Jeh, so this is the prestigious org girls wanted to join so bad
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America_sex_abuse_cases
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Jeh, so this is the prestigious org girls wanted to join so bad
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America_sex_abuse_cases
((concernings intensifies))
@Monkey:
Monquito is Mexican.
America's a continent (well, two actually)
@Monkey:
, or any possible consequences thereof.
Except the Org would get their ass sued if a parent sends her daughter to learn the values of a Scout and get her back 16 and pregnant
Except the Org would get their ass sued if a parent sends her daughter to learn the values of a Scout and get her back 16 and pregnant
Do you live in Saudi Arabia or something where society is terrified of anyone female being in any place public or social because of the existence of sex? Just curious.
How about staying to the actual point…
Fact is, it can happen, there would be concecuences, the Org cannot make sure such thing would never happen and the reason as to why is currently gender-separated is likely to avoid it
Except the Org would get their ass sued if a parent sends her daughter to learn the values of a Scout and get her back 16 and pregnant
The point you're pushing is getting kinda weird, fyi.
The point you're pushing is getting kinda weird, fyi.
Eehmm…
In 2010, a jury ordered that the Scouts pay $18.5 million to a Scout who was abused in the 1980s
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America_sex_abuse_cases
Yeah, reality is weird.
Pretty sure the scouts in europe allow both genders in, and don't make the distinction with two seperate organisations. I don't see it as all that troublesome Monquito, I think it's just you.
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Eehmm…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America_sex_abuse_cases
Yeah, reality is weird.
18 million. God america, what a ridiculous justice system. Stupid system for counting damages. The UK does compensation so much better.
Female molestation is at rampant levels, let them join the organization with one of the biggest sexual acaussations of all time, what can possibly go wrong?
Eehmm…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America_sex_abuse_cases
Yeah, reality is weird.
You're making it seem like having girls join the boy scouts automatically results in raucous orgies and/or rape and and scores of pregnant teens or something.
Honestly, I'm not sure how many parents will want their girls to join the boy scouts, I probably wouldn't if I had daughters cuz I had a great experience in the Canadian version of Girl Scouts ("Girl Guides"), but you're highly exaggerating the risk of a girl getting pregnant for joining.
Apparently mingling extensively with people can cause them to rub off on you, who knew
But… but... muh vikings noooo. God they're pathetic. Who even cares if some of the vikings were muslim? Holds absolutely no impact on the world today. Stupid Alt-right.
lol, why are there always controversies about the Scouts on this forum ?
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Well, shit, one of the most famous Viking institutions, the Varangian Guard, lived in what is now Turkey.
Talking about Venezuela again, because this is a new low:
There are regional elections in two days. The opposition has failed to recover from the summer's blunder. The goverment still hasn't managed to stabilize anything.
They removed the voting centers were the opposition always crushed, and moved them to other places, of a more dangerous and unfamiliar kind.
Almost a million voters were moved with less than a month of heads up. many people will go to their regular centers and find them empty, and depending on the opposition's volunteers network might not learn where to vote.
Also, this is not just about confort, Venezuela is a very dangerous and insecure place, going to an unknown zone to wait 3-6 hours, in a place with a higher crime rate, and closer to the goverment's militias, it's exposing a lot of people to a risky situation.
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I'm claiming Hiccup and Toothless right this instant.
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Vikings were literally barbarian pirates, who divided their time between raiding toothless bog peasants, and raiding the nearest first world of the time, which would have been the Balkans and Middle East.
That these idiots would be remotely surprised that pagan barbarians would end up influenced by big fancy schmancy urban empires with abrahamic religions is just the biggest lol.
No no, not only did it happened alt-right, OF COURSE it happened.
There were probably Viking converts to Eastern Orthodoxy for the same reasons, but that's different because
Alternative lol: White supremacism has such an easy job what with (…western) Europe being the forefront of riches, power, and progress in the last three hundred years or so. It just really fucking struggles with how like everything above Italy and Greece was stinky third world mud crap until like 1000 years ago, and wasn't exactly even nice for awhile after that either.
They really really can't handle this lol.
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@S.C.:
Well, shit, one of the most famous Viking institutions, the Varangian Guard, lived in what is now Turkey.
What is now Turkey was then Greek Eastern Rome, those vikings would have been converted to Greek Orthodoxy.
btw, I'm wondering if there is any chance Obama was anyhow behind the last coup in Turkey. But I guess it's just unlikely, because Trump would have just told everyone on twitter. Unless he doesn't know, which isn't impossible, knowing that Trump never reads the reports he's supposed to read.
Anybody surprised by Norse Muslims clearly doesn't play republics.
Anybody surprised by Norse Muslims clearly doesn't play republics.
The sagas of the Nordic Muslims of Socotra are long indeed.
btw, I'm wondering if there is any chance Obama was anyhow behind the last coup in Turkey.
wat .
@Monkey:
Vikings were literally barbarian pirates, who divided their time between raiding toothless bog peasants, and raiding the nearest first world of the time, which would have been the Balkans and Middle East.
