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You'll find me in the library/archive of Gondor.

@MakedoniaSun @Based_BG There is absolutely no occurrence of the words "Alexander son of Philip, the Macedonian" in the Bible. This claim is completely made up. Even if it were, it would prove nothing. It would be the same as saying, "Demosthenes, son of Demosthenes, the Athenian".

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North Macedonians🇲🇰 are now claiming the Bulgarian🇧🇬 city of Plovdiv as their own, because the Greek🇬🇷 Emperor (Philip II of Macedon) renamed the city after himself when he conquered Plovdiv in 342 BC. You just can't make this up. 😂

@Based_BG The Bible explicitly names Alexander as the King of Greece (Daniel 8:21; 11:2-4).

Initially, I wasn't going to reply. But I will not allow you to use the Holy Bible as an instrument for your low IQ Monkeydonian propaganda. The Bible does NOT speak of today's North Macedonians. It speaks of the ORIGINAL ANCIENT MACEDONIANS, who were not Slavic people 🤦🏻‍♂️

Imagine being a Roman soldier guarding a tower with this view....

@kan_immanuel @PracticalTheolo @AncPhi The verse is referring to Father and Son. It is a quote from Hebrew Psam 110:1. The Psalm reads "YHWH (the name of God - the Father) said to my Lord". No ambiguity. The ambiguity was introduced through the replacement of theonyms with nomina sacra (ΚC) and no Tetragrammaton.

@PracticalTheolo @AncPhi Circular reasoning. You’re assuming for not reason whatsoever that the verse is talking about Jesus.

The entire New Testament is written in Greek, the existence and usage of the LXX (Greek Old Testament) demonstrates the dominance of Greek in the Palestine of Christ's era, the NT authors quote from the LXX overwhelmingly and predominately compared to the Masoretic (Hebrew), some double meanings that Christ used can only be said in Greek (e.g. anothen in John 3), the trilingual inscription (Greek, Latin, Hebrew) on Jesus' cross (John 19:20) shows the general polyglottism of the region, Paul's easily switching from Hebrew to Greek (e.g. Acts 21:37 ff, Acts 9:29) in his speeches demonstrates native proficiency with the languages indicating how Greek usage was not merely a scholarly or occasional tongue. In fact, given the contextual evidence, anyone who says that Jesus did not know Greek is very nearly entirely unfamiliar with the New Testament.

Women need to stop acting like sexual rejection inside marriage is some harmless inconvenience a good man should just silently absorb forever. It breaks his spirit, damages the bond, and teaches him that the deepest part of him is unwelcome in his own home. That is not a small issue. That is marital negligence.

@hinatariadesu 東ローマ帝国。

ギリシャ？アルバニア？それとも……ビザンツ？

March 31, 1822 -- The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following an attempted rebellion, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix. Over 40,000 would be killed.

@alrythy_ly @RomioiLevantine The descendants of Abraham lost their covenant rights, I'm afraid.

@RomioiLevantine You are merely the descendants of someone like me, and your civilization is known for its nudity. As for us, we are the descendants of Abraham, the heirs of the prophets, and the last of the great ones. Know your place, you slave.

We are the descendants of the Greek Seleucids, successors of Alexander the Great in our Romioi Levant, Romioi (Greeks), descendants of Constantine I, Basil, and Heraclius, bearers of the legacy of Greek (Romike) and Roman civilization.

@EuropeMytical Built under John I Doukas, the Sebastokrator, who declared an independent state of Thessaly from the rest of the Roman Empire. Against the Union of the Churches and had the church built as a "bastion of Orthodoxy". He was a supporter of the Laskarids as legitimate Roman emperors.

The church of Porta Panagia in Trikala, Greece, is a prominent Byzantine temple of the thirteenth century, built in 1283. It is characterized by being what remains of an old monastery, standing out for its limestone walls, ceramic decoration and a structure that mixes Byzantine and Western influences.

@AngelosThemelis @Electra306 Correct! A prayer or signifier similar to the "Εν τούτω νίκα", recognising/praying to Christ as the King of Kings and those who lead (including Caesar).

