Hiya! Nice to hear from you (took me a while to figure "Dumela" out - forgot what it meant. I'm more comfortable with Konichiwa!)

Anyway, on your firts question...ta dah! The title is Sparta and Athens: a study in Alterite. Basically its a comparrison between the two city states and why they differed to the extent which they did. But that is in the past - I handed the damn thing in today, the final manuscript, to be moderated. So I'm free!

Anyway, thats just for a Masters degree. I'm thinking of doing another Masters degree next year in Linguistics. A Doctarate wil have to wait for a while.

I finished Jigoku Shoujo about a week ago. Was quite good. My only criticism would be the repetitiveness of the first 20+ eps - someone has a grudge, Enma Ai is summoned and someone gets send to hell. I would have wanted mre from her background than just the last 3 eps. But I hear they are currently working on another season whih would be good.

I like tho whole concept though: send someone to hell and be punished by being send to hell as well. Some of the reasons were a bit frivolous though....

Anyway, C ya around again!

Hello!

Yo! No, I haven't forgotten you. Indeed I am honored that you called on me first. Its also been a while since I myself have visited MT. Been mostly working on my thesis.

In general I wouldn't recommend a complete shut-off from social contact. You wouldn't want to end up an academic wreck or hermit just because you don't like people. If not for people, especially friends, what do you have left?

So close those books once in a while and just spend time with friends.

Not gonna preach to you now. Not old enough to do that. What you do is your buisiness - I can only make recommendations.

ps Not my business (either) but I read the previous post and I'm afraid I have to agree with phoenixalcott's reaction. I don't know the background of the thread, but you can't judge an entire religion on what the minority extremists does. And that goes for every religion, culture, and even sect you may care to mention. General rule. Be carefull not to be stereotypical.

Anyway, hope to hear from you!

Quote by EmpixusXastEven though I'm a man, marmaladeboyfan,you're getting first place for your opinion; that's right there are religions proning the absolute women's thraldom. Obviously, I'm targeting one in particular, that is Islam. First, before giving concrete examples of their CRUELTY as regards female sex, i'll give to you a quote directly coming from their "precious" Koran. ( of course this is not word by word , but the main idea remains)

" If your slave wishes to save you, there is no need to ask you beforehand. The case is the same for women"

Thus Koran itself prooves that women are nothing than junks or slaves.

Now , specific events wherein women was undergoing stern or horrid traumatisms:

1) I've already heard through TV that a islamic woman was wholly marred onto her face( ears, mouth, nose) by reason of supposed husband's suspicions of adultery. Of course, because of the Koran , this scurvy and flagitious man was protected and even more, his neighbour said that he was quite right to defigurate her. In reality , the marred woman did nothing......

2) Furthermore, another case more horrid, concerning another islamic family, the husband's family was assisting to an incestuous and raping of girl's wife and herself. Unfortunately, every male member violates the girl and the husband's wife.

3) Through a site devoting to women who have suffered this kind of atrocity, I discovered that a raped woman feared lest she might be killed by her own father just because, according to Koran, a violated woman is a woman of bad faith. In other words , if she got violated, she deserved it.

As you might saw, there are so many atrocities done in the world and this , in gross, at the expense of women. Just by thinking of infibulation because men are too egoistic to restrict their sexual pulsions, I'm completely negatively flabbergasted.

Anyway, it's not amazing I'm affected by misandry( hatred of men).
Hope you didn't consider this reply too shocking.

Best Regards,

Tnaxus Xast

hello. i came to ur page for a specific purpose. that is to clarify ur disgusting and most distorted view of Islam. unfortunately, u hav cum into contact with what is commonly called Islamic extremism. To my dismay, u havnt been of the fortunate ones who hav realized thta this is Islamic extremism but rather think it is Islam itself. There are hundreds of converts to Islam everyday b/c they realize that society has cast a distorted view of Islam. Our precious Qur'an actually states that women ARE equal to men and i cud prove this in a variety of ways using of course first hand sources from the Qur'an itself. If u r talking about the Hijab (the veil), Islam doesn't only mark it as mandatory for women, but for men as well. Men on the other hand do not need to wear the Burwah but they musn't wear clothes that show their form or su ch. You call Islam a terrible women degrading religion but look at today's society. they degrade women each day with their exposive clothing and their songs that objectify women. FYI Islam givs women a shield, with the Hijab, men r much less l ikely to attack women or more improtantly rape them b./c their beauty isnt shown and nor is their figure. i m sure that at the least u r intelligent enuf to realize that 73% of rapes or attempted rapes occur b/c men r obseessive over women and the Hijab stops that. i used to share a similar view to urs a year ago until i actually had enuf courage to do research onthis amazing religion and actually figure out the reason to the Hijab. ON the other hand, u believed these distoreted misrepresentations sent out by the media and society about Islam without any tru judgement from Muslims themselves. Thank u and hav a splendid day.

