Was nice until that "technology is bad" statement in the end.
Some LotR art
[img]http://www-images.theonering.org/torwp/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/gondolin-howe.jpeg[/img]
[img]http://www.dana-mad.ru/gal/images/John%20Howe/Middle-Earth/john_howe_middle-earth_the%20grey%20havens.jpg[/img]
[img]http://corecanvas.s3.amazonaws.com/theonering-0188db0e/gallery/original/acf95.jpg[/img]
[img]http://angel.cs.msu.su/~salnikov/gilrond/Images/John_Howe/minas_tirith_and_the_tower_of_ecthelion.jpg[/img]
[editline]18th October 2015[/editline]
It's so comfy.
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;48904423][t]https://i.imgur.com/RddNLQi.png[/t]
:frown:[/QUOTE]
We win! Oh wait :cry:
[QUOTE=booster;48926539]Some LotR art
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More?
[QUOTE=Sharker;48926436]Was nice until that "technology is bad" statement in the end.[/QUOTE]
Reminds me of how WALL-E rams that down your throat for an entire movie.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;48926617]More?[/QUOTE]
Google up John Howe, he's the guy who made all of that.
[QUOTE=Scot;48926875]Reminds me of how WALL-E rams that down your throat for an entire movie.[/QUOTE]
WALL-E was less "technology is bad" and more "laziness and compliance is bad".
[QUOTE=Scot;48926875]Reminds me of how WALL-E rams that down your throat for an entire movie.[/QUOTE]
gotta wonder how you extracted "technology is bad" when the hero is a robot
[QUOTE=Hamaflavian;48927730]gotta wonder how you extracted "technology is bad" when the hero is a robot[/QUOTE]
you know what i meant
[t]http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo17/hires/as17-145-22285.jpg[/t]
[editline]18th October 2015[/editline]
[t]http://images.latinpost.com/data/images/full/20380/mexican-revolution.jpg[/t]
mexican revolution
[t]https://thelateempire.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/anti-shah_custom-b78be05f9c34a1f95d42fa65eb50b4ab9b572353.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]The creation and foundation of the Islamic Republic places Khomeini up in the same league as Lenin in terms of shaking up the world’s existing political order.
Khomeini’s Islamic Republic even served as the inspiration for Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda, and the rise of the Salafi movement, which was the Sunni rebranding of the Islamic Revolution. Khomeini sought to recreate society along Islamic lines in a form of government called Wilayet al Faqih, where law descends from religious clergy, and whose primary texts are the Quran and their accompanying scriptures, the Hadith.
From its very beginning, the Islamic Revolution in Iran sent shockwaves throughout the Middle East. The sheer ferocity and tenaciousness that its revolutionaries brought into combat and the vitriol of Khomeini’s rhetoric were biblical. The world watched with mouths agape as Khomeini’s fanatical revolutionary army sent wave after human wave into fortified Iraqi defenses during the Iran-Iraq War. The reverberation of shouts of ‘Death to America’ from hundreds of thousands of Iranians gathered around their Spiritual Guide were no doubt felt in the halls of Washington loud and clear, especially when Khomeini’s young revolutionaries raided the superpower’s embassy and took tens of its personnel hostage. Seemingly out of nowhere, Iran had risen in open defiance to the existing world order and demonstrated, through horrific sacrifice on the battlefields of Iran and Iraq, that it was willing to pay the ultimate price to lay claim to its goals.
With its actions, Iran clearly demonstrated that it sought a regional reordering, starting with the overthrow of secular Arab regimes and later the elimination of Israel and expulsion of all other “colonial enterprises” in the region. In this author’s humble opinion, it is Iran that the world can thank (and hate) for the popularity of Islamism throughout the world today. Islamism came to constitute a Third Option in the bipolar world of Capitalism and Communism thanks to the sheer willpower of Khomeini’s religious army and the precedents they set.
