[Trumpian]

(11-23-2018 12:08 PM)MANic Wrote:  

lol at the erroneous take on the crusades.
The crusades were effectively an invasion, by a marginal, underdeveloped primitive and savage people, of the most culturally developed, civil and advanced global blocs at the time.

Sound familiar? It should, and such is the cycle of our world
.

Gross simplification. We know the Middle East today as an Arab/Muslim region. But at the time of the Crusades, it hadn't been that long since that part of the world was part of Christendom under the Byzantines. Huge Christian population. Which the remnants of are still there today.

In their minds, they were taking back what was theirs.

Most of the Arab/Muslim technology was inherited from Byzantium. They were ahead of Western Europe in some areas as a result.

That said those European savages tore through the Arab armies while being wildly outnumbered and half starving in the 1st crusade. So that doesn't reflect too well on the Arabs I suppose.

But frankly, the notion that Europeans were backwards in the dark/early middle ages is really historically inaccurate. There was considerable technological innovation post fall of Rome.

[MANic]

Clutching at straws my friend. The trend of barbaric hordes overcoming more developed societies is a common theme in all of history.

Innovation is not an exclusive domain. Similarly much of modern western medicine and science has traces of muslim contribution.

Too many here are reluctant to accept the globalis nature of human advancement as it conflicts with their "whitey rightey" thesis.

[Sherman]

Day 0: Sentinelese culture has survived for 60,000 years.

Day 1: Missionary approaches Sentinelese warrior and gets hit with poison arrow. Sentinelese warrior dances for joy because his nation is protected. Sentinelese warrior displays the virtue of nature. A perfect man.

Day 2: For some reason, Sentinelese warrior hesitates to shoot. Second missionary tells him about Jesus.

Day 3: A third missionary approaches. Sentinelese warrior about to shoot. But then he remembers that Jesus said if I come to you and you deny me, I will deny you in heaven. Maybe missionary approaching me is actually Jesus. Warrior doesn't shoot. Man turns out to be authority. Puts warrior in chains. Gets his children.

Day 4: Sentinelese warrior can't eat because wife busy talking on smart phone.

Day 5: Son of Sentinelese warrior taught by new teacher that he may actually be a woman. Sentinelese warrior about to protest but than remembers that new teacher is Jewish, and God will curse those who curse the Jews.

Day 6: Sentinelese warriors no longer exist as a distinct culture. They are now just one more cog in the New World Order. Sentinelese culture destroyed in six days just like in Bible.

[MANic]

^^forgot about dat der tax dollars

[Disco_Volante]

Liberals making fun of this guy for deciding to go to a dangerous island, then turn around and say women should wear whatever they want and expect to not be raped in the ghetto at 3am.

[AvonBarksdale]

He deserved it

[AvonBarksdale]

(11-23-2018 12:39 PM)Trumpian Wrote:  

(11-23-2018 12:08 PM)MANic Wrote:  

lol at the erroneous take on the crusades.
The crusades were effectively an invasion, by a marginal, underdeveloped primitive and savage people, of the most culturally developed, civil and advanced global blocs at the time.

Sound familiar? It should, and such is the cycle of our world
.

Gross simplification. We know the Middle East today as an Arab/Muslim region. But at the time of the Crusades, it hadn't been that long since that part of the world was part of Christendom under the Byzantines. Huge Christian population. Which the remnants of are still there today.

In their minds, they were taking back what was theirs.

Most of the Arab/Muslim technology was inherited from Byzantium. They were ahead of Western Europe in some areas as a result.

That said those European savages tore through the Arab armies while being wildly outnumbered and half starving in the 1st crusade. So that doesn't reflect too well on the Arabs I suppose.

But frankly, the notion that Europeans were backwards in the dark/early middle ages is really historically inaccurate. There was considerable technological innovation post fall of Rome.

Not true my friend. The moors (North West Africans) that colonised Spain had much more technological, scientific and medicinal advancements than Europeans. They had lights on the streets of Granada before there were in London or Paris. Also, Europeans would come to the Moorish kingdom to learn about medicine.

Your notion that Europeans were the most civilised and sanitary people in the world at the time is false. The Moors themselves believed they were civilising the Spanish people, who lived in the same homes as their horses and chickens.

[Kona]

Why does the white man assume everybody needs Jesus?

Is it just a tricky way to take over people like these Sentinals without getting stabbed?

Aloha!

[Cattle Rustler]

(11-23-2018 02:33 PM)Disco_Volante Wrote:  

Liberals making fun of this guy for deciding to go to a dangerous island, then turn around and say women should wear whatever they want and expect to not be raped in the ghetto at 3am.

It has nothing to do with being liberal. The guy was a dumb ass. That's all.

[nomadbrah]

(11-23-2018 12:45 PM)MANic Wrote:  

Clutching at straws my friend. The trend of barbaric hordes overcoming more developed societies is a common theme in all of history.

Innovation is not an exclusive domain. Similarly much of modern western medicine and science has traces of muslim contribution.

Too many here are reluctant to accept the globalis nature of human advancement as it conflicts with their "whitey rightey" thesis.

