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The Commonwealth of Crowns contains 15 nations, the 1,290th most in the world.
Today's World Census Report
The Most Cultured in The Commonwealth of Crowns
After spending many tedious hours in coffee shops and concert halls, World Census experts have found the following nations to be the most cultured.
As a region, The Commonwealth of Crowns is ranked 1,365th in the world for Most Cultured.
Nation | WA Category | Motto | ||
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1. | The Confederated Empire of Novagoro | Father Knows Best State | “By the Lords of Old” | |
2. | The Kingdom of Norengland | Scandinavian Liberal Paradise | “Ćre, hjemland og folk” | |
3. | The Königreich of Sergeantia | Father Knows Best State | “Sergeantiae est imperare orbi universo” | |
4. | The Federated Imperial States of Wantsum | Inoffensive Centrist Democracy | “Duty and Tradition. Honour and Valour. ” | |
5. | The Helladric Commonwealth of Ionysia | Father Knows Best State | “Governed by reason. Living by passion.” | |
6. | The Federated Empire of Helladria | Civil Rights Lovefest | “Sofie kar Gnosie eret foteza karape evires dia Aplotos.” | |
7. | The Planetary Empire of Oberseewald | Capitalizt | “Mit Feuer und Eisen” | |
8. | The Principality of Jeixieis | Psychotic Dictatorship | “Might Makes Right” | |
9. | The Kingdom of Bryce | Corporate Police State | “I am the King!” | |
10. | The Republic of Bavoux | Democratic Socialists | “breaking through” |
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Regional Happenings
- : Esparmuran ceased to exist.
- : Deckard cain as a game show host ceased to exist.
- : Vetega ceased to exist.
- : The Republic of LOS MODERNOS LIBERALES of the region Pangeacoops proposed constructing embassies.
- : Esparmuran arrived from Osiris.
- : Esparmuran ceased to exist.
- : Doordia ceased to exist.
- : The Königreich of Sergeantia arrived from Osiris.
- : Esparmuran arrived from The Rejected Realms.
- : The Helladric Commonwealth of Ionysia changed the regional password.
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Fear not! I anticipate scrounging up many more years of navel gazing, yet...
Apology of Sokrates (Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους, Apología Sokrátous) by Platon
Audiobook: https://rumble.com/v3nne8y-the-apology-of-socrates-by-plato-full-audio-book.html
Text: https://classics.mit.edu/Plato/apology.html
Sokrates stands before a jury of Athenians to present his defense against the charges of doing evil, and corrupting of the youth, and not believing in the gods of the state, and having other new divinities of his own; and against the rumors of being an evil-doer, and a curious person, who searches into things under the earth and in heaven, and he makes the worse appear the better cause; and he teaches the aforesaid doctrines to others.
Apology of Sokrates (Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους, Apología Sokrátous) by Xenophon (as related in an account by Hermogenes)
Audiobook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzzVzoQfpwA
Text: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1171/1171-h/1171-h.htm
A second account of the defense of Sokrates is provided by Xenophon (Ξενοφῶν), who was absent at the time of the actual trial, but who relates an account of another philosopher and intimate friend of Sokrates, Hermogenes (Ἑρμογένης). Unlike Platon's account, Xenophon does not detail Sokrates's full defense, but provides remarks that supplement and sometimes appear to conflict with Platon's Apology and also speaks on some events in the aftermath.
Crito (Κρίτων, Krítōn) by Platon
AudioEbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJALLoNZoG0
Text: https://classics.mit.edu/Plato/crito.html
After being convicted and sentenced to death by an Athenian jury for impiety and corrupting the youth, Sokrates is visited in prison by his wealthy friend Kriton who has bribed the guard and comes with a plan of escape and seeks to convince Sokrates to accept. This dialogue articulates ideas about the obligations of a citizen to follow the laws of their society.
