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I think Hinduism is really cool. However, my grandfather himself had to escape essentially what was a genocide when Pakistan was partitioned from India. I'm just part Pakistani, the rest is white I live in Los Angeles, I'm a normalfag. But, I had more respect for my grandfather than anyone on this planet. After the partition, He still lived on the Indian side (so really I'm Indian) so he rode a bicycle for miles and miles with his 5 year old brother on the handle bars to escape the brutality, he was 16. He ended up in a refugee camp and reunited with his family where his infant sister caught some sort of infection because of the conditions and went permanently blind. He then rode his bike 38 miles each way during a flood to turn in a college application while living at that camp. Went to university of Karachi and got a bachelors in engineering, all while supporting his family. He was then selected as one of two people in the world for a scholarship to UC Berkeley in California. He got a full scholarship to get his masters in civil engineering and nobody in our family has ever had to worry about money since. He moved all his kids to Southern California, everyone got educated and does great things.
Nobody on that side of the family is really a "devout" Muslim, but Is just think it would be really disrespectful of his memory to get into Hinduism, even tho I think its philosophies are really cool. My grandfather told me himself he didn't believe in god at all, but he still would participate in all holidays and everything because it was his culture. My grandfather never even had a sip of alcohol or a drug in his life. I smoke weed, drink, and now, I feel like to be Hindu when he and my relatives were victimized to an extreme degree by Hindus is just too much.
Thoughts?
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>>2962773
hindu mythology is cool AF
their art sucks horribly
Does being a hindu require you to openly admit you're a Hindu or can you just pay lip service to your families traditions while being a Hindu in secret? You could be like your grandpa; still following muslim traditions when he didn't believe in god?
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Hinduism is full of bullshit yogis who get high all day, you'll fit right in
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google Kabir
there's nothing disrespectful in diving into any religion whatever your ancestors' religion was
especially if it was strictly a cultural thing
also read about kashmir shaivism
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ITT: History things that blow your mind
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The borders of the Hittite empire are more or less those of modern Turkey
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>>2962544
>those of modern Turkey
um no sweetie, I think you mean modern Kurdistan.
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It's almost like Anatolia has natural, geographic borders.
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We're still centuries closer to to the assassination of Julius Caesar than Julius Caesar was to the construction of the pyramids
It gets repeated a lot but is still pretty amazing
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Which Roman emperor was the hottest?
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The black one
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>>2962515
Octavio was ay papacito
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Elagabalus
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Bizzarely interesting History books 2017-06-17 12:20:16 Post No.2961668
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Bizzarely interesting History books
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What are some history books that detail bizarre or incredibly unique stories throughout history that you think more people should read?
Pic related. It's pretty funny how this guy just kept getting away with it.
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you just wanted to talk about the book you like and how great you are for reading it. tell me more about yourself op, what is your favorite color, a deeper blue by any chance?
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>>2961677
Not OP, but damn are you insecure.
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UK managed to be pretty clever with keeping the Northern Ireland for themselves.
Why has this not happened more?
I'm talking about the collapse of the Soviet Union, which saw the opposite happening. Huge areas of Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus Latvia and Estonia are Russian ethnically but with the way the borders were set up, Russians didn't get a good deal out of it.
Was it just a lack of foresight from the Soviet leaders?
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>Keeping Northern Ireland
>Clever
It was a temporary decision to appease protestant loyalists at a time when Britain really didn't need more conflict.
They don't care about NI and never have; they literally offered it to the Republic in WW2.
NI as a state is a failure; it produces nothing, it contributes nothing and is really nothing other than a money drain for Britain and a humiliation for the British.
It's an artificial statelet which not even the biggest "muh empire" english man would be proud of.
Honestly, the sooner we let it go the better my man. All of Ireland, or none of it.
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I don't know if this was their intention but an alternative way of looking at it is that if they allowed other countries to keep areas that are majority Russian it gives them a permanent casus belli against these countries and a large segment of the population that's more loyal to Russia than to their own government, potentially making it easier to install puppet governments or maintain influence over the entire country rather than just keep part of it.
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>>2960861
what you describe in fact has served russian interests perfectly, they have potential "fifth columns" in a number of countries
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What the hell is up with all these blatantly racist and disgusting threads populating /his/ ? I don't even want to call them /pol/-tier because this shit would even be deleted from /pol/.
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>>2969252
Hello, Reddit
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Go back and stay there you faggot
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>>2969252
Just ignore it m8.
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>>2968939
Greek blood
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>>2968939
they were founded by criminals
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>>2968939
Protestant Work Ethic
How come Protestant nations are more sucessfull than Catholic nations? Except from France and maybe Ireland
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bbmpu
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Sucessful in what?
France, Italy and Spain alone can buttfuck the rest of Europe if they want....
Ireland lol my sides...
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>>2967759
''muh strenght in numbers''
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How would a Third Reich Cold War turn out?
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>>2964632
Germany goes bankrupt trying to keep up with America militarily and collapses. Dumb question though since Germany had no chance of winning the war, much less taking over all the territory in that ridiculous map.
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Spoon feed me where America gets all this money to spend on the military? Like they outspend Russia by like 110%?
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>>2964650
We have a big GDP 4u
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What happened? Why so many people are in the slammer in the US?
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>>2963322
war on drugs?
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>>2963322
Profit driven privatization of prison.
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How?
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>>2957439
Gibs
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Maine screwed up.
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>>2957439
Repubs had dominated national politics from 1865 until FDR, people were tired of their shit
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Was he real leader or just a moron? And how he became a king? In spite of started from the bottom. I think he is one of the interesting man in the human history.
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I can't express how much I want you to leave this board
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Stalin's enemies continued to underestimate him even when it became increasingly clear he was not the country bumpkin they'd hoped
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Stalin read a lot, and even wrote books and articles.
He did the reading in secret, not sure about the writing, but he had a secret bookshelf that he would hide once people visited him. He tried to come across as plain as possible, then when his enemy felt superiour and lowered his guard he would strike, sometimes they wouldn't even know Stalin was behind the strike. I don't think FDR ever had a clue of who Stalin really was
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Why are people so obsessed with Hitler and wanting him to be right? They put him on the same pedestal as Jesus, in a position where he can't be criticised or be wrong.
Do you just want to be the opposite of what average people believe? To find some 'hidden truth'? Is this your attempt at trying to be unique?
What makes you want to be a Nazi?
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>>2967775
Fuck off kike.
Saged and hidden.
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>>2967775
I think people are just dismayed at the current state of the decaying West and want to look for a 'hero' who could save it
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Because niggers and kikes and muslims are shit.
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How would /his/ eliminate poverty once and for all?
>hard mode: no higher taxes above 20% or seizing of rich people's assets allowed
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Sterilization and eugenics.
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>>2967723
Are you allowed to start taxing more stuff that isn't taxed, as long as it's bellow 20%?