what explains the fact that today australia is a rich, wealthy, militarily strong first world country, despite the fact that it is esentially a giant wasteland island in the middle of the ocean inhabited by the worst of the worst british convicts?
disclaimer: i'm not making this thread on /pol/ because i don't want "muh white supremacy" as an explanation. i want to know what actually happened for australia to become what it is today.
Usually colonies where the natives are (mostly) wiped out are easily able to replicate the societies that they originated from.
On the other hand, places like India and Africa where the native people are the vast majority and already have their own institutions, cultures, languages, economies, ideologies, etc, aren't going to adopt Western civilization overnight and so they end up struggling to keep up.
Settlers in Australia didn't have to give up their whole culture to adopt a more successful one, they just had to recreate what the knew at home. Even convicts were already familiar with the civilization they came from, so it wasn't really an impossible task.
As for agriculture, I'm pretty sure Australia is well suited for cattle ranching, they were just never introduced before colonisation. Besides, the tiny population density doesn't really require huge tracts of fertile land.
I'm talking out my ass here though, I don't know anything about Australia.
>>677687
>the worst of the worst british convicts
Not really. Australia was more an experiment in rehabilitation for people who committed the heinous crime of stealing a piece of cloth, or reading a book that was banned, shit like that
The gospel of Thomas is a Gnostic text not included in the new testament. It is essentially just 114 jesus quotes one after another. Many of the quotes can be found in the books of the new testament. There are some that are found only in Thomas, and they are odd, and most likely require cultural context lost to historians.
I propose a challenge to the historians, philosophers, shitposters, and theologians of /his/: I will post weird Jesus quotes from Thomas and you will tell me their true meaning. As Jesus is quoted at the beginning of Thomas "Whoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death."
Your first quote is Thomas 7
"Lucky is the lion that the human eats, so that the lion becomes human. And foul is the human the lion will eat, and the lion will still become human."
Ill post another after a while.
Very interesting indeed.
The lion and the Man (probably) sheer representations of our self. The lion represents our animalistic urges while the Man represents rationality. The rest can pieced together by a 12yr old.
>>677518
But why would the lion (urges) still become human (logic)?
>>677531
Maybe humanity is part logic and part savage vice?
Would a medieval-level society be able to kill a dragon?
>>677294
>hasn't read Beowulf
Retard
>>677294
Hard to kill something that doesn't exist.
HWAET!
EU aside, what was the most successful attemp at unifyng Europe?
>>677185
Rome
Charlemagne?
Napoleon?
Hitler?
Is sex not always submission for the woman? And thus humiliating for her.
Sex for men is always "conquering", meaning someone must have lost (i.e. the woman). I don't think this is socially constructed though, but the most natural power relationship between humans.
Can any self-respecting woman really ever allow herself to get fucked?
There's only one woman I know who feels this way and I've been married to her for 30 years.
>>676696
Not for gay sex :^)
Wrong on all counts, friendo. Maybe actually have sex with a woman before speculating wildly.
You only get 1 life.
That's it.
Nothing more.
To think otherwise, exists in the imagination.
>>676290
LOL
END THE SIMULATION
DOWN WITH DEMIURGE
>>676290
You only get 1 moment.
That's it.
Nothing more.
To think otherwise, exists in the imagination.
It's a hard pill to swallow; the mind wants to preserve itself at all cost.
How was Mehmet the Conqueror able to subjugate Constantinople? What were his actual tactics used that resulted in so much success?
Just curious.
FUCKING HUGE CANNONS, NIGGA.
At that point, the Ottomans attacked with more soldiers than there was citizens in the city
>be me
>Mehmed v2.0
>go to Constantinople
>fuck shit up with a huge cannon
>breach the walls
>feelsgoodman.allah
>fucking byzantine emperor dies on the barricades or some shit
>1453/10
There's little doubt our influence is growing weaker. What I purpose is that we must reunite as one rule, and to carry out the same goals.
Also, if there's any disparity between our beautiful people; we must work to resolve them by methods of evidence, philosophical reasoning, and reexamination to find the truth. Rather than be isolated in secular space.
The Church mustn't be known as a 'service', but what it was originally intended: a community, which we are all connected.
