Marcus Aurelius duplicates his own Identity
BEFORE WE DISCUSS ME...
Ladies and Gentlemen, check out the H2G2 Vegetarian Society. That is an order.MY CURRENT IDENTITY
I am the h2g2 researcher Marcus Aurelius reincarnated. I have returned. If you're wondering why my username has changed, I stopped using h2g2 for a while, lost my old email address in the move to Florida, forgot my password and was forced to set up a new account. This proves that great minds - even philospher emperors! - are highly absent-minded and easily defeated by microsoft.Sadly, I may never complete my incomplete introduction...
Brief Intro to the Weird n' Wonderful Pastimes of Marcus Aurelius
...but I recommend you read it anyway.
My real name, should anyone care to know, is Chris. My wife, Stephanie, and I married in July 2004. We have two cats and a lot of debt. Charitable contributions are welcome; please make your cheques payable to "The One Wearing the Trousers"...
WHERE AM I NOW?
I am studing Political Science and History at the University of North Florida. I am merely trying to acquire a Bachelors degree in Politics but my wife, Stephanie, is currently working on her Masters in Councilling Psychology. Together we have created a new vegetarian student club that already has approximately 60 members in the first two months.HOW I ADOPTED THE NAME MARCUS AURELIUS
Once, long ago, in a galaxy far, far close to us, there lived an emperor - an emperor of Rome - and he sent his soldiers to war to expand his empire's borders with the Germanic tribes. He was successful, but he tired of war and his troubled soul wrestled with deep, personal issues such as...The Real Marcus Aurelius: Should I really be killing thousands of people every day? It seems a little harsh. Wouldn't it be better if I just sent them a very angry letter? Or better yet just wrote about my angst in a little diary... (and that's a direct quote!)
Inspired by Stoic philosophy1 he decided that his reign should be peaceful. And his people lived happily ever after! Eventually they got so punch-drunk with love and happiness that they invited their previous enemies, the germanic tribesmen, to come and live within the borders of the empire. The Romans got fat and lazy and stopped wearing armour, so the germans decided to destoy their entire civilization. The End.
Now, I'm a peaceful kinda guy and I'm also something of a historian. Not only that but I'm also somthing of a philosopher (I prefer to think rather than do hard labor, for example) so, naturally, I took an instant liking to dear old MA.
But it wasn't until I started gaming on Ultima Online (a habit that I gave up long ago as a complete waste of time) that I took the pseudonym and started drawing highly suspect parallels between myself and the great philosopher emperor. Your history lesson is now complete, young Skywalker.
1 I'm just experimenting with footnotes in html.
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