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Most World Assembly Endorsements: 780th Highest Economic Output: 959th Most Nations: 1,265th+14
Highest Wealthy Incomes: 1,268th Largest Black Market: 1,337th Most Cultured: 1,368th Highest Disposable Incomes: 1,803rd Largest Publishing Industry: 1,825th Most Advanced Defense Forces: 2,049th Most Beautiful Environments: 2,111th Most Extensive Public Healthcare: 2,261st Most Eco-Friendly Governments: 2,326th Smartest Citizens: 2,365th Most Scientifically Advanced: 2,692nd Highest Food Quality: 2,747th Highest Average Incomes: 2,782nd Greatest Rich-Poor Divides: 2,786th
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Originally founded on 20th Nov 2010, the Commonwealth of Crowns has long-stood a bastion upholding the ideals of monarchism across NationStates. Now, the region strives to provide a truly unique, fully interactive community with a range of experiences on offer. With our own map, system of government and vibrant community of nations, why not join today?

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The Commonwealth of Crowns contains 15 nations, the 1,265th most in the world.

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Long-term World Census surveillance revealed which nations have been resident in their current region for the longest time.

As a region, The Commonwealth of Crowns is ranked 5,928th in the world for Most Stationary.

NationWA CategoryMotto
1.The Planetary Empire of OberseewaldCapitalizt“Mit Feuer und Eisen”
2.The Duchy of Grand FenwickAnarchy“Rule Gloriana”
3.The Divine Empire of ZirilrathCorporate Police State“Do what we say or face the consequences”
4.The Kingdom of BryceCorporate Police State“I am the King!”
5.The Federated Imperial States of WantsumInoffensive Centrist Democracy“Duty and Tradition. Honour and Valour. ”
6.The Confederated Empire of NovagoroFather Knows Best State“By the Lords of Old”
7.The Helladric Commonwealth of IonysiaFather Knows Best State“Governed by reason. Living by passion.”
8.The Federated Empire of HelladriaCivil Rights Lovefest“Sofie kar Gnosie eret foteza karape evires dia Aplotos.”
9.The Principality of JeixieisPsychotic Dictatorship“Might Makes Right”
10.The Republic of Bakerloo 17Inoffensive Centrist Democracy“Mission Accomplished”
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The Helladric Commonwealth of Ionysia

Apology of Sokrates (Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους, Apología Sokrátous) by Platon
Audiobook: https://rumble.com/v3nne8y-the-apology-of-socrates-by-plato-full-audio-book.html
Text: https://classics.mit.edu/Plato/apology.html

Sokrates stands before a jury of Athenians to present his defense against the charges of doing evil, and corrupting of the youth, and not believing in the gods of the state, and having other new divinities of his own; and against the rumors of being an evil-doer, and a curious person, who searches into things under the earth and in heaven, and he makes the worse appear the better cause; and he teaches the aforesaid doctrines to others.

The Federated Empire of Helladria

Apology of Sokrates (Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους, Apología Sokrátous) by Xenophon (as related in an account by Hermogenes)
Audiobook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzzVzoQfpwA
Text: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1171/1171-h/1171-h.htm

A second account of the defense of Sokrates is provided by Xenophon (Ξενοφῶν), who was absent at the time of the actual trial, but who relates an account of another philosopher and intimate friend of Sokrates, Hermogenes (Ἑρμογένης). Unlike Platon's account, Xenophon does not detail Sokrates's full defense, but provides remarks that supplement and sometimes appear to conflict with Platon's Apology and also speaks on some events in the aftermath.

The Helladric Commonwealth of Ionysia

Crito (Κρίτων, Krítōn) by Platon
AudioEbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJALLoNZoG0
Text: https://classics.mit.edu/Plato/crito.html

After being convicted and sentenced to death by an Athenian jury for impiety and corrupting the youth, Sokrates is visited in prison by his wealthy friend Kriton who has bribed the guard and comes with a plan of escape and seeks to convince Sokrates to accept. This dialogue articulates ideas about the obligations of a citizen to follow the laws of their society.

The Federated Empire of Helladria

Phaedo (Φαίδων, Phaidōn) by Platon
AudioEbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b8hE92CuFY
Text: https://genius.com/Plato-phaedo-full-text-annotated

In this dialogue, the Elean philosopher Phaidon recounts the story of the last hours of Sokrates to the Pythagorean philosopher Echekrates (Ἐχεκράτης), arguing the nature of the soul and in particular, supposing its immortality. This is a longer dialogue of approximately three hours narrated, so I mean to post it in three segments. This first hour will cover parts I-III with the introduction, discussion of the soul's relationship to the body and proper attitude of a philosopher towards these, and two arguments in favor of the immortality of the soul: the so-called Cyclical argument and the Theory of Recollection argument. Next week, I'll include timestamps for parts IV and V, which will cover the Affinity argument for immortality of the soul and the first of two answers to reservations expressed by the Theban philosophers Simmias and Kebes. The final week will pick up with part VI and run to the end of the dialogue.

