Osman

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Aug 30, 2002
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Far out, how did it escape me Germany is majority Catholic? Lol I remember the medieval religious wars (were Swedish kings genocided Catholic germans), but I assumed for some reason Germany was majority protestant like most of North "germanic" Europe.


Most are so secular and atheistic that I kinda forget what the dominant church denomination is.
 
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lgorTudor

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Jan 15, 2015
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Far out, how did it escape me Germany is majority Catholic? Lol I remember the medieval religious wars (were Swedish kings genocided Catholic germans), but I assumed for some Germany was majority protestant like most of North "germanic" Europe.


Most are so secular and atheistic that I kinda forget what the dominant church denomination is.
Can't genocide the Bavarians, everybody who ever met them tried but everybody failed

Soon the sunni will catch up to the protestants but then the Bavarians will outlive them too
 

swag

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Sep 23, 2003
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My wife is big into fountain pens. She knows the depths you can plunge, as you noted. She prefers functional ones with easy-to-find refills and ones she wouldn’t be horrified at losing.

Parker I think is one. I’ll ask
OK. Shaeffer was what she was looking for. But refills have been harder to find in Europe.

I haven’t used a writing utensil at least in 3 years

it’s the equivalent to driving a car
I hear ya.

But one of the odd lingering side-effects from when I couldn't walk for a couple of weeks back in September was a couple of fingers on one hand are still a little dummy weak. Eating with chopsticks and pen writing has been my physical therapy.

Anyone have any snow hookups in PR besides having to go to La Perla?
Claudio should be able to help with that.

Will that be on or off a maid's naked ass?

:lol3: don't get busted again
:D Yeah, boyyyyy

Far out, how did it escape me Germany is majority Catholic? Lol I remember the medieval religious wars (were Swedish kings genocided Catholic germans), but I assumed for some Germany was majority protestant like most of North "germanic" Europe.


Most are so secular and atheistic that I kinda forget what the dominant church denomination is.
They're merely counting heretics burned at the stake.
 

Dostoevsky

Tzu
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May 27, 2007
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OK. Shaeffer was what she was looking for. But refills have been harder to find in Europe.



I hear ya.

But one of the odd lingering side-effects from when I couldn't walk for a couple of weeks back in September was a couple of fingers on one hand are still a little dummy weak. Eating with chopsticks and pen writing has been my physical therapy.



Claudio should be able to help with that.

Will that be on or off a maid's naked ass?



:D Yeah, boyyyyy



They're merely counting heretics burned at the stake.
Yeah I think those can't be found here. I think Pilot is the best entry level choice. Plus it's easy to find refills.
 

Post Ironic

Senior Member
Feb 9, 2013
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Far out, how did it escape me Germany is majority Catholic? Lol I remember the medieval religious wars (were Swedish kings genocided Catholic germans), but I assumed for some reason Germany was majority protestant like most of North "germanic" Europe.


Most are so secular and atheistic that I kinda forget what the dominant church denomination is.
30 years war era history is wild.

For a super entertaining picaresque novel from the era, I highly recommend Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen’s “Simplicius Simplicissimus”. A favourite of mine.
 

Quetzalcoatl

It ain't hard to tell
Aug 22, 2007
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I allways find happy holidays or the over corrections to appease other holidays that are irrelevant to those communities to be bizzare and weird. No one celebrating Hanukkah, Kwanza (so miniscule), is ever really offended by merry Christmas. And I would say the same if Ramadan was on same exact time as Christmas.



So dont try to put on silly point of views I didnt express on to me. But its a historical fact that on the core Christmas has little to nothing to do with Christianity. It got adopted around the religion because it became the dominant religion, but the traditions, the mysticism and mythology of the feast itself ALL predate Christianity.


Humans aren't that complicated, like everything else they borrow and re shape their traditions. Its not the same celebration, but its super obvious to acknowledge the origins. Christmas has fully evolved from pagan feasts, down to date and customs . Wether its saturnalia that has very little in common with current Christmas traditions (except the date itself, 25th) , or the more closely resemblances of North European pagan winter solstice traditions that Xmas literally borrowed from, from customs down to the actual name of the holiday in many of these countries (im not kidding, Swedens name for Xmas is same as the pagan holiday), down to the very myth of Santa Claus, or later Father Christmas, who you hardly can call a Christian entity, but simply a reshaped old tales, a cocktail of many versions of magical gift giver in pagan times.


To make it clearer. There is not a single mention of Christmas in the bible, not a single one.


It simply a tradition that was born of needed and clever pragmatics in earliest Church days. Emperor Constantine was smart enough to know that you convert or beat pagan religions not by force alone, but by directly taking their traditions away. So he gave his new converts a rebranding of something they are familiar with. And it evolved from there for centuries.


The church at the time said its the birth of christ, even tho no one knows (there's no fact about his birth year let alone month or day) to nail the tradition down, and its a wonderful and beautiful thing to celebrate with family for sure. But at its very core, there's nothing truly Christian or relating to Christianity with Christmas. Atleast when it comes to the mainstream branches of Christianity. With Orthodox/coptic ones, its fully and completely religious event. They don't mess around.


Its also why I said Easter is the main bona-fide christian holiday.
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