We are gonna build a Christian tribe.
>loonies who like to shop for beliefs, gather round
Fuck off to >>>/x/
>>676050
Taking care of widows and providing medical services is one of the most traditionally christian things you can do, now get off the computer and go do good works.
Remember to send all donations to me btw.
>>676050
We really do fucking need a separate humanities board.
>Viking helmets had Horns
Post things people actually believe about ancient cultures
>The medieval period was full of witch burnings.
everyone is covered in filth.
Christianity was totally pro science and didn't du nuffin
Tell me about East Africa.
Are they mixed niggers/arabs? Whats their history, anything of note?
Seems to be very little of whats supposed to be the place where modern humans originated
I guess after spawning the human race they more or less felt that they'd done their part and decided to leave the rest to everyone else.
>>675584
I know that around the middle ages or so they traded a bunch with Indians and Chinese until they were colonized. Other than i'm pretty sure they were total shit.
They wuz Pharaoh
/his/ if you could go back in time and change anything what would you do
I would kill Mohammad as a child to save all the beautiful pre-Arab cultures like the Persians and Egyptians ect.
>>675525
>all the beautiful pre-Arab cultures like the Persians and Egyptians ect.
They're still there
The bait has been set.
(Someone posted this pic on my thread so I'll share it.) I'd give Adolf Hitler a thumbs up. Not sure if it would change anything, but it would sure as hell be legendary.
Is this art or pornography?
I'm going to say it's the former because I don't want to get banned.
>>675023
Both, porn is a type of art
>>675023
>art or pornography
Is there a real difference? Isn't pornography just a type of art with a specific purpose?
>>675023
Source?
How comes God was against Tower of Babylon but is ok with space program?
it's cool as long as we don't start speaking esperanto on the ISS
Space is actually a humbling experience so God is okay with it
>>674824
METAPHORRRR
This sign is called the Chi Rho, Buddha is making it on the left, Christ on the right (first two fingers are Χ, the rest Ρ).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_Rho
Buddhism was enormously influenced by Christianity, and a lot of the things we started considered "ancient Eastern wisdom", with the advent of Orientalism, actually originated with Christianity.
For instance, “mantra” and “japa” (mantra meditation) just meant a regular prayer in Eastern religions until a while after Christians started using constant repetitions. The earliest Buddhist canon, which is the Pali canon, dates from 29 BC and make no mention of mantra meditation. Christian meditation dates back to the OT (Genesis 24:63). Joshua 1:8 says to keep the Law constantly on your lips, to meditate on it day and night. The word translated as “meditate” here, means to mutter or growl quietly. Paul says to “pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:17) The earliest extensive written instructions on Christian mantra meditation, were authored by Saint John Cassian, in 420 AD, at the behest of Bishop Castor of Apt. The earliest account of Buddha as we think of him now was written by Buddhaghosa, and dates from around the same time Saint John Cassian was writing (earlier accounts of Buddha are closer to something out of Homer). The Visuddhimagga, Buddhaghosa’s extensive meditation manual, makes no mention of mantras; here meditation is focusing on something (or focusing on precisely nothing), but none of the instruction says anything about use of mantras in meditation. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, from the 4th Century AD, mention mantras, but here they have nothing to do with mediation, they’re invocations used to gain power over things, probably the identical sense to what they were for Brahmin priests. As for Hinduism, their most famous mantra, the Hare Krishna, was not used for constant repetition or meditation until 16th Century AD, when it was popularized by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
>Buddhism was enormously influenced by Christianity
here's your reply
>>674394
Completely out of the question, obviously.
>>674369
Why do you call Visuddhimagga a meditation manual?
Without Hitler, would Germany eventually accept the Versailles borders?
They probably could have gotten some areas back with Gandhi style passive resistance until a referendum was held.
Otherwise, it could have gone either way.
German dissatisfaction with Versailles was much bigger than Hitler, and I can see a more moderate figure using some coercive diplomacy on the neighbors, especially since the British and French were unwilling to respond with military force.
>>674349
While Hitler wasn't the only advocating the abolition of the treaty of Versailles, he and his party were certainly a driving force behind it, so presumbly yes.
>>674362
>Gandhi style passive resistance
literally the worst tactic in history