Dunno that they did much raiding in Middle East, all I've heard of is the trading and the mercenary stuff? Seems real crazy to be messing with Byzantines and the Caliphate.
Also put me down as super unsurprised at the Muslim vikings, last time I was so unsurprised was the thing with the female viking warriors.
Taking rivers into the Caspian would give vikings some good access to raiding the eastern Caucasus and northwest Persia, a decent chance to pick up Islam there.
Dunno that they did much raiding in Middle East,
They didn't have to go to the literal Middle East to be raiding Middle Eastern civilization. Iberia would have been broadly under Muslim control back then.
Talking about Venezuela again, because this is a new low:
There are regional elections in two days. The opposition has failed to recover from the summer's blunder. The goverment still hasn't managed to stabilize anything.
They removed the voting centers were the opposition always crushed, and moved them to other places, of a more dangerous and unfamiliar kind.
Almost a million voters were moved with less than a month of heads up. many people will go to their regular centers and find them empty, and depending on the opposition's volunteers network might not learn where to vote.
Also, this is not just about confort, Venezuela is a very dangerous and insecure place, going to an unknown zone to wait 3-6 hours, in a place with a higher crime rate, and closer to the goverment's militias, it's exposing a lot of people to a risky situation.
I'm just impressed elections are actually being celebrated, tho if things are this rough, I don't know what to expect next year that there's supposed to be national elections.
@Monkey:
They didn't have to go to the literal Middle East to be raiding Middle Eastern civilization. Iberia would have been broadly under Muslim control back then.
Fair enough. I read about one attack they did on Seville on wikipedia just now, link, and it seems it's not really new knowledge that some vikings converted to Islam, "In addition, some of the raiders remained and settled in the area, converted to Islam, and became cheese traders.[2]" Love the cheese traders bit. :P
Also, they did also go to the literal Middle East, all the way to Baghdad even I believe, so they could totally have picked up religion from just trading.
I love how white supremacists laugh and mock tribal level African cultures (which let's be frank is how they see all of Africa), but then when they look back at the same thing in European history suddenly people in animals furs throwing spears and taking orders from chiefs and wearing face paint…is SUPER MEGA AWESOME COOL PURE ARYAN NOBLE HERO MANLINESS.
No actually my favorite thing is lots of these fuckers nowadays are sort of loosely connected to the Dark Enlightenment bullshit. Or at least they enjoy namedropping those morons to seem intellectual. And Dark Enlightenment bullshit is really gleeful about mocking left wing Whig History, the ol' "Things just keep getting better and progressing in a near linear fashion".
While meanwhile they believe wholeheartedly in dumb bullshit about how "UM IF YOU DON'T HAVE A INDUSTRIALIZED ECONOMY BY THIS EXACT DATE YOU ARE UNTERMENCSH, IT WAS OK TO BE A TRIBAL WARRIOR IN 1000 AD, BUT UH NOW IT JUST MEANS YOU ARE A DUMB. BECAUSE THAT'S A OLD THING."
I'm just impressed elections are actually being celebrated, tho if things are this rough, I don't know what to expect next year that there's supposed to be national elections.
I'm forcing myself to distance emotionally from that mess. I can't handle it.
Whoever managed to sell Islam to a guy who’s entire religion revolves around eating boars and drinking forever and ever, deserves some kind of award for marketing excellence.
Jokes aside, it seems more likely it’s a matter of the guy getting hold on a piece of fancy fabric and decided to be buried with it.
Whoever managed to sell Islam to a guy who’s entire religion revolves around eating boars and drinking forever and ever, deserves some kind of award for marketing excellence.
Jokes aside, it seems more likely it’s a matter of the guy getting hold on a piece of fancy fabric and decided to be buried with it.
My impression has always been that the polytheistic pagan European religions didn't have the same intensity of focus and message that Christianity and Islam have. And in a pattern broadly seen again later during the imperial age (especially in Africa), you had the pagan religions quickly swamped over by the Christianity the European empires brought, while native populations that were Muslim (or an earlier form of Christian) didn't change.
From that glimpse I don't really see it as hard at all for Odin to get dropped.
@Monkey:
My impression has always been that the polytheistic pagan European religions didn't have the same intensity of focus and message that Christianity and Islam have. And in a pattern broadly seen again later during the imperial age (especially in Africa), you had the pagan religions quickly swamped over by the Christianity the European empires brought, while native populations that were Muslim (or an earlier form of Christian) didn't change.
From that glimpse I don't really see it as hard at all for Odin to get dropped.
And as far as the Indo-European religions go, Odin was an especially big jerkoff. Not even the common folk liked him that much.
@S.C.:
And as far as the Indo-European religions go, Odin was an especially big jerkoff. Not even the common folk liked him that much.
Thor was more popular, I believe. Even more cities/towns are named after him than his father.
This is true, Þór and Baldur are the real MVPs
Thor was more popular, I believe. Even more cities/towns are named after him than his father.
