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While post-imperial nations like the UK, France and Germany have gone entirely multicultural, Japan is still pretty much homogenous and ethnic in its identity. Why is it the case? Doesn't Japan, being a similarly democratic and progressive society, have the same type of postwar guilt as European nations?

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Did some Templars really worship Baphomet? Why?

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Enlighten me on how Romanians came to be, /his/. To me, they're as much of an enigma as Albanians.

I can understand a predominantly Thracian heritage genetically with some Slavic admixture here and there, but here's my dilemma:

A portion of Dacia(which Romanians claim as their 'birthplace') was occupied for a relatively short amount of time, after which the natives were left on their own. The native Dacian elite was slaughtered by the Romans and the Roman administration retreated, so they had neither a priestly caste nor an aristocracy left.

To me, in such a scenario, the most logical outcome would be for the Romanized populations to be assimilated in time, not spread further amongst the 'free Dacians' as stated in Romanian historiography.

And in regards to the Slavic migrations, I presume that the Romanians formed as a result of the intermingling between predominantly Slavophone communities with Latinophone(Vlach) shepherds. Yet I can't understand why would the Slavophones be assimilated by those shepherds - they were a minority, they were less prestigious and they were less civilized(with Slavs having settled, agricultural communities, while Vlachs being nomadic).

And their whole early medieval culture seems to be a carbon copy of Orthodox Bulgarian culture. So put rather bluntly, am I safe to assume that they are 'incomplete Bulgarians' because of the weaker influence north of the Danube of the Second Bulgarian Tsardom?

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Post maps.

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Everyone greentext your ancestry
>paternal grandma is a descendant of the prophet Muhammad PBUH
>maternal grandma is also a descendant of the prophet Muhammad PBUH
>parents are cousin's
>Both grandfather's father was the Prince of the princely state of Rewari
>great great grandmother was the daughter of the last mughal emperor of india
>my great grandfather's grandfather is Tafuzzal Hussain Khan(Google him)
>his ancestor Sheikh Umar uddin came to India from Bukhara with the army of Shahab uddin of Ghor
>Sheikh Umar uddin was a descendant of Abu Bakr(the second Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate)
>lost everything after India and Pakistan separated
>live in Pakistan now

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Was he in the wrong in the Atlanta Campaign?

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Daily reminder Paul the homosexual and neurotic obsessive Hellene hijacked the Christian religion.

Paul preached a number of doctrines that were considered disgusting and pagan by James and Peter (who had actually spoken with Jesus).

For one, James and Peter held Jesus to be an annointed human (Messiah) and prophet: at no point did they believe he was pre-existent or that he was God, as Paul taught.

The Bible is written in a pro-Paulian light, seeing as Paul's epistles were written down before the Gospels had coalesced, and as such, when the Gospels were being transcribed, they were written down through the lens of Paulian thought.

The Jerusalem Church of Peter and James was destroyed and scattered due to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD, leaving Paul in Asia Minor free to spread his cult.

Luckily, a few hints still remain in the Bible that speak to us of the conflict between Paul and the Jerusalem Church: the Incident at Antioch (in which Paul was BTFO'd), the interpolation of "Jesus' hometown/family rejection". The original disciples believed Paul to be a lunatic at best, and possibly a demon.

It is safe to say that Christianity as it is today is based completely on Paul's teachings: the original teachings of Jesus are lost and may never be known, thanks to the persecution of the Ebionite 'heretics' under the Church.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M65mswPJN80

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Post your favourite Habsburgs

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Is getting a History degree worth it? Will majoring is history fuck up my life?

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Just been thinking about this alot lately. Not really talking about any specific god, just any being whos supposedly perfect and all powerful. The way I see it there's basically two reasons god could have created life. 1 It wants something 2 it needs something.

I don't think it's the second one, since if it was all powerful it would never need anything. But isn't the first one kind of selfish? Even if you give it the benifit of the doubt and say it created life so it could see it prosper. Isn't it kind of selfish to do so knowing all of the pain and suffering involved with survival in this world. All just so god can be happy. Admittedly life has its high notes. But if I were creating something and I knew that 95 percent of it was going to be awful for everyone other than myself and a lucky handfull, then why do it at all?

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The performing arts don't seem to get a lot of love on /his/, but I'm sure that not the entire lot of you are knuckle-dragging troglodytes.

Post favorite performances, recommendations, critiques, your performing arts waifu or husbando (mine's in pic), or whatever you want.

Some topics and questions to get going:

>20th Century music.... What's your opinion?

>Are super modern stagings of opera cancer?

>Does so-called "performance art" have a place among the traditional performing arts?

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If god is infinitely perfect and humans are (morally) flawed, doesn't that mean that he must hate us?

Is that the reason why suffering exists?

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What do you think about Napoleon?

I find his military campaigns and general impact as a leader really facinating and I'm curious to hear other opinions.

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>ITT: History through Spongebob quotes

"We should take the factories...and push them somewhere else!"