That's built by the Normanns in 1080, the dominant force in the crusade. The exact same time as the first crusade. Normanns being viking "barbarians" only a few generations removed from communal living.

In so far as muslims have had any knowledge, it was because they had it from greek and persian slaves. Any so called "muslim scholar" is a greek or persian.

[JWLZG]

(11-23-2018 02:33 PM)Disco_Volante Wrote:  

Liberals making fun of this guy for deciding to go to a dangerous island, then turn around and say women should wear whatever they want and expect to not be raped in the ghetto at 3am.

Perhaps because these liberals are that bastion of logic and reason that is everything that Christianity isn't, due to the fact that "liberals" are at the forefront of the promotion of open and contrary discourse, which again is all that Christianity isn't. It seems to me that Christians are the real NPCs.

I won't be dancing on his grave, and I'm mortal enoughbut he had it coming. Yawn. Move on.

Furthermore, the speed at which this became a "decline-of-the-west" thread and a race thread didn't escape me. Can anyone care to explain how a forum dedicated to picking up women became one that attracted such rabid Bible Thumpers out of the woodwork?

[Sp5]

This was just a new riff on Instagram attention-whoring.
Christian missionary was just the role he was playing.
It really had more to do with Instagram and Facebook than Jesus.

[Disco_Volante]

He was a dumbass I'm just saying lefties and christians have mental barriers that prevent them from acknowledging reality of various matters.

[Johnnyvee]

I have a feeling this guy had some "crucify me" type syndrom. Meaning he sought out dangerous situations in order to die a martyrs death. If he really wanted to reinstate God`s kingdom on earth, it would make more sense to find an isolated island and then send out an invitation to like minded people.

[RawGod]

(11-23-2018 02:58 PM)AvonBarksdale Wrote:  

Your notion that Europeans were the most civilised and sanitary people in the world at the time is false. The Moors themselves believed they were civilising the Spanish people, who lived in the same homes as their horses and chickens.

Someone drank the kool-aid. The Byzantines were also Europeans. They inherited their high civilisation from the Greeks and Romans. Whatever vestiges of civilisation the "Moors" (Arabs/Turks/North Africans) had also came in the end from the Romans and Greeks - the elements that the primitive Mohommedan tribesmen didn't do away with in the name of their moon-god.

[Garuda]

It's always interesting how people react to outside influences. For example, you have Cortes being seen as the return of Quezalcoatl by the Aztecs and the cargo cults of the South Pacific.

There's three other tribes in the Andamans and two in the Nicobars. It seems the Sentinelese were always like this. Chau had a death wish for sure and sounds like he wanted to be a modern David Livingstone.

https://www.survivalinternational.org/news/175

Now what will they do when they encounter the first fully functional androids?

[Cattle Rustler]

[infowarrior1]

(11-23-2018 06:33 PM)Cattle Rustler Wrote:  

Topics about religion. Its inevitable.

That said. This won't be the last missionary. I think over the years there will be more and more bodies to bury and bones to collect if they don't practice cremation.

[infowarrior1]

(11-23-2018 05:42 PM)JWLZG Wrote:  

(11-23-2018 02:33 PM)Disco_Volante Wrote:  

Liberals making fun of this guy for deciding to go to a dangerous island, then turn around and say women should wear whatever they want and expect to not be raped in the ghetto at 3am.

Perhaps because these liberals are that bastion of logic and reason that is everything that Christianity isn't, due to the fact that "liberals" are at the forefront of the promotion of open and contrary discourse, which again is all that Christianity isn't. It seems to me that Christians are the real NPCs.

I won't be dancing on his grave, and I'm mortal enoughbut he had it coming. Yawn. Move on.

Furthermore, the speed at which this became a "decline-of-the-west" thread and a race thread didn't escape me. Can anyone care to explain how a forum dedicated to picking up women became one that attracted such rabid Bible Thumpers out of the woodwork?

Being red pilled about women means that other aspects of modern reality also being questioned.

As for ''Bible Thumping''. The charges against Christianity cannot remain unanswered.

[Rocha]

(11-23-2018 02:58 PM)AvonBarksdale Wrote:  

(11-23-2018 12:39 PM)Trumpian Wrote:  

(11-23-2018 12:08 PM)MANic Wrote:  

lol at the erroneous take on the crusades.
The crusades were effectively an invasion, by a marginal, underdeveloped primitive and savage people, of the most culturally developed, civil and advanced global blocs at the time.

Sound familiar? It should, and such is the cycle of our world
.

Gross simplification. We know the Middle East today as an Arab/Muslim region. But at the time of the Crusades, it hadn't been that long since that part of the world was part of Christendom under the Byzantines. Huge Christian population. Which the remnants of are still there today.

In their minds, they were taking back what was theirs.

Most of the Arab/Muslim technology was inherited from Byzantium. They were ahead of Western Europe in some areas as a result.

That said those European savages tore through the Arab armies while being wildly outnumbered and half starving in the 1st crusade. So that doesn't reflect too well on the Arabs I suppose.

But frankly, the notion that Europeans were backwards in the dark/early middle ages is really historically inaccurate. There was considerable technological innovation post fall of Rome.

