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[Il Palazzo]

Another question:

How the hell do you get over a crush that seems to refuse to go away? At this point it's like I'm psychologically torturing myself and my masochistic subconscious just refuses to stop pack it in.

Experience teaches that there are two standard options here:
One is to keep torturing yourself for a decade or so, at which point you become jaded enough to not care about anything any more.
Option two is to wait about five years, at which point you casually reconnect and bang each other. This is when you realise that the person you had a crush on is long gone, or even wasn't ever really anything more than just your fantasy of who they were, and you have nothing to care about in the one you banged. Also, the sex was really bad. As a result, you become jaded and not care about anything any more.

[TD1]

Ooooor skip the waiting and the depression and acknowledge that such a strong attraction is often irrational, and that past the lust there is a person whose company you don't even know you'd enjoy without chemistry.

Then feel content knowing that somewhere there is such a person.

If you do feel a deep emotional and companionable connection to this person and your romantic overtures go unrewarded, then follow some of Palazzo's advice and wait a few years. Sad but true.

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[Yoink]

Hey, not me! Where there's life there's hope, says I. Befriend this mysterious apple of your eye if possible, assuming you actually have the opportunity to interact with them somewhat regularly. If nothing else that's one way to find out if you would get along with them in a rational sense, plus you could end up with an awesome friend.

Then again, take my advice with a grain of salt - that's what I kind of try to do in this situation, but that doesn't make it any easier seeing one's ridiculously gorgeous crush swan regally about whilst you're some ugly duckling fighting the rest for any crumbs of affection that might be thrown your way out at the slimy edge of the pond.
I dunno, that was one confused metaphor. Basically, I'm shit at most kinds of relationships. Suffice it to say...

Spoiler: My crush: *casually mentions latest new boyfriend*     Me: (click to show/hide)

   

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[Kagus]

Swans also mate for life, but cheat constantly on one another.

[Il Palazzo]

Also, goddamn y'all are cynical as fuck.

No! We were speaking in jest!
In truth, thou should climb the tallest mountain (in yer county) and upon its summit unfurl thine blonde locks letting them dance in the wind as you gaze longingly towards the sunset. Whereas in this very moment, the object of thine affection shall appear dressed in a halo of celestial light, and pronounce thee husband and wife by all laws of men and angels.

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[Yoink]

That's what she said.
Or, well, what she(?) will be saying once Greatorder gets his act together.   

[Kagus]

It's generally some kind of milkshake or other dessert tea, so it's different in that sense. Also choose your next words carefully about boba, which you have so carelessly called "flavorless balls of starch".

(Yes that's the main difference)

[EnigmaticHat]

Swans also mate for life, but cheat constantly on one another.

Swans are assholes.

[wierd]

Ducks are worse.

[scriver]

Everyone wants to be one with the New Thing.

No, but religious cults (as in, the worship of a particular god) spread fairly widely and commonly within the empire (For example, the famous cult of Sol Invictus was the result of a merging of the Roman sun god and the sun deity of a Semite mythology). This was also common prior to the Roman Empire during the time of Phoenician, Greek, and Carthaginian colonialism -- See for example Afrodite, who is iirc believed to have started out as a Phoenician deity and later been adopted into Greek mythology through trade and colonial contact.

The main difference is that most of these other examples of cults and deities spreading is that they could very easily co-exist and fit in with and/or under the pre-existing mythologies. Sometimes they ended up being identified with pre-existing deities, such as the cult of Amun becoming the cult of Zeus-Ammon in Greece. The cult of Christ, however, was not able to co-exist in that matter. It placed God as the Highest and Only God, and all other gods were false. And then you end up with a bunch of Emperors being followers of this cult and the inability to co-exist with other cults and mythologies end up slipper-sloping into "everybody has to be part of this cult, we have to stop the worshipping of false gods dammit".

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[TD1]

Not that I know, but "my god is totally real, yours is stupid and false" probably didn't sit well.