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  • #16
    Another advanced and peaceful society wiped out by those savage Incas as they cut a swathe across the American continents.
    “As a lifelong member of the Columbia Business School community, I adhere to the principles of truth, integrity, and respect. I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”
    "Capitalism ho!"

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    • #17
      This civ was long dead before the Incas ever got there. The Incas were only in power for around 75 years before the Spanish got to them.
      Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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      • #18
        So you're saying this is Columbus' fault?
        Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
        "We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld

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        • #19
          Archaeologists still argue the contact between the The Peruvians and Mexicans was limited at best, and yet they share religious/astrological
          "visions" of Heaven with common features:

          1 Both viewed Heaven as layered
          2 13 levels to be exact
          3 The creator has a duality that occupies 2 levels in Heaven

          speculation: 9 planets, sun and moon make up 11 and the creator is an interloper with a comet-like orbit. This is what the Inca envisioned as their Heaven - sun and moon on either side of a large ellipse (the Incan "creator") separating (or connecting) 2 groups of "stars", 4 below the ellipse and 5 at or near the other end. The only problem with the picture is the group of 5 at the upper end of the ellipse should actually be near the bottom with the group of 4 just below it with the bottom of the ellipse cutting between the 2 groups. Could be a minor detail, the Incan "Genesis" was drawn by a noble from memory of having seen the gold plating in the Holy of Holies before the Spanish melted it down.

          The Toltecs/Aztecs also spoke of the 9 Lords of the Night, hence the appearance of 9-stepped pyramids. The Inca depicted 9 "stars" in close proximity to their creator - again, an ellipse. Oh, another oddity - ever been to "Newspaper Rock" near Moab, Utah? It looks like Indians carved their creation story onto a rock face darkened with patina and it has survived largely intact inspite of later carvings and vandalism. Above the story is a horned deity standing on or above 11 "sheep" lined up horizontally across the face.



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          • #20
            Originally posted by Oerdin
            This civ was long dead before the Incas ever got there. The Incas were only in power for around 75 years before the Spanish got to them.
            With such bloody thirsty methods, it was no wonder there was such resistance.
            “As a lifelong member of the Columbia Business School community, I adhere to the principles of truth, integrity, and respect. I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”
            "Capitalism ho!"

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            • #21
              My thread!!!

              My beautiful thread. What have you done...

              AAaarrGGGHhhhh!!!!!
              I don't know what I am - Pekka

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              • #22
                Alright, you basstards. This is my thread.

                MY THREAD!!!

                You got that?!!

                So you can all just STFU and **** off right now!!

                I own this thread and nobody else is getting in.

                I don't know what I am - Pekka

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                • #23
                  EVAH!
                  I don't know what I am - Pekka

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                  • #24
                    Heh heh.

                    Look at all this beautiful space.

                    No lines.

                    No cross-posts.


                    No. FRIGGIN... PEOPLE!
                    I don't know what I am - Pekka

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                    • #25
                      Please don't chase them away Terra. I don't want them to move to my European employment thread.
                      DISCLAIMER: the author of the above written texts does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for any offence and insult; disrespect, arrogance and related forms of demeaning behaviour; discrimination based on race, gender, age, income class, body mass, living area, political voting-record, football fan-ship and musical preference; insensitivity towards material, emotional or spiritual distress; and attempted emotional or financial black-mailing, skirt-chasing or death-threats perceived by the reader of the said written texts.

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                      • #26
                        Ah crap.

                        Alright. I'm gonna have to pay a security guy to keep Imran out.

                        So, to pay his salary. I'll allow two of your stinking, ****** posts per day.

                        But that's it. OK. Just you two, there at the front.
                        I don't know what I am - Pekka

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                        • #27
                          Security!!!

                          I don't know what I am - Pekka

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                          • #28
                            Oh
                            “As a lifelong member of the Columbia Business School community, I adhere to the principles of truth, integrity, and respect. I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”
                            "Capitalism ho!"

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