COLONIZATION WAS AN ALTERNATIVE TO BEING CONQUERED BY ISLAM
by Scott De Warren
Actually, exploration & colonisation was our best alternative to conquest and enslavement by the Ottoman Empire.
Development of the New World was, in part, a fallback plan in case Europe fell to Islam (I know the Hapsburgs thought of it in those terms).
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-22 11:38:00 UTC
COLONIZATION WAS A STRATEGY TO ESCAPE ISLAM
by Scott De Warren
Actually, exploration & colonisation was our best alternative to conquest and enslavement by the Ottoman Empire.
Development of the New World was, in part, a fallback plan in case Europe fell to Islam (I know the Hapsburgs thought of it in those terms).
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-22 11:38:00 UTC
CIVILIZATIONS
it’s not really logical to criticize people who have yet had the opportunity to choose, than it is to criticize people who had the opportunity to choose and chose badly. the bad choices were abrahamism, with each iteration getting worse, with the final iteration of islam just tipping over the threshold.
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-22 11:07:00 UTC
GOOD AND EVIL IS A MIDDLE EASTERN NOT EUROPEAN CONCEPT
—-“Good and evil were invented in the middle east to facilitate cultural warfare between the middle east and the indians. European religion used chaos and mischief vs order, and our gods were ‘real people’ with real frailties.” – Curt Doolittle
—“The concepts “good” and “evil” are actually Indo-European in origin. Etymology dictionaries are useful. Better perhaps to say that our misconceptions about what exactly those terms mean are influenced by Middle Eastern philosophy…”—AunMarie Grooms
Indo european a language and cultural family of genetically west eurasians of the proto-European, proto-Caucasian, proto-Iranic but NOT proto-turkic post glacial maximum peoples. The proto-caucasians and anatolians appear to have been lost to us.
As far as I know, good and evil are indo-iranic not indo european. It’s unlikely that I err. The division between European, iranic, indo-iranic results in European (aristocratic egalitarian and martial), Persian(aristocratic authoritarian and martial), and Hindu( caste, duty-role, and ‘priestly’) pantheons.
The argument put forth by others which I got from Karen Armstrong, was that it appears that the north and west europeans developed more so in the corded ware culture(material), and the iranics more in the vedas (spiritual), and that this is largely because etherial religion as we understand it evolved in what we call Mesopotamia-Anatolia or, more precisely, along the euphrates.
It’s most likely that religious pantheons developed differently due to differences in indo european ethnicities, and strategies. The west pretty much killed everyone they came in contact with (or at least the males) because the neolithic farmers were not developed enough to resist them. But as the iranic people migrated east to india, then south of the caspian, then west back into Mesopotamia they encountered developed peoples that they had to conquer.
So, iranics and indo iranics used hierarchy to rule an compete with others like the indus valley people and the Mesopotamians while europeans maintained aristocratic egalitarianism and didn’t develop authoritarianism until the late roman empire – and even then – they would have been more successful if they’d been much more authoritarian and much less tolerant.
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-22 10:06:00 UTC
INDIA’S ELLORA CAVES
the largest carving project in the world.
Contrary to common perception, It is very easy to achieve this level of stone carved construction in that form of stone, with a large workforce. A team that splits the rock. A team of people that clear rubble – mostly dust. A team of people that manage the forge, tool making, and chisel pointing. A team of designers. The designers draw sketches of each element, others transfer it to the rock, others rough it out, and others finish it off. The rate at which a young man develops skill at carving this consistently is no more than it is today – a few years, so by the time he works through each phase of preparing the rock, you have trained the workforce to produce each stage of it.
While this scale of detail is impressive – the detail compensates for a lack of precision – compare with pre-islamic, and then hellenic sculpture – each of which takes the opposite approach, of increasing precision. A greek or roman or egyptian sculptor is a more precise craftsman than the indian or buddhist, and the opposite in organic detail and variation.
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-22 09:22:00 UTC
RT @MartianHoplite: It’s REAL easy to argue that most of the historical evil we’re accused of is exaggerated or wholly made up; too easy; s…
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-22 00:19:08 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1231010496389795840
TESTIMONY
by Robby Thorne
I had given up on saving Western Civilization until I found you. Because of you, I’ve gotten off the couch, away from the TV, and spend my days coordinating 2A events. Last night while I was at work, people from our small militia, basically strong armed a small town to go 2A. Still, I had a hand in it. This morning I’m in my car in the cold, waiting to see if I have motivated people in my community to get some exercise. So rather than cuss you for putting me to work, I think you for giving me something worthwhile to do, and giving me hope for the future. You might not see the fruits of your labor, but I’m starting to pick apples here in VA. You really are my hero Curt. Have a great day my friend.
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-21 11:51:00 UTC
—“The West had two chances to save Russia, and ultimately the West (not counting Crimean war). Simply roll in and back the White Army during the first and second Bolshevik revolutions and elminate all of them, and their families.”—James Santagata
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-20 22:40:00 UTC
The only greater tragedy than the fall of the soviet union is the west’s crime of not saving the russian people from suffering because of it. The restoration of eastern europe was great, yes, but it was offset by the collapse of everything east of it was and remains a terrible horror. The russian colonial program failed like the european colonial programs failed. The lesson is that we cannot colonize other peoples – nor let them colonize us.
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-20 22:12:00 UTC
Who discovered rule of law by the natural right of reciprocity
Who discovered the republic democracy and rule of law
Who discovered reason, logic, natural philosophy and science
Who discovered natural rights philosophy
Who discovered the common law and napoleonic code?
Who discovered the Peace of Westphalia domesticating war?
Who discovered the Geneva conventions?
Who discovered the international charter of human rights?
Who discovered science technology medicine and dragged humanity kicking and screaming out of ignorance superstition, hard labor, poverty, starvation, disease, suffering, and early death?
Yeah. I know. White people.
Yeah, colonialism wasn’t so good.
Yeah, it was just better than everyone else’s alternative..
Source date (UTC): 2020-02-20 20:18:00 UTC