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>>12705

How stupid do you have to be to post comments in the wrong thread?

Oh hai guys. Just thought this would spark some interesting debate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s9StxsFllY

>>12795
When members of your own clique start calling you stupid, you know you're pretty damn well fucked in the head.
http://www.humanevents.com/2011/04/25/birthertrutherstupid/

>>11960
>Africans
>non-fecal food
pick one

>>11960

Filipino Fag here. We were colonize by the Spanish for over a hundred years, and some of their dishes are served until today.

Then I can say, Spanish cuisines were not bad after all.

>>11979
sorry that you generally hate black people (using classic /pol/ black people/pick one,

but afro-spanish colonies have and had amazing cuisine, not only due to the fusion of spanish and african styles and flavors, but of french and indian- Trinidad and Tobago has some of the rgeatest food I've ever eaten- one of the women on the beach waved her hand at me (like- oh, get out of here!) when i asked for just a dash of pepper sauce on everything, having seen the gallons everyone else poured on their food.

i think your preconceived notions are preventing you frome xperiencing amazing things

>>12764
... and restoring the Caliphate is a bad thing? The Middle East has been decaying since the Ottoman Caliphate was losing it's influence and was effectively manipulated by the British and the French.
Well maybe there are, but you just don't hear of it because our media doesn't want to cover that. A recent example. The 'Occupy' movement was being broadcasted on Youtube a whole month before any American news channel broadcasted it on television. The media broadcasts what they want to. You hear what they want you to hear, unless you seek it out yourself.

There are individuals who do not count for the majority. They may speak for a greater group, but it can't ever be considered valid without a majority present.

>... and restoring the Caliphate is a bad thing?
if you are a very devout muslim, and don't ever question the dominant belief system and 'religiously' follow all the many rules, it would probably be peachy
if your personal understanding of islam is opposed by your local/regional hierarchy, you 'would' conform to their version or be declared apostate and treated rather harshly
and if you want to convert to islam, you had better be very very careful and choose the right sect... and never change your mind, because islam takes an 'extreme' view about backsliding and apostasy
if you can freely submit and fit yourself to the prevailing religious faction, and can live within a strict set of rules of conduct, and have no natural tendencies to ask irritating questions of 'authority', and have no desire to explore or create new ideas or think beyond the bounds of what is considered 'right' and 'proper' by something that was written centuries ago in another culture, and are comfortable with having most parts of your life directed by the dead hand of the past... you should do well - because islam will NOT EVER fit itself to your will or nature

>The media broadcasts what they want to. You hear what they want you to hear, unless you seek it out yourself.
pretty much... but don't you think it's slowly changing for the better with all the advancing communication technologies and the younger generations relying much more on non-traditional and non-corporate news sources?

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>>12771
They weren't persecuted if they payed a tax. I've not heard of this kind of alternative in European Christian countries. Catholics/Jews were simply exiled or killed.
Surely Islam not changing shows solidarity? I mean, if something hasn't changed for over a thousand years, that means whatever they were doing was correct? Ever heard the phrase 'If it ain't broken, don't fix it'? Even today, there are only two main divisions, Sunni and Shia, the rest are very small. But in Christianity/Hinduism/Buddhism there are lots of divisions each representing a large group.
If you look at Islamic history, they were increasing and expanding for quite a while. They gave Al-Andalus (the Islamic part of Iberia) a place on the map. They pretty much created the building blocks for the mighty Spanish Empire, which was the largest/richest empire on the Atlantic Ocean until the British took India. Yet the Muslims started out of tribes in the desert and converts.
This shows their system works, and it also works to help create the foundation of other empires.
>non-corporate news sources
Oh how I wish that was true.
If something becomes large enough, it will be marketed. Eventually. Youtube has ads on videos. Even fucking internet memes have become marketed, you can buy products with internet memes on it.

>>12674
They supposed to. Money is an intermediary, not a commodity, or an investment.

