The god nemesis is the god of revenge. That's interestingly Greek, a god dedicated to revenge.
You would hope that you could have that particular thing shared, but apparently the Greeks don't feel that way. How do you pray to a god for revenge? What do you sacrifice to the god of revenge? Human sacrifice could be redundant.
The loss of the name nemesis is a big deal. It would be a really good name, but how can you name someone Nemesis given the connotations?
The conqueror Alexander the Great marched under the banner of Nemesis.
Like the Asians before him, he had to largely walk his army to the fabled cities of Egypt, to Babylon and the
castles of Persia. He would never return alive.
Today, you would probably take a plane, and pass over everything that would change your mind about the comparison of Greece and Asia. But perhaps the important part of this has to do with what makes parts of the world great and the effect of distance on the two.
Greece was rich because it was at the center between east and west. Today, the center of the conflict between the east and west, strangely, is between the USA and China. The increase in speed has led to an loss of dimensional requirements. The nature of this war itself has changed, but apparently it's been going on for 2500 years.
Europe and the middle east remain in the middle of everything, strangely or not, although the nature of that war has changed, although that involves a more familiar part of war. The two are connected in many ways. Afghanistan is known as the graveyard of empires, and the poorly thought out adventure of the Bush II presidency created the type of conflict that may have distracted our government enough to allow this to happen. How much of that in connected and how much is coincidence is something to think about.
But I'm getting my trains of thought on the same track, sounds like an accident waiting to happen.
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