politically-loaded maps: sputtering flemishly

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escapegoat: Aug 18, 2013

From an old fashioned globe at work.

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SlothfulCobra: Mar 27, 2011

There was a hefty amount of branching and drifting after protestantism got going, and it makes about as much sense to treat all the current sects as a monolithic entity as it does to treat the catholic church as basically the same thing as Russian orthodox or the nestorians.

And I get that mormons are weird, but it seems arbitrary for people to try treating it as something outside of christianity because there's plenty other weird sects.

# ? Apr 18, 2021 15:07

BIG FLUFFY DOG: Feb 16, 2011; On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

Zedhe Khoja posted:

Tengrism is even more of an umbrella term than Hinduism!

It's just a term for any religious tradition with a sky god with some variation of "Teng" as his name. It ranges from polytheistic pantheons, to shamanistic pantheism, to borderline monotheism with a semiofficial priestly bureaucracy.

Daoism refers to god as Heaven (Tian)

Daoism is a form of tengrism.

Under CK2 rules I think its actually the main branch now.

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Pakled: Aug 6, 2011; WE ARE SMART

escapegoat posted:

From an old fashioned globe at work.

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steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Pakled posted:

Come to Braſil

Too busy exploring reports of More German cum off Eupopa

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BonHair: Apr 28, 2007

Looks like Denmark got replaced by German cum. Pretty accurate. But also the thing about maps from that era being less bothered about geography and more about relations between polities.

I also think that there is a major difference between changing interpretations of existing texts and introducing new texts in a canonical religion, like Mormonism. At least from an external perspective like the People of the Book part of Islam.

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Tweezer Reprise: Aug 6, 2013; It hasn't got six strings, but it's a lot of fun.

Biblical canon is very interesting. The Jewish canon was basically already set by the second century BCE, and you have this famous (obviously ahistorical) story of how the Septuagint was perfectly translated into Greek from Hebrew by seventy Jewish scribes independently of each another, and so on.

There�s nothing really novel about inclusion of the Deuterocanon, Christians had been treating those books (which include the story of the Maccabees and so on) as scripture before there was an established Christian Bible, but the Jews never had, and this was part of Luther�s justification for why they should be removed. They were also, ostensibly, never agreed to as canon by a meeting of the whole church.

The reason the books weren�t in the Jewish canon isn�t because they weren�t seen as true or good, they just didn�t really have a lot to do with God directly. (neither did, say, Esther or Ecclesiastes, but those books were in the Septuagint, and they were a lot older.) The famous Hanukkah story about the oil that lasted many days is a later folk invention, to justify celebrating religiously what is basically a purely political Jewish independence day in the absence of a Jewish state, and is not in the written history of the Maccabees that's in the Deuterocanon.

Tweezer Reprise fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Apr 18, 2021

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Albino Squirrel: Apr 25, 2003; Miosis more like meiosis

Saladman posted:

Strange labeling sometimes comes on EU flights too. I flew from Switzerland to the Cuba a few years ago on Swiss's "vacation destination" subsidiary, Edelweiss, and the entire time over the Atlantic, the flight would point out the locations of famous transportation accidents where thousands of people died in horrific settings. "Great, we're above the Lusitania now... now we're above the Titanic... now we're passing by the SS Mont Blanc...". Really the kind of thing you want to emphasize on a flight.

Found a photo I took of part of it, loving lol at highlighting those on a flight. Also some random cities highlighted, like Guysborough: population 922.

Whatever map software Air Canada uses highlights undersea features, which obviously is a lot of the screentime on a transatlantic flight. By FAR the most prominently displayed thing for like, 80% of a flight from Toronto to London is the GREAT METEOR SEAMOUNT, which I've never heard of except on an airplane map.

e: maybe it's KLM, but all those flights for me were Edmonton-Amsterdam which would go much further north.

e2: apparently the same hotspot that made the Meteor seamount also made the hills of Montreal. Neat!

Albino Squirrel fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Apr 18, 2021

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Arglebargle III: Feb 21, 2006

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Pope Hilarius II: Nov 10, 2008

Arglebargle III posted:

Tag yourself, I'm the Byelorussian with the blonde disco perm dye and the suggestive eyebrows

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I'm Ethno-Administrative Unit

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disjoe: Feb 18, 2011

I�m Jew

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Maed: Aug 23, 2006

disjoe posted:

I�m Jew

Gesundheit

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Arglebargle III: Feb 21, 2006

I'm Amu Darya and I'm dead.

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Edgar Allen Ho: Apr 3, 2017; by sebmojo

Lol it reads like a D&D players handbook

Estonian: +2 CHA -2 STR, gain 4 ranks in the skill �Knowledge: Decadent West�

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Space Kablooey: May 6, 2009

I'm Crimea

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BIG FLUFFY DOG: Feb 16, 2011; On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

business in the front party in the back
buddhist in the east, shamanist in the west

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Pope Hilarius II: Nov 10, 2008

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Lol it reads like a D&D players handbook

Estonian: +2 CHA -2 STR, gain 4 ranks in the skill �Knowledge: Decadent West�

Back in the days of the ~~USSR~~Russian Empire all other peoples who weren't Russian, Ukrainian or White Russian were basically NPCs with limited character interaction options though.

code:

You encounter a lovely Latvian farming family on your way to your father's estates! Because it seems like the weather will be bad and dusk is setting in, they offer to take you in for the night. What do you and your party do?
- Eat every god drat thing they have, rape their daughters and set the farm on fire
- Eat every god drat thing they have, rape the father and set the farm on fire, then blame it on the Tatars
- Eat every god drat thing they have, set everyone on fire and proclaim the town's village idiot a boyar
- Offer them one (1) potato if they engage in sexual intercourse with their farm animals, then cruelly ride away, laughing (they receive no potato)

REMEMBER! Your choices matter

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Groda: Mar 17, 2005; Hair Elf

Arglebargle III posted:

Where is Viktor Tsoj in here...

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Tree Goat: May 24, 2009; argania spinosa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ1tgDIQXgs

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Vivian Darkbloom: Jul 14, 2004

For no special reason

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Arglebargle III: Feb 21, 2006

Airf Orce

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Carthag Tuek: Oct 15, 2005; Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
sl�gt skal f�lge sl�gters gang

Tree Goat posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ1tgDIQXgs

lmao thats wonderful

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A Buttery Pastry: Sep 4, 2011; Delicious and Informative!

Carthag Tuek posted:

lmao thats wonderful

I didn�t even expect it to open again, so I was pleasantly surprised.

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Jippa: Feb 13, 2009

If you squint it could maybe be a map.

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Carbon dioxide: Oct 9, 2012

Jippa posted:

If you squint it could maybe be a map.

Maybe. Or perhaps the funny graphs thread is better suited for this.

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OddObserver: Apr 3, 2009

Maed posted:

Gesundheit

*Zay gesundt.

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zoux: Apr 28, 2006

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I have so many questions.

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zoux: Apr 28, 2006

It's pretty simple, Italy is the largest landmass in the world, followed by Japan, and then Hawaii.

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Space Kablooey: May 6, 2009

I want to believe all the landmasses are still the actual size and it looks weird because of wonky perspective

how europe ended up as the crotch of the robot while africa is the chest, i have no idea though

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