Commodities (like gold) can swing any which way they want based on demand/ supply and all that bullshit. Investments are supposed to appreciate in value. But money has to do one thing, and one thing only: facilitate the exchange of goods and services.

Money ain't supposed to have fixed value over time, if you want that, buy assets. Money has to have an evolution in value that best suits economic expansion (cause we all like economic expansion no doubt). And economic expansion is best served by a currency supply that rises slightly faster than the economy, causing moderate inflation. Low enough to make short term liquidity viable, but high enough to devalue debt backlog in the private sector over time, and encourage people to spend and invest funds in stead of sitting on them.

And no, inflation doesn't make us poorer - whatever money you have ain't just sitting there. At the worst, it's in the bank, generating a modest interest. At best, it's in prime investments, growing faster than inflation. Or you put it in assets that deliver utility, like a house or a car.

>>12676

Inflation does make us poorer if wages don't rise along with cost of living.

Just bought 4 Bitcoins. Seems like an acceptably small investment.

>>12503
Then I'll have to point out that the Congo and the Mali empire are worlds apart, and that statements pertaining to the former should indeed not be generalized for the entirety of Africa. Congo civilizations are but one of the many groups that popped up around Africa, but one limited by peculiar circumstances.

The point I was originally trying to make is that some civilizations could indeed be civilizations, without leaving behind obvious and imposing architectural relics (the Mali empire did in fact leave obvious traces - the cool stuff in Timbuktu most obviously), and that this warps contemporary perceptions.

>>12504
ahh, i wasn't aware that you were making that point, which is extremely valid. i sometimes imagine what awesome poetry/stories/techniques just kinda vanished when perfectly civilized peoples just kinda split, or died out/were assimilated and conquered etc.

Mesopotamia. 'Ur' was the first ever city, and as such, the first 'state' in the sense that we know the word.

When you break down crime you're supposed to use poverty statistics and side-bars qualifying those statistics using criteria of region/state/ethnicity/education status.

You don't want people to think that race was your only consideration, and you ALSO want to take lots of different things into consideration so that you can impress people with minutia.

quik question from op again

should i just start writing down facts, dates, asides, etc and their sources then worry about a coherent narrative later, or?

You can start writing and researching now, just put the citations in later

>>12615
That'd be Tsar Dickalots

now it's turning into a very cheesy porn story MUSICAL

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if Robert Goulet comes out singing "In Dickalots..."

i shall have the Royal Cabbage Tenders hunt you down with tiki torches and croquet mallets

Video not completely related.

>But sensationalist bullshit like 'sugar is worse than alcohol' is counterproductive.

not if your goal is to 'demonize' sugar

>>12578
To be fair, I'm not the one saying that sugar is worse than alcohol, I'm just the guy saying excessive intake of anything is bad.

Sugar, like salt, is in ridiculous amounts of packaged foods, ingredients, and the like. It's fucking hell trying to piece together a meal that doesn't involve buying fruits, vegetables, and raw meat and making it all from scratch. I'm fine with some amount of cooking (baking chicken, cooking pasta or rice, etc.), but (for example) fuck if I'm gonna spend the hours it takes to go from tomatos to tomato sauce on a worknight.

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>>12441
that's a good question !!!!

>>12572

>>show my ass in the fact that i reject socialism yet turn around and support everything the catholic church supports, which is by-and-large socialism

>>accuse people who point out the fact that i look like a credulous fool having rejected my out beliefs for those of an authority of being brainwashed

>>wah! you think i'm a mindless drone for being religious

no, i think you're a mindless drone for having no spine and supporting an anti-capitalistic church while claiming to oppose anti-capitalism.

seriosuly, wtf?

'Liberation Theology' is being purged from the Catholic Church. There are now holocaust deniers among the clergy. Expect more prosperity theology and other associated horseshit, expect more buddy-buddying between the papacy and the Fellowship/PrayerBreakfastCouncil

>>12584
>There are now holocaust deniers among the clergy.
When you elect a member of the Nazi Youth to be Pope, that is to be expected.