Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 1/9/25 1:08 AM, rbowman wrote:

On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 00:19:36 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

The Ottomans failed to take
    Europe (thank Vlad The Impaler) ... but it seems Europe has completed
    their goal.

 You might want to thank the people at Leponto, the iege of Vienna, and the
Battle of Vienna too. The Ottomans didn't stop trying until 1683. Vlad was
only a warm up.

   Vlad literally gave 'em hell-on-earth though !
   The little dragon had a big BITE  :-)
   But yea, the Ottomans and near-heirs DID keep trying
   for awhile.
   But now EU govts have given them their victory.
   The Mongols kinda ruined the 'Islamic Empire' long
   back in the 1200s. The all-in-all upswing of power
   and knowledge was interrupted and the various areas
   kinda went their own ways, sometimes in combat.
   Some of the Mongols WERE converted to Islam though.
   Greatest sin of The Horde ... burning all the books
   in Baghdad and killing all the scholars. This was
   as much of a loss as the library at Alexandria
   going up in flames. Still wonder if there are
   copies hidden carefully away somewhere .....
   Like recently seen with 'ISIS', fanatics often
   want to erase history - "Nothing before Islam
   and ourselves". The NAZIs and USSR extensively
   re-wrote/re-phrased history to their own advantage.
   Sometimes it's more than mere "revisionism" but
   a really vicious and intensive effort to invent
   a new past for political/religious reasons. The
   priests with the Conquistadors made considerable
   efforts to erase old American religions as well.
   Lucky some of that remained buried in the jungles
   where they couldn't smash it all.
   If you want odd-ish religions, note the Slavic
   mythology ... it was clearly influenced by
   Vedic/Hindu elements despite being so far away.
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_paganism