@polemios @Electra306 "Βασιλεύς Βασιλέων, Βασιλεύων Βασιλευόντων" (Basileus Basileon, Basileuon Basileuonton). Which translates to "King of Kings, Ruling Over Kings"

Constantinople Κωνσταντινουπολις 🇬🇷

@YossiBenYakar If only it hadn't been for catastrophically and repeatedly attacking the Eastern Roman Empire rather than minding its own business instead, both Persia and the Romans would have been strong enough to repel the Arabs and their Islamic imperialism.

t.co/e20UFXPLY6 An Iranian woman speaks the truth the world refuses to hear: “Islam is not our religion in Iran. Islam was imposed on us through torture, massacres, decapitations, rapes, and slavery, forced upon the Persian people who were actually Zoroastrians.” This is the brutal history Western elites love to ignore. The whole world must see this. Share it.

@RomeInTheEast Not a fan of mega-cities. Thessaloniki, as the "symvasileuousa" would bring all the majesty, culture and comforts of The Polis, but none of the complexity. Geographically close to both Classical Greece and the Capital and even the Western Empire, if one were so inclined to travel

@polemios Why Thessaloniki over Constantinople?

Where would you spawn?

When Constantinople fell to the Ottomans in 1453 the ancient statue of Justinian still stood watching over the City on its lofty column, Pierre Gilles saw the shattered fragments of it a century later: “For the barbarians despoiled the column of Justinian of all its bronze clothing, the horse and the statue, and for some years it remained a bare column. Finally, 30 years ago the entire column was toppled down to the pedestal…The equestrian statue of Justinian had been on top of the column that stood here and that had been kept a long time inside the compound of the imperial precinct. I recently saw it carried into the melting houses where the Turks cast their weapons of war. Among the fragments were the leg of Justinian, which was taller than a man, and his nose, which was over nine inches long. I was not able to measure the horse's legs that lay on the ground, but secretly measured one of the hoofs and found it to be nine inches tall" Even the mere pieces of it laying around Topkapı clearly made a huge impression on this French diplomatic visitor to Ottoman Constantinople! Source - The Bronze Horseman of Justinian in Constantinople by Elena Boeck

This feels Islamophobic.

The front page of East Oregonian, published on September 16, 1922, constitutes a highly valuable historical journalistic document, as it directly reports on the events associated with Smyrna Catastrophe, explicitly referring to the mass killings and large-scale displacement of Greeks and Armenians. The headline, which cites a significant number of victims, reflects an early international awareness of the scale of the humanitarian disaster, based on reports from major news agencies, thereby granting it credibility within its contemporary context. From an academic perspective, this newspaper represents a primary source written at the moment of the event, illustrating how Western media framed the suffering of the region’s peoples. The tragedy was not confined to a single group, but rather unfolded within a broader context of collective violence preceded by years of persecution and destruction, including what the Arameans endured during Sayfo in the time of the First World War. The significance of this document lies not only in what it explicitly states, but also in what it implicitly reveals about the historical continuity of violence. Source East Oregonian, issue of September 16, 1922, front page, Pendleton, Oregon, USA #aramean #Greeks #Armenian #sayfo #suryoyo #aghet

@RationalMale @newstart_2024 Hmm, both her and your statements can be true.

@newstart_2024 Wrong. Humans are both promiscuous and monogamous. Sex is a proximate outcome (promiscuity). Reproduction is an ultimate outcome (monogamy). Instinctive jealousy and mate guarding would've been selected out if not for monogamy and parental investment.

Our species norm is polygyny: 80% of cultures historically let high-status men hoard wives while low-status men get nothing. Christianity (inherited from Rome) forced monogamy for 2000 years. Now we've mostly ditched it—and we're sliding back toward the old pattern. Louise Perry: Lifting the monogamous restriction produces worse outcomes—higher crime, domestic violence, economic inequality. Monogamy is better for women and low-status men. Monogamy isn't "natural"—it's an engineered cultural upgrade that tamed inequality and violence. Do you think monogamy is worth defending even if it's not the "default" human pattern? Or are we better off returning to the species norm? Your take 👇