cybrxkhan
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Must... resist... arguing against someone advocating bad history... on PI forums AGAIN... or risk... being sucked into the void... even if its about the great ZZZZUUUUUNNNNNNN.
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Rant: My new boots are not very broken in, and when I walked to and from class today they rubbed my upper ankles literally raw. And by literally raw I mean when I took them off when I got home there was blood on my socks.
They're still in pain after a couple hours of resting and I'm probably going to have to skip the rest of my classes today
I have no idea how to break in these boots, I mean, they're fantastic, just horribly stiff and tall. Can't tell if I need to wear thicker/more socks, less socks, wear them looser or tighter, blech. Such trouble just so I don't have to get my feet wet whenever it rains or snows.
They're still in pain after a couple hours of resting and I'm probably going to have to skip the rest of my classes today
I have no idea how to break in these boots, I mean, they're fantastic, just horribly stiff and tall. Can't tell if I need to wear thicker/more socks, less socks, wear them looser or tighter, blech. Such trouble just so I don't have to get my feet wet whenever it rains or snows.
Civ'ed
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Must... resist... arguing against someone advocating bad history... on PI forums AGAIN... or risk... being sucked into the void... even if its about the great ZZZZUUUUUNNNNNNN.
intriguing, do tell, as I have no knowledge of Zun whatsoever apart from "Paradox picked some sadistic holy sites".
cybrxkhan
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So on a thread a while back this fellow was saying that the Zunbils were Zoroastrian because they were Iranian/in Iranian territory.
However, the problem with this is that Zunbils were probably not of Iranian origin to begin with (being the remnants of the old Kushan and Hephthalite Empires), the evidence of parallels between Zun and Shiva, how the Afghan/Pakistan region was historically in the middle of Indian religions and Zoroastrianism so one couldn't exactly say it was truly Zoroastrian, and, most importantly, how the few academic sources on the Zunbils give no indication they were Zroaostrian. But nope, guy was insistent and said the scholarly sources I provided were wrong because he was right, basically (and, of course, he didn't provide any sources of his own and just had unsupported, vague statements like "All Iranians worship the same gods").
Basically his logic was: Zunbil --> Iranian --> Zoroastrian. If we follow that reasoning, the Islamic Republic of Iran isn't Muslim but rather Zoroastrian with Muslim influence because they were Iranian/in Iranian territory, i.e. Islamic Republic of Iran --> Iranian --> Zoroastrian.
Anyways, all that rambling aside, the only substantial academic treatment on the Zunbils' religion - that is, more than a sentence - that can be found online is Andre Wink's Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World. Actually, that book also has the only substantial academic treatment on the Zunbils that you can find online, period. It's available on google books if you're interested.
My hunch is that the Zunbils' cult/religion/whatever was basically an unholy mishmash of traditional Kushano-Hephthalite paganism (so ultimately of steppe nomad origin, though possibly with a Hellenic element), Hinduism, Indo-Iranian beliefs in the religion (maybe akin to the paganism of the modern-day Kalash, and the Nuristanis before their conversion to Islam a century ago) and likely some Buddhism; Zoroastrian influence, while plausible, isn't shown clearly anywhere.
EDIT: Or, well, saying "we don't know what the hell the Zunbils believed" is also a valid argument, given the little info on them
EDIT 2: And yes those holy sites are rather sadistic. :|
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Rant: My new boots are not very broken in, and when I walked to and from class today they rubbed my upper ankles literally raw. And by literally raw I mean when I took them off when I got home there was blood on my socks.
They're still in pain after a couple hours of resting and I'm probably going to have to skip the rest of my classes today
I have no idea how to break in these boots, I mean, they're fantastic, just horribly stiff and tall. Can't tell if I need to wear thicker/more socks, less socks, wear them looser or tighter, blech. Such trouble just so I don't have to get my feet wet whenever it rains or snows.
What's the material?
I saw more than one on the 2nd.
The shoe tongue says "leather upper balance." Not really sure what that means.
Probably what I'm going to have to do, once my ankles heal.
Farm Boy
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Can probably oil those and work them with your hands for a while if you get desperate.
Kennigit
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Im referring not just to adverts and signs, but Pagan forces have begun wrapping trees in colourful (or plain white) lighting
The solstice is still 1.33 months away!
The solstice is still 1.33 months away!
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Something like nikwax leather conditioner. It darkens light colors and you don't want to overdo it or they'll turn super flaccid. But it sounds like they have some room before they do that if they're making you bleed.
GenMarshall
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Tell me about it, Christmas should wait until after Thanksgiving!!!
gay_Aleks
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boah...yesterday was totally awful.
At roughly 5:30 in the evening I got to do the stuff (...well...begin) which I wanted to do in the morning. Before just running around, dealing with people, emailing things, organizing...do not want. And I also filled the weekend with work, because I'll need to get that one thing done within 2 weeks, and don't have time within the week (who'd have thought...).
Salsa also worked like crap. I wished I could remember any order of movement, which includes more than 2 steps. If it's more, then I'm just lost :/.
Also no interesting girls *sigh*.
And had some goodbye drinks with a friend. Which was itself quite nice, but I'd rather not have him leave :/.
And in a half hour I have a boss fight.
The head prof wants to talk (again) about how to proceed with my thesis.
I have a wonderful plan. Which he doesn't understand. Okay, that idea is nowhere close to the original setup, but whatever, it'll work.
Not that I can tell him that. Instead I've made a plan full of BS, which I'm never going to do (guess what, no time), hope he'll swallow it.
If not, then I have a serious problem.
Best outcome (and very likely) would be that he's not there. Haven't seen him this week yet, and he missed the same meeting with a colleague of mine last week, so fingers crossed.
At roughly 5:30 in the evening I got to do the stuff (...well...begin) which I wanted to do in the morning. Before just running around, dealing with people, emailing things, organizing...do not want. And I also filled the weekend with work, because I'll need to get that one thing done within 2 weeks, and don't have time within the week (who'd have thought...).
Salsa also worked like crap. I wished I could remember any order of movement, which includes more than 2 steps. If it's more, then I'm just lost :/.
Also no interesting girls *sigh*.
And had some goodbye drinks with a friend. Which was itself quite nice, but I'd rather not have him leave :/.
And in a half hour I have a boss fight.
The head prof wants to talk (again) about how to proceed with my thesis.
I have a wonderful plan. Which he doesn't understand. Okay, that idea is nowhere close to the original setup, but whatever, it'll work.
Not that I can tell him that. Instead I've made a plan full of BS, which I'm never going to do (guess what, no time), hope he'll swallow it.
If not, then I have a serious problem.
Best outcome (and very likely) would be that he's not there. Haven't seen him this week yet, and he missed the same meeting with a colleague of mine last week, so fingers crossed.
This is so misinterpretable!
gay_Aleks
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I don't need to be desperate in order to need oil.
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Go eat a jar of maraschinos.
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