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I want to start a revival of Sumerian similar to the Living Latin movement: Sumerian has a very large corpus of texts, comparable to Classical Hebrew or even Ancient Greek I believe, is a very regular language and is not only among the 2 oldest recorded languages in the world (along with Egyptian) but, unlike Egyptian, it is not connected to any extant group of people directly so it is quite neutral. I think Sumerian needs a new, logoalphasyllabic writing system, to make it feasible for revival, though the writing system should have strong similarities to the original cuneiform in structure.

I would love to see Sumerian taught in high school classrooms and modern literature translated into Sumerian.

http://psd.museum.upenn.edu/epsd/sumerian.html

ṤitadugEmeĝira alzuzu u anam zuĝu ḫeineḫaleš./I know a fair amount of Sumerian and thus I wish to distribute my knowledge to others.

My woodburning stove has given me a new appreciation for the local liberal media, especially the free alt-news papers...

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
Dalai Lama

These days everyone seems to be an expert on everything, aren't we.

Why is it that people always try to fog the lines between acceptable criticism and pointless insult?

Still waiting for those jetpacks, science. Thought I'd put it out there.

Why is it that people always try to fog the lines between likelihood and certainty?

I was awoken by a dream the other night: I dreamed I was about to die. The next thing I knew was floating in the air and flames approaching from all directions. My exact thoughts at that moment were: "I'm dead! Oh crap there is an afterlife! I've gone to hell! Bugger!". Then I woke up. As an atheist I found the dream somewhat disturbing but my thoughts quite amusing.

Motives are simple, but the means are complicated.

"Only the wicked truly die."
-Myself

Hindsight is 20/20, but foresight is myopic

-Me (Or maybe someone already beat me to it since it' a big f*****g world we live in)

If power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, what does that say about God?

there is no separation between church and state. i mean what the fudge is the christian democratic party? how do church leaders get into politics? why can heads of my state use religion to deny me my rights? why is it that parliament is opened with the our father? what is this bullsh!7?!