I grew up in a totalitarian society which did not tolerate decent or any voice razed against its policies As a white we were expected to toe the line if we wanted to get anywhere in society. Ones personal political beliefs as well as moral beliefs were expected even demanded to be in line with the policies of the government of the day. Now I am no politician I never was and never will be but when you see some thing is wrong one had the overwhelming desire to speak out against it. This put many in a very dangerous position of knot knowing exactly how much the government knew about your activities and political beliefs. Thus one never committed any thing to paper because what you wrote could be held against you in a court of law.
Posts archive for: May, 2006
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At this point I need to make some thing clear to my readers.
@ 29. May 2006 – 02:13:01
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Tuthmosis diaries the lonely mummy(I m so lonely nobody knows)
@ 28. May 2006 – 00:32:37
Tuthmosis sat on the couch in the tomb it was a hot dry day not that the heat bothered him it had not bothered him for thousands of years. What bothered him was the fact that the team of Egyptology's had been doing a lot of good work at the tombs near
the great pyramids. He had been determined to destroy the encampment but he had been taken aback by the fact that he found men who were doing there best to preserve the tombs. This was some thing new to him previously when a group of humans had
broken into his tomb they had only two things on there mind. The first was to steal the goods repaired for the pharaoh in the afterlife. The second been an overwhelmingly desire to destroy the mummy of the pharaoh and his queen. Tuthmosis had made sort work of
them killing them in the tomb quickly lest they escape and warn others of the existence of a living mummy
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@ 21. May 2006 – 00:04:28
Egypt 592 AD part 2
The next stop in his journey was Karnak for most of the day the caravan moved across the desert towards this ancient site the desert wind blew hot most kept cool by the long robes they wore. Samuel noticed that even the few north Europeans who were in the caravan had adopted the loose flowing robes of the Bedouin.
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The creation of mummy masks and the Gods
@ 18. May 2006 – 02:17:20
Ancient Egyptians tried to emulate the 42 gods of there Parthenon in death they deceased would appear before these gods who would question the lately departed on his or her life weighing up the good they had done against the evil they had done. Once the scales balanced and the good out weighed the bad they would be allowed to enter the
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Tutankhamen youthful pharaoh of Egypt 1341 BC 1323 BC
@ 14. May 2006 – 23:18:27
Tutankhamen is most probably the most recognized face of ancient Egypt today, although his reign was not a very long one it followed a period of intense political and religious upheaval in the to lands. Tutankhamen who's birth name was Tutankhaten which meant "Living Image of Aten" was born circa 1341 BC.
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The preparation for the after life Egyptian mummification
@ 14. May 2006 – 22:27:16
In pre-dynastic Egypt mummification occurred through natural means bodies of the deceased were taken to the edge of the desert and buried in burial pits. Later it was discovered that mummification had occurred and a belief grew up that the preservation of the body was a means of securing the afterlife,
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The adventures of Samuel acursed inn keeper
@ 14. May 2006 – 21:28:25
There is an old legend that says
There is an old legend that says that the inn keeper who refused to give up his bed for a pregnant woman and told her husband that they could use the stable for all he cared was forever cursed to be an inn keeper until judgement day. Never been able to redeem himself but forever chasing after the shekel in the hopes of doing good and following the precincts of the Jewish faith.
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Really upset.
@ 14. May 2006 – 01:14:11
I am so upset right now.. I had four journals at another website well the server crashed and every thing I have been workin gon for two years is gone unrecoverable.
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My Kids
@ 13. May 2006 – 00:01:11
As a parent I know you should not place one child above another and this is good I love all my children but each in a different way. My eldest daughter is 13 years old small of statue but a huge intellect, some would say to clever by far she has the ability to reason logically yet at times she will react like a small child, I have found myself wondering at times just how brainy is this kid who will on occasion ask questions or make statements of fact that are liable to shock and anger me but at the same time I realize that she is made in the image of her parents.
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The Safer shower campaign
@ 12. May 2006 – 21:11:48
The Safer shower campaign is vicariously campaigning to promote South Africans to use shower caps in the bath room. This comes after mounting pressure was placed on the government to accelerate safer showering after a number of people caught wet head syndrome. The symptoms of wet hair syndrome are typical of people who shower with out using shower caps this results in wet heads water in the ears and general feelings of wetness.
