Reminds me of the quote in the movie Blow
"I went in with a Bachelor of marijuana, came out with a Doctorate of cocaine." - Johhny Depp as George Jung
"I went into the forum with a Bachelor of gold prospecting, came out with a Doctorate of marijuana cultivation." - Cstyle00 from Treasurenet
I think the point of the diversion is that TV shows are not the best teachers. In fact, it may be these TV type shows are the worst type of media for our children to learn from.
I remember a few of my classmates that wrote papers that were derived from crib notes instead of reading the assignment. It was understood by me from the onset that the teacher had seen those same types of papers before. Of course a student's failing grade on the paper had a note about the crib notes being used.
This thread was important as seeming to be an off subject tangent into drugs. Sociology and the lack of truth was the crux of why this TV show was an exercise in BS futility to watch. If you are really a miner or a gold prospector you should object to this type of fraud vehemently.
The fun name I use here is a mix of Latin and urban slang. This means I know my history and, at the same time, I understand the human situation of today.
I watched a History channel show about the Bible last night. The crux of the show was to downplay the New Testament and the Torah or the Old Testament that Christians call the Bible. They kept saying that Jesus spoke in Greek, Aramaic, & Hebrew. Well that is not entirely true. Jesus spoke in Koine Greek and wrote in Koine Greek. Koine Greek is different than Classical Greek. This show was a sham in my opinion. I did go to Bible College and you have to understand certain aspects of Christianity in past history to be able to make a TV show about it today. This TV show failed miserably. I just watched it to try to find out something I didn't know. I only found out what idiots don't know. The Classical Greek versus the Koine Greek is a huge big deal.
I understand that most people reading this thread think there has been an effort to sidetrack this issue about this inane account of this Gold rush TV Show. This untruth was and is a big deal to me. It is a big deal because living in the place where the Gold rush originated is personal to me. It irks me to see BS being shown to our Children as truth. Our children are dumbed down enough these days. This was not a Children's show entirely. A mention of the dark side of the Gold rush would have made this show more believeable.
This rhetoric we exchanged here was a way to put this show into perspective. I only put my foot down when I saw this sham of a show because we are all prospectors here, even if we are just satisfied with hunting clad. We should never be lulled into a false sense that the history of our enjoyment of prospecting is based on sugar coated history that is purely some producer's BS to make a TV show.
If you want to believe this bunk, go for it. I have said this more than once. History is a passion of mine and I showed that with my input here. Some readers here learned a lot about how the sociology of human nature was not so pleasing during the gold rush. Then there were some that objected to the thought that these same miners were not the best salt of the Earth that man has ever created.
I just gave a broad view of history so that people that like to learn more about history know that even our forefathers were not Angels as depicted in this TV show. Even Thomas Jefferson was a pot farmer, a man whore/aldulterer with his slaves, and at the same time, was a great Christian that spent the last years of his life trying to make a better New Testament. This sociology of the way men were then and miners were during the Gold Rush didn't change just so we can have this sugar coated pansy minded view of Gold rush miners from their mining quest to Georgia, to California, and then to Alaska. The TV show Sucked.
If one person learned something new about our history here, I did what I was supposed to do. There were not tangents here, just history of our Sociology as our Sociology relates to the Gold rush..
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