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Gog and Magog alias Goths or Slavs sack Roman Empire? How much do we know about the Goths? Those fortunate enough to keep at a sound distance from the (More) How much do we know about the Goths? Those fortunate enough to keep at a sound distance from the historical discourse..
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Those who did devote some of their time to tearing through all the insurmountable dogma and inexplicable lacunae in place of vibrant ages and civilizations that one finds in history textbooks will doubtlessly think of Jordanes and Cassiodorus in this respect, and recollect the Goths to have been a group of Germanic tribes who swarmed Europe in the alleged 3rd century AD -- and "alleged" is a key word here -- to rape, pillage and terrorize. But how Germanic were they really, and when exactly have they been introduced to us as such?
According to Anatoly Fomenko, one of the world's leading mathematicians, the Goths were Slavic through and through. This alone would fail to make a piece of sensational news -- however, Fomenko redefines sensational telling us that the Gothic tribes were none other but the Biblical nations of Gog and Magog! That might sound like nonsense -- after all, don't the Old Testament events date back to times immemorial?
"History: Fiction or Science?" is a phenomenal and unprecedented scientific experiment since neither state-of-the-art methods of mathematical statistics nor astronomical data have ever been applied to history before. One would expect such a procedure to yield interesting results -- but "interesting" doesn't remotely approach the results of Fomenko's research. Ancient and mediaeval history transform into a phantom, leaving us with a historical period of a single millennium to encompass everything from Jesus Christ (who is proved to have lived in the 11th century AD) to our time. Definitely nonsense and positively impossible, you say? Just wait till you get infected with the New Chronology meme, and mark our words -- looking back at your vehement support of consensual history will be most embarrassing indeed!
Biblical characters in the Middle Ages.
We are accustomed quite well to thinking that the events described in the Bible - and especially in the Old Testament - date back to an epoch so distant that it can hardly be called "historical" in the usual sense. We seem to know everything there is to know about these times and these characters, in particular that most of them date to epochs preceding the new era by a couple of millennia, and that the events described in the Bible took place in and around the Middle East for the most part.
Could all of what we know be untrue? The big news is that it can, and is - the extensive research conducted by numerous Biblical scholars notwithstanding. Although the good faith of the latter can be doubted in quite a few cases, even the most scrupulous of scientists who ever had to tackle the gigantic array of data contained in the Bible were basing their research on the existing chronology - too obvious and self-implying to strike anyone as untrue. The sole exception to this is a group of mathematicians who have used the newest statistical methods to analyze the Bible from an altogether different standpoint, having revised the consensual chronology completely prior to that.
The results are astonishing to say the least. We learn that the Biblical Jerusalem was in fact located on the Bosporus and known as Constantinople and that the Biblical kingdoms of Israel and Judah can be identified as the mediaeval Roman Empire - the familiar characters transform into their mediaeval doppelgangers which are a lot less familiar to us but known quite well to historians. And it is from the part of the historians that we hear the loudest and most indignant criticisms of the new research - a touch too loud, perhaps, and with too many ad hominem accusations scattered here and there for us to declare the new chronology a blatant and unscientific lie the way they urge us to. There's just too much vitriol and a surprising paucity of actual academic argumentation.
The book of the mathematician Anatoly Fomenko may well be considered a revolution waiting to happen - but only if we let it to. Sheer force of habit and the all too human reluctance to question the "obvious" may render the most sensational and explosive results of scientific research null and void. No one likes a revolutionary, they're too much trouble, and whether or not they might in fact be right has got absolutely nothing to do with anything at all. Historians know history better than mathematicians, don't they? Pass the crisps. (Less)
HOGG AND CRAIG - 2008/04/15 coffee making HOGG AND CRAIG (Introduction to Mathematical Statistics) is mentioned - I take their name in vain, (More) HOGG AND CRAIG (Introduction to Mathematical Statistics) is mentioned - I take their name in vain, because I am interested in extracting what nutrition I can from their book.
Socrates said that cooking could not be taught using his Socratic method. Of course he was wrong, if we look at cooking today. But perhaps in his day, cooking consisted of "trade secrets", or perhaps good cooks had learnt by trial and error but did not know how to explain what they did.
I did a coffee making course today - this gives me another area that can be looked at, for an ESL course (teaching english as a second language).
Possible plan: complete a CELTA course in May, June or July. This will leave Semester 2 free, in case I want to do something else then, e.g. financial maths, or acoustics.
Indeed, I could work towards a project which did speech analysis which was of direct interest to a naive language learner - e.g. a feedback device to tell you if your vowels and dipthongs are on track. Maybe a suitable feedback device here is in fact a human, who mimics the learner, and also invites the learner to mimic them. maybe it is unecessary to tell the learner they are on or off track - maybe all that is necessary is do mimicking exercises which give the learner an idea of what they sound like to a (particular) native speaker.
PLANS:
(1) apply for computer jobs
(2) consider registration for CELTA
(3) arrange for extract from LGSUPER as a safety net to keep me afloat till I get CELTA accreditation (Less)
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