money. No one can tell how much cash you collect in a day. Ideal if you have a large extended family and they came from a culture where most people are used to making a living in less than legal activities. And it's pretty easy to get a loan from a rich person of your culture who also needs money laundered.
That's one of the most likely places in the world to have a volcanic eruption. The mantle is closest to the surface there than almost anywhere else in the world.
Not his countrymen. Just his countrymen at his skill level. People who back home would only be middle class, and who prefer being treated as upper-class.
