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2 min readMay 28, 2021
- The King of the moon came looking for us
With blood dripping from his mouth
And a wide toothy smile, as wide as the Bosphorus
Extermination was on his mind.
Rome had become more lax, more fey, more gay
Romans escaped the hard work of fighting by night and day.
Romans imported mercenaries, turned the other cheek.
In the Second Messenian War of Ancient Man
The Greeks had refused to accept defeat.
Unlike the Greeks in Anatolia two millennia later
who struggled for a while to remain Byzantine after 1457
but the Ottomans raped them and murdered them and laughed at them and smoked hashish.
One Greek Abbess, a poet, refrained from vengeance.
Uttering such-and-such platitudes in her defence of cowardice.
Her stoic pagan ancestors were ashamed as was her Christian God:
ἐλθάτω ἡ βασιλεία σου, γενηθήτω τὸ θέλημά σου, ὡς ἐν οὐρανῷ καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς:*
She reassured her bridegroom of her purity and truth and submitted to Islām .
Greeks trusted this example, and they and their fathers
Became Muslim. They no longer exalted the sacred mysteries of Orthodox belief.
They no longer respected themselves
They were worse than the Janissaries
Christian boys from the Balkan provinces
Who were forcibly converted to Islām
Then drafted into the Ottoman service.
This is how a civilisation ends. - * — The Lord’s Prayer, Matthew 6:10
