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  1. iscariot

    Which Religions are easily convertible to which religions

    That makes sense. Thank you.
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    Which Religions are easily convertible to which religions

    The Indo-European religion is very adaptable for sure. HOWEVER, Hinduism as we know it emerged much later, in the Medieval era. They didn't merge native religions, so much as they came to encompass the local cults (which range from Vedic religions to unrelated cults). Ancient India was more...
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    Which Religions are easily convertible to which religions

    Ah, my bad. I thought they were Arianistic....oh well. THE point, is that Monophysites assert a single nature to Christ. As the Muslims do (albeit of course the Muslims insist Jesus is completely human), therefore, it's easier to swing an argument towards the Muslim point of view. The...
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    AHC: Inanimate object as a ruler

    With our Artificial General Intelligence overlords, all things are possible. Heck, even just a regular AI would do. If I feed the law books to an Chat bot and then “ask it questions”, it’s as good as a ruler.
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    Which Religions are easily convertible to which religions

    Well, off the top of my head: The Three Religions of China (Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) were long considered to be the same religion or at least closely related. Most people believe in a syncretic version of these faiths, or at least, observe the culture of all three even if they have a...
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    WI one of Muhammad's sons survives to adulthood?

    Did Muhammad chose Ali to be his successor? Because I think Sunnis and Shiates still argue over that to this day. Would his son be worthy? Would Muhammad choose his own son? Because his sons never grew to adulthood in OTL, we have no way of knowing how worthy they could have been, and...
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    AHC: Create a realistic "Through Darkest Europe" style timeline.

    That’s a stupid POD indeed. I haven’t read the book, but it’s absurd that a single line change in religious texts could do this. The sentiment of faith being greater than reason has been followed to the hilt by Christians for millennia, irrespective of whatever was said. Okay, so maybe...
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    WI: State enforced homosexuality?

    How the hell would people reproduce? For the sake of argument, let's say the state does enforce such a thing, likely as a reaction to a sudden, unexpected social or ecological catastrophe— how the hell will people reproduce? As for why I think a society would never naturally take on a...
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    Best and Worst Societies to be taken captive by?

    I would have to agree. Especially considering that a foreigner of low birth could literally become Prime Minister through merit alone (and many did), as well as rise high in the ranks of the new aristocracy of scholar-bureaucrats. Though the Tang were big on the slave trade, especially of...
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    How do we know there wasn't an advanced civilization on earth 12,000 years ago?

    Excerpt: But there is a conundrum here. If an earlier species’s industrial activity is short-lived, we might not be able to easily see it. The PETM’s spikes mostly show us the Earth’s timescales for responding to whatever caused it, not necessarily the timescale of the cause. So it might take...
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    How do we know there wasn't an advanced civilization on earth 12,000 years ago?

    Atlantis was most likely just Akrotiri on Santorini (wiped out in the Theran Eruption). I increasingly find the mundanity of anthropology and science to be plenty awe inducing on its own. People underestimate their ancestors. There’s nothing primitive about primitive technology.
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    How do we know there wasn't an advanced civilization on earth 12,000 years ago?

    I have less doubts about that. Hugging the coast, it was entirely possible for a global maritime culture to exist. The peopling of North America was done exactly in that way, primarily (rather than the Bering Land Bridge, which was the last route that became viable, long after people already...
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    How do we know there wasn't an advanced civilization on earth 12,000 years ago?

    The Austronesian/Polynesians did basically exactly that, populated the world via sea I mean, although the Australo-Melanasians were even more impressive. They apparently reached America BEFORE the ancestors of the Native Americans did (there are little surviving genetic traces of them in America...
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    AHC make Islam or christianity polytheistic

    According to Protestants back in the day, Roman Catholics were basically polytheist heretics as far as they were concerned, what with the de facto worship of saints, and the clergy, and the whole "Vicar of God on Earth" shtick of the Popes. Oh my. It's not hard to make Islam or Christianity...
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    How do we know there wasn't an advanced civilization on earth 12,000 years ago?

    12,000 Years Ago, we were already very advanced. It is because we choose to view history through anno domini that we misrepresents the age of human civilization. Of course, your average human is very ignorant about history and still think the Pyramids were amazing and that aliens must have...
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    Buddha does not become Buddha

    As I said before, Hinduism would actually evolve slower without Buddhism unless a significant replacement takes Buddhism’s place. Hinduism (if we can call it that) needed a significant challenge from the Sramanic schools to trigger reform and syncretism, and further unify the Vedic traditions...
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    Buddha does not become Buddha

    Not that Buddhism became the dominant religion either, but it made such a tremendous impact that Hinduism later tried to incorporate Buddhism into itself to close the gap on the cognitive dissonance of how such a "heresy" nearly drowned the local religions. Hence why some Hindus traditionally...
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    "Modernized" native Taiwan

    He's probably referring to the head hunting traditions of some of the aboriginals. Speaking of which, for visualization purposes: Seediq Bale is a film by a Taiwanese director (possibly its most famous director at the moment). Part of his "Colonial Taiwan" trilogy that endeavours to show...
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    Death of a Dynasty: Emperor Komei of Japan and only heir die in Kinmon incident_1864

    I seem to recall that Meiji succession laws was diffirent. It barred female Emperors. And post-war (WW2) succession law was different too.
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    "Modernized" native Taiwan

    Well, when the Dutch first imported Chinese male workers, they married aboriginal women. But their children largely adopted the Han culture and identity. If we change it so those Chinese were willing to adopt the aboriginal culture or accept a hybrid culture, and prevent immediate immigration to...
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