Quote by EmpixusXastFor the first time, she looks sooo intelligent. Notwithstanding, what the heck is she reading?
Oh my... it seems a stultificating book!
Anyway, thanks for the contribution. ^-^

Thank you very much for your comment on my Nerine scan ^^
I hope that you like it.

Quote by EmpixusXastUh, little question :
What's your theory about Etruscan civilization's origin? I heard through an old magazine that they came from Lydia because there was a big starvation. Thus the half population immigrated toward Italian boot.
Anyway, thanks.

The whole problem with the Etruscans is that they are a bit early (writing were still experimental, even for them) and then the Romans conquered them in the 3rd century BC. We do know, however, on archeological basis, that they were culturaly even more advanced than the Romans (more artistic for one) but that their armies couldn't keep the Romans at bay. What kind of sealed the negative Roman feeling was that Rome's last kings, the Tarquins, were from Etruscan origin, and it was after Tarquin Superbus that the Romans abolished kingship in Rome (511BC) and became a Republic. Tarquin's friends from Tarquinia (Etruria) tried to re-instate him, a few wars were fought, and a general feeliing of ill will was present untill they were conquered by the Romans.

Why am I telling you this? O yes...

The theory that they came from Lydia (West Turkey) was first mentioned by Herodotus (1.94 - his Tyrrhians which settled in Umbria are sometimes identified with the Etruscans).This was one of Herodotous' famous digressions, i.e. a story he told which took him of the topic. Usually such stories were just hear-say - basically gossip or local legends, not always true. Personally I'd say that the Etruscans were indigenious Italic people (their writing script looks more Italic than Greek). Take a look HERE. Some interesting theories and facts. On the language, see THIS.

C ya!

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thanks for the comment on my heartless drawing i appreciate it I will work on the shading

Quote by EmpixusXast It's a really good artwork whereon hues and shadings are used adequatedly...uh.. what am I saying...wonderfully. Besides, I don't observe any flaws yet and if you did it without model , my double congratulations.

-um,, i did it with a model but i wasn't able to copy it as it is,,(im not good at it)

but thanks a lot for your kind comment on my sky~high angels

thank you for appreciating it!
really i thank you!

* EmpixusXast
* 4d 22h ago

I have one question :
Are you studying in Quantum Physics?
If so, oh my god!

..... It isn't that bad

Quote by EmpixusXastThat's a good Anime picture because there are many details and , moreover, the girls belongs more to those of reality, exception of course of their eyes.

Thanks for the comment I'm glad that you like it!
See you soon

Quote by EmpixusXastHello again, I sent two messages to you through e-mail .

Little question: How do you get your Animes?
Through torrents, television or perhaps Youtube?
Does South Africa have these Anime on their channel or what? For my case, the best Animes don't exist in Canada, sigh..! There are so few...

A la prochaine......( See ya around)

Tnaxus Xast

Konnichi wa
Yes I got your emails, although I only sent one reply (hopefully the content would make up for 2 ).

Anime hardly exist officially in South Africa. We did have a dubbed version of Dragon Ball Z on TV a loooong while ago, but hardly anything else. If you were lucky enough to have Satelite TV, you might have seen a weekly anime on one of the British channels, but that has been discarded a while ago (of course they were dubbed, but better than nothing). We also have an extremely poor selection of DVDs in shops (at expensive prices and dumped under the heading childrens' movies together with Walt Disney). Thus the general consent is to distribute fansubs or ripped versions (Anime is hardly if ever licensed here - at least not as far as I know). So people who have the connection download it by whatever means, usually through torrents (my own connection's to slow to handle it ) and then they spread it. The local attitude is that since the shops don't carry it, you can't buy it anyway, so you distribute what you have for free. Hence piracy is active here, although no-one sells or buys it.

Just a warning though, do not ask for or spread sources on MT. You might get away with it, but MT might not (its too big so the powers that be might notice it and sue MT), so MT doesn't allow anything that might be illegal on its own pages.

Ja mate!