No one ever talks about this empire.
>>18345580>sultan of oman>lives in zanzibar???
>>18345580>we have 10 towns and 20 “forts” (lose collections of incremented uncut stone or just straight up mud) smaller than your local local McDonalds that we store food in to seasonally hunt around for black people to steal>our population is literally 90% slaves that do nothing but eat labor and sleep, and if you count the actual Omanis/tabs alone is smaller than than the totally population of your local mall/home-depot/Walmart is on a Saturday afternoon>empire
>>18347543>Why didn't somalians opt for arabic as lingua franca?Because the map is dogshit
>>18347740The two sons spilt power, one was based in zanzibar, the other one in muscat. In fact that after the zanzibar revolution in the 1960s, the last sultan of the island wasn't even allowed back in oman and lived in the UK until he was finally allowed back to Oman under the new government in 2020. Swahili became the kind of lingua franca it is today in part thanks to the Omani.
>>18345615How does this even happen man.
I often hear modern Buddhists complain that "western" buddhism views actual buddhism through a predominantly judeo-christian and rational lens, because these are the predominant western worldviews.But hasn't the same happened to Buddhism everywhere it went? In Bactria it got Greek elements, in China it got heavily influenced by Confucianism, in Japan it got incorporated with Shintoism, and there are countless of native religions in SEA that modified Buddhism.Why is the "Westernization" of Buddhism uniquely bad?
Buddhism in the west suffers from two different kinds of problematic people1. Western "Buddhists" who think it's all hip and compatible with science and not really a religion anyway, basically hollowing out the entire religion. They often have good intentions but theyre just completely out of their depth. Also includes gay reddit atheists who think ontological materialism and buddhism are the same.2. Self-described Buddhists who do take the religion, its history and doctrine seriously, but only really do so in away that allows them to brag about it to others and correct them. They get a little dopamine hit whenever they can chastise the people of group 1 on how to actually behave or what the buddha actually thought about this or that thing. They claim to be exhausted that Westerners get it wrong, but deep down they love it because it allows them to be self-righteous about it. Remind me a bit of the sedevacantist Dimond brothers, but Buddhist.If you want to see both groups interact, go to /r/buddhism, then kill yourself.
>>18347202To be fair, Buddhists, like a lot of people from indic religions, take advantage of the former making channels on meditiation and well-being, they've cultivated that audience. Islam is the best example of modern evangelising because content for converts is usually very deep historically and scripturally informed.
>>18343958I don’t really know enough about the discussion but it just sounds like the typical seething at white people by browns for shit that browns have already done but they hate it when whites do it.
>>18347609I dislike Islamic evangelization because it basically already assumes you're in the cult, because much of their work makes no sense otherwise, and Hadith transmission is a fucking joke
>>18343958While not a devote I finally got buddhism after decades of study, travel and practice. The largest obstacle was a western mind and raised a protestant evangelical. Though I had already determined Christianity (and monotheism) in all its forms only one hypothesis I couldn't shake western linear thinking and cultural bias. Like a western mind expects a certain result and begins to fill in the blanks and dismisses other possibilities. Once I allowed for anything, the nonsensical, unfamiliar, frightening, euphoric and and detached I felt at ease. Truly your mind is both limited and limitless and it must be trained to handle everything, everywhere and all at once or you go mad.
>>18348083I realize your answer is correct, but OP is a pedo and you are inadvertently encouraging him to view nude boys on his computer. Sometimes questions are best left unanswered as much as your autism may compel you not to.
>>18348115This is a painting, retard. Besides, I don't feel anything seeing this. I admire white beauty.
>>18348114This ltn has poor forward growth
>>18348114What about Björn?
>>18348114>faggot thinks xe can judge male beauty better than womenlol
Doomscrolling is literally destroying your capacity to connect with God at a neurological level. Prayer requires the kind of deep sustained attention where you can actually sit with silence and emptiness without reaching for a dopamine hit. But when you're constantly swiping through an endless feed of rage bait and shitposts your brain gets rewired into this fragmented, consumption-based mode where you're just bouncing from stimulus to stimulus. You can't pray when you can't focus. You can't hear God in the silence when your internal monologue is just a stream of half-processed Twitter arguments and TikTok videos. The whole digital medium is designed as an addiction machine that directly antagonizes the contemplative attention that religious experience demands. It's not even about the content anymore, you could be scrolling through Bible verses and it would still wreck you because the medium itself trains you to consume rather than contemplate. Pretty grim when you realize your relationship with your phone is functionally incompatible with your relationship with the divine.
