Posted on 03/07/2014 12:05:46 PM PST by Red Badger
“Dear Dad,” read the young soldier’s first letter home. “I cannot tell you where I am, but yesterday I shot a polar bear...”
Several months later came another letter: “Dear Dad, I still cannot tell you where I am, but yesterday I danced with a hula girl...”
Two weeks later came yet another note: “Dear Dad, I still cannot tell you where I am, but yesterday the doctor told me I should have danced with the polar bear and shot the hula girl...”
Cleopatra was the first Ptolemy to actually speak Egyptian. Can you imagine running an country and not speaking the native tongue. We cannot even imagine life in Egypt.
Dear Mum,
Hope this letter finds you as it leaves me, in the pink.
The trenches are cushy enough except when it rains,
although there is a rumor that the British Fleet may
come to our rescue, even the cooties wear lifebelts.
Send me anything but bully beef, or plum Jam.
thanks your son.
1st century Rome had Christians. Nero enjoyed killing them. Rome didn’t have to be Christian to have them.
With Nero the persecution of the Christians was more about having a convenient scapegoat than any concern for theology. Now Diocletian genuinely hated Christianity. Most of the persecutions in between were not based on the fact that Christians worshipped Christ or His Father (the Romans couldn’t have cared much) but on the fact that Christians did *NOT* make sacrifices to the gods and the Emperor.
Not sacrificing to to Emperor and Roman gods was considered treason, risking the wrath of the gods on the entire population. Professing Christ wasn’t the issue.
The Jews had a special place as the Romans let them make offerings to their God *for* the emperor and Empire (the Jews originally came into the Roman sphere as allies and the Romans respected that which was OLD, and Judiasm was old.)- that’s why the question of if followers of Christ were Jews or not was so important- if they were Jews then they did not have to sacrifice, if they claimed to not be Jews and still did not sacrifice then they were traitors and were dealt with thusly.
Winner.
Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate.
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That would be equivalent to the feeling of sexual attraction. But a love between a man and a woman that has endured for decades is much sturdier treasure.
As for my love for my children and my grandchildren and for my siblings, also wealth beyond measure.
Just amazing. Thanks.
Awesome.
Tell it to the Chaplin troop...now get back on point !
I have a vague memory of some significant climatic event in Roman areas around 180 ad. Significant climate upheaval gets the barbarians moving. That area faced significant “barbarian” pressure for 2 or 3 centuries before the old Roman empire ceased to be significant. For further history, check out Visigoths, Ostrogoths, and Vandals.
From Allan Sherman - Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXabAszMisY
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