(Old Great Edo Castle, Tokyo)"And in His Right Mind"
(Discontinuity of Civilization)
When Christians of the Roman Empire, including the Roman Emperor, started to suppress, segregate, and assail Judaists, the fate of the Roman Empire was decided to be doomed.
And, the Roman Christianity itself proved itself to be fatally flawed, leading to the emergence of Islam.
In short, the three major historical incidents, the predicament newly imposed on Judaists in the Empire, the fall of the Roman Empire, and the rise of Islam were all interwoven in a series of proceeding of the history.
However, blood, sweat, and tears of the movement were mainly embodied through invasions of wild tribes to the Empire, since the Roman Empire was based on coins and troops.
(Germanic and Hunnic invasions of the Roman Empire, 100-500 AD)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Roman_Empire
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It was not so easy for the great Empire to fall and for its glory and civilization to actually vanish away.
When you are discussing continuity or discontinuity, you have to focus on the magnitude and size of the Empire in addition to the economic and military power.
Indeed people continued to live in Italy and France after the fall of the Roman Empire without interruption; but the splendor and the might of the Empire were not relayed to those people who had no knowledge, know-hows, technology, and management ability of the Empire.
If all the generals and officers were gone, soldiers could not maintain troops or divisions of army. In that case, the army cannot be regarded as continuous in its functions and capability.
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For the first half-African/half-European American President to emerge, you had to suffer the 9/11 Terror and the 9/15 Lehman Brothers fall in addition to a $140 oil price hike.
It was not so easy for the American Empire to accept the first half-African/half-European American President.
Accordingly, something may be being discontinued in the U.S.
You, if called a historian or a pundit, had better regard the U.S. as being in the period of discontinuity rather than in continuity.
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(To be continued...)
(Personne ne pleure, si un empire s'effondre, mais ils doivent pleurer quand l'effondrement de leurs souvenirs. Gone with a memory can be however an act of love, my dear.
http://www.just-oldies.com/1966/as_tears_go_by.htm )
Mar 5:12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
Mar 5:13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.
Mar 5:14 And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.
Mar 5:15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
Mar 5:16 And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine.
Mar 5:17 And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.