Comments by "William Innes" (@williaminnes6635) on "Understanding Islamic Civilization" video.

  1. 4:19 ight if that was a map drawn deliberately to rustle the jimmies of people who pedantically draw a distinction between early iron age civilizations and late bronze age civilizations as well as to rustle the jimmies of anybody know knows the rest of the results of the study which disproved the Khazar conversion thesis or the basics of the study of religion then it was a good map
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  2. You say the Pope broke up the clan but there's an entire anachronistic migration pattern in my part of North America that says it didn't completely take, precisely because of the clans which fought for Catholicism.
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  3. 6:17 a couple of bosses ago, I was waiting outside a house while he was inside doing a showing. There was this dude outside, we started talking, family was from Occupied Territories and had spread all over, as families from Occupied Territories do, conversation wandered over to Saudi Arabia, I offered the opinion that I thought MbS was modeling himself on Peter the Great, and he looks at me like I have lobsters coming out of my ears and says, "don't you realize how many weapons Saudi hillbillies have stockpiled out in the desert?" and proceeds to relay the story of how at a wedding out in the desert one of his cousins attended, the groomsmen rolled up riding on top of a T-55.
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  4. Friend of a friend of the family had a child who was left with a lifelong injury which qualified them for disability benefits and required extensive renovations to the house. The comp got deferred because two of the insurance companies went to was with one another.
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  5. 5:07 Why isn't Iberia noted as Georgia if you're going to smooth over distinctions earlier in the video?
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  6. Khomeini translates incredibly well into English. He reads like a common sense conservative who happens to do this logical leap at the end of each of his essays, "this is why we need a radical Islamist theocracy." The missing piece for Iran and chunks of Iraq is that they have no cultural compunction against lying through their teeth for the smallest of reasons. This stems from 1) a preIslamic tendency to hyperbole - common Farsi idioms include "I will die for you" - and 2) the Shi'ite concept of taqiyya, or permissible dissimulation, originating in the need to make it acceptable for a culture with a high percentage of itinerant merchants - within an overall tradition which spread in west Africa as a means for merchants to be assured that they would not be shortchanged - to deny their membership in the local sect were it ever put to them in a context in which they could expect to be put to death.
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  7. Between wokery and and a Sunnist theocratic system with sectarian exemptions for Jews and Christians, I would take the Islamists. Just start your own church. Get a gigantic golden miter, apply to be recognized as a bishop, and put a gigantic cross on top of your bar or liquour store. Bam. Done. If the local Satanists want to be edgy, you ask that they do it quietly, and without disturbing the children. The Shi'ist version...I wouldn't want to be under it, but I wouldn't want to deal with the majority culture which formed it either. I have also heard anecdotes that it is cheaper, in the long run and adjusted for purchasing power, to bribe an Iranian religious policeman than it is to apply for liquour licences.
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  8. 5:07 for that matter, why not note down Caucasian Albania as well?
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  9. 5:20 1187? IIRC is the end of the Bronze Age. The only civilization that made the transition was New Kingdom Egypt. 500 is a solid couple of centuries past the Late Bronze Age Collapse and into the Iron Age. Yes, the Medes/Persians assfucked the Babylonians.
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  10.  @adamnesico  thumb is me
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  11. oor laddae
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