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Thread: How to master pistoleer in 2 days, wit money
WinterRoseASFR wrote:
I go on saying, "The conflicts there have raged for thousands of years. Not tens. But THOUSANDS. And the conflict and division of ideology is based in a difference of religious faith.
(End, hopefully, of rants about the wretched old real world.)
While some of the roots of the conflict may be ancient, the actual Muslim/Jewish tensions are not nearly thousands of years old. Heck, Islam hasn't even been around for 2000 years yet. It's a relative newcomer to monotheism. Come to think of it, Christianity isn't 2000 years old quite yet.
The major tensions between the Musilms and Jewsonly goes back to the era when the British were in control of the Middle East. With their Imperialistic worldview at the time, they made some really stupid management decisions that pissed everyone off. They ignored traditional tribal boundries and arbatrarily made borders. Thus, all the Arab tribes' family feuds exploded in a much bigger way as the British mismanaged them. To compound matters, Zionism was born and Jewish folks began to resettle the HORRIBLE land that Palestine was at the time. The Zionists turned nasty swamp and desert into the best real estate in the Middle East. The British mismanaged the conflicts that arose from that, as well, mostly because they didn't really give a crap about the people they were managing. And the tensions mounted.
In the 30's and 40's, Hitler fired up the tensions over there. Then, when the UN gave the Jews Israel, the neighboring Arab states refused the UN offer of the land being split 50/50 between a Jewish state and a Palestinian state. It was going to be all or nothing. Then, those same states refused to let Palestinian refugees into their borders. The Israeli/Palestinian conflict was officially born.
Before the British came in during the 19th century, there were no national borders in the Middle East. It was all tribal like it had been for a long, long time. The way they divided the land into nations was very poorly done. While this may be irrelevant to the issue, there has actually never been a sovereign nation called Palestine or occupied by the people we now call Palestinians. Of course, that technicality doesn't really do much one way or the other for the conflict.
Historically, Islam was pretty tolerant of Christianity and Judaism. Muhammad had special protection for them as fellow Monotheists. During the Ottoman period, it was much easier to be a Christian or Jew in the Muslim-run Ottoman Empire than it was to bea Jew or Muslim in Christian Europe. Of course, that was a different 'brand' of Islam than the predominant Islam of today is. Similar to the differences between Protestant Christianity and Catholic Christianity.
While the historic conflicts between Christians and Muslims have been in part ideological, it's also been largely political, historically. The major Christian/Muslim wars were less about faith and more about territory. Most of those conflicts only go back to around 1200 CE anyway. And the current conflicts date again back to the 19th century when the British screwed around in the Middle East.
Until the 300s CE, the Jewish/Christian tensions were almost exclusively an in-house fight, as Christianity was a sub-set of Judaism. The major split there came when the Jewish Christians refused to fight during the last Roman Revolt because Rabbi Akkiva had declared Bar Kochba to be the Messiah. It was finalized when the Christian Council of Nicea booted Jewish things out of Christianity in the 300s. Being disposessed, the Jews were often the minority and thus persecuted in many European Christian nations. But I'd like to point out that there has never been a Protestant pogram. That's not an implication against our Catholic friends, but the truth is that the so-called Christian Persecution of Jews was never brought on by most of the Christian denominations. Also, there has never been a pogram here in America. We have over 200 years of good relations between Jews and Christians in this nation.
Finally, this may come as a suprise to many Christians, but Israeli Jews tend to view themselves as having more in common with Muslims than with Christians. Of course, here in the West, the reverse is true.
Definitely the conflicts in the Middle East date back a dozen or so decades. One could argue that the roots of the conflicts go back a dozen or so centuries. But thousands of years is a big exageration, historically.
"quiet electric ones have already been invented" (referring to lawnmowers)
You know how we make that electricity, right? Any way you cut it, were polluting somehow.
ok the primary flaw I find in this get there quick scheam is that 90% of the people that go to the Geonosian bunker never leave the opening area... with 30 people attacking the same thing it's fairly impossible to get the amount of exp that is stated here unless you go past the 2nd area where the enhanced kwi's are wich are almost impossible to kill solo. either way you end up fighting for minimal exp and bored out of your mind within 20 minutes.
Best exp I've seen is group hunting on Dath or Dantooine, you know the new trend... group and go your seperate ways... 30K missions and close to 17K exp for each mission. A little slower... but more lucrative and fun in the long run.
Message Edited by Ariekb on 05-23-2004 07:33 PM
Ariekb wrote:
ok the primary flaw I find in this get there quick scheam is that 90% of the people that go to the Geonosian bunker never leave the opening area... with 30 people attacking the same thing it's fairly impossible to get the amount of exp that is stated here unless you go past the 2nd area where the enhanced kwi's are wich are almost impossible to kill solo. either way you end up fighting for minimal exp and bored out of your mind within 20 minutes.
Best exp I've seen is group hunting on Dath or Dantooine, you know the new trend... group and go your seperate ways... 30K missions and close to 17K exp for each mission. A little slower... but more lucrative and fun in the long run.
Well darn hehe If i had known this thread was hijacked for a political debate.....
Ever realize that we have leaders named
Bush
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and **edit**?
Message Edited by Ariekb on 05-23-2004 07:33 PM
For the geo caves to work well for you, you definitely need to find a camping spot that's not overrun by others.
Cempa wrote:
Bet the thread is closed as soon as the mods wake up.
Meanwhile, a few little quotes for you.
"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid; but most stupid people are conservative." - John Stuart Mill
"You are known by the company you keep. If you lie down with dogs; then you'll get up with fleas." - unknown
my brain.... it hurts!
FrankLee wrote:
Kevie wrote:
Hawaii5_o wrote:
Xarche wrote:
And the true conundrum (and a cheap shot at the rebel fan-bois) is that the Bush NPC is a rebel, and the Kerry NPC spawns just outside of the Emperors Retreat.
This would, though, be true. Liberalismis like the Evil Empire becauseit want to crush everything that stands for goodness, truth, and morality. Conservatism is like the Rebellion because being a Conservative means you're rebelling against the flavor of the month opinion that dumb people take just because their favorite celebrity is a Liberal.
lmao it's so true.........
/looks around
/cry
and as for the geo caves..... get a DX2!!
i cannot stress this enough.... the crazed geonosians are vulnerable to acid and like 35% resistant to energy
Crap. I went there buffed and solo, was a near-master pistoleer and TKM... got rooked by the medium-armor doorguards. I could take them, but it was long minutes of fighting and worth only 5k. So if I get down inside, there's acid-vulnerable kills? I was stuck using my so-so fwg5 on firebreathing klikniks.
Crap.
wow, this has gotten alot more off subject than when i first pointed out "republican" blaster.