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So the numbers are verse numbers? OK, whatever. It does appear that the use of "Scythia" all over the place is from the Irish original text and not the later commentators. The particular case of Nemed (by the way, I find that "Nemed" is Irish for "privileged status"; sometimes nemed is "holy...

we shall overcome someday, and sing Kumbaya four-part harmony

Your first link is broken for whatever reason: here is the truehinduism main page. It is one thing if you disagree with his outlook, which does seem well outside of mainstream, but it is quite another to assume insincerity.

Bot became a spiritless speaker?

WHAT THE NUMBERS MEAN! What is so difficult about this? So the "237" is a footnote number? OK, so where is "129" taken from? There were four pairs of sounds conventionally marked (because of the Sanskrit pattern) as b/bh, d/dh, g/gh, gw/gwh (as opposed to the unvoiced p, t, k, kw where there...

Yes, you had a huge empire, a long long long time ago, and people know that, and don't care much. No, Iranian languages are not "master" languages, if you mean closer to PIE than anything else, but even if that was true, nobody would care. Nobody gives Greeks a pass on their fiscal...

Sigh... with anybody else I would assume this was a joke. Bab-el means "gate of God". It is a GERMANIC root. The "ch" sound does not even exist in Semitic. No, they were from the south slopes of the Caucasus, from the Urartean language group which has no known kinship to any other (not...

As I was saying...

[It is] inconceivable that we should allow so great a possibility for service and for news and for entertainment and education [as radio] ... to be drowned in advertising chatter or used for commercial purposes. Herbert Hoover, 1922

I don't think we are capable of creating anything other than artificial parrots. AI true-believers (and it is really a religion for some Silicon Valley types) think the difference between the bots we make and our own minds is just quantitative, that with some increase in processing power the...

Sigh... I didn't want you to just repeat the numbers. I was asking if you would give me some clue what they are, if they're not page numbers. Before the 237, you have a related text (roughly corresponding Irish/English, both with the "Greeks of Scythia" weirdness) marked 123. Before the 273...

The kamikaze were attacking military targets, at least.

Ah. I may need to buy the book as well. I thought this was another of your strange web-sites. Until I have any money, apparently I can't look for myself, but can you clue me in to what the numbers are? I had been taking them for page numbers, but apparently not. You are mistaken. Where...

November 23 of this year, if I am reading his countdown correctly.

Why do I bother talking to you? The cuneiform alphabet used for Old Persian does not indicate pronunciation with great reliability, and I tell you for at least the third time, without any sign that you have heard me at all, and with very little expectation that you will hear me this time...

OK. I couldn't get from that link to anything more than excerpts from the book. I have to think well of the editor, Macalister, since he agrees with me :D about Books I/II/VIII, that it is a separate and late composition from Books III-VII, made up by a Christian author to make a...

Right. They have never used the original Etruscan pronunciation "Ruma" (whether that's "oo" or like the German u-umlaut, Italians have never used either). Now, coincidentally "Romanians" do sometimes shift that pronunciation to "Rumanian" and you sometimes see it written that way; but it's...

I'm not sure what "chronology" we're dealing with here. There is the "Book of Takings of Ireland", which occurs in variant texts (preserving Irish manuscripts under the British occupation was often touch-and-go); then there is Charles Vallancey's original "Vindication of the Ancient History of...

Not a terrible analogy, but I think the closest analogue to Karaites/Protestants would be the recent Qur'an-Only Muslims, who reject the whole concept of a binding interpretive tradition, in favor of going back to the original scripture. The Shi'ites do have an interpretive tradition, just a...

Indeed. Camus, who was not attracted to "religion" at all, once said that the only real question in metaphysics was "Why is there anything, rather than nothing?" and that, analogously, the only real question in ethics was "Why do anything, rather than die?" I think it's in "Myth of Sisyphus".