A Lovely Great Hunk of Very Early History Related to Ireland

What is this figure from Irish Mythology doing in the Greek sources?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

The figure written of  is Fenius and/or Phineus, a person active in our world shortly after The Flood. I had come to believe that who may have rightly called Greek had come to Ireland at least twice in very early times. One of these early Greek comers I felt fairly comfortable with, the others I had read only rumors of. They were the Milesians who were the most recent of the comers just before more firmly historic times. The Milesians were Greek. They had developed a well developed trading empire on island just of  what seems to have been the Anatolian coast. During some uncomfortable times on Milesian the made a couple of visits in fairly quick successions to Ireland of which they had some knowledge. On their second coming many  of them came to stay. To the people who were already there, their language was Greek. So Greeks knew Ireland as late as early historic times. So Greeks knew Ireland and Irish knew Greek from not so very long after The Flood, until very close to modern times. 

It may have been these Greeks who stirred the Irish to a desire for a written language. They may have heard of the Phoenicians from them. Well this video my stir you to learn more of the earliest history of our world and Ireland prove a somewhat surprising place to make an excellent starting point. It could you to Iberia, Thrace, Scythia, Anatolia, Greece, Phoenicia, and on to deeper understandings.

                                                                                                            Richard S.

 

Benefits of the Dialogue

Dialogue With RCS: more meaning in you your life, better understand others, a way to a better world, being listened to.  
           

                On this new blog I intend to continue a number of posts on a kind of dialogue with which you may be becoming familiar. Some churches, corporations, civic organizations, and others have been this sort of dialogue for years, so it is not brand new.

               

                For those who may not be certain of what I mean by dialogue, In brief, it is meaningful talk within groups.

                

                Below I will begin to note a few of the dialogue's benefits. As we are now on the internet I will say now that, I do not know of cases of the dialogue's being used successfully online. However, I believe that it is now possible to do so, but am not sure how. If you would like to suggest something the "comments" window below is for your use.

                

                As I know it the dialogue is best used face to face, in person. And seems most effective in groups of between 20 and 40 participants. Groups of 15 and less have been please with it. Much of it can be used to good effect between husband and wife. It has been used with groups with groups much larger than 40 with professional facilitators and more as a demonstration than as well functioning group. I would like to see it use online. 

                

                The following list is far from inclusive and not completely representative, but can serve to introduce something of the dialogue.

                I am calling it the dialogue now, have called it Magic Table Dialogue and Dialogue For Peace.

                    

 Benefits include:

~ learning to make yourself heard.

~ being heard.

~ being listened to.

~ coming to enjoy being heard.

~ an opportunity for the practice of listening.

~ learning that dialogue is more than talk.

~ gaining motivation to listen.

~ improving your use of language.

~ practicing a language new to you.

~ learning new listening skills.

~ the possibility of getting in touch with traditions of knowledge new to you. 

~ getting to know yourself better.

~ getting to know an interesting other.

~ knowing new people.

~ having fun while realizing that the dialogue is a serious activity.

~ experiencing the creation of culture. 

~  increasing your word power.

~ Seeing how better dialogue can be a way to a better world.

~ sharing meaning and understanding.

~ the possibility of beginning an interesting new exploration with safe, comfortable "baby steps." Still there might come a time that you will want to take a step beyond your comfort zone.

~ improving your ability understand others, even those quite different from you.

~ learning more of the effect of assumptions in our lives.

~ the possibility of increased meaning and understanding in our lives.

                                     

                 More to come.

                There are about 50 little essays at Dialogues With RCS. It's okay if you read a couple.

                Thank you for reading!

                                                                                                              RCS

 

 

Search This Site

 

 Mago Bill: Blog search

           For readers who are not familiar with the many search options available to them here, I will begin to review some of them.

            It seems that blogs are so out of fashion that few remember how they may be fashioned. For example this blog is of three columns. I have used the central column as the place up to 400 essays or posts.

                An important function of the columns to the left and right of the central column is to offer you apps to help you find the essays which interest you. They are largely made up of search apps. However, they also contain other helpful apps.

             Let me begin with the column to your left on the main view of the page. On all of my blogs the this left hand column begins with the app which allows you to select the language in which to choose to read the post you select.

                Other apps you will find in this column may have a different order on each of the associated blogs. For example the next app might be "Associated Blog Sites to visit." To be transported to the one which interests you and be transported to it. The next app may be "Popular Posts." There you can find the names of up to four posts others have been finding interesting. Each name will be follow by a few words about it. click on that name and that post will appear. Next you may come to a title that reads "Pages." Click on one of the listings there and be taken to another page where you can find posts much like this one or different.

                The last listing in this column will usually be "Blog Archive." This can be a very useful app for you. Use it to become familiar with the essays and other posts available on this blog site. You will see a list of years and months. Click on one and you will taken to all of the posts published in that period. All are interesting and usually contain some hard to find YouTube videos which YouTube allows me to show.

                The right hand column usually begins with a search app, perhaps with the  title "Search This Site." There is a little window in which you may enter a word or phrase and then click on the word "Search." Try it and see what happens.

                I will leave this little post here for a few weeks and then move it to "Pages." You are now on the home page.

                This is a good place from which to comment.

                                                                                rcs

 

Read Mago Bill Posts in Your Own Language

 

Mago Bill: You can read Mago Bill posts in your own language with just a click.

                If you are from Sri Lanka, Brazil, Singapore, Pakistan, Peru, Estonia, Russia, Slovenia, Argentina, Switzerland, Belgium, Malaysia, Portugal, Cyprus, Austria, Mexico, Poland, Trinidad and Tobago, Netherlands, Malta, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, or  Uruguay, Chile, South Africa, Afghanistan, our translation function has your language and many others. 
  
            Check the top left hand column of this blog and you change the post to a language you are comfortable with. The translations are not always perfect, but many of our posts translate well.

                            RCS

  

Colombia: Introductory Comments

Colombians are new-world Americans. They live on the best part of the far north of South America. They are largely of of Spanish heritage and they speak Spanish.

    When you intend to visit Colombia, it may contribute to your pleasure to be prepared to deal with them in their own language. Have an oral translation app on your iPhone, or a bilingual friend with you. You might take a Spanish class where you live or sign up for one here in Colombia. All the biggest cities and more important tourist cities have language schools available when there is no pandemic. It's also possible to arrange to have your visit guided by one who speaks speaks your language.

    If you are making realistic plans for a visit, investigate getting  a correct chip for your mobile phone. It may be that phones from your country won't work here without a change of chips. There are smart phones available here, but you could find them to be an unneeded expense. However, with some care, you can buy an ordinary cell phone here and have it nicely set-up at a reasonable price.

    In many parts of the major cities and tourist areas one finds pleasing places to eat and sleep. It is good to take special care in your eating at first with out being fearful of trying the local specialties. If you are not eating at a bit better than average restaurant, it may be best to stick to dishes hot off the stove.

    Ah, yes. In those same parts of major cities you will have a fair chance of meeting travelers or others with whom you may speak your own language.

    Enough about you.

       

    This is meant to be a short series of tiny essays about Colombia and Colombians. But first, a few words about me.

    I am an old American citizen who has lived in Colombia among Colombians for some time. Some have said to me, "You have lived here for a long time, why haven't you written about Colombia?" and "Why don't you write about Colombia?" and other such questions. So, instead of thinking of answers, I thought, "Why not?"  I thought to myself "I can note some observations of mine and maybe even say something about what I have made of a couple of them."

    More to come.

RCS

    

Sonic Geometry: The Language of Frequency and Form

Take what seems good and leave the rest. There is some good info here.