08-24-2009, 04:07 PM
Quote:Talk about circular sources...
I know one worse. In the movie that Last Samurai, Tom Cruise's character tells the Samurai about Thermopylae and seemingly uses this knowledge to come up with his final tactics. A large part of this is the old "wall of fire". Now, there was no wall of fire in the ancient accounts of thermopylae (at least as far as I know!). There was a wall of fire in the 60's movie "The 300 Spartans." So we are left with the notion that Cruise's character had access to a time machine that only took him to a cheap movie theatre in the 1960's!
Paul M. Bardunias
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"
