(Spoiler Speculation ALL) Targaryens, not human? And the Doom of Valyria

Seeyousuckerslater · 2012-05-24T23:48:52.232663+00:00

They can marry, so I would assume the answer is yes. I don't think the doom was natural. A normal volcanic eruption doesn't cause dragon glass to rain down or tidal waves.

WowbaggerMM · 2012-05-24T19:20:40.128719+00:00

Have you been everywhere in America? Have you been a 15 year old gay person in High School?

feureau · 2 days

Think about it, hundreds of years from now they will be just as fascinated with his addition as they are the original

Probably not. We have few things from a few thousand years ago in the Americas, compared with the continuing 2000+ year dominance of the latin alphabet, that won't be usurped pretty much ever, as far as I can tell.

glue_fixes_problems · 3 days

Everyone will want to become an advertiser.

JackPhilby · 5 days

And the second part: http://copybot.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/50-more-of-wikipedias-most-interesting-articles/

slothenstein · 5 days

I used to have an iguana that would scratch up my forearms real bad with his claws if I handled him without gloves, which I often did (this was in high school).

I never got talked to about the crisscrossing cuts, even though some of them got deep. Honestly, I was annoyed more people didn't ask me if I was cutting myself, because I wanted both the simpathy and the chance to destroy that sympathy. What I now realize is that nobody really cared about me.

So what I'm saying is, if you don't ask about the scars, you might be disappointing someone who just wants to get to say 'Come on, I would never cut myself. It's from my pet iguana!' one time in their whole fucking life.

Now my iguana is dead. I'll never get that chance.

Just thought I'd share.

knudow · 5 days

Ha, no I meant Stephen Fuller Austin. Your ancestor is an interesting character though.

knudow · 5 days

Founded Texas, eh? You're not an Austin, are you?

Seeyousuckerslater · 6 days

There is, however, a perceived difference between being of European decent primarily or exclusively and being more of an indigenous decent.

Seeyousuckerslater · 6 days

I can confirm this.

Seeyousuckerslater · 6 days

No, I don't think OP is that familiar with the area though. The map itself says Latin America.

Seeyousuckerslater · 6 days

great, link me to the study where they test the whole country.

Seeyousuckerslater · 6 days

There isn't a perceived difference between Africans and Mulattos culturally, because it's been several hundred years since Africans came over.

Seeyousuckerslater · 6 days

How do you figure that, when there aren't good demographic figures? This is self reported information from censuses.

Seeyousuckerslater · 6 days

There's a book out there, 'Las Venas Abiertas de Latinoamerica', that gives a good history of the native peoples. In Uruguay, for example, the Spanish completely eliminated all native peoples by the late 1800's. In Argentina, they did similar things, but didn't wipe everyone out. In Brazil, most (90%?) of the natives died in the gold mines and on plantations. The resulting vacuum of labor led to the importation of many, many slaves. In Paraguay it was illegal to marry inside of your own race. Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador didn't have any complete genocides (and were much more populated to begin with). Chile had an independent state to the south (past Chiloe/Puerto Montt), the Mapuche, who were only finally conquered in the 1880's.

Seeyousuckerslater · 6 days

Wait, a large number of people self identify as mestizo. I live in South America, and removing that classification would be disingenuous.

davidreiss666 · 7 days

I'm not talking about specific verses or examples. There is, however, cross denominational consensus about the main tenets of Christian teaching (if not practiced belief itself). The beatitudes and the sermon on the mount, where much of Jesus's proverbial wisdom comes from, have little contention surrounding them.

Nor do the ten commandments.

Nor the parables (though pastors are continually finding new ways to talk to them). Basically, though, there is a first and greatest commandment, and there is another that is like it. And it is agreed upon.

PepPepper · 7 days

Websters is not the curator of language, as any good lexicographer knows.

davidreiss666 · 7 days

Exactly. What people seem to fail to realize is that the bible is the most studied book of all time, and that the connections made in liner notes are based on the results of thousands of years of study, and not just the whims of the translator.

I don't expect people to know this, really, just that if they haven't bothered to look into biblical studies (that is, more than simply reading articles about biblical studies), it would be nice if they would refrain from making broad, sweeping statements about it.

HimmelFahrt · 7 days

Only knew this because of Europa Universalis

davidreiss666 · 7 days

That's not true at all. Have you studied the bible by chance, or are you just making noise?

Tiered · 9 days

Also, I am pretty sure they still tax you for 10 years on income, but not on capital gains or something. I don't know, read about it a bit when they said that Eduardo Saverin guy was renouncing over facebook.

Seeyousuckerslater

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