Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On Thu, 9 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

On 1/8/25 7:51 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 18:34:06 +0000, Pancho wrote:
 

How do you explain Jihadist Islam?
 Religion/ideology is like evolution, the selfish meme. It is a mistake
to presume it must be intrinsically good for adherents, as opposed to
just good at perpetuating itself, creating new adherents.

 https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/heresy-of-mohammed-10817
 Belloc had a good explanation of why Islam didn't fade away like Arianism
or other Christian heresies.
 "Millions of modern people of the white civilization_that is, the
civilization of Europe and America_have forgotten all about Islam. They
have never come in contact with it. they take for granted that it is
decaying, and that, anyway, it is just a foreign religion which will not
concern them. It is, as a fact, the most formidable and persistent enemy
which our civilization has had, and may at any moment become as large a
menace in the future as it has been in the past."
 He wrote that in 1938.

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 Islam has proven to be a very robust meme. Adherents
 quickly become immersed, saturated, with the ideology.
 It explicitly includes doing Very Bad Things to all
 infidels/heretics. Like the crusaders take on the
 christian religion it DEMANDS being spread to all
 at ANY cost by ANY means.
>
 Bad enough in an age of slings and arrows ...
>
 Post WW-1, after the Brits badly (intentionally)
 divided up a lot of Islamic nations/territories,
 there WAS a perception that it would just kinda
 fade away. Instead the divisions spawned little
 wars, then bigger wars - and extremism.
>
 Today, bet that at LEAST Iran are de-facto nuclear
 powers. Islam has taken over much of Africa, and
 thus its vast resources. Poor immigration thinking
 has imported large quantities of Islamics into
 the belly of Europe - enough to be of considerable
 political influence. The Ottomans failed to take
 Europe (thank Vlad The Impaler) ... but it seems
 Europe has completed their goal.
>
 This all just ain't good ....
>
 And that's just religion. Add usual politics and
 ambition on top.
>

Ahh... thankfully I believe it will take about 1 or 2 more generations before the first european country turning officially moslem, and by that time I'm since long happily retired far away from europe.
As my father always says... thank god I don't have to experience that mess! ;)