Not true my friend. The moors (North West Africans) that colonised Spain had much more technological, scientific and medicinal advancements than Europeans. They had lights on the streets of Granada before there were in London or Paris. Also, Europeans would come to the Moorish kingdom to learn about medicine.

Your notion that Europeans were the most civilised and sanitary people in the world at the time is false. The Moors themselves believed they were civilising the Spanish people, who lived in the same homes as their horses and chickens.

Arabs are still savages. Look what they did to Kashoggi in the Consulate... Their national sport event is the Sunday beheading marathon at the Chop-Chop Square.

After the fall of Rome Iberia was populated by almost all Barbarian tribes, Visigoths, Alemanni, Suevi, Vandals, Alans, Ostrogoths...The Visigoths being the strongest united all tribes, then inner fighting paved way for the Muslim Invasion in 711 who quickly conquered all of Iberia except for the Asturias where the Christian warriors got refuge and then slowly started to gain ground in the reconquest. After some land was re-conquered the Christians started to fight again between themselves, also the muslims had a lot of in-fighting.

From wikipedia

"Both Christian and Muslim rulers fought amongst themselves. Alliances between Muslims and Christians were not uncommon.[4] Blurring distinctions even further were the mercenaries from both sides who simply fought for whoever paid the most. The period is seen today to have had long episodes of relative religious tolerance.[5]"

Religion was secondary, only power was important. Even the famous El Cid fought alongside the muslims for a period. (That is why in my opinion Geraldo the Fearless, is a much more simbolic figure of the Reconquista, but is not known, written, or even depicted in Cinema/TV as much as the latter).

It was not until the Crusades that finally there was a general idea that the Moors "have to go back".

When "they went back", emerged the two first global empires and superpowers, with richess and knowledge that the world has never seen before, Spain and Portugal. So I guess that Christians fared better after those savages left the Peninsula.

[Leonard D Neubache]

Any chance the dude went there to get his hands on some tribal titties?

He wouldn't be the first missionary driven to dark places by the dreaded jungle fever.

[Thomas Jackson]

(11-23-2018 07:08 PM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:  

Any chance the dude went there to get his hands on some tribal titties?

He wouldn't be the first missionary driven to dark places by the dreaded jungle fever.

Melanesian peoples are pretty damn ugly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanesians

[beta_plus]

Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople ...

(11-23-2018 12:39 PM)Trumpian Wrote:  

(11-23-2018 12:08 PM)MANic Wrote:  

lol at the erroneous take on the crusades.
The crusades were effectively an invasion, by a marginal, underdeveloped primitive and savage people, of the most culturally developed, civil and advanced global blocs at the time.

Sound familiar? It should, and such is the cycle of our world
.

Gross simplification. We know the Middle East today as an Arab/Muslim region. But at the time of the Crusades, it hadn't been that long since that part of the world was part of Christendom under the Byzantines. Huge Christian population. Which the remnants of are still there today.

In their minds, they were taking back what was theirs.

Most of the Arab/Muslim technology was inherited from Byzantium. They were ahead of Western Europe in some areas as a result.

That said those European savages tore through the Arab armies while being wildly outnumbered and half starving in the 1st crusade. So that doesn't reflect too well on the Arabs I suppose.

But frankly, the notion that Europeans were backwards in the dark/early middle ages is really historically inaccurate. There was considerable technological innovation post fall of Rome.

The Crusades were also to defend Constantinople, which ultimately failed and became the muslim Istanbul.

Interestingly enough, the fall of Constantinople lead directly to the deep water exploration by the Spanish and Portuguese. They wanted to get around the muslim chokehold of the Asian spice trade. They did that and also discovered the new world.

As well, around the same time, the muslims were expelled from Spain after occupying it for centuries.

[Days of Broken Arrows]

(11-23-2018 05:42 PM)JWLZG Wrote:  

(11-23-2018 02:33 PM)Disco_Volante Wrote:  

Liberals making fun of this guy for deciding to go to a dangerous island, then turn around and say women should wear whatever they want and expect to not be raped in the ghetto at 3am.

Perhaps because these liberals are that bastion of logic and reason that is everything that Christianity isn't, due to the fact that "liberals" are at the forefront of the promotion of open and contrary discourse, which again is all that Christianity isn't. It seems to me that Christians are the real NPCs.

I won't be dancing on his grave, and I'm mortal enoughbut he had it coming. Yawn. Move on.

Furthermore, the speed at which this became a "decline-of-the-west" thread and a race thread didn't escape me. Can anyone care to explain how a forum dedicated to picking up women became one that attracted such rabid Bible Thumpers out of the woodwork?

This makes me think of something no one mentioned. Why was a young guy spending all his time and effort doing this instead of meeting women? (Or at least one woman with whom he could marry.)

I can see why old people might go around trying to save people. They have little else going on. But a young guy? Why?

And what about "Be fruitful and multiply?" A lot of barren "Christian singles" traveling the world "saving" people seem to have missed that one.

[Scoundrel]

^^ I think the guy was intentionally trying to kill himself. You've heard of suicide by cop — this was likely suicide by Sentinelese.

I wouldn't be surprised if he was gay.