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>>2324703
The life of a monk was a cut above what you could expect on average in the Middle Ages. Monks got plenty of food and a LOT of booze. It was also a good place to put troublesome claimants to thrones and fiefs after defeating them. Also, I'm sure the life genuinely appealed to some for its quiet and spiritual aspects. Just bear in mind that monasteries were powerful and had a lot of wealth and influence. There was very little that was unattractive about being a part of one.

>>2324712
Also it's not exactly hard to sneak away into town to fuck a whore.

Vow =/= Reality

>>2324712
Celibacy
+
Rigid daily routines

>>2324686
Cuz bureaucracies tend to favor themselves and expand to quietly and slowly get more power for themselves.
Cut the possibility of inheriting bureaucratic positions, and you make bureaucracies more effective, and not nearly as bloated.

>>2324686
because cucks

>>2324686
>Why have so many societies around the world had a special social class for eunuchs?
Because they can be close to the royal family but not procreate with them.
>And why were they so valued within government bureaucracies?
Well, if we're talking about China, it's because the entire basis of the government was on being a giant bureaucratic nightmare, so this one is sort of a "what comes first, the eunuch or the bureaucrat?" thing. Not sure about the others.

>Did people mix a lot
According to modern population genetics, not really. Serbians remain genetically closer to Russians than they do Arabs. Egyptians are still largely the same people genetically as they were in ancient times.

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Near the core of the empire. In the rims of Anatolia, Constantinople and parts of Bulgaria.

Defiantly.
Turks have mixed with Greeks and Slavs who converted to Islam.
Now due to the way nations formed these Slavs and Greeks consider themselves Turks.

There were also many Turks in Thrace, parts of Bulgaria and in Macedonia.
Also, there were many people who were Greek in Anatolia and in the areas around Constantinople.
These areas were for the most part cleansed in Balkan wars and population exchanges.
There's lots of things to visualize here, and i'm not really going to post them all.
Look up ethnic maps of the Balkans, i have half a dozen of different ones with different takes on certain things.
Also, look up population exchange between Greece and Turkey for a chart of the Greek population of Constantinople over the years.

On the periphery not a lot of (genetic) mixing happened. Places like Serbia, Bosnia, Albania, as well as Kurd and Arab areas who didn't mix with the Turks and only populations in proximity mixed.

Now in a sense south-east Serbia and some areas of Bulgaria were ambiguous and more similar to each other than either Serbia or Bulgaria proper, but in the end they chose their national identities. Serbs tried to turn them all into Serbs, Bulgarians into Bulgarians and so on. Torlak dialect (pic related).

While Turks did mix with people who lived in Anatolia who were in general Greek converts and Slavic converts that moved there.
They didn't mix with people on the periphery.

In regards to a certain meme about ius primae noctis in Serbia.
I've generally seen it used by Turks and Bosnians while fighting with Serbs over the internet. Firstly, local officials were generally local converts, but they were called Turks as a slur. Secondly, the work quoted is from a Serb in 1993, it has no historical sources and refers to folk tales, and was probably just Serbian made up propaganda to justify raping muslims in Bosnia (cuz they raped us amirite?)

So basically as you came nearer to istanbul things got more multicultural.
Thanks for the answers guys.
Also people here keep saying that bosnians are muslim serbs so how true is that?

>>2324614
You would have the answer you're looking for on your cog analysis ILE paper, that's what.

>>2324634
I'm sorry, what's 'cog analysis ILE'

>wanting to make it even easier for nignogs to enter europe

>>2324572
No, he's white. The Bible tells that he had a pure white skin.

No he was a Christian duh

>>2324578
>jews
>not white

Probably atheism, because you can do whatever you want without any moral hangups, think you have it all figured out, and behave like you are better than everyone.

Buddhism if you're as dedicated as monks.
Basically just flaff around a monastery all day plus strict meditation and other shit.

I'd like to stay at a monastery for a few years but my autism prevents me.

>>2324503
Atheism is a belief, not a religion.

>>2324503
Atheism isn't a religion you mong

Stop believing in the fantasy that there is no God and that every person can just make up their own moral values.

First convince them that the foregone conclusion of positivism is nihilism. Tell them that they now have two options:

1) Embrace the absurd, in which case their only course of action is suicide
2) Reject the absurd, in which case their only reason is to reject all other belief systems other than one that they love and bask in the glory of the lord Jesus Christ for eternity.

>>2324476
>>2324495
>>2324511
Same retarded faggot.

There is no crisis and the west is better off without the mental poison that is abrahamic religion. Good fucking riddance to your stupid fucking church, don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out.

Bullshit scottish nationalism with a few good points

>>2325699
>Bullshit scottish nationalism
Author is in no way connected to Scotland.

Lets be honest here, Scots are the only good thing to ever come out of UK.

