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  1. Origins Of Cults

    in Templum Romae - Temple of Rome

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    yeah I think he was......

     

    There are two types of "Cults" one is an ancient religious cult were people worshiped a deity and were really intune with it and were avtive members of a community.

    In my opinions all religions are cults not just Polythestic ones!

     

    The second types of cults....is the newly invetented concept of a "CULT" when most people think of cults they think of the ones that were invented in the 1970s....that are dangerous to soceity.....the "People's Temple" was a great example of a modern day dangerous non religious cult. It started out in 1959 by Jim Jones who was a Christian preacher at the time. In the begining it seemed like a normal happy, good, Christian thing....it helped people and provivded service for poor people in L.A. But then it began to become an accual cult, it used brainwashing teqniques to make its victims think they was heaven on Earth with the people's temple. It soon became so cultish that they didn't worship anybody but Jim Jones himself. Jim Jones did false miracles, and gained more converts by being really nice to everyone and love boming his members. Soon the U.S goverment found all about it's cult activities and Jim Jones was forced moved it in 1978.......they went to Guyana in South America and built

    "JonesTown" out of scratch.....the cult began to lock people up and force people to work.....Jim Jones promised eternal bliss in the afterlife and began experimenting with ways to kill things.......that is a very bad sigh....

     

    Then Jim Jones hired an army of South American Mercnaries to make sure no one tryed to escape from the cult.

    A US senator by the name of Leo Ryan heard about this disturbing behavior and went down to South American to try to investigate......he found everyone "Pretending to be happy." The cult had gone beyond the extrme and Leo Ryan knew this so he trys to get some cult members out....but as he is boarding the plane with some of the people of the cult....Jims Jones's army opens fire and kills Leo and some of his family.

     

     

    Knowing it is almost the end...and the Gyuanan army and U.S Special Forces are the closing in, the sucidcial Jim Jones makes every cult memeber in Jonestown commit sucidie....either by telling them to do so or FORCInG THEM.

    On August 4th 1979......918 bodies were found at Jonestown all from a mass sucide using sinide fruitpunch or getting beaten to death by Jim's Jones army. Jim Jones himself is apprently killed by one of the last surving cultish members who was like the only woman to survive the horrying sucide.

     

    That is an example of a non-religious cult that is verry dangerous......The Cult of Isis or Mithras are totattly different from the horrible sucidal cults that are still around today. There are hundreds of physcos like Jim Jones living in the U.S alone. I think Charles Manson was in one of those death cults.

     

    I support cults that are of ancient religions...like Demeter or Mithras or something but I don't support ones where you all dress in white and worship

    "Ms Jane" who makes the wonderful jam and is going to bring you to happy valley.....and my name isn't Zeke anymore its Craig that kinda crap lol.

     

    Anyway that is my explmation between.....Anceint Religious CUlts and sucidal modern day ones.

     

    Zeke

  6. Home Town History

    in Historia in Universum

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    Well I live in the United States, state of Hawaii.

     

    My home town (though I don't live there anymore) is called Haiku. Like the Jappense Poem. The town has probably been around since the 1840s and started out as a pineapple planatation back in the days of the Hawaiin Monarchy. It was once a booming town in the 1930s but now its just really run down and over run with Hippies. There are three small convience stores a video store and lots of juggle. Basically the town is spread out over an area of 5 miles and half of it is a Native Hawaiin slum. I lived on the outskirts of the town in an Plantation house and I owned 16 acers, my family were chicken farmers.

    :lol:

     

    Zeke

  7. Areas Of Expertise

    in Imperium Romanorum

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    Military affairs was once a big one for me, but now it's been replaced by Roman Religion and I like to know how the goverment works, I perfer the Imperial Age to the Republican era.

     

    I speclize in:

     

    Roman Religio

    Hannibal period of the second Punic War

    Caeser and some of his civil wars and battles

    The era from Constatine the Great 307 A.D to Theodeosius 394 A.D. (esspcially the last Pagan Emperor Julian)

     

    Basically I am still preety illiterate on the Roman Empire but I can help anyone with the abouve topics.

     

    :lol:

    Zeke

  15. What's Your Favorite...

    in Imperium Romanorum

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    Favorite battle in world history: Got to be Little Big Horn, classical battle where the oppresed (Native Americans) rise up in deffiance and smash the overconfident forces of the aggresor (US army under George Custer)

     

    Worst Battle in World History:Would have to be, Gettyburg.......Even though I don't support the Southerns, Robert E.Lee and his army was so epic and then it was defeted and it was just a sad defeat for the Southern army and destroyed their hopes of winning the war.

     

    Best Roman Battle would have to be.......Battle of Zama was by far the best Roman Victory because they destoryed their only major threat. It was like world war 2 of the ancient world.

     

    Zeke

  21. Power Corrupts

    in Romana Humanitas

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    Power can be corrupting....in the case of Fidel Castro, the guy started out loving Democracy and had full intention to have a Democracy in Cuba, but in the end the temptations of money, having an army at your finger tips and be loved by your Communist brainwashed Cuban people was to much and he effetivally became dictator for life. I mean I love Fidel Castro but all that wealth and power has made him blind to Democracy.

     

    So yeah power can be corrupting, I am sure Napoleaon and Hitler started off with humble intentions to but they got greedy and well almost took over all of Europe. Or there is those types of people that known their going to have alot of power some day and plan it out when their really young and become great people.

    (But thats a different story)

     

    In the Empire's Case, I am sure alot of Emperors started out with humble intentions but in the end they became preety awful dictators. But also there is certain characters flaws, people can be naturally greedy and want everything so power has nothing to do with it, they were already power hungry before they got the power. Or there is good people like Marcus Aurelius who got power but never abused it.

     

    So power can corrupt, but it also depends on a person's personality.

     

    Zeke

  24. Why Did Rome Collapse?

    in Imperium Romanorum

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    Since this isn't the temple I will look at this through a non religious point of view. The Germans were the main cause of the empire's fall I mean you can't hold back all those restless Barbarians forever, I mean the forests of Germany (rainy and cold) can only hold so much! Though I belief religion had something to deall with it I won't go into it.

     

    Zeke

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