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The messianic zeal of Christianity's shameful Crusades a thousand years ago What a strange tangent. The Muslims were in the "holy land" (and a thousand other p
by mynameishere 19y ago
The messianic zeal of Christianity's shameful Crusades a thousand years ago
What a strange tangent. The Muslims were in the "holy land" (and a thousand other places) because of incomparably violent zeal. I suppose the defense of Vienna is also shameful for the zeal of the Sobieski.
- raganwald 19y agoIs this a long-winded way of saying that two wrongs make a right? That if "they" use torture we ought to use torture? That... Oh, sorry, my mistake, I thought I was on reddit. I'm actually on ycombinator, which is a completely different community. Let's talk about startups, please.
- mynameishere 19y agoLet's talk about startups, please. You will notice: 1) The lead article is not about startups. 2) I quoted a passage that was from the lead article. 3) I commented on that passage. So, if you have some sort of objection, please refer to the person who submitted it, or to the author, and not me. Thanks. ADDENDUM: two wrongs make a right Sometimes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_Tat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_Tat
- raganwald 19y agoYou know what, you're right and I'm wrong. Communities are whatever their members make of them, and the upmods for your comment suggests to me that this community thinks that's worthy of mention. When I said startups, I actually included programming as part of startups, due to the flavour of PG's essays, so I thought the article was relevant for ycombinator. But again, it's not up to me. And honestly, I wouldn't have said anything about your comment except I had just come from reddit, where more than half of the comments on the programming sub-reddit were about whether he should have included pictures, about whether the actress was hot, and about whether Japan really does have a cultural identity distinct from America. I guess I was just crotchety about the fact that nobody seemed to be paying any attention to what I thought the article was about. I was being selfish. I was wrong to try to tell you what you should and shouldn't say on a forum: forums are for the members, they needn't follow my preconceptions about what is on or off topic, what is relevant, or what is or isn't important in an article. So... if you want to get into a whole Christians vs. Muslims through history thing, I'll get out of the way.
- mynameishere 19y agoPlease to note that my initial objection was basically of the same flavor, ie, "why is the article conflating programming languages and the Crusades?"
- r7000 19y ago"Religious wars" is a long-standing metaphor when discussing programming languages. http://www.google.com/search?q=Religious+wars+programming+languages http://www.google.com/search?q=Religious+wars+programming+la...
- edw519 19y agoNice post. Didn't see a copyright or DRM. Permission to cut & paste it into my own future posts?
- raganwald 19y agoplease help yourself. as for copyright, "your ideas will go further if you don't insist that they carry you go along with them."
- Rickon 19y ago"Oh, sorry, my mistake, I thought I was on reddit. I'm actually on ycombinator, which is a completely different community. Let's talk about startups, please." Supposed to be cute, I guess, but you must not be paying attention--note the "title" tag on each page and count the number of programming-related submissions on the main page.
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- mwerty 19y agoMaybe I am over analyzing: Given the current visibility of Islamic extremism, its less distracting to talk about current non-issues.