30 Fun Facts You Might Not Have Known About These Cultures And Religions, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group

Yes they do. :)

Sikh women are brought up with pride and love. They don’t need to compete with Sikh men or find validation cause they know as well as the men that they are equals in every sense. Look up the views of Guru Nanak Devji on this. He was the founder of the religion.

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What about Buddhism? No creator gods, just enlightenment.

I don't think so - fashion-conscious Sikhs often have a selection, to match their outfits

There actually is, although most people coordinate it with their outfits. Saffron for example is for courage and is worn during rallies. White is for peace and are mostly worn daily by elders, or at funerals. Red and pink are associated with spring and worn during weddings. Orange and navy are traditional colours worn on religious occasions. Black and navy are worn by the younger generation at formal events.

Can drive for 4 hours in Texas...and still be in Texas. Even better, they put this sign up just past the Louisiana border that lists the miles to El Paso (on the other end of Texas) - 800 or so. Talk about breaking your spirit.

It's a 2 day trip just crossing Ontario east to west

It takes about 6.5 hours to drive across Nebraska. That’s straight through with only one gas stop. That’s from Omaha to the westernmost part of the state on I-80.

4 hour drive i can cross 3 country boarders..

I'm from Switzerland and four hours would be considered a long distance. I’ll only travel for four hours if it for holiday. At trip to Paris for example. But as a historian I prefer to visit all the 1000 year old churches in my vicinity anyway.

yeah but four hours on train with stations etc., is probably 100km.We're talking 400-500km.

Unintentional spelling of Canadia The Nighty lol

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She's also the only woman named too.

no they don't. They all believe in monotheism, that deviating from monotheism is apostasy (and that the god's name is EL or Allah, same thing), that there are prophets, that there are laws which mostly tell you to obey this god, that women are to obey men and raise children in a household, that you must pray, etc. They're just successors. Muslims refer to the Quran as the Third or Final Testament. I do not see substantial differences between them except the christian weirdness of insisting jesus was in fact god. Oh and if you want to correct me, please tell me if you are familiar with the saying, La illaha illa Allah Muhammad Rasul Allah “لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله” or the saying Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος. IE this is my area of scholarship.

I read this. Thank you very much for posting the link!

... to protect his head from pretzels

In India its common for guys hug guy friends when we meet..

The USA is frightened of so many things, that is why it lies and brainwashes it's population.

and only getting worse with the current Supreme Court.

Nah chaucer is ok if you let go of spelling and just read it out loud. Try Beowulf. That's nightmare stuff. Beowulf Geata, be þæm gebroðrum twæm. Him wæs ful boren ond freondlaþu. wordum bewægned, ond wunden gold

Chaucer is interesting figure. There was some parchment found in old monastery library with significant note, something like "Chaucer wrote good book, impresive job for analphabet". It brings in question. We were all told in school that "most people in that time weren't able to write and read". But can analphabet write a book? He can dictate a book, sure, but if you consider how useful reading and writing is for everyday life, it can also mean that " most people in that time weren't able to write and read LATIN". And this whole hypothesis is based on one line wrote down by unknown monk about Chaucer.

With an understanding of traditional Chinese and traditional sentence structure they are readable, yes. You can understand Chaucer without annotation (and Beowulf, in Old English) with an understanding of modern English and German. I can read them easily. Different countries have different histories, whih is the bigger thing here.

"Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licóur Of which vertú engendred is the flour;" Yup. Checks out.

While Hebrew is newer than Chinese, it has changed even less. Any Hebrew speaker can read the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest which have been carbon dated to the second century BCE. With a little training, they can read writings in Paleo Hebrew, since Modern Hebrew replaced paleo-Hebrew, letter by letter, same name, same sound. So one just has to learn the paleo Hebrew letters that correspond to Modern Hebrew. So when the paleo-Hebrew letters of the Siloam Inscription are replaced with their modern Hebrew equivalents, almost any Hebrew speaker can make sense of it without any annotation or explanation. The Siloam inscription is dated from the 7th century BCE.