RE: Irene of Athens: the Christian Byzantine Empress who gouged her own son's eyes.
December 29, 2021 at 11:58 am
(December 29, 2021 at 11:30 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: That's not why the guy got blinded, nor is that why the caliphate was attacking them. Like I said before, the problem isn't that you don't know shit - but that you can't. It's not competence, but capability.
We have the same sort of thing here (and all over the world, really). People who are simply lost to the human race, and cannot be brought back. Irene, constantine, the caliphate, none of these actors were interested in goodness or the wellbeing of their fellow man - they were all competing with each other to assert their own brutal means and ends to the same. A dispute between those who would be kings. It ended horribly for everyone involved. Constantine, Irene, the eastern and western empires, catholic hegemony, the caliphate - all dust..and the only difference any of them ever made was in grinding other people to dust as well in the process.
Irene was a heathen enthusiast in history, and had a deep grudge against her son + a civil war and lifelong rivalry with him, the fate she conspired with other fanatics to inflict on her son was heavily inspired by Greek heathen practices:
Quote:The punishment has been used since Antiquity; makes several references to blinding as divine punishment, which reflects human practice.
Get over your caliphate fetish. This is the aftermath of a Christian vs Heathen war.
