Western Europe

But you know, she loved her adopted country.

But she also saw that it did seem in some respects very backwards compared to its Western European rivals.

She sought to change that.

And that is where a lot of the focus on her legacy now is more kind of on this softer, nicer side.

So we don't actually in England have that many, it's all relative.

Compared to the rest of Europe, there aren't that many individuals that are executed for witchcraft in England.

I mean, one is enough, right? But we think probably the figure was around 500.

So there's only a limited pool of cases for us to look at.

So they actually have like a crest on the front and also this kind of, this emblem of this man with a bearded face.

People kind of think, it was almost like actually the Tupperware of its day.

It was so ubiquitous, not just in England, across like Scotland and Ireland and, all of Europe and weirdly even the Japanese made their own version.

So it's really interesting.

And, you know, I'm just saying, if the Mason really takes it seriously to get rid of all their vices and superfluities and to... subdue their passions, then there's a lot to be said about applying the power of silence in that practice.

Well, to your point, man, it's it's it's something that's been around in teachings for, you know, it's not just Western European thought.

Right.

This is something, you know, you've got.

Now watch Joy Behar use what is called a shift response to shift the focus of the conversation to herself.

Well, I'm scared of what's going to happen in Western Europe, too.

Yeah.

You know, you just you plan a trip.

And indeed, it was about as prestigious a marriage alliance as could ever have been hoped for, because in 1109, Henry secured as a husband for her Heinrich V, the, I think technically not exactly the Holy Roman Emperor, it's sort of still kind of developing, but the effective Holy Roman Emperor, the Emperor in Germany.

He's got dominion over Germany, Burgundy, Austria, Hungary, Bohemia and parts of Poland and Italy, so he's the most powerful monarch in Western Europe.

Right.

He offers Henry an ally against Louis VI of France, and Henry offers him money for his conflict with Pope Pascal II.

Today he asked us to cover a variety of topics, and we've kind of reframed it in relationship to Byzantine monarchy, because I was talking with Jose privately about today's sponsored stream, and Matthew talked about, well, could you guys speak on patriarchy, nationalism, politics, monarchy, and then Byzantine monarchy? And it's like, well...

Why don't we just focus on Byzantine monarchy and then in that conversation hit all these other things and even reflect on why Byzantine monarchy, not only is it different than the feudal king systems that emerged in Western Europe.

Sorry, can't talk today.

Take two.

We get the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, 312.

Then we get the Edict of Milan, we get the Council of Nicaea, and And then we get the full transition into Constantinople, and it's a new understanding.

Well, what is Byzantium? One of the interesting things I found is that it actually comes from the 16th century, that it was a German scholar who came across all these records that escaped after the conquest of the Ottomans into Western Europe.

And he wrote a book, I have the day, I think it was the 1530s, and it was titled Byzantine History.

So we started playing all over the world.

Maybe a couple times a year we went to Middle East twice, not Iraq and Afghanistan, but Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states, Djibouti, Africa, Kosovo, Japan, Western Europe.

And it just occurred to me talking to all these men and women over there.

that songwriting might be a good way for them to process what they're going through.

There's also, in Europe, there's been a number of prophecies, and we have a famous prophet in Germany, which is called Irlmaier, which has seen the events of a so-called end time, which in his vision was a sudden attack by Russia on Germany.

And not only Germany, but the whole of Western Europe with incredible amounts of people dying.

And a simultaneous attack by the Chinese on North America.

which would both collapse.

And as I see it, they have, even centuries ago, they knew that their main obstacle would be the Western people, And at the top of it, the Germans, which is why the history of the last centuries was focused primarily on destroying Germany through the world wars and even before.

Because they have to make the Germans accept Russian governance to create Eurasia.

So they have been, I mean, the entirety of the destruction of Western Europe through the migration weapon, through basically Africans and Muslims, has to be seen in this lie that they just want Europe to be so down, so unable to govern themselves, that they will finally allow to be governed by Russia when America withdraws.

I think that's the plan.

i think we have to go back a little bit here and discuss what stake if any orthodox jews have in the political process of north america europe the other places where we live in large numbers perhaps australia and to discuss what the whole thing has to do with us as i say if anything the key to me is as it should be i think in every area of life what direction Does the king of history, in other words, Almighty God, what direction does he desire things move in? And surely the past 250, 300 years has seen the ebbing at first slow, but afterwards more rapidly of religious faith throughout European civilization.

Obviously, Eastern Europe is not quite in as bad a shape as Western Europe.

and in America also.

So I think that's the first issue, and that would involve discussing what our view of Christianity should be.