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In Verona, like much of Italy, the old and the new are often side-by-side, here is an image of one side of the Arena near a much more recent administration building of some sort.

Adjoing Castelvecchio is Ponte Vecchio (translated Old Bridge). It passes over the Adige River and was to serve as an escape route for the castle residents in the event of a revolution or invasion.

Today I found a stack of old photos from travels in Italy, so I can extend the Verona postings with a few new pictures. The Castelvecchio (translated Old Castle) was built around mid 1300's by Cangrande. http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q224/voyager907/Archae/Verona_Castello.jpg The castle was com...

Both groups pick and chose what they want to read as allegory or literal. You are misleading. Its not a haphazard choice or designed to suit the moment. It is based on hermaneutical principles . She's right. People who practice a religion are often so deeply involved in it that they aren't able to ...

The whole idea of a "Jew" from Tarsus being sent to Damascus to persecute christians is pretty lame from the outset. The romans rarely interfered in religious law. You have repeated, on this board, asserted that romans allowed a great deal of religious freedom to the nations under their r...

btw, Ish, nice work on the Beach Boys cover.
You and John both. I enjoyed them both.

John - I was one of Dylan's first fans. Not really, but when everyone else was listening to the beatles, I was listening to Dylan and getting so much more relevence from him, than McCartney.

I am quite amazed scientists are astonished by the the idea the ancients were tracking the 4 year olympiad cycle. Even a cursory examination of greek history and much of world history under the influence of the greeks, tells time in terms of the olympiads and we can be very greatful they did because...

But that's only the same as today's Christians, who also can't see any allegory or mythology in their scriptures, despite the fact that they can see from the gospels that Jesus taught in parables (another word for allegory) and he even explains in Mark why he did so. If you are speaking of certain ...

The continued idea that Jews do not understand their own bible is ridiculous and borders on antisemitism. Since no two Christians interpret the bible the same, please give Judaism the same courtesy. /rant Pattylt. You are putting words in my mouth as I never said they did not understand their own b...

The evidence for when the books of the New Testament were written is controversial but sustained on the basis of the documents themselves as well as the writings of other early authors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testament The original texts were written in Koine Greek by various authors after...

Really? What evidence do you have for the above statement? I've offered you evidence that even the early Christian leaders like Clement and Origen thought of Christianity as being like the mystery religions. The evidence is presented in my post given by the list of foundational beliefs of mainstrea...

From what I can gather, everyone who used a phpbb88, free forum is dead in the water at the moment. That's a lot of people. Have you seen Charlie Hatchett's forum lately? I think he's down as well. Its a waiting game to see if they bring it back. None of the users can contact tech support because th...

If it's any help, Ish - I usually get myself ready for this forum by listening to my Lynryd Skynyrd greatest hits CD.* *: Jocularity aside, I do actually have this CD. "Sweet Home Alabama" Cogs is in Cali, I think John and others in Washington, Min in Arizona, Beags in Tennessee and I am ...

I really like that eclipse site you found, Grumpage. The older version I had did not link to google maps. Did you notice if you click on the path, it gives the eclipse time and stats for the location selected? This is nice. My data was not significantly different (rounding error) and would have show...

If its a phpbb board, they all seemed to go down sometime on Saturday. Many are still down. (this one is an older version probably on a different server.)