Paepaok

Humanoid. Co-host of @TManiple podcast.
I play games sometimes:

[Paepaok @Paepaok_]

@greece_northern All countries need to be exterminated. Nothing special about Turkey.

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@RomeInTheWest @hemingquay @mnolangray "rules for thee not for me"

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@RomeInTheWest @Divineauklet @AlZENSOSUKE @lymanstoneky @mnolangray That's true, and I think there are other factors which led to people readily accepting Diamond's explanation: it conveniently makes European conquest seem less barbaric and gives a "racism lite" way of viewing the Indians.

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@RomeInTheWest @Divineauklet @AlZENSOSUKE @lymanstoneky @mnolangray It's pretty annoying to see this "disease did it" narrative all the time. Most deaths in Black '47 were due to Typhus and other diseases, but we can clearly see that famine was to blame, not simply some lack of immunity on the part of the Irish. Why the inconsistency?

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@Orthodox_cross I'm confused: is Elpidophoros not a priest? Or do you mean to say no priests except Elpidophoros?

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@IvanMarauder @FloridaMan7745 @AntoniusOhii Darwin isn't the only believer of evolution. For instance, Gould was very much against racism.

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@Stavros_D_S If you truly didn't want to waste time, you should have said: "I haven't read them". I presented the historians whose arguments I found most convincing and consistent with the historical evidence. Your arguments, on the other hand, I did not find convincing.

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@Stavros_D_S I don't understand why you would lie about this - it's okay to admit you didn't read it - no need to waste your own and my time repeating something which we can all see is false.

My recommendation is the same as before: read them and you'll find the answers to your questions.

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@Stavros_D_S Again, it's clear that you didn't actually read what I sent: the revival of Hellenism wasn't "gradual" due to paganism not being a threat: it was a break with their Roman ethnic identity:

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@Stavros_D_S Also, not just paganism but much of Greek culture was viewed negatively:

https://t.co/S96fI92YFM

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Page 136:
"Ioannes Chrysostomos wished to transform the world into a vast monastery under episcopal authority. When his flock, as was natural, failed to attain this ideal and lived 'according to the world,' he reminded them again and again of the fundamental differences between

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@Stavros_D_S All this talk about "Greek culture" is silly - of course it didn't vanish, it was absorbed into Roman culture. If the people were Roman, a fortiori so was their culture, regardless of how much Greek culture it had absorbed.

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@Stavros_D_S If you had read, you would have seen that the Greek ethnicity was assimilated into the Roman one:

https://t.co/495dRHwbEq

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ethnically, at least, Romanness prevailed over Greekness in this "merger". Here's what Kaldellis wrote on this "merger":

Page 55:
"Sacrifices, however, had to be made on both sides: Rome lost much of the Latin tradition (though not all), while Greece lost ethnicity, history, and

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@Stavros_D_S No you have misunderstood the history by ignoring or choosing not to learn the facts. It's not about onomastics but about ethnogenesis.

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@Stavros_D_S Well please read some more of that second link. Further below, he explains more about the name Graeci.

What you omitted to say is that by Vatatzes' era, a new kind of Hellenic identity had been (re)invented, which involved a sense of continuity with the Ancient Greeks.

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@Stavros_D_S I didn't accuse you of making untrue claims: I said your explanations were incomplete. Your lie was one of omission.

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@Stavros_D_S You didn't answer my question: did you read what's in the posted links?

I never said I'm the only one who reads - why are you making up things that I never said?

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@Stavros_D_S The difference is I actually read the things I recommended - did you take a look at the books/articles I posted? The more you read, the more you learn. My only ideology is a commitment to the Truth: whether historical or scientific or any other kind.

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@fatiguedgroyp2 @sinnersoviet3 1.2%

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@andros_sk_mari Well maybe "let's say" another date that isn't as historically absurd.