Is it normal that i am obsessed with the roman empire?

My fascination with Rome knows no bounds: Even though I do not openly exhibit my obsession for Roman civilization, not a minute goes by without me thinking of the formidable Roman army, the towering walls of Constantinople and the exploits of great Roman emperors. When I endure setbacks in life and in school, I always remind myself of Rome, and how it managed to always come back strong and prosperous. In times of triumph, I deviate from the real world, and feel like a victorious general in a chariot pulled by four white horses. Furthermore, I regularly write in Latin, devising visions of a Roman Empire reborn, a culture revived and Europe being transformed by a new Renaissance. So tell me, is this strange?

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  • CloverFish

    It's not one I hear about often, but it isn't strange. Roman civilization is really interesting in general, so to find inspiration from it is pretty cool~

    Also, kudos to you on your response to that guy. Respect.

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  • KeddersPrincess

    As I am Greek mythology.

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    • Crusades_

      Greeks were nothing but pussified philosophers with an appetite for under-aged boys. Oh wait... that's exactly why you like them.

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  • Dulse.

    Normal. It's too bad they had slaves though. Did you know one of the aqueducts they made was used up until the 1950s in a small Italian town? Their skill with construction and with engineering is inspiring really. Their society was incredibly advanced for its time. They were peerless until over a thousand years after their height. The dome of the Pantheon in Rome was the largest dome in the world for over 1000 years!

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  • Crusades_

    The Roman empire was strong until they started to engage in sodomy and homosexuality. From then on, the decline started.
    Men started to lay with men, Romans started to mix with inferior races (slaves), fewer children were born and everything eventually fell apart. That's why i often compare the fall of Rome with the imminent death of the white race due to multiculturalism in the western world nowadays. It's quite similar and i expect the same outcome.

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    • The Roman Empire thrived on multiculturalism; when it conquered Greece, it began to absorb the best aspects of Greek culture and utilized them in their own way, making Rome socially and culturally much more rigid (especially in architecture). Same with Persians, Egyptians and even the Gauls to some extent. The Roman Empire didn't fall because of homosexuality and interracial breeding, you fool. It was plagued by political, economic and social instability. The decline started at the end of the third century, when Rome had waged a 70-year-civil war that devastated the empire. Diocletian attempted to make reforms to the crippled empire, but it eventually culminated in further political strife and eventually the conflict between Roman traditionalists and Christians.
      That is why the Western Roman Empire collapsed. The Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire existed and prospered for another 1000 years. Comparing the glory that was Rome to the fall of the "white race" is completely preposterous. If anything, compare it to the decaying USA; huge gap between the rich and poor, corrupt government, decline in morals, deviation from the initial purpose, expansionism and massive debts. But to say that the Roman Empire fell because of multiculturalism is totally and utterly ridiculous, because it was its lifeblood.

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      • tleeg1

        KUDOS

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      • Crusades_

        Conquering is not the same as multiculture you idiot. They were conquering other territories, taking resources and technology, slaves as workforce, they kept the strongest for hard labor, turning them into soldiers or gladiators but they still didn't mix with them. They kept their culture authentic and well conserved. It's the moment they started to implement more liberal doctrines of "tolerance" for other races and cultures and lifestyles within their social structure, when it began to shake up their stability. That's when they started to accept other cultures and retorted to decadent behavior. All the depravity and corruption came from them being drunk with power and the lack of structure and order that all the excessive tolerance has caused. That is what led to their terrible demise. The acceptance for the unnatural. That is why the Christians didn't approve of their new ways and the conflict arose. There were no traditionalists. Just weak minded volatile degenerates who had fallen into temptation. How can there be tradition when there are multiple cultures? When a country accepts other cultures, it loses it's identity. It's essence. Btw, the Byzantine empire went on to grow for many more centuries because they were less morally corrupt. They kept it simple. Conquering. Not accepting or assimilating.

        And don't come at me with that condescending attitude of a "know it all" cause I'll put you in a bag, kid. You must be a faggot, that's why you admire the late Romans so much. You liberal twat.

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        • You can stick to your "terrible multiculturalism" philosophy all you want, but it's not going to wield anything substantial. It is impossible for an empire to grow as large as Rome, and not have it incorporate foreign cultures at the expense of some of its own. The Achaemenid Empire was renowned for multiculturalism; however, it fell at the hands of Alexander the Great. By the time the Ottoman empire was 250 years old, it had already absorbed many important Byzantine administrative, military and cultural aspects. This took it to a whole new level when the Ottomans conquered large parts of the Mediterranean; Constantinople was practically the center of the world. The Byzantine Empire didn't fall, by the way, because it had all the rich eastern provinces and most of all: a low threat of Germanic invasions (they were protected by the Danube and the walls of Constantinople). All the Byzantine Empire ever had to worry about, was the threat of the Sassanid Empire. The Byzantine Empire conquered very little (except at Justinian's reign) and defended much more. Yet at its most powerful period, at the reign of the Macedonian dynasty, it had already incorporated Hellenic, Persian, Slavic and even some Arabic culture as well. I could name you countless examples, but I'm going to tell you this: Empires fall when they are over-extended, unable to defend its territory, suffer from economic decline and when the gap between the rich and the poor becomes ever larger. All of this is not solely attributed to multiculturalism. It all comes down to capable rulers, who are willing to make reforms to a crippled empire.