Khomeini’s brand of Islamic chauvinism was a reaction to what he perceived as decades of humiliation of Muslims at the hands of colonial Europeans and, later, the Israeli conquest of Jerusalem. Khomeinists viewed the Muslim world as one wrought with sickness and lethargy, and whose cure was a return to the fundamentals of Islam. Of course, in the secular Middle East, and in a world order where Islam had effectively been buried on the world political stage since the fall of the Ottoman Empire, a revitalization would require nothing short of a total cultural revolution of the likes seen in the Communist countries.Khomeini’s plan for the regional supremacy of his ideology was to first target his fellow Shi’a, as those co-religionists were his closest associates during his Islamic studies in the Iraqi city of Najaf. It was in Najaf that Khomeini first began delivering lectures on his radical new form of government. The first two areas that were targeted by Khomeini for conversion were Iraq and Lebanon, who were approximately 60 and 33 per cent Shi’a, respectively. Khomeini found little fertile ground for Wilayet al Faqih in Iraq, which had a strong central government led by Saddam Hussein. Saddam mercilessly smote Islamists in his midst, but Lebanon, with the chaos and relative anarchy resultant of its ensuing civil war, proved to be the perfect testing ground for the viability of the Islamic Republic outside of Iran.
The fervor of the Iranian Revolution was not contained to the battlefields of Iraq and Iran however—when the revolution spread to Lebanon, Hezbollah echoed the commitment and fanaticism of its Iranian peers with its pioneering of suicide bombing as a tactic in the urban battlefields of Lebanon, with dramatic results. The world was fundamentally caught by surprise by the Islamic Revolution, as the maelstrom of religious energy summoned by Khomeini became a strategic threat to the superpowers’ positions in the Middle East. Thus began a policy of containment of Iran by both superpowers and regional rivals alike that continues to this day.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/JmRzRbP.jpg[/img]
[quote]Barbers that use straight blades for shaving are required to train with balloons.[/quote]
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;48889061][t]https://i.imgur.com/AwuMSv6.jpg[/t]
Potato Cultivation by Country[/QUOTE]
Surprised there aren't more potato cultivation happening in Ireland.
It's so fascinating to see how political ideology has changed so much in the Middle East. The average person's beliefs aren't much different from the 70s, but the governments have had such extreme polarity switches, it's bizarre.
[QUOTE=Butterfingers;48926119][img]http://33.media.tumblr.com/9cd626c8a7da7f07fb30bae06fd162d6/tumblr_nphdsj1JG41rhhql5o1_400.gif[/img][/QUOTE]
Aside from the dumb message at the end it reminds me of Noah's intro:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/PjZh68I.gif[/t]
I seriously have just been looking at that gif loop for the past three minutes or so. (Noah one)
Dubai is unreal. It's like arriving in the future.
Ship breakers in Bangladesh.
[img]http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/05/shipbreakers/img/09-ship-section-falling-890.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.zoriah.net/.a/6a00e55188bf7a88340120a7769a63970b-pi[/img]
[img]http://www.phaidon.com/resource/mcurrybook-043-cmyk.jpg[/img]
Can't help but think of: [img_thumb]http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/a/a3/Jaawa.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100114210042[/img_thumb]
[t]https://scontent-ams3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/12122520_827039960745338_1573855289928978767_n.png?oh=0bc65956a19105849e03afa52835ea92&oe=56D308A9[/t]
Arabic/German Toponyms in the Iberian Peninsula.
Toponym refers to the general name of a location or geographically significant area
[img]http://i.imgur.com/AtKCLFm.gif[/img]
[QUOTE=Lord of Boxes;48933065][vid]http://i.imgur.com/AtKCLFm.webm[/vid][/QUOTE]
I wanna swim of that wave.
[QUOTE=Lord of Boxes;48933065][img]http://i.imgur.com/AtKCLFm.gif[/img][/QUOTE]
[i]Those aren't mountains...[/i]
Kinda makes me miss the days when I played in the wave machine at water parks.
[QUOTE=Lord of Boxes;48933065][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/AtKCLFm.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Isn't that one of the machines that they use to simulate tsunamis?
[QUOTE=godfatherk;48931169][t]http://www.newpenninsulahotel.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/im_new8.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Scot;48931725]Dubai is unreal. It's like arriving in the future.[/QUOTE]
Too bad it was all built with what basically amounts to slave labor.
so are your sneakers
[QUOTE=Kommodore;48934925]so are your sneakers[/QUOTE]
Oh then its alright then
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Russification_evidence.jpg/1024px-Russification_evidence.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]Minsk, capital of Belarus, 2011: Old street name signs in the Belarusian language are replaced with new ones in the Russian language.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Sprockethead;48934899]Too bad it was all built with what basically amounts to slave labor.[/QUOTE]
I doubt unqualified workers can successfully build complicated stuff like skyscrapers.
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