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Post by vincent on Apr 13, 2021 4:24:13 GMT 10
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Post by dennisw on Apr 13, 2021 19:50:08 GMT 10
With the current increase in geological activity and multiple volcanic eruptions we could be looking at a similar bad time in the near future.
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Post by Ian Thomas on Apr 15, 2021 8:59:17 GMT 10
44BC wasn't a good year for Antony and Cleopatra, either. We seriously should take heed of volcanoes and history 🌋
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Post by vincent on Apr 15, 2021 22:46:00 GMT 10
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Post by vincent on Apr 15, 2021 22:52:53 GMT 10
44BC wasn't a good year for Antony and Cleopatra, either. We seriously should take heed of volcanoes and history 🌋 Volcanoes are never good things for anybody. Even today, a volcano erupting in Iceland can force major changes in airliner routes, and cause very noticeable climate changes for a year or two. |
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Post by vincent on Oct 18, 2021 9:56:09 GMT 10
The Weird History channel on YouTube has made a contribution to the AD 536 file:
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Post by johannes on Oct 19, 2021 20:21:03 GMT 10
The war on Arianism probably wasn't the best idea in the first place; Teodahad wasn't a threat, unless you were a country squire in Tuscany and the fat guy wanted your land. Teodahad might have been able to bore people to death with his endless ramblings on Plato, though  . Vandal Africa might have been a piratical state motivated by religeous fanaticism back in the days of Genseric, but with the passage of time, the idea of an unitarian crusade or djihad began to look increasingly absurd, and the Vandals and Alans of North Africa had their hands full with fighting the native Moors. IMHO, the Romano-Byzantines should have concentrated on the Persians - who were enjoying a big comeback after Chosrow I had thrown the Mazdakite commies out - and the Avars with their futuristic Chinese tech, mangonels and all. The revenue spent on the pointless reconquest of small, civilized medterranean kingdoms who had accepted Roman souzerainity anyway was sorely lacking when winter came in 536... |
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Post by Ian Thomas on Oct 20, 2021 7:52:00 GMT 10
I never could figure out wtf the 'Aryan Controversy' was all about: you must enlighten us one time, learned Johannes. 👍
* Just fwiw, I'm pretty sure 'Aryan' does not mean what it unfortunately came to mean in the 1930s ...
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Post by johannes on Oct 21, 2021 20:00:57 GMT 10
Ian Thomas wrote: Short version: Arians were antitrinitarian Christians, like the renaissance Socinians or the Unitarians who loomed so large in 19th century Harvard. Long Version: According to Wikipedia, Arian theology holds that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, who was begotten by God the Father, with the difference that the Son of God did not always exist but was begotten within time by God the Father, therefore Jesus was not co-eternal with God the Father, and therefore the Son is distinct from the Father and therefore subordinate to Him, and therefore... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArianismWell, I guess the hooligans in the Hippodrome just needed some excuse for brawling . |
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Post by vincent on Oct 21, 2021 22:48:53 GMT 10
I went to twelve years of Catholic schools. Whenever we asked the nuns to explain something which is difficult to understand (e.g., the nature of Jesus and His relationship with the Father), the nuns' stock answer was, "It's a mystery. We're not meant to understand it." OK, I'm willing to go along with that. I'll wait until judgement day, when, I expect, many mysteries will be revealed.
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Post by dennisw on Oct 22, 2021 13:19:09 GMT 10
I never was able to figure all the anomalies in Christianity, I did go to the Salvation Army as a kid (free morning tea) and sang Christian songs and attended the local Anglican church on occasions. I also read the New Testament and never found anything in the words attributed to Jesus that did not conform to the Tanach (Hebrew Bible) but a lot of the other stuff from the churches seems a bit strange.
The Messiah is a man but the churches embellish this and confuse Jesus and God, according to Isaiah the Messiah will usher in world peace but with 9 years of war for every 1 year of peace since the time of Jesus, something doesn't fit. I keep an open mind because if the Almighty decides to send him back to finish the job it could happen, nothing is beyond the Creator. I still haven't got my mind around rapture and tribulation and all that other stuff just too complicated. Stick to the commandments, there are 613 of them and 10 that were deemed so important that God spoke those himself.
Someone once said to me, "613? I don't think I could obey that many." I replied why do you sleep with your sister or have sex with animals and when the reply was "Of course not" I said you are already obeying some of them without knowing it.
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Post by vincent on Oct 23, 2021 6:27:23 GMT 10
I escaped from Catholicism when I was young, so I know how to ignore anything which is extra-biblical. The Catholics add whatever they want by claiming the authority of the pope and the bishops and tradition. The Mormons claim that an angel delivered some knowledge on metal plates which are no longer available for examination. Others claim visions from God. They're all a bunch of hooey. I read my bible and let that be my guide. Anything else is worthless.
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Post by johannes on Feb 19, 2024 21:58:35 GMT 10
Playing devil's advocate here, but did the early medieval cooling episode actualy help the Romans?
After all, invading armies on their way to Constantinople froze to death on the Anatolian high plateau...
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. Vandal Africa might have been a piratical state motivated by religeous fanaticism back in the days of Genseric, but with the passage of time, the idea of an unitarian crusade or djihad began to look increasingly absurd, and the Vandals and Alans of North Africa had their hands full with fighting the native Moors. IMHO, the Romano-Byzantines should have concentrated on the Persians - who were enjoying a big comeback after Chosrow I had thrown the Mazdakite commies out - and the Avars with their futuristic Chinese tech, mangonels and all. The revenue spent on the pointless reconquest of small, civilized medterranean kingdoms who had accepted Roman souzerainity anyway was sorely lacking when winter came in 536...