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@mcgillmd921 In order of importance Octavianus Constantinus Traianus Aurelianus

Who is on your Mount Rushmore of Roman Emperors?

@davidsenra @pmarca Caesar wept seeing statue of Alexander and felt defeated by lack of progress in life. Let alone all the books he wrote reflecting on his life. LOL.

Great men of history had little to no introspection. The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself. @pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about: David: You don't have any levels of introspection? Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible. David: Why? Marc: Move forward. Go! I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home. David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection. Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self. He just woke up and was like: I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again. Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective. All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s. Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff. The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology. And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual. We need to criticize the individual. The individual needs to self criticize. The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past. It never resonated with me.

@amazingmap Alexander’s dream

The famous Hippie Trail from Europe to South Asia

@mcgillmd921 Rome’s real death was Constantine. Rome became a new empire w new culture, capital. Old Rome (West) was just a shell attached for few decades.

Hit me with the harshest truth about Roman History.

@ValDelamere Sons of Charlemagne

the Italian guy is German and the German guy is Italian what's going on here

@mcgillmd921 He was a consul of Rome

If you know what Julius Caesar is saying here we are friends.

@mcgillmd921 Augustus - founding, Trajan - apex, Aurelian - restoration

Augustus and Trajan never existed. Now who is your favorite Roman Emperor?

@DhananiZain Burrow vs hurts (worse weather, favorites)?

Alright fantasy playoffs time - start/sit questions (or other). Go!

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@dcjacob24 It’s baked in. Bowers is still going to see a lot of volume. Most likely player to score a TD for Vegas

@DhananiZain Does the low Vegas line shift your thinking w bowers?

@dcjacob24 Bowers Hampton

@DhananiZain Hurts or Burrow?

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@RomeInTheEast Rome probably gets humanity to industrialization, printing press, steam much faster if it hadn’t fallen

What’s something about Roman history that you think deserves more attention?

@RomeInTheEast How important Aurelian is to its history - it could have collapsed much earlier w/o his leadership. He should be up there w Augustus, Constantine in notoriety.

@RomeInTheEast Why do they look so different from early Roman emp.? Ditching of toga, civic crown, gold/purple, etc.? This feels very eastern / Greek (maybe a blend of Hellenistic 1st century w medieval Europe). Do you know how / why?

An Eastern Roman Emperor

@DhananiZain Corum or Hill

Alright it’s that time again… Week 13 Start/Sit Questions fire away!

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@LizWolfeReason What a beautiful little boy

Beautiful baby boy! I've mentioned on here, but haven't really announced it: My husband and I are expecting another son this winter. He has a disability; we believe it to be manageable. We love him dearly. The heaviness of the diagnosis (and the unknowns), the endless tests, the pressure from some doctors to "explore options" (hard no!) has put me in a dark place. Sometimes I only post the good parts of motherhood, but this is part of it too: grappling with the limits of our own control, bearing the extraordinary heaviness of the responsibility. But the Lord has great plans for us, He does not abandon us in times of need. He is forming our family in ways we don't fully realize. Anyway, we think he's beautiful; here's a picture. Please pray for us and for his health. We know the burdens we carry now will feel small in time, with God's grace and provision, and that he is just nothing but blessing.