Has Rook looked into Joan of Arc?
Posted on: May 29, 2007 - 2:59pm
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Has Rook looked into Joan of Arc?
You know lchosen by God lead the French to victory, burned at the stake etc etc...
As far as I know she was actually a historical person.
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Is it me or does that title sound kinda dirty?
It's just you.
Then again if he wants to look into a bunch of other Christian dudes he's more than welcome, but he should keep it to himself.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.~ Joseph Conrad
http://cptpineapple.blogspot.com/
I don't see any reason to doubt Joan of Arc, I'm fairly certain she was a historical person.
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"You act ridiculously," said Ion, "to doubt everything. For my part, I should like to ask you what you say to those who free possessed men from their terrors by exorcising the spirits so manifestly. I need not discuss this: everyone knows about the Syrian from Palestine, the adept in it, how many he takes in hand who fall down in the light of the moon and roll their eyes and fill their mouths with foam; nevertheless, he restores them to health and sends them away normal in mind, delivering them from their straits for a large fee. When he stands beside them as they lie there and asks : 'Whence came you into his body?' the patient himself is silent, but the spirit answers in Greek or in the language of whatever foreign country he comes from, telling how and whence he entered into the man; whereupon, by adjuring the spirit and if he does not obey, threatening him, he drives him out. Indeed, I actually saw one coming out, black and smoky in color." "It is nothing much," I remarked," for you, Ion, to see that kind of sight, when even the 'forms' that the father of your school, Plato, points out are plain to you, a hazy object of vision to the rest of us, whose eyes are weak." - Lucian, Lover of Lies
Isn't she the one who claimed she was chosen by god to lead armies, got lucky in a battle and was burned at the stake by others who claimed to be chosen by god (but had political motivations)? Then wasn't that conviction overturned by another person who claimed to be chosen by God (but had political motivations as well)?
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To my knowledge, Joan of Arc had skill with tactics, which did make her good in battle, she was the one that claimed to be chosen by God, and she was burned at the stake, I believe, for witchcraft.
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Please help me get my resources so I can finish my book more quickly.
Et suppositio nil ponit in esse.
"You act ridiculously," said Ion, "to doubt everything. For my part, I should like to ask you what you say to those who free possessed men from their terrors by exorcising the spirits so manifestly. I need not discuss this: everyone knows about the Syrian from Palestine, the adept in it, how many he takes in hand who fall down in the light of the moon and roll their eyes and fill their mouths with foam; nevertheless, he restores them to health and sends them away normal in mind, delivering them from their straits for a large fee. When he stands beside them as they lie there and asks : 'Whence came you into his body?' the patient himself is silent, but the spirit answers in Greek or in the language of whatever foreign country he comes from, telling how and whence he entered into the man; whereupon, by adjuring the spirit and if he does not obey, threatening him, he drives him out. Indeed, I actually saw one coming out, black and smoky in color." "It is nothing much," I remarked," for you, Ion, to see that kind of sight, when even the 'forms' that the father of your school, Plato, points out are plain to you, a hazy object of vision to the rest of us, whose eyes are weak." - Lucian, Lover of Lies
Really?
I'll have to do more research. Nothing I've seen has shown her as a skilled tactician.
“Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt” - H.L. Mencken