God doesn't care about feelings of guilt. He cares about repentance.
The purpose of Hell is not punishment, but isolation. It's a quarantine.
Hegel, Spengler, Toynbee.
The presidents elected in 1840, 1860, 1880, 1900, 1920, 1940 and 1960 died in office. The only presidents who died in office were elected in these multiple-of-20 years. Reagan and Bush II survived, 1980 and 2000.
Both President Nixon, and his Vice-President Agnew, resigned in office, Agnew because of tax fraud, and bribery issues. He had been governor of New Jersey, which, like Delaware, has been infamously corrupt. Small states, like fiefdoms. California, my native state, is corrupt like Imperial China in its corruptions, and ancien régime France. Imperial California. The Califate.
Nixon/Agnew. It is possible for a presidential term to end with an entirely different cast. Ford/Rockerfeller.
Harris is corrupt in her character, reportedly abusive to staff, like Hillary. Powerful, or super-entitled, women need not be vicious. It's a choice, in as much as character is a choice. Character is a choice in that discipline is a choice, which forms habits, which shapes character. The word character derives from the symbols deliberately impressed into hard objects, pot sherds, bone, ultimately from the Greek, kharrax, 'pointed stake' -- for scratching.
Biden was elected in 2020. FDR should not have sought that 4th term. He knew he was gravely ill. Super-entitled egotism corrupted his judgement. He was most certainly not the indispensable man, most certainly at that time. History proves this, in that he was dispensed with, and albeit that history always vacillates between tragedy and farce, the nightmare of the 20th century was worse in its first half than in its second ... geopolitically speaking.
We're no longer allowed to harbor a contrary opinion about gay marriage. It's a sacred institution. Abortionism is still debatable, somehow -- not sure if it's the Trotsky or the Stalin wing ... probably Stalin, what with those as-few-as 61,911,000 deliberate Soviet deaths.
Fun fact: The American abortionism rite was chosen 63,459,781 times in the 48 years between 1973 and 2021! (The American flag had 48 stars for 47 years.) We win! In your face, Marxist-Leninist Bureaucracy! American ingenuity gets the job done! Fewer baby people, less Global Warming! Nazis used ovens -- we use eco-friendly vacuum suction! Saving the Planet one choice at a time! Respect the science, denier!
But, the above considered, it is well that I qualified that thing about the first half of the 20th century, "geopolitically". The first half and the last quarter -- somehow about equal in savagery. Add this most recent quarter century to that preceding ... well, as half-centuries go, we win the Caligula Prize, and a grant from the Vlad the Impaler Endowment for the Humanities as well. I'm unable to think of the correct synonym, unmatched, incomparable.
It is the depravity of our delusions, not the fact of them, that is so dangerous.
J
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not related to Biden, but rather to one of your older interests; alternative time lines.
https://www.unz.com/article/twin-events-and-phantom-centuries-in-late-antiquity/
This would be an interesting study. My foci have been pre-Classical, what with the non-existant Greek Dark Age, etc. Come to think of it, that's an imaginary 300 years as well. I don't believe odd things just to believe them, but the idea that the European Dark Age is also *somewhat chimerical is interesting.
A test would be comparisons with other civilizations -- Chinese or Indian, say. There was that major book-burning by Emperor Chin, etc, which might allow lacuna.
Byzantine history should be contiguous though. Off the top of my head I can't think of any doubling. Gibbon tells a linear story.
There's lakebed sedimentation and glacier strata used for chronology, and radiometry, but problems in these as well.
J
Checked it out a bit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_chronology_(Fomenko)
Sketchy.
J
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