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Re: The Official Israel/Hamas War Thread. [Re: ballsalsa]
#28639628 - 01/29/24 04:17 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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ballsalsa said: Yeah, I don't think Rome was actually the pinnacle of civilization. They were a bunch of sick murderous freaks.
Yeah... True..
But we would be too if it weren't for Call of Duty and UFC.
Man... My brother just got out of prison. He did 7 fucking years. He rarely wants to talk about it, but when he starts telling me prison stories.. They are fucking gruesome man.
Every time I go to jail I get in fights... And I'm not even lookin for a fight. It's fuckin stupid.
Anyway... I don't know what made me think of all that..
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Re: The Official Israel/Hamas War Thread. [Re: Enlil]
#28639629 - 01/29/24 04:17 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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You aren't taking into account what went into the foundation of Rome, nor what Rome has meant for the history of our civilization.
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Re: The Official Israel/Hamas War Thread. [Re: Enlil]
#28639631 - 01/29/24 04:18 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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Enlil said: The greatest city in the history of the world wasn't rome. It had no electricity. It had no hot and cold running water. It had none of the fundamental infrastructure of even the most backwards town in America.
Dubai?
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Re: The Official Israel/Hamas War Thread. [Re: Blue_Lux]
#28639632 - 01/29/24 04:19 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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Freak out more about Rome in the hummus war thread
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Re: The Official Israel/Hamas War Thread. [Re: Blue_Lux]
#28639644 - 01/29/24 04:26 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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Blue_Lux said: You aren't taking into account what went into the foundation of Rome, nor what Rome has meant for the history of our civilization.
Dude, it wasn’t a good system. They had an emperor. They then decided to make that a birthright to his children. It got out of hand to a point where there was a guy literally named Comedius. “ the big joke” The guy had no idea how to run a country. So he just wanted to make sure everyone knew he was the emperor so he constantly had the Colosseum running. At insane cost to the average civilian. He caused them huge amounts of economic turmoil to a point where he had to be assassinated. Which continued the constant assassinations that happened for a long time. Terrible systems involving a single person with all of the power focused on them, inevitably fail.
It was the pinnacle of civilization that we could achieve at that point. It is not a role model of how to run a civilization.
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Re: The Official Israel/Hamas War Thread. [Re: Blue_Lux]
#28639668 - 01/29/24 04:38 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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Rome was pretty advanced for its time, but it'd be a shithole by today's standard
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Re: The Official Israel/Hamas War Thread. [Re: Bigbadwooof] 1
#28639671 - 01/29/24 04:41 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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Glad he's finally out
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Re: The Official Israel/Hamas War Thread. [Re: sudly]
#28639707 - 01/29/24 05:09 PM (3 months, 16 days ago) |
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I think you'd actually be surprised how it really was to live in Rome. They just took life seriously. The Egyptians were even deeper with it. They really took it all the way. Take the Sacrifice on the Nile. They made events happen which would actually be so profound that they would make stories become true, which happened with Antinous drowning in the Nile, as the Egyptian legend went. It was planned. They knew what they were doing. They lived right on the edge of life and death, and took it all the way. That is how Caligula for instance could have ever devised such cruelty at the Colosseum. Most did not live like this, as it is now. It is actually almost the same now as it was then.
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Re: The Official Israel/Hamas War Thread. [Re: Blue_Lux]
#28639713 - 01/29/24 05:11 PM (3 months, 16 days ago) |
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They used piss to clean their clothes.
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Re: The Official Israel/Hamas War Thread. [Re: Enlil] 1
#28639717 - 01/29/24 05:12 PM (3 months, 16 days ago) |
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Enlil said: The greatest city in the history of the world wasn't rome. It had no electricity. It had no hot and cold running water. It had none of the fundamental infrastructure of even the most backwards town in America.
They had a sewage system that actually worked.
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... Rome has 700 years of history preceding the Empire. And 400 years of Empire. There was such a thing called Pax Romana.
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Re: The Official Israel/Hamas War Thread. [Re: sudly]
#28639724 - 01/29/24 05:16 PM (3 months, 16 days ago) |
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Don't know where you read that. Well underhanded slander however.
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Re: The Official Israel/Hamas War Thread. [Re: Blue_Lux]
#28639725 - 01/29/24 05:17 PM (3 months, 16 days ago) |
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Blue_Lux said: I think you'd actually be surprised how it really was to live in Rome. They just took life seriously.
I feel like you’ve made this grand image in your mind. They were just like us man. They had less access to knowledge than we do. It’s not like they had a better quality of life than we did. They died on average of 32.

 Here’s some words of the people. Looks a lot like the graffiti I can find downtown right now.
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The average death thing is not accurately drawn. Plenty of people lived out their lives until old age in Rome. The books are full of them.
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Re: The Official Israel/Hamas War Thread. [Re: sudly]
#28639739 - 01/29/24 05:22 PM (3 months, 16 days ago) |
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sudly said: They used piss to clean their clothes.
They use their pee to whiten their teeth. They also used it to wash their hair to make it soft and bouncy.
Which I think is hilarious. People got made fun of for having white teeth.
God, it’s so easy to get off topic with you blue, no! Israel and Hamas. I’m sure that’s going great. Let’s hear about it.
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What I think is based on what I have seen and read of primary sources concerning them. Imagination doesn't mean fabrication necessarily.
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Re: The Official Israel/Hamas War Thread. [Re: Bigbadwooof]
#28639745 - 01/29/24 05:26 PM (3 months, 16 days ago) |
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Enlil said: The greatest city in the history of the world wasn't rome. It had no electricity. It had no hot and cold running water. It had none of the fundamental infrastructure of even the most backwards town in America.
Dubai?
I'm pretty sure San Fransisco is the greatest city in the history of the world. It has everything . The most beautiful places , the most fucked up places ... open air drug markets . You can be whatever and whoever you want to be . You can shit on the sidewalk . You can be the gayest or the straightest freakiest highest motherfucker walking around with a needle hanging out of your arm just pissing all over yourself and no one will say anything to you . Or you can be rich watever you want .
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The Romans also had a food/birth control that was the resin from a plant called silphium. Some people think the Catholics made it go extinct. Who knows.
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Re: The Official Israel/Hamas War Thread. [Re: Psilynut2]
#28639749 - 01/29/24 05:27 PM (3 months, 16 days ago) |
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No no no no you got it all wrong. You’re talking about Portland.
The Puritans made that go extinct. The Romans certainly didn’t help. Nobody ever tried to cultivate the thing they just kept ripping it out of the ground by the roots.
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