As I prepare to write a post concerning ancient Western civilization, I stop to ask myself a few questions, find your personal answers if you wish, this will likely come up in my next or last post and might interest you further.
Christianity: The End of Rome
Why does there have to be a God? The refined viewpoint is that a God must exist for many reasons, the mockery reasoning is that we use a God or gods to explain that we cannot explain. But it has been proven that is not the reason people seek after a higher form of being that exists. Why does there have to be a God?
What is noble? What is brave? What is humble? What is good? These are questions the entirety of western civilization faced during a time. Religion started becoming more of a choice, as more options became available. Suddenly there was a divide as to why one would be charitable, and there was even the question raised, is suicide noble or cowardly. What are your opinions? Is there a right and wrong to the world?
How was Rome's third century crisis different from today's Western economy? People were indifferent or even pleased to see this come to an end by the barbarians taking over because all Rome ever did was capitalize via taxing people. So what can we learn from these people's mistakes? Have we learned anything, or are we allowing history to repeat itself?
Why did it not work to have two Julius' and two Caesars? This process was created to help the process of the passing of the emperor while still maintaining peace. But that didn't work, and it seems there are no working solutions made since. Why didn't this work? What is a better solution?
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