The Altaic family was for languages, not people, and it long since fallen out of favor among linguists because it was basically just thrown together for convenience in the first place in the face of all the non-supportive evidence.

>>2324465

do languages just float around in the ether or do people speak them?

>>2324465
Its a fact that the easiest language to learn for japanese native speakers is turkish and for turkish native speakers its japanese.
Do you think its just a coincidence?

>Created the Panama Canal
No, he didn't

>fucked his own party and gave the presidency to wilson

Will there ever be a well respected and selfess President who wasn't born either insanely wealthy or with a fuckton of privelage?

>>2324197
because it would show that the rest of the world is inferior to africa like god meant it to be

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>>2324197
>not posting the REAL best projection

>>2324197
Wow, that projection is ugly as shit.

I've never understood the "stop hiding the REAL size of Africa" thing. It's true that most westerners don't know very much about Africa but does anybody really think that's because it's too small on our maps? Everybody's well-aware of how much history & diversity is crammed into relatively small areas around the Mediterranean, in south/southeast Asia etc, even though they're not that prominent on the map.

Nobody thinks that Siberia and Greenland are loci of civilization even though they appear huge.

>>2324184
>we don't know why reality exists but humans can make simulations so we're probably living in one

Literally a religion. Before man could comprehend the water cycle he just passed it off as god having a piss because that was familiar to him.

>>2324195
Ignore this faggot.

>>2324235

Why do you think I should be ignored? I am the OP.

Fast forward a few more years and I'm a second year college student who has lost or feels like I am in the process of losing most of the things that really matter to me. I'm so depressed and anxious that I'm losing the ability to even function as a person. I haven't made it to a class yet this semester because I'm trying to work part time and I'm now suffering from horrible insomnia and only sleep around the time that I'm actually supposed to be in class. I barely even leave my bed at this point when I'm in my college town. As I type this I'm milking a minor surgery to avoid going back to my college town, which is only made harder by the fact that my ex who was practically living with me last semester and is also one of my best friends, has broken up with me and is kind of avoiding me right now. She's one of the only people I can talk to about anything because she suffers from a lot of the same problems as I do. Earlier in high school, she was a staunch agnostic and also one of my only leftist friends, so I took her seriously last summer when she wanted me to check out her church with her.

It's run by the family of one of our smartest, most over achieving friends and some of our other close friends attend and supported the idea. It's non denominational, and I originally went out of curiosity and a desire to support them and show appreciation that they invited me and wanted to know my thoughts on it. I went in expecting not to hate it because I knew that if those particular friends went there, it was at the very least not as bad as some of the others I had attended. I did not expect myself to continue to go back week after week willingly, but I have, even since the beginning of the new semester. I now find my mental health in worse shape than it has ever been and I'm experiencing a lot of the problems I have always experienced with religion. I've become a person skeptical towards most things I can not actively see and touch. Every Sunday morning I wonder if I'm just becoming a more bitter and cynical person because I can't force myself to have faith in anything. If only I could experience some undoubtable proof or example of a miracle I feel like it could keep me going enough to really start to believe the things they tell me every week. I just can't FEEL anything. I want to experience these feelings and ideas that my friends are apparently having so often. I feel they are too smart and too honest to fake or exaggerate their claims and their tears that come out of their faith. The closest I feel I ever really get is thinking that a line or two of the service speaks to me and my own particular problems. 3/5?

>>2324193
get on some antidepressants. Jesus Christ, if this isn't a classic case of depression I don't know what is. I'm not even going to get into the rest of this, just go see a psych. You have an illness and it needs to be treated with as much force as possible. If you feel like you should also go to church, then go. It can provide a good community to socialize and get away from isolation that is feeding your depression.

>>2324152
Because they were ordered to and surprise surprise soldiers followed orders. Not the brightest bulbs in the box, shocking i know, but then again they rarely claim to be.

>>2324152
They even bothered to round up the three jews living there and ship them back to europe.

I don't think gestapo would mind very much if they let them be.

>>2324152
Because more often than not their families and friends were still in France. They feared reprisals.
That's why resistance never used their real names as the Nazis would kill or imprison their families.
This is why for example general Leclerc, used the leclerc name and not his real name : Philippe de Hauteclocque.

>>2324124
It was more hubris than anything, it relied on the french fighting like they did in the Franco-Prussian war. However, france has this weird rule since they got rid of their nobles where they throw down their rifles every other war, and the rest they become unstoppable machines of war.

>>2324124
The plan would have worked just fine were it not for two major factors

1. The effectiveness of Belgian forts in slowing the German advance.

2. The lack of discipline (partially attributed to pride) in the southern sector, where German forces should have pulled back instead of attempting to advance.

With these two factors remedied, you would see a much deeper penetration in 1914; potentially to Paris which was, what, 100 kilometres away? 150?

>>2324124
>but realistically, what other option did the Germans have
how about not start the fucking war in the first place