>>18347995>Formimg relationships in your mind with the concept of morality isn't that consequential.This is why the liberal secular world is falling apart.
>>18347921insane strawman btw. God is fake and gay but i can agree with you that western politics is mostly a show and that we the people have no say in ie 2 million marched against the iraq war, a week later UK declares war on iraq because fuck what the non-ruling class wants
>>18348023Its not though its the fact that the public institutions aren't even as good of truth tellers as schizos on the internet.
>>18348028That's why the public institutions have brainwashed you into calling the truth tellers schizos.
>>18347971I grew up with a Catholic father who abused me, and it distorted my vision of Catholicism so much I feel like I can't practice it nor believe in it since then. Do you have any advice?
>The Son of Man and The Son of God are the same personWho wrote this shit?
>>18347116The Kingdom of God is at hand – Mark 14v42, during the earthly ministry of Christ, and the Lord Jesus even gives instructions to Nicodemus on how to enter it. This Kingdom will continue throughout the Church Age, and will be realised in full when the two Kingdoms merge during the Millennial reign of Christ.The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand – when Jesus Christ is on earth because He is the promised King, the Messiah that is to rule the nation of Israel, and the world in a literal Kingdom. This Kingdom is not at hand again until the ‘time of Jacob’s Trouble’ (Jer 30v7), when the Messiah comes to her the second time (Gen 41v5, 43v10, Isa 11v11, Acts 7v13) to rescue believing Israel and fulfil the promises she thought was the program of the First Coming.The term ‘Son of Man’ occurs nowhere in the Pauline Epistles. It is specifically used in regard to the earthly, Jewish title connected with Christ’s earthly ministry to Israel (Ezek 1-6).The Lord Jesus Christ initially came only to Israel – Mat 15v24, but knowing all that would happen, He came to save Gentiles also – Luke 2v25-32.When you read a verse of Scripture, always ask yourself this question: "Is this thing aimed at a saved person or is it aimed at a Gentile or a Jew?" Everything in that Bible is aimed at a Jew or a Gentile or a Christian. God divides mankind into three classes: unsaved Gentiles, unsaved Jews, and "in Christ," there is "neither Jew nor Gentile."In order to be the Savior, Jesus had to be not only Divine and virgin-born, but He must also be a man. He was like us but without sin. I Timothy 2:5, “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man (human) Christ Jesus.” Jesus had to be made like unto us in order to be a “faithful high priest in things pertaining to God.” (Hebrews 2:17). Jesus was born under the law that He might redeem us from the law, Galatians 4:4, 5. The first Adam brought death. Christ, the second Adam, brought resurrection, I Corinthians 15:21.
It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.The new advocate will come to you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called human.The high priest said to him, “I charge you under oath by the living God: Tell us if you are the Messiah, the Human.”"If you say so” Jesus replied. “But as for me, I say to ALL of you: From now on, you will see the human sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.”
Jesus Christ is God in the flesh. He died on the cross as a sinless sacrifice for all the sins of the whole world to save you from eternal hell, the punishment for your sins. He was buried, then rose again from the dead. One day you will stand before Him, and He will judge you. You can either repent to God by receiving Him and be saved, or reject Him and go to hell for your sins.Rom. 3:23-25: “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;”1 John 5:7: “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.”Salvation is by grace through faith (Eph. 2:8-9) in the one, final, effectual sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ (Heb. 10:8-12) dying in your place (1 Cor. 15:3-4) as a substitutionary offering for sin (Rom. 5:1-10). His blood atonement made for you is finished, so if you have received the Lord Jesus by faith (John 1:12) in your heart, you're forgiven of all your sins and are saved, once for all; finally and forever! (Rom. 8:38-39, Romans 4:5) Will you submit yet? (Romans 10:3)The gift of salvation can't be earned, it is a gift: Eph. 2:8-9: “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” Rom. 10:9: “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” Confess The Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in prayer, that you trust in Him, not your own deeds, He atoned for your sins on the cross.www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VRT2FFXntcProof that the Bible is the word of God:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>18347116>Who wrote this shit?I will also ask you a question. Tell me about John’s baptism. Was it from heaven, or of human origin?
>>18347116Man's wife's boyfriend
Why did Portugal agree to THIS?
