AGORA (movie trailer) -A parable for our times

[Lorien]

Run time: 02:12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pm_PEGSWeA   Posted on YouTube: August 28, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: September 08, 2009 By DU Member: Lorien Views on DU: 709

 
A true story about the intellectual Fall of Man when Christian fanatics decided to repress the evils of "thinking" by destroying the Alexandrian Library. One woman tries to stop the destruction of knowledge. What we might have known now if this didn't happen.

[eShirl]

1. Carl Sagan on the Library of Alexandria

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jixnM7S9tLw


I look forward to seeing this new movie Agora.

[Lorien]

2. Thanks eShirl!

:hi:

[Lorien]

3. I swear, I'm my own thread killer! nt

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. How different would the world be today if we had harnessed steam power

in 800 CE instead of 1800 CE - entirely possible, as there were steam powered devices used in temples and as curiosities, whose plans were lost in the fire.

There would have been no dark ages upon the fall of Rome.

A thousand years of barbarity might have been avoided.

[Nikki Stone1]

5. The forces of barbarism that overran decrepit Rome were internal as well as external

Christianity was as destructive as the Vandals.