The Helladric Commonwealth of Ionysia

Phaedo (Φαίδων, Phaidōn) parts IV & V by Platon
AudioEbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b8hE92CuFY&t=3699s
Text: https://genius.com/Plato-phaedo-full-text-annotated

Platon's character portraying the Elean philosopher Phaidon continues his account of the last hours of Sokrates to the Pythagorean philosopher Echekrates (Ἐχεκράτης). By now, Sokrates has convinced the Theban philosophers Simmias and Kebes that the soul exists before birth with his Cyclical argument and the Theory of Recollection argument. However, each holds out reservations against the claim that the soul survives after death, to which Sokrates replies with what is called the Affinity argument. Once more the Thebans express reservations - Simmias compares the body to a lyre and the soul to a harmony, while Kebes compares the body to a coat and the soul to weaver that may outlive multiple coats in his life but is still not immortal. These analogies trouble his friends, but Sokrates admonishes against succumbing to misology (hatred of ideas), which he likens to misanthropy. He answers Simmias first, while his reply to Kebes argues from the Form of Life and will be posted next week.

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Nearly passed into history again, but summer tire Tesla on ice filled steep hill missed me by a fraction of inches a few weeks ago.

I do hope that report brings that git some issues, he drove off after smashing into a parked car rather than accepting responsibility.

Aside from that, work work work work and trying to be a good partner as usual. Nor ain't dust yet.

The Federated Empire of Helladria

Norengland wrote:Nearly passed into history again, but summer tire Tesla on ice filled steep hill missed me by a fraction of inches a few weeks ago.

I do hope that report brings that git some issues, he drove off after smashing into a parked car rather than accepting responsibility.

Aside from that, work work work work and trying to be a good partner as usual. Nor ain't dust yet.

I'm glad he missed. I once had the vantage point of having summer tires on a sedan looking down a steep icy hill. Talk about daunting. Luckily, there was another way down.



The Helladric Commonwealth of Ionysia

Phaedo (Φαίδων, Phaidōn) parts VI, VII, & VIII by Platon
AudioEbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b8hE92CuFY&t=6995s
Text: https://genius.com/Plato-phaedo-full-text-annotated

With Simmias's concerns answered, Sokrates now addresses Kebes's analogy of the body to a coat and the soul to a weaver with the idea of the Form of Life. Afterwards, the remainder of the dialogue details Sokrates speculations on the nature of the world, the heaven, the other world, and finally is his departure.



The Federated Empire of Helladria

Genesis (Biblical Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית‎, romanized: Bərēʾšīṯ, lit. 'In [the] beginning') chapters 1 - 21 by Moses (according to tradition or multiple authors according to modern textual criticism)
AudioEbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgFT_IxwJJY
Text: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/kjv/kjv-idx?type=DIV1&byte=1477

I think I will put classical Athens on the back burner for a while in order to get the ball rolling on what has been described as the most consequential book in human history. The first 21 chapters of Genesis should take just over an hour and thirteen minutes when read by Alexander Scourby at normal speed, and cover the first and second creation accounts, the story of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and the flood, the Tower of Babel, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and much of the story of Abraham, and a some genealogies.

The King James Version used here is chosen for its special significance in the history of the English language, and perhaps for using a slightly less partisan translation than many other alternatives (of course, this is still highly subjective). Its Old Testament (Tanakh) translations are principally from the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Rabbinic Bible by Daniel Bomberg (1524/5) according to Wikipedia sourced from The Authorized Edition of the English Bible, 1611, its subsequent reprints and modern representatives by Frederick Scrivener (1884), with exceptions where the text is adjusted to conform to Greek Septuagint or Latin Vulgate translations in passages to which Christian tradition had attached a Christological interpretation, again according to Wikipedia sourced from Wide as the waters: the story of the English Bible and the revolution it inspired by Benson Bobrick (2001).



The Helladric Commonwealth of Ionysia

The Epic of Gilgamesh (Standard Babylonian version) tablets 1 - 5 by multiple authors, compiled by Sîn-lēqi-unninni
Audiobook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPYf8AwNvKg
Text: https://archive.org/stream/TheEpicofGilgamesh_201606/eog_djvu.txt

The Epic of Gilgamesh posted here is the Standard Babylonian version that was compiled by Sîn-lēqi-unninni during the Kassite Dynasty of Babylon c. 1300-1000 BC. The story (or rather stories) are older still, with an Old Babylonian version that is less well preserved from around 1800 BC, and several poems recounting events in this version and others besides that are from the Sumerian Renaissance of the Neo-Sumerian Empire of the Third Dynasty of Ur around 2100 BC, when legendary tales of old were promoted by the state and actively spread amongst the public.

As I go through various readings, it's interesting to use the events and places covered therein to segue into discussing parallels in history or other literature of contemporaneous or relevant cultures. In this case, we see mention that Abram, the common patriarch of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is said to have been born in Ur of the Chaldees (ʾŪr Kaśdīm). There is indeed a historical Ur, a major city of southern Mesopotamia, prominent during the Sumerian civilization, which eventually came to be settled by a group called the Chaldeans, although this happened relatively late in history, probably not before around 1000 BC, which might put pressure on the amount of time available between Abram's departure to Canaan and the historically identified events of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.

This week is relatively short at just under 43 minutes; it covers the first 5 of 11 tablets (excluding the 12th which is an addendum that does not fit into the narrative of the first 11, but does appear to be based upon one of the oldest poems), through the events around Humbaba. I will post the remaining hour next week(?), picking up where the goddess Ishtar attempts to court Gilgamesh...

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