>>18347777let me speak in very simple terms>spain being given nearly the entire new world$$$$$$$$$$>portugal being getting a monopoly on the African coast and the entire Indian ocean$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
>>18347777The parts where the treaty was easiest to enforce were given to them and the parts where the treaty was the hardest to enforce was given to Spain. Pretty good deal when you consider how far west Brazil pushed vs how irrelevant Spain was in Africa.
>>18347777Well, Spain gave all the Amazonas jungle for free to Portugal. Imagine gifting all the Amazonas to other country.
>>18347777Why wouldn't they? If anything it was Spain who got shafted. They were given a near uncontested monopoly on Asian and African trade for over a century and when other Europeans stepped up they had Brazil which was the richest gold colony in the Americas. Just read about the capture of the Madre de Deus, a single ship was worth more than half of England's entire treasury at the time
>>18347777The map is fake, neither Spain nor Portugal had the men and resources to actually do that. PD: Filipinas should have been to Portugal, so Spain could focus in Africa. And if something bad happened, Portugal would suffer it instead of Spain.
God is a complete monster. Absolutely horrific.
>>18345866I curse VishnuDenounce all Jews (including Christ)
>>18346230Hell has always existed in the book of Enoch.
>>18344618"It's fine, because yhwh only said to do genocide and child rape a few times."Fucking gross."But they didn't rape the little virgin girls."They certainly can't consent to the sex, and there was no "18=adult" back then in the culture or the scriptures. They were children. They were raped. Child rape.No better than Islam.
>>18344677>if just a few people in Sodom are good, I want you to spare them>ok sure>jk get fucked
>>18347754They did not abuse captives, rape was to be punished by death. Deuteronomy 22:25-26
>As long as he owns your tools he owns your job, and if he owns your job he is the master of your fate. You are in no sense a free man. You are subject to his interest and to his will. He decides whether you shall work or not. Therefore, he decides whether you shall live or die. And in that humiliating position any one who tries to persuade you that you are a free man is guilty of insulting your intelligence.
Because of offshoring and deindustrialization, America will never have the same class consciousness and force of will to commit an industrial action like the pullman strike like back then in your lifetime probably Shit sucks
>Therefore, he decides whether you shall live or dieThis assumes we live in an alternative reality where literally only one employer exists on the entire planet Retarded commie shit, as per our usual arraignment
In You Do I Take RefugeOh YHWH my God, in You do I take refuge;save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,lest like a lion they tear my soul apart,rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.Oh YHWH my God, if I have done this,if there is wrong in my hands,if I have repaid my friend with evilor plundered my enemy without cause,let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it,and let him trample my life to the groundand lay my glory in the dust.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
The nation was sliding towards crisis by 1856. The Kansas-Nebraska Act had fatally weakened incumbent president Franklin Pierce and Democrats were handed a resounding defeat in the 1854 midterms. The DNC was held in Cincinnati on June 2-6, the slavery issue being a major bone of contention. The delegates fell behind James Buchanan, current minister to Great Britain and former Secretary of State. This was the first time a sitting president was denied renomination by his own party. For a running mate they selected Kentucky's John Breckinridge.Although the Whigs had collapsed following the Kansas-Nebraska Act, their place was quickly taken when the Republican Party was founded in Illinois in 1854. The anti-Democrat opposition in the midterm elections was a patchwork of different groups although the nascent Republicans grabbed 13 House seats and eventually expanded to absorb most of the other factions. The party held its first national convention in Philadelphia on June 17-19 in which they called for Federal funding for a transcontinental railroad, for Congress to have exclusive authority in legislating for the territories, and for military force against the polygamous Mormons. Of several possible Republican presidential contenders, most were unwilling to run as they believed the new party was unlikely to win this election and they would prefer to wait until 1860. The delegates voted for John Fremont and running mate William Dayton.
The nativist American (Know Nothing) Party, which opposed Catholic immigration from Europe, formed and held its convention in Philadelphia in June and would end up running former president Fillmore despite his lack of prior involvement with the Know Nothings or any nativist movements. During the campaign, Fillmore merely called for sectional unity and avoided mentioning nativism at all. The dying Whig Party held one last national convention in Baltimore on September 17-18 but ultimately the Whigs decided not to run a presidential candidate and instead endorsed the American Party.During the general election, which saw no candidates do any active campaigning, Democrats ridiculed the Republican Party as a collection of malcontents, "race amalgamationists", socialists, feminists, and other fringe groups. They also mocked John Fremont for having been born out of wedlock. More menacingly, the Democrats predicted that dire consequences would result from a Fremont victory and that it was likely to provoke the secession of the Southern states from the union. The Republican platform denounced the Kansas-Nebraska Act and charged the Pierce Administration with causing the mini-civil war raging in Kansas. They called for Kansas to be admitted as a free state at once. Opposing the further expansion of slavery, the GOP also denounced the Ostend Manifesto, which proposed annexing Cuba.
