Does anyone else think Islam deserves a more representative universal symbol other than the Crescent & Moon? The Crucifix for Christianity and the Star of David for Judaism make perfect sense as the culmination of symbolism within those religions, but the crescent & star of Islam are merely adopted from Byzantium's civil symbols. The symbol effectively means nothing to Islam other than happening to be an adopted ensign.
The second best symbols Islam has are calligraphic motifs which are also rather underwhelming.
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The Hannukiah is more of the Jewish symbol. The hexagram came to be seen as Jewy relatively late in their history.
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Yes.
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>>3139900
Like a guy fucking a goat?
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give me a tl;dr on the history of this region
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>>3139874
The natural borders of greater albania
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Special snowflake syndrome taken to genocidal proportions. They're all basically the same people.
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>>3139874
thracians and illyrians->romans->slavs->bulgarian empire->byzantines->bulgarian empire->feudal anarchy->turks->nationalism->wars->communism->wars->today
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What languages were used by diplomatic missions in contacts with extra european empires, and among the latter, during the high middle ages and the dawn of modern times?
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the japanese used dutch just for autism
> translate from japanese to dutch and from dutch to english or french
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Latin. Probably. I don't actually know. But Latin is a really safe bet. I don't see why anything would be more prominent in that era.
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>>3139786
Not just for autism thou. Only dutch merchants were allowed to trade with japs.
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Ancient Persians were not European 2017-07-25 09:04:14 Post No.3139769
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Ancient Persians were not European
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There were these people called "Proto-Indo-Iranians of Sintashta" culture. They lived near Ural river near Eurasian steppe. They migrated to NW India, Central Asia, and Iranian plateau mixing with the local inhabitants marginally and spreading their culture. Research shows they were closely related to Poles, Croats, and Ukrainians.
Local inhabitants of Zagros mountains did mix with Proto-Indo-Iranians, but this did not shift the genome that much as genetic studies showed. Here is a study comparing a Persian of Teppe Hasanlu to modern Persians, showing how we relate more closely to them than Europeans:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2016/07/13/science.aaf7943.full
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Sample is from Teppe Hasanlu of a Sassanian era Persian. Persians were originally people of Zagros mountains who marginally mixed with Indo-Iranians of Sintashta culture who passed their culture down. People of Zagros mountains relate most closely to Caucasus mountain people.
The descendants of Proto-Indo-Iranians were Central European in appearance. They were called Scythians and Sarmatians, but they were distinguished from Persians, Medes, Sogdians, and Bactrians.
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So?
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Here are ancient artifacts of Sassanids depicting themselves. Persians were never European, but they did have marginal admixture.
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One more artifact.
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How was he any different from a run-of-the-mill junkie?
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>>3139690
Literature.
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>>3141002
Meaning he could write?
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>>3141027
Anyone can write, even you can produce legible sentences. Thompson produced LITERATURE, that is, he could write really well.
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Why did islamic golden age end?
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buncha slant eyes riding on ponies fucked their shit up
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Eternal Altaic struck again.
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Ran out of things to steal.
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Redpill me on the Kanem Empire
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>>3139622
Nigger Empire, nothing much. Btw op u a nigger toooo
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>>3140534
Got em
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>>3139622
Some niggers developed the mental capacity to seize some trade routes. Centuries later, some guild-ridden Europeans decided to call it an ''Empire"
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What if Jesus wasn't the perfect, sinless man the NT makes him out to be, and actually had a dark side the Church doesn't want you to know about?
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>>3139569
Then mankind has no hope, and the resurrection was a lie.
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>>3139569
He was a stone-cold CUNT. He threw an autistic shitfit when he saw the moneylenders at the Temple, he cursed a fig tree for not bearing fruit IN THE MIDDLE OF WINTER, he drove some demons into the bodies of poor innocent piggos and drove said piggos to their deaths off of a cliff, and of course he promised to burn his enemies in a firey pit FOREVER.
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>>3139580
The gospels portray those things as good.
