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[unamaga]

Three posts in one day, woo! \o/

• My internet is sucking like Sam right now. Sorry, kids I was talking to on AIM, I do love you!! :(



• This icon makes me die a little. In my pants. Oh, Jenny, how you be so hotass?
  
  
• I'm watching the history of sex on The History Channel right now and it is awesome, awesome, awesome. I adore Ancient Rome to a ridiculous degree. I kind of wish there were more stable things to do with a Classics degree besides teach, because I would be all over that. Anyone else with me on this? Am I just a complete geek?



• schneestern? I'm so sorry it's taking me forever to get back to you about the cheese. We will finish this thread, I promise!
  
  
• So, yeah. What's your favorite ancient civilization? This is also a really geekish thing, but indulge me. Do you like Rome, Greece, Egypt, China, India, etc? What? And, well, of course explaining why would be nice, too. And, while we're at it, what's your take on Western vs. Eastern thought in regards to religion, women, social responsibility, and class? I'm curious.
  
  
• I am so grateful for every comment I get that sometimes I squeal just at the sight of my inbox. Seriously, you all are pretty damn fabulous. Just. *pokes internet* Curses.
  
  
• No, really. No one else has a thing for snakes? Really?

Comments

[kashmir1.livejournal.com]

I am always torn between ancient Egypt and ancient Greece. ;)

[unamaga.livejournal.com]

Ooo, very tough choice to make, yis. :o

[kashmir1.livejournal.com]

It's a little like choosing between Sam and Dean. ;)

[la-folle-allure.livejournal.com]

Dude, Greek Gods for the orgy win!

Also, SNAKESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS ;)

PS: *kisses* I still got the fic whenever your AIM decides it wants to be Jared and stop sucking ;)

[la-folle-allure.livejournal.com]

ALSO: AHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAH ROBIN HOOD, MEN IN TIGHTS!

[unamaga.livejournal.com]

YOU WIN HERE HAVE A GOLD STAR! *pins on your blouse*

[unamaga.livejournal.com]

them's be a lot of esses, yo. hahahaha hugh heffner is on the history of sex talking about the roaring twenties. that is hilarious. and he had a little thing at the bottom like credible sources do. /random

[exdream1999.livejournal.com]

Ancient Japan: Why? Because if you were a woman in the upper class, you had a lot of free time to goof off and write thing, and sleep with a lot of people. Same thing if you were a guy. Back in the day, there was a lot more equality between men and women, but when the Samurai came about that all changed. But then again the Samurai were big fans of the whole young boy thing like the Greeks were.

That and in a past life shibbyfangirl and I were samurai lovers who commited double sucide and stuff. \0/

[unamaga.livejournal.com]

:O :O DOUBLE SUICIDE?

you must have been so in love. *sniff*

[exdream1999.livejournal.com]

Yes, that and we didn't want to grow old and ugly, and wanted to remember each other in our beautiful youthful years. <------this is so totally based on actual Japanese cultural things too, yo!


And now we live in this life as unfortunately straight lesbians. ;_;

[http://users.livejournal.com/__3amconfession/]

Eygpt. Because in grade 8 we studied it and I thought it was the most glamorous thing I've ever read about (though it was mostly on mummification). I have no real idea why I love ancient Eygpt so much - I just thought it was amazing. I still do.

[unamaga.livejournal.com]

Mummification is pretty damn cool, man! I mean, with the removal of the organs and everything? (i just typed orgasm four times before i could get organ out, oh dear.)

[http://users.livejournal.com/__3amconfession/]

*pets you* Mummification is cool! I was the girl just completely fascinated with pulling brains out through the nose. I was like "Oh man, this is the coolest thing ever!" Plus, I think their beliefs are really interesting and I just think it's really amazing. I've wanted to go to Egypt since forever.

[hebrew-hernia.livejournal.com]

Travesty alert! I don't have your AIM screen name! I'm likeapromisekept, feel free to IM me next time you're on if you so choose.

I really, really want to see The History of Sex, but I don't have time/energy to watch it at 10 PM on Saturday nights and I'd feel really awkward setting the DVR for it and then having my parents be like "Er... Monica?" It looks soooo intriguing. And fun to geek out over. AND it's sex!

My favorite ancient civilization... Honestly, I don't know that I know enough about all of them to have a favorite. I am quite interested in Mesopotamia, the cradle of civilization, cuneiform, all that. And ancient Egypt is fascinating because hello, pyramids! And ancient Greece. And the Celts. I don't think the Celts get enough love, even though they're slightly less ancient than the rest. Just slightly. :)

I'm not really with you on the Classics thing, but I *can* appreciate the sentiment. You're not necessarily a complete geek-- or if you are, you've got me for company, and several others, I suspect-- it's just that my real passions are English and brains (neuroscience). If I had room/time/energy for more, I would be all over Classics (right after evolutionary biology, genetics, and linguistics, and maybe anthropology and/or archaeology... haha).

(And hey, look how appropriate my icon is now!)

