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[–] 75 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)
  • [–] 39 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

    It took me ~10 seconds to figure out how those banners work. Nice.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    I still don’t get it. Look completely identical besides orientation. But both look like duck to me.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    The duck's bill becomes the rabbit's ears and then the rabbit is looking the other way (and you can't see its mouth)

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  • [–] 23 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    "Wait, wait... stop... STOP!"

    "Now, who's carrying the DUCK banner, and who's carrying t'other?"

    (insert Monty Python, please)

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  • [–] 74 points 3 weeks ago (21 children)

    This is unironically the case in the muslim world today. Different groups killing each other in the bloodiest ways over the most miniscule differences.

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  • [–] 67 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    Yup, which is extremely similar to Christians and their "European wars of religion" that had them slaughtering each other for hundreds of years, and more recently "the Troubles" until 1998.

    Jews aren't above it either, though their examples are more biblical and not nearly the same body count. The Samaritans and the schism that turned into Christianity come to mind.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    The troubles definitely had religious overtones and justifications, but it was a war about colonial control and cultural repression. You'd be hard pressed to find a British soldier who was fighting to defend protestantism instead of "the empire" or the queen, and you'd be hard pressed to find an IRA member who cared more about Catholic dominance in Ireland than independence.

    The wars of religion basically used religion as a cudgel in a fight to dominate Europe and over tensions between the power centers of the Vatican and European royal courts. Entirely political but with religious marketing and pageantry.

    Even the Sunni/Shia conflict, most Sunnis and Shias around the world have no issue with each other. Most of the time there's violence assigned to sectarianism, it's just like Ireland and Europe, that sectarian divide is inflamed by bad actors instigating artificial tensions and then using them to justify political and economic conquest. ISIS wanted to get rich by snapping up all the oil fields in a largely lawless region. Iran wants regional political dominance and economic control over the straight of hormuz. Israel wants to control the entire Middle East apparently. All of them have religious overtones to the conflict but the religion isn't the reason for the conflict.

    The last real religious wars were the crusades. Europe stood to gain nothing but "God's favor" by taking back the holy land, it was nothing but a burden to repeatedly invade and fund intermittently occupying. Going back further, Muhammad's early Muslim conquests are another example of a true "religious war".

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Weren't the crusades also just a Papal project to reduce the intensity of European wars by dumping excess military capacity into colonising the Middle East?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    Partly. The first Crusade had a lot to do with the Seljuks winning at Manizkert, which left the Byzantines needing help from Western Europe to take back their lands. They also wanted to direct knights violence at a common enemy as you said, but from the soldiers and knights to the 4 princes to Peter the hermit and Pope Urban II, all of them truly believed they were religiously called to reclaim the holy land. It's kind of the opposite of those modern conflicts, it was a religious war with political overtones. The balance of religion and politics as motivating factors is different for each crusade.

    Similarly, you could make an argument that Muhammed was motivated in his early conquests by political and territorial ambition, but he and his followers truly believed they were following divine orders. There's always a mix of the two in those conflicts and it's a sliding scale.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I mean Hindus are also like this. The amount hatred and violence over being born into different casts is disgusting, though I'm not as familiar with it or other religions. I come from an islamic background

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (3 children)

    The Shi'a Sunni sectarianism was helped (at least in Syria) by the US government.

    https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06DAMASCUS5399_a.html

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    it was a thing for centuries before that

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    Shia vs Sunni, Catholic vs Protestant, and so on.

    The potential for an explosive event full of horror is always there, because all of the Abrahamic faiths say that only they are magically wise, and the "other" is worthy of death.

    That scriptural endorsement has been and always will be fuel for the stupid and violent to do what they are naturally inclined to do. The Bible, Koran, and Tanakh all claim the same thing. "You are granted special magic super brain powers; they are stupid, inferior, and damned".

    So, the "they" always has motivation and even a moral imperative to kill the "other".

    ... and to this day, these "faiths" are tax free. they're all fabulously wealthy, but still, we must pay fealty

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    And this was different for Christianity, you think? Even today there is still violence though be it less than, say, a few hundred years ago. Basically people became leas religious and stopped accepting the bullshit religious hate and the violence that came with it

    Ban all religions

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  • [–] 26 points 3 weeks ago* (13 children)

    They need to update their banners.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

    What else am I supposed to see besides a lady with a hat?

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  • [–] 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    It's young lady with a hat facing away and an old lady with a hat facing to the side. Young lady's ear is old lady's eye, young lady's nose is a mole-like bump on old lady's nose, and so on. Never liked this one personally, the old lady is too much of a stretch for my brain to accept.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Easier to show this way,

    One view: young lady. We see her from the back, looking away from the β€œcamera”, her left ear towards us, wearing a necklace

    Other view: old lady. Instead of the left ear, the same point served as the eye, the necklace instead serving as the mouth

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (2 children)

    I know you're not responsible for this:

    But what old lady wears a frill around their chin?

    Conclusion: The young lady is real, the old lady is the illusion.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    This take on it is especially weird to me because I initially saw the young face, but as soon as I saw the old one it became impossible to see the "ear" as anything but an eye.

    I can still kinda see the young face but the ear doesn't compute anymore. it feels wrong.

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    More than that: Judaism, Christianity and Islam all believe in the same god and the same creation story (more or less). Not to mention, different denominations within each religion (e.g. Catholic, Protestant for Christianity). It seems these shared beliefs don't really contribute to any kind of peace.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago* (4 children)

    I'm trying to get away from my radical atheist days, but monotheism specifically seems to definitively not play well with others.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    radical atheist

    "hello, have you heard about our savior, 'just not being an asshole'?"

    door slams

    "obviously fucking not"

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    If you don't think there is such a thing as radical atheism, you might be in a radically atheistic echo chamber. There absolutely is a way to take it too far. For example, thinking that all religions should be abolished forever.

    Personally I am also an atheist bordering on radical :D

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  • [–] -2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    What does it mean to believe in the "same god" if god isn't real?

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    [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Pfft, losers. Old Woman God is better than both of these!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Same shit just different color.

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    Ladies and gentlemen! There is no need to fight, come to the white base assembly

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    Anyone else certain team Rabbit is in the foreground, with team duck the group further away?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I've been going back and forth and can't find the rabbit symbolism

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