Buchanan won an easy electoral victory on Election Day with 174 electoral votes and 19 states to become the first and so far only president from Pennsylvania. Fremont, who was not on the ballot in most of the slave states, won 11 states all along the northern edge of the nation while the American Party won Maryland and its eight electoral votes. GOP leaders were not disappointed; most had not really expected to win on the party's first presidential attempt and they would spend the next four years building their national organization.
>>18347516Fuck James Buchanan that retarded faggot fuck
>>18347660Based
>>18347523>a collection of malcontents, "race amalgamationists", socialists, feminists, and other fringe groupsThey were right of course, but very quickly pounced on the urban catholic immigrant bloc shortly thereafter
What would Britain be like if Oswald Mosley became prime minister?
It would be based.
>>18347525Britannia would still rule the waves.
Besides the obvious, Minnesota (always voting blue no matter who) and Georgia (being Carter's home state), whats the deal with Rhode Island and West Virginia in the 1980 presidential election?
The other states seem obvious but West Virginia is odd. I’ll say it’s the last dying embers of old time union miners and a local Democratic machine. This was a transition era where more of the south was voting Republican in presidential elections but still electing conservative Democrats to Congress and local offices. Bill Clinton was the last Democrat to carry many southern states before the map of Dixie went red.
>>18346616West Virginia was not part of the Solid South, it voted Republican plenty of times before the New Deal which is what really turned them into a lean-Democratic state. In 2000 the topic of the environment and hostility towards dirty industry increased in prominence especially in Democrat discourse, which had a profound impact on West Virginia politics due to their reliance on coal.
Reagan sol d out California and made it blueI'll never forgive him for being part of the ruin of this state
>>18347159As recently as 2015 Jeb Bush said illegals pouring in was an "act of love". It took Trump to dismantle the uniparty support of illegals.
>>18347159neoliberals do that
When did the Medieval era finally end?The fall of Constantinople?The discovery of the Americas?Or something else?
>>18347449Calling an specific moment in history as the beginning or the ending of a historical period is the worst mistake our retarded historians ever made, and with that said the middle age finally ended with the disappearance of the feudalistic sistem, the rise of professional armies, and european powers pushing away the at the time everpowerful church away from political matters
>>18347449Officially when Bracciolini and others compiled all the Carolingian script they could and started the Italian Renaissance, which lead to the Renaissance elsewhere. The lines are blurred because it was never an objective concept, people just looked at the Roman Empire with rose tinted glasses.
>>18347449Medieval ended when the Americas was discovered, beginning the age of exploration. Feudalism itself however persisted for a long time far beyond the Medieval era
>>18347449There was no "middle ages", it's just a name we gave to a period with shared characteristics. No one at the time perceived the "end of the middle ages" as a tangible change, sure, there was new land out there in the west, but that mattered to the king and the navy, no german or french nobleman cared. Besides, if you want to draw a dividing line, it inevitably has to be regional.
>>18347449It happened at different times in different places. In England the Tudor period generally marks the end of the middle ages. In Spain it would be the end of the Reconquista/discovery of the New World. Constantinople is another date. Luther is also another usable date.
>claim to be pagan >have never sacrificed a single cow>much less a hecatomb >much less a human Is it because modern pagans are poor or is it because they are larping?
>>18347947>>have never sacrificed a single cowI'm sure plenty of Pagans have eaten hamburgers
>>18347947most pagans think cows are sacred actually (1billion indians)
>>18347947sacrificing a food animal to the temple of a god seems retarded because you, and most people, don't understand what the "gods" even were. 1 Corinthians 12:27
Neopagans are not really even a thing in real life
Historical SS / National Socialist Music ThreadI'll start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT3eQbQY_fI
>>18347528Stalin was a Slavic Bolshevik, the mortal enemy of a fascist dog
>>18347560he was Caucasian
>>18347560>Slavickek
>>18347512https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNI5fcu6se8
>>18347852Cope
