Georgia on ma-ma-ma-ma-mah mind!

Since the Great LiveJournal Outage of August, I have been chewing on the lessons from that remarkable Saturday, and the fact that LJ can filter input.

By now, cyxymu's journal as been restored, and we're allowed to say 'Sukhumi' again. But things go much deeper; they reach into the early 1990s, all the way back to Stalin, Jason and the Golden Fleece, and in fact the Scythians, because these areas in the north and east of the Black Sea were where the ancient civilisations of the west (Greeks, mostly) traded with the Middle Asian Steppe Barbarians that in turn went all the way to China. In fact, you should very much not underestimate the role of the Middle Asian Steppe Barbarians* within the course of Old World history. Master Urban and I have long been theorising about the influence of Buddhist monks from Mongolia on the development of Western monasticism in Coptic Egypt and the Near East in the last years of the Roman empire, and the amazing similarities between Orthodox Christianity and the Tibeto-Mongolian branch of Buddhism. They came down the Silk Road, of course, and into the Late Classical world through Zeugma; but they came through the Scythian corridor just as much, and that is Georgia. The Georgians are Orthodox, in their own somewhat odd and immensely old-fashioned way, too.

But I digress. Let me put in a picture and then, a cut.



( History, theories, conspiracies, and historical conspiracy theories )

Georgia on ma-ma-ma-ma-mah mind!

Since the Great LiveJournal Outage of August, I have been chewing on the lessons from that remarkable Saturday, and the fact that LJ can filter input.

By now, cyxymu's journal as been restored, and we're allowed to say 'Sukhumi' again. But things go much deeper; they reach into the early 1990s, all the way back to Stalin, Jason and the Golden Fleece, and in fact the Scythians, because these areas in the north and east of the Black Sea were where the ancient civilisations of the west (Greeks, mostly) traded with the Middle Asian Steppe Barbarians that in turn went all the way to China. In fact, you should very much not underestimate the role of the Middle Asian Steppe Barbarians* within the course of Old World history. Master Urban and I have long been theorising about the influence of Buddhist monks from Mongolia on the development of Western monasticism in Coptic Egypt and the Near East in the last years of the Roman empire, and the amazing similarities between Orthodox Christianity and the Tibeto-Mongolian branch of Buddhism. They came down the Silk Road, of course, and into the Late Classical world through Zeugma; but they came through the Scythian corridor just as much, and that is Georgia. The Georgians are Orthodox, in their own somewhat odd and immensely old-fashioned way, too.

But I digress. Let me put in a picture and then, a cut.



( History, theories, conspiracies, and historical conspiracy theories )

Yay!

PETA gave in!

Well, reading about their billboard was the last straw towards speaking out for myself, so it's not altogether bad that it has existed.

But it was offensive, and it is gone.-