Re: International Conference on the Phaistos Disk


Elaia disc and Tiryns disc, a paper written
for a biased conference, postscript

In my fable I say that the king of Tiryns
and later Eponymous Tiryns resided in the
beautiful Circular Building on top of the
limestone hill. Actually, the Circular Buidling
burned down by the end of the Early Helladic
period of time, but I assume that a wooden
version of the Circular Building was built in
the Middle Helladic period of time, replacing
the former buidling, sort of a palace combined
with storage rooms, a Zeus sanctuary, a phare
and a watchtower. A big rosette of supporting
blocks at the base of the Circular Buidling is
still extant in situ, one more reason for the
rosette in the center of the Tiryns disc.
My formula for understanding early civilization:
simple yet complex. It also helps in the case
of the two discs, and in shedding light on the
Middle Helladic period of time in the Argolis,
on which we still know so very little.

Ruud Harmsen: for once I reply to you. I am developing
ideas here, in the Usenet, then I publish a concise version
on my website. The Usenet is perfect for me, and I'd
invite every serious young man or woman to do the same.
The scientific groups are something like Plato's academy
expanded in such a way as to cover the whole planet,
really phantastic, I couldn't have dreamed of such a wonder
some twenty years ago. Websites are also a great
possibility for publishing new ideas, alas, they disappear
again. When I pass away, my website is gone within
half a year or so, and will only surivive in Alexa, not easy
to find anymore, whereas my publications in the Usenet
will persist, and be accessible, or at least I hope so.
Other people post thousands and thousands of messages
in order to say nothing, whereas I am posting new ideas
on a daily basis, and so I take my right to quote my own
messages, in order to give them a better chance to
survive a possible random loss of messages from the
archive. I said this many times. And I make my messages
short, giving them a good ratio of ideas per kilobytes,
while most other regulars would never publish an idea
in the Usenet, not prestigious enough for them, and the
headers of their messages along require far far far
more storing space than all my messages together,
headers and quotes included. As for my paper: I openly
declare that I wrote a fable (which allows me to present
my ideas in the most concentrated form possible, and
I got a prize for this method by the University of Zurich,
bestowed on me on the dies academicus 1994), whereas
Dr. Jerome Eisenberg accuses Luigi Pernier of cheating
in actual form. He founded and owns and editor-in-chiefs
Minerva, he published his own article in his own journal
and arranges a conference around it, he invited me but
does not keep his promise of reading my paper to the
audience, so he can say he includes opposite views
while actually tricking me out. This I call biased. And
not scientific. Just a way of buying scientific credibility,
or trying to buy scientific credibility.

Dr. Jerome Eisenberg sent me yet another e-mail,
asking for respect. Here my reply:

Why did you give mutilated and distorted
English translations of Derk Ohlenroth's
decipherment in your article? Not serious,
not scientific, FG
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