General Chit-Chat Thread: A New Beginning

[Comrade Khan]

Hell most of the recent cuts were dei lol

 

[Comrade Khan]

Outside an old white dude iirc

 

[Professor Booty]

Outside an old white dude iirc

Sup?

 

[Barry Poppins]

Talking about Clovis now

Then I was right haha, Clovis came in during the fall of Rome and helped make the Merovingian dynasty what it was

 

[Barry Poppins]

Clovis's wife had their son baptized when he told her not to and the kid fuckin died during it

Ah yeah that was a thing that happened

 

[Chris]

Yeah the main plot point he's going back to as he's going over all this stuff is essentially how "thor became Jesus and vice versa" when Christianity became the dominant religion, essentially drawing the conclusion that most of the modern Christian hypocrisies started right here and I'm agreeing so far

 

[Chris]

I mean they reconciled being able to kill with "thou shalt not kill" so that's a big change already lol

 

[Barry Poppins]

Not surprising

 

[Chris]

Merovingian history just sounds like Game of Thrones so far, I think GRRM actually straight up took a couple of these things for his non-main series history textbook style ones

 

[Barry Poppins]

When Christianity was being implemented in Roman society, it was already kind of syncretized where Jesus and God were gods alongside Jupiter and co., there's a good 70 years between the Edict of Milan and the Edict of Thessalonica where Jesus Christ was seen as a co-equal of Jupiter lel

 

[Chris]

Yeah that's he period he kind of skipped (but I think there's a future episode about it), the era where Rome was accepting and because a Christian state

 

[Chris]

Fall of Rome one basically ended with Caesar dying and a little aftermath and this one basically starts with the sacking by the Visigoths and slightly before

 

[Barry Poppins]

Visigoths or Vandals?

 

[Chris]

He's mentioned both but pretty sure he focused more on Visigoths

 

[Barry Poppins]

Fair enough I imagine Odoacer was also mentioned