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ITT: African country that isn't a (complete) shithole
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Starting with the Singapore of Africsà
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/africa
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>>3139472
>A
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>>3139472
>Rwanda=Singapore of Africa.
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http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2017/07/028.html
>A group of genomes from Sub-Saharan >Africa had a version of the gene that was >wildly different from versions found in other >modern humans.
>The Sub-Saharan variant was so distinctive >that Neanderthal and Denisovan MUC7 >genes matched more closely with those of >other modern humans than the Sub-Saharan >outlier did.
>“Based on our analysis, the most plausible >explanation for this extreme variation is >archaic introgression — the introduction of >genetic material from a ‘ghost’ species of >ancient hominins,” Gokcumen says. “This >unknown human relative could be a species >that has been discovered, such as a >subspecies of Homo erectus, or an >undiscovered hominin. We call it a ‘ghost’ >species because we don’t have the fossils.”
>Given the rate that genes mutate during the >course of evolution, the team calculated that >the ancestors of people who carry the Sub->Saharan MUC7 variant interbred with >another ancient human species as recently >as 150,000 years ago, after the two species’ >evolutionary path diverged from each other >some 1.5 to 2 million years ago.
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Oh boy, i'm sure this thread will be full of great and quality discussion.
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>>3139444
Its already been known that when homo sapiens spread into africa from the middle east where it evolved it racemixed with primitive hominids like homo erectus and homo habilis creating the modern africans. This is hardly news, geneticists have known that just like europeans and asians have neaderthal and denisovan DNA africans have DNA from various earlier hominids that inhabited africa. Those early hominids didnt just vanish into thin air.
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>>3139560
Middle East was Neanderthal 100000 years ago.
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next year will be 50 years after the student protests in paris in '68. we will be half a centruy removed from 1964 (civil rights) and 1965 (immigration law reform) in the USA and cultural revolution that started in 1968 in Europe.
Did the benefits (expansion of personal freedom and equality) outweigh the costs (break down of traditional family unit, erosion/relativisation of western culture, decline of the church, mass immigration etc.)?
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>>3139436
>did the benefits(muh feels)
>out weight the costs(rampant degeneracy)
No. "Personal freedom" and "equality" is not a proper exchange for the downfall of the western man.
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>>3139436
Oh yes because personnel rights and freedom=degeneracy. Wow. I guess we should live in a police state.
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Yes I love the fact that the average euro girl has 30 partners before the age of 25 while considering children to be disgusting parasites, I also love that we are being flooded with people who consider treating their women as human incubators for 12 children to be a sacred duty while they tax the social safety my country men built! I also adore the fact that even "conservative, backwards" European that practically ban abortion barely manage a replacement birth rate!
Free REEEEE duuuummmbssss!
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What is the purpose of rituals?
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>>3139411
Group bonding.
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Depends on what ritual, and who you ask; of course the original thought would be that it does what it purports to do. For instance, the eucharist is supposed to, quite literally, put a piece of the divine inside of you.
>>3139415 is probably the most well-accepted general answer, but probably can't be considered the be-all end-all answer; it is more accurate to say that group bonding is a significant aspect of rituals
The Confucian approach to rituals posits that the most important aspect of doing a ritual is not contact with the divine, or group bonding, but rather that they further the right mentality; sacrificing to your ancestors should not be done because they really need you to give them rice, but because the ritual teaches you respect for your elders.
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>>3139411
Creation of an inculture rules/customs. Sorta like passwords or rather injokes or memes.
Basically to distinguish your group from other group.
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Why is "pleb" even an insult? Augustus, Lucullus, Cicero were all plebians.
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Why do you think Romans aren't the ancestors of Italians?
Is it autism, or something less?
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>>3139377
>that pic
I see that Hans a little butthurt today
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>>3139377
You understand those listed didn't their entire lives to not be plebians anymore right?
I mean you aren't actually THAT retarded?
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ITT absolute madmen.
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Could you BTFO medieval knights and peasants with this?
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>>3139262
Could we go one day without a shit thread?
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>>3139285
is that a no then?
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>>3139262
Op is a faggot