[unamaga.livejournal.com]

DUDE, OMG! I am stretching the limits of my internets to say: I WAS GOING TO GO INTO NEUROSCIENCE! \o/ I was like, "BRAIN FUNCTIONS? NEURAL PATHWAYS?! UNCHARTED TERRITORIES?!? AWESOME!" And then I took level 352 genetics in college and all of my love for science was swept clean away. I kind of miss it.

Also, CELTS! *proudly flaunts her Irish* I adore the Celts. They were so sassy! And, come on, when Rome went after them and then skittered back home with it's tail between its legs to write about flame-haired women with no fear? That right there is why I love.

Oh, and one more thing: if the history of sex ever comes on again in its entirety, you must watch it, whether or not your parents are breathing down your neck. It's fabulous and enthralling, most especially because you see cultural differences in regards to pleasure and obligation.

I lied, one more thing: my sn is aneros2065! :D

[unamaga.livejournal.com]

maybe i would do better to use a different icon when i so flagrantly abuse grammar in my post. "with its tail between its legs" dear GOD. *facepalm*

[purple-sax09.livejournal.com]

I've always loved ancient Greeks. They're so fun. My mom gave me a little book of Greek mythology when I was young, and I loved reading all the myths and heroes tales. Plus, they have a sort of sophistication you've got to admire-- what with the architecture, innovations, etc. Classy people... and yet: Dionysus and his Maenad girls really knew how to party it up. Woo, drunken orgy!
:P Gotta love them ancient greeks.

I've dabbled in Celtic and Norse (see icon) mythology, too. Lots of fun to be had in both of those. \o/ I just could never get into Egyptian. It just never had the literary appeal the others did. meh. Not that ancient Egypt didn't totally kick ass. Cuz it did. Um HELLO PYRAMIDS! I just love talking about htis crap. :D

I'd love to comment on the Eastern vs Western thought bit... but I really do not feel informed enough (AT THIS TIME... you haven't heard the last of me) to have a fair discussion of it. But yeah. Raincheck, baby.

I wuv you! *mwah*

[unamaga.livejournal.com]

NORWAY IS DISPLEASED OH NOES?! D:

I still think the vikings could have pitched everyone else off into the ocean if they'd really put their minds to it and used PUFFINS ZOMG.

Ok, yeah. I think my brain is dead, Debbie. Halp! D: D: D: D:

[plutogirl10.livejournal.com]

No, really. No one else has a thing for snakes? Really?

*points at icon*

*smooches*

[plutogirl10.livejournal.com]

just cause

[unamaga.livejournal.com]

mmmmm, snakes. *sexes your icons all up*

*and you*

[undecipherable.livejournal.com]

I like snakes! And yes, that is all I got. XD

[unamaga.livejournal.com]

SNAKES FTW! \o/

[peccare.livejournal.com]

history! *glee*

i also wish there was an awesome job to have with a classics degree, or our australian equivalent. but history is history and there's not much you can do with it because it's just knowledge. wonderful, wonderful knowledge. but no-one pays for that these days. i blame society.

and my favourite is egypt. i havent studied any of the others in such great detail, but i love egypt and all of the ancient near east because of their sophisticated politics, and completely different ways of thinking about things (learning social and cultural history is learning a different way to think things, i think, which is pretty damn coolpaper) came out of the near east, and i love their mythologies, religious or otherwise (modern and ancient). i love the primitive yet ingenious technologies, i love the way the government was structured, i love the literature, the names, the syntax of sentences and stories and the hieroglyphs and the hieratics, i love the art, and i love the huge body of evidence we have that tells us not only about the state and the king, but about the common people.

and this is so long but it totally just reminded me of how much i love learning about ancient egypt, and now im sad i'm at a university where i can't study it. i want to go back to senior year :(

[peccare.livejournal.com]

and something went wrong with that comment, but most of it is intact

[unamaga.livejournal.com]

*moony eyed* oh, oh, would i love to study more about ancient egypt. you're right, pretty much everything about it is awesomesauce. the whole mythology of their religion and creation myth has always fascinated me, too. their gods? are incredible. isis is my favorite. i've always wanted to name a little girl after isis.

also, *hug* your uni is stoopid for not offering egyptian studies. >:o at them.

[peccare.livejournal.com]

lol, they're v big on the classical world, soo poo ony them. my fave god is set, because i like how his power is chaos and defence at the same time (though late period egypt saw his mythology corrupted, by the damn romans, into chaos=evil.)

[ankh-fangirl72.livejournal.com]

I think I love Egyptian history the most, or maybe Roman. I love the mythology, and the art.
Also, I love snakes toooo. I really want to get a pet one somewhen, but i'm a little squeamish about maybe having to keep mice in my fridge :(

[unamaga.livejournal.com]

Eek, yes. There's a limit to the lovin', I think. I'd absolutely glee about getting a snake, but the feeding it part? Not so much.

[schneestern.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, sweety! I have time. I'm just concerned that Jen and Jared will get blue balls or something ;)

[unamaga.livejournal.com]

Oh no! Blue is so not Jared's color. :O :O :O

*goes to add*