A spokesman for the SSC(Safer shower campaign) said in a media briefing earlier today if we had learned nothing else from the resent Zuma saga it was that shower caps were a good preventative measure against the increasing numbers of Wet head syndrome. Every South African should have a shower cap, the numbers of people practicing unsafe showering were on the increase and this was not a good sign the SSC plans to put pressure on government to provide free shower caps for the public in all major centers.South Africa rates third highest in the world after Russia and the USA in unsafe showering practices. Resistantly government put in place a committee to study the effects of unsafe showering both in private homes and public showers causing public outcry at the invasion of privacy said a member of the public it is a persons free and democratic right to shower with or without a a shower cap and no one should be stopped from practicing there rights whether the government agrees or not they have stirred up a hornets nest on the subject. When approached on the subject Mr Jacob Take A Shower Zuma said it was a wonderful idea to use shower caps for the good of the country but he personally did not use one. He reminded all South Africans to keep clean.
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An old legend Egypt 543 AD the continuing adventures of Samuel
@ 11. May 2006 – 22:28:20
Samuel had been traveling in Egypt for some time before he found the place he was to call home for the next sixty odd years. It had been a few hundred years since any Jew had lived in Egypt at the end of the war with Rome the entire Jewish community at Alexander had been removed and taken into captivity.
Now he found himself in Alexander he had visited the pyramids at Gisa and starred in wonder at there great size he had wondered how many of the stones had been laid in place by the hands of his ancestors who had once been enslaved by the wicked pharaoh?
He had arrived one day at Karnak he had wandered from temple to temple here he still found some old die hard Egyptians who worshiped the gods of there fathers. But they were a dyeing breed Egypt had been decaying for a long time now the Coptic Christians worshiped at converted temples Jesus who Samuel had once heard and known. How strange Samuel thought that Jesus a Jew should be worshiped as a god in the land of Egypt the oppressor of Israel.
He found an old shop in one of the busy streets of Alexander and after much haggling he convinced the owner an old olive merchant that he could make a quick and good profit by selling his shop to Samuel. Once the bargain had been struck and the olive merchant began packing a few belongings Samuel asked him what he intended to do now that he had some money In fact Samuel had paid far more then the old building was worth. Me I am off down the Nile to spend my days on the old family farm Iv been wanting to go back there for years just never had the money now I do the grey haired merchant said as he pushed his smiling wife out the door.
Samuel set about converting the shop into an inn first he hired a serving woman and a man with a strong back he set them to work cleaning out the shop and adjoining buildings with a fine toothcomb. By the end of the first week there was a marked difference in the appearance of the building. The walls both in side and out had been given a coat of fresh white limestone paint a new sign hung at the door proclaiming to the world that the in was open for busyness.
Samuel’s next order of business was to arrange supplies of various foods and beverages for his expected guests. He arranged a lucrative contract with a wine merchant from Thebes. Who would bring him some of the best wines to be found in the world over the coming years. It was this merchant who suggested that Samuel use the cellar of the inn as a place to keep these wines cool he obviously knew his business. Egypt was a land over which hot winds blew bringing heat from the desert with the winds from the desert a man's thirst grew and it would not be long before word got round that fine chilled wine was available at the inn. With in a week Samuel had a regular clientele who paid freely for the chilled wines. Ice was brought from the regions far in land from the mountains beyond Nubia where ice never melted on the mountaintops once placed in the cellar it lasted for months keeping the wine and the stored foods fresh.
The serving woman whom Samuel had hired in his first week in Alexander turned out to be some thing of a master chief producing combinations of roasted lamb and olives which was a great favorite if served with a side order of Barley. Which grew in abundance in the Nile delta at certain times of the year Samuel had watched the farmers who lived in this region he had become aware that they had several planing seasons in the year. He noted that this type of farming had most probably been going on for thousands of years in Egypt.
The popularity of the inn grew steadily with new guests arriving daily most of his guests were travelers from other lands who would stop to visit the wonders of old Egypt and wonder at the strangeness of it all from Rome and Constantinopal came robed priests to visit the growing church from Syria came merchants, from Africa came strange black men who were interested in the wonders of the stars they would spend days observing the the movement of the stars before buying grain and leaving once more on the long camel train which would wind it's way south to the dark continent. From the east came Arabs from the far North came I Iberians who were a mystery to most serious men who would laugh uproariously at times but also tended to be sullen. who would bargain with vicariously with the local merchants business ever at the forefront of there minds.
The inn was a microcosm of nations of the known and unknown world
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