Phaedo (Φαίδων, Phaidōn) by Platon
AudioEbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b8hE92CuFY
Text: https://genius.com/Plato-phaedo-full-text-annotated
In this dialogue, the Elean philosopher Phaidon recounts the story of the last hours of Sokrates to the Pythagorean philosopher Echekrates (Ἐχεκράτης), arguing the nature of the soul and in particular, supposing its immortality. This is a longer dialogue of approximately three hours narrated, so I mean to post it in three segments. This first hour will cover parts I-III with the introduction, discussion of the soul's relationship to the body and proper attitude of a philosopher towards these, and two arguments in favor of the immortality of the soul: the so-called Cyclical argument and the Theory of Recollection argument. Next week, I'll include timestamps for parts IV and V, which will cover the Affinity argument for immortality of the soul and the first of two answers to reservations expressed by the Theban philosophers Simmias and Kebes. The final week will pick up with part VI and run to the end of the dialogue.
Phaedo (Φαίδων, Phaidōn) parts IV & V by Platon
AudioEbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b8hE92CuFY&t=3699s
Text: https://genius.com/Plato-phaedo-full-text-annotated
Platon's character portraying the Elean philosopher Phaidon continues his account of the last hours of Sokrates to the Pythagorean philosopher Echekrates (Ἐχεκράτης). By now, Sokrates has convinced the Theban philosophers Simmias and Kebes that the soul exists before birth with his Cyclical argument and the Theory of Recollection argument. However, each holds out reservations against the claim that the soul survives after death, to which Sokrates replies with what is called the Affinity argument. Once more the Thebans express reservations - Simmias compares the body to a lyre and the soul to a harmony, while Kebes compares the body to a coat and the soul to weaver that may outlive multiple coats in his life but is still not immortal. These analogies trouble his friends, but Sokrates admonishes against succumbing to misology (hatred of ideas), which he likens to misanthropy. He answers Simmias first, while his reply to Kebes argues from the Form of Life and will be posted next week.
Nearly passed into history again, but summer tire Tesla on ice filled steep hill missed me by a fraction of inches a few weeks ago.
I do hope that report brings that git some issues, he drove off after smashing into a parked car rather than accepting responsibility.
Aside from that, work work work work and trying to be a good partner as usual. Nor ain't dust yet.
I'm glad he missed. I once had the vantage point of having summer tires on a sedan looking down a steep icy hill. Talk about daunting. Luckily, there was another way down.
Phaedo (Φαίδων, Phaidōn) parts VI, VII, & VIII by Platon
AudioEbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b8hE92CuFY&t=6995s
Text: https://genius.com/Plato-phaedo-full-text-annotated
With Simmias's concerns answered, Sokrates now addresses Kebes's analogy of the body to a coat and the soul to a weaver with the idea of the Form of Life. Afterwards, the remainder of the dialogue details Sokrates speculations on the nature of the world, the heaven, the other world, and finally is his departure.
Genesis (Biblical Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית, romanized: Bərēʾšīṯ, lit. 'In [the] beginning') chapters 1 - 21 by Moses (according to tradition or multiple authors according to modern textual criticism)
AudioEbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgFT_IxwJJY
Text: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/kjv/kjv-idx?type=DIV1&byte=1477
I think I will put classical Athens on the back burner for a while in order to get the ball rolling on what has been described as the most consequential book in human history. The first 21 chapters of Genesis should take just over an hour and thirteen minutes when read by Alexander Scourby at normal speed, and cover the first and second creation accounts, the story of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and the flood, the Tower of Babel, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and much of the story of Abraham, and a some genealogies.
The King James Version used here is chosen for its special significance in the history of the English language, and perhaps for using a slightly less partisan translation than many other alternatives (of course, this is still highly subjective). Its Old Testament (Tanakh) translations are principally from the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Rabbinic Bible by Daniel Bomberg (1524/5) according to Wikipedia sourced from The Authorized Edition of the English Bible, 1611, its subsequent reprints and modern representatives by Frederick Scrivener (1884), with exceptions where the text is adjusted to conform to Greek Septuagint or Latin Vulgate translations in passages to which Christian tradition had attached a Christological interpretation, again according to Wikipedia sourced from Wide as the waters: the story of the English Bible and the revolution it inspired by Benson Bobrick (2001).
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