          Yes, call me a liberal twat, for I care little. Call me all those things, but I don't wish to be attributed to white supremacists like you. You can't deny that multiculturalism is an inevitable cultural aspect which will always take place in any developed country. The age of empires is over and we won't fall just because of a multiculturalist conspiracy theory. Then again, I shouldn't set my expectations too high for one who has the username "Crusades".

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          • tleeg1

            AMEN ANONYMOUS

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        • TitusHiberniusDesideratus

          To anyone who came on here for something nice and to celebrate a special time in history(as I have), and not to put people down and judge the world, my deepest apologies for sinking to this idiots level, but I hate bullys and bigots, and this guy is the epitome of the relation both negative qualities tend to share.

          And you ain’t putting nobody in a bag, son.

          Just because I no longer judge people on who they sleep with, doesn’t mean I all of a sudden couldn’t sleep a dumb hick like you. Lol. Seriously guy. Reverting to threats on the Internet to combat someone actually making sense is a TRUE sign of the type of punk who probably can’t even make eye contact in the real world. My name is Tom McGovern. Please know that I’m praying you haven’t followed someone off a cliff in the 5 years since you ruined this thread, as I could and would love nothing more than to tell you in real time just how absolutely disgusting low intellect trash like you is.

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    • TitusHiberniusDesideratus

      Are you really as dumb as the dogma fetishist crusaders were, whom you obviously feel significant kinship with??

      Since you are historically tone deaf, I’ll break down for you in cliff notes, the fact that it’s actually the opposite that rings true. Rome and pagan Latins didn’t obsess over splitting their time between either hating themselves and wallowing in guilt for being “evil”, only to take a damn strap and lash themselves bloody over harmless and natural human responses to stimuli, such as: seeing a nice set of boobs(or whichever male or female feature one would find attractive) and acknowledging how nice they were to themselves.

      Nor did they give a squirt of piss over who someone decided to sleep with. They were EXTREMELY sexually liberal, educated and intelligent, talented, relentless, and so open to foreign cultures and ideas that their very nature and crux of their own culture was the practice of incorporating what they saw as the best ideas and aspects of newly annexed people.

      And no, the Fall of Rome was initially made possible not only by the blond haired and blue eyed Germanic pigs who’s culture has sure as hell done Europe(and the world) an idiots array of crappy favors from 500 AD- the 1800’s. They were an absolute blight of a people who couldn’t manage to so much as give Rome anything more than a minor black and blue mark under the eye every 100 years or so, while being continuously humiliated on the battlefield by a superior people half their size, who had ZERO business HABITUALLY humiliating them the way they did for 500 years. With the ONLY reason for their eventual, albeit brief success((brief because they doomed 1400 years worth of their ancestors to being the original 3rd World, existing in a tragically brief 35ish year lifespan consisting of brutality, no bathing(or teeth), poverty, and ridiculously ugly fashion ideas)). The ONLY reason they werent relegated to a life of rubbing rocks together and seeing who can get the most insects in their greasy, dirty hair, safely on the other side of The Limes until they evolved to slink back into the sea(where they belonged), was thanks to the Christianized Latin people, who were but a shell of their former glory. Long gone the uncanny craftsmanship responsible for their opulent sculptures and buildings because they were increasingly uneducated and behaved in an ignorant, anti-intellectual manner because of it. Their lethally self destructive nature is nowhere more glaringly obvious than the gradual distrust the leaders of this oh so great church of yours had against their Greek inspired system of education, with a strong focus on philosophy and out of the box concept thinking, which quickly rubbed off on the masses until the tradition of learning died like an undignified fart in the wind. And the absolute window licking village idiots in charge simply had ZERO chance in hell of continuing to maintain the absolute societal blessing their PAGAN forefathers absolutely blessed them with as an inheritance. And just like that, it was all gone. But hey, at least people still had the church to do their damndest to make things even worse than the way they ate Rome alive, within less than a century.

      On behalf of society, I sincerely apologize for failing you the way we so obviously have, for you to even think a shade of what you just regurgitated onto this page makes me truly feel for the type of life a piece of work who could actually believe that must live. Please DO NOT REPRODUCE

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    • tleeg1

      The use of the uncapitalized i, suggests you have an inferiority complex...lol

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