That is true. Odin was more about scheming to prolong Ragnarok while Thor made sure people were safe from Jotuns, which was more endearing. Plus, he would have been more fun to drink with then Odin.
@S.C.:
That is true. Odin was more about scheming to prolong Ragnarok while Thor made sure people were safe from Jotuns, which was more endearing. Plus, he would have been more fun to drink with then Odin.
Did u just spoiled Thor; Ragnarok for all of us?? Sheezzz, I wanted Odin's purpose to be a mystery.
Did u just spoiled Thor; Ragnarok for all of us?? Sheezzz, I wanted Odin's purpose to be a mystery.
Man From Arizona Makes Off-Hand Post About Dead Religion From 1,000 + Years Ago: Accidentally Spoils Movie.
A gigantic wave of wildfires in Portugal is causing utter chaos throughout the North and Centre of the country, cutting off numerous roads, highways, and train lines. People have to seek shelter in service stations along the roads because they get trapped, villages have been evacuated in various points, houses and factories have been burned, 3 people have died, it is utter madness here. I have no link to english-language news and I don't know why I can't find any, but it's scary as hell. Temperatures have reached 35 degrees Celsius today in places where even during Summer time it is unusual to be so hot, wind is very very strong. I keep hearing firemen trucks, ambulances, and police cars dashing all over the place, my house smells like smoke and everyone is panicking. My gf was on the road and nearly caught by the fires, she had to turn back home asap. Communication lines are completely full and police/guard members are sometimes clueless as to what is going on in each place. Utter madness. Protection services are stretched to breaking point and it is simply impossible to deal with so many large fires in so many different points. The priorities right now are to evacuate people in danger and stop fires from reaching inhabited areas, while waiting for the rain to come in the morning.
Managed to find something in english: http://algarvedailynews.com/news/12762-portugal-ablaze
Number of fires has reached 443. Galicia in northwest Spain is going through a similar problem, Vigo is basically surrounded by fires.
No love for Víðarr and his shoe of doom?
Viðar definitely has a cult following, in fact my roommates name is Viðar
ISIS has finally been defeated in Raqqah, meaning they've lost both of their major city strongholds (the other was Mosul).
Their only remaining actual factual territory is now mostly crappy desert, small towns, and rapidly vanishing pockets of one more sizable city that they've never fully controlled, Deir Ezzor.
As a territorial unit they're pretty much past tense.
Which means the attacks will intensify because everyone goes home now.
Which means the attacks will intensify because everyone goes home now.
Er… they're surrounded by three hostile forces.
1. The Syrian Army/Russians/Iranians/Hezbollah
2. The Iraqi Army
3. SDF/Syrian Kurds
ISIS soldiers in the remaining pockets are pretty much turbo-fucked dead men walking.
Having said that I do agree that in their dying form, whatever connections and people abroad they still have might be an even greater threat. Thrashing around desperate to prove relevance, or go out with a bang.
I don't want to talk about Venezuela but I have the "duty" to keep you posted.
The government won big on the regional elections, and whatever opposition win has to be sworn in the super cheated constitutional assembly, essentially accepting its legality.
That was accepted by the oppo parties that won.
Everything else that was done this year has become undone, again.
When you have a poor sense of apparent humor or don't bother looking into the people that obtain health insurance from you
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dear-baby-connor-your-coverage-is-denied
So… have the Iraqi kurds been completely screwed once again by their western allies in their quest for independence? The Iraqi army + Iranian backed Shia militias have taken control of various Kurdish-held cities and towns effortlessly, supposedly due to internal "betrayal", the Kurds say. These people are destined to always fight the toughest battles and get cheated on their own state when it seems so close, again and again.
So… have the Iraqi kurds been completely screwed once again by their western allies in their quest for independence? The Iraqi army + Iranian backed Shia militias have taken control of various Kurdish-held cities and towns effortlessly, supposedly due to internal "betrayal", the Kurds say. These people are destined to always fight the toughest battles and get cheated on their own state when it seems so close, again and again.
if it was not a land in 4 different countries and didn't have as much oil they would have their own land long time ago
Iran is now hardly against Iraq Kurdistan because they want to keep Iraq as ally and also they believe isreal is supporting them and there are Kurds in Iran aswell
You have to keep this in mind in that city there was not only Kurds there were also Arab As well it's not easy to draw a border for Kurdistan
if it was not a land in 4 different countries and didn't have as much oil they would have their own land long time ago
Iran is now hardly against Iraq Kurdistan because they want to keep Iraq as ally and also they believe isreal is supporting them and there are Kurds in Iran aswell
You have to keep this in mind in that city there was not only Kurds there were also Arab As well it's not easy to draw a border for Kurdistan
I know about all of that. I just feel very sorry for those people, is all… It's all happening again and everyone knew it was going to lead to this. NATO will never support and independent Kurdistan, and neither will Iran. So it's an utopia, right now. It should have happened after WW1, it did not. And it will not happen in the forseeable future.