First TL Poll

What should be my first TL?

  • The Kings of West and East

    Votes: 13 18.8%
  • True Refinement

    Votes: 9 13.0%
  • Playing the Game Our Own Way

    Votes: 24 34.8%
  • Glory of Venus

    Votes: 23 33.3%

  • Total voters
    69

SunDeep

Banned
You know, Kings of West and East still isn't out of it yet. Glory of Venus was behind by more before.

About the other two: I was thinking about these things myself. Christianity and, most importantly, the Catholic Church centralized and united Europe, just as it divided and united Rome. Judaism would still be a prominent religion in the Middle East and perhaps even Eastern Europe (Jewish Greece!:eek:), but as it was Judaism wasn't going to take over as the religion of Rome. What possibly could?!:cool:

I'm guessing the title, 'Glory of Venus' serves as a hint as to what sort of faith will take its place...
 
Well, unless there's a last-minute surge, it looks like the winner is going to be The Glory of Venus (keep in mind I might change the name). Time for me to do some reading on Roman history!:D Huzzah!

I'm officially closing the poll in one day, so if you want to change the results, vote! Who knows, True Refinement could win after all!:rolleyes:

See you guys soon!
 
Take in mind for 'Glory of Venus' that, even if there is no Christianism, the Roman Empire of the era was hungry of mystic cults from the Middle East (Isis, Mitras etc.) so if there is no Christianism, other similar cults will raise due to sociological necessities.

So I advice you to not be tempted in make Roman Paganism to survive any longer than IOTL, because if it was not Christianism, it had to be any of the other zillion of mystic cults of the era.
 
Take in mind for 'Glory of Venus' that, even if there is no Christianism, the Roman Empire of the era was hungry of mystic cults from the Middle East (Isis, Mitras etc.) so if there is no Christianism, other similar cults will raise due to sociological necessities.

So I advice you to not be tempted in make Roman Paganism to survive any longer than IOTL, because if it was not Christianism, it had to be any of the other zillion of mystic cults of the era.

I am well aware of this- Paganism in general doesn't survive long against strong, aggressive religions. One such religion could be Zoroastrianism, but since Rome is in a near constant state of war with persia it's hard to see them "converting to the enemy". Don't worry. Roman paganism will survive longer, but it most certainly won't replace Christianity or anything.
 
I am well aware of this- Paganism in general doesn't survive long against strong, aggressive religions. One such religion could be Zoroastrianism, but since Rome is in a near constant state of war with persia it's hard to see them "converting to the enemy". Don't worry. Roman paganism will survive longer, but it most certainly won't replace Christianity or anything.

In my opinion, if Christianism would have failed, then Mithraism would have great chances to become one of the most important religions in Rome.
However, none of these cults was exclusive like Christianism was (that is, they allowed convivence with other cults, while Christianism was intolerant to them) so at least the religious convivence would have lasted longer (but not forever: sooner or later some of them would have drifted into fanatism and become exclusive).
 
In my opinion, if Christianism would have failed, then Mithraism would have great chances to become one of the most important religions in Rome.
However, none of these cults was exclusive like Christianism was (that is, they allowed convivence with other cults, while Christianism was intolerant to them) so at least the religious convivence would have lasted longer (but not forever: sooner or later some of them would have drifted into fanatism and become exclusive).

The thing about "religions"(cults) like Mithraism is it can be, let's say, absorbed into Roman Paganism. Christianity took such a strong hold because it:
A. Welcomed everyone
B. Was firmly against all other religions
C. Quickly became much more centralized and gained set teachings
It's gonna be different. We'll see. That is, if it wins
 

SunDeep

Banned
Ooh, what happens if we have to go to a tiebreaker? Playing the Game Our Own Way and Glory of Venus, neck and neck at the final hurdle! Are we going to have to go to a photo-finish...?
 
Ooh, what happens if we have to go to a tiebreaker? Playing the Game Our Own Way and Glory of Venus, neck and neck at the final hurdle! Are we going to have to go to a photo-finish...?

If it's a tiebreaker.....I'll probably decide I don't know. Get excited!
 
Well, unless there's a last-minute surge, it looks like the winner is going to be The Glory of Venus (keep in mind I might change the name). Time for me to do some reading on Roman history!:D Huzzah!

I'm officially closing the poll in one day, so if you want to change the results, vote! Who knows, True Refinement could win after all!:rolleyes:

See you guys soon!

Because of the close-ness, I am declaring past me a liar and going to keep the poll open. Don't believe everything you read on the internet.
 
It looks like Playing the Game Our Own Way won, but by a very slim margin. This will be my first TL.

I will be using a style sort of like this:

"February 10th: Barny prepared for his match

February 12th: Barny v.s Bill Rock, Paper, Scissors final match resulted in a tie, rematch set for Feb. 22nd

February 15th: Skippy the Alien Space Bat teaches Barny how to use the finger gun"

.... and so on. It's an easy form for my first timeline, and it will work well with the Playing the Game.

As for Glory of Venus, since it came so close, I'll probably be making that as I'm finishing Playing the Game.

So Playing the Game will start in about a week, Glory of Venus in a few months.

Stay tuned!:cool:
 
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