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Originally Posted by Ostrogorski
I know you're benevolent Mynydd, but let's be realistic. What should have I wrote? 2 different churches? Just don't tell me that you buy that crap...
Except Church architecture and some political institutions that we adopted through receiving of (Orthodox) Christianity, I really don't see what do we share with Rome? Or what do we share with each other?
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Marulus explained what I mean:
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Originally Posted by Marulus
I think Mynydd, when he said Romanitas, was referring to the Christian civilization of the later Rome (itself a sythesis of Hellenism, Christianity and Roman law), which then later gave birth to the Roman Catholic and the Byzantine (Greek) Orthodox cultures.
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Unless you are thinking in terms of a "Serbian civilization" or something along those lines. Which would only be acceptable under an extremely liberal definition of "civilization".
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I would rather note the biological and/or ethnic similarity than anything else.
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Ethnic implies a strong degree of cultural.
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Albanians are just pestilent, just a bunch of retards used as a tool by other side. They dream about some greater Albania, but they're a joke really. If there weren't for great forces behind them and our traitorous politicians, their "problem" would have been dealt long time ago.
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Facts do not agree with you. Despite them being miserables, they are getting better bargains than Serbia.
Your vision of things are very shortsighted. Like it or not, you have to think global to act local.
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