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Working for a hedge fund seems to leave a lot of leisure time available to dabble in history!
to compete with Hindoo telling "Sikhs came out of Hindooo"
mell saysWorking for a hedge fund seems to leave a lot of leisure time available to dabble in history!
I'm furloughed.
I didn't see that coming. Aren't hedge funds immune against every recession due to bailout connections? Or did they short GME. They better one-up their livery service upon reinstantiaton!
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Ok, I've decided to create my own thread, tying my thesis on ancient/pre-Islamic Persia to that of the Sikhs but in today's world.
First of all, the ppl of Saudi Arabia, a.k.a vanilla Arabia prior to the Rashidun Caliphate, was a desert community of barbaric tribes, fighting beyond the border regions of numerous ancient civilizations prior to 620 AD. These were not important civilizations from the perspective of ancient times, just like Penguins of Antarctica were not significant migratory birds of any time in history.
Up north, the first Mesopotamian empire to arise from the city-states along the two rivers beds of the Euphrates and the Tigris, was the first Akkadian Empire of Sargon the Great, circa ~2300 BC. From this, we see the fancy, braided bread, as Sargon presented himself as the Supreme Ruler with a stylized beard.
Millennias later, after the demise of the various Mesopotamian empires to succeed Sargon ... around ~550 BC, Cyrus of Persia, along with the Medes, took Mesopotamia & its capital region of Babylon from the last Neo-Babylon Emperor, Nabonidus. And like its Babylonian predecessors, the stylized beard retained its archetype of power and nobility throughout old Persia, forming a link between what was very, very ancient and what one may be construed as the medieval age.
Mohammed's successors, the Caliphates Abu Bakr & Umar conquered old Persia and took on a lot of those symbols of Babylonian power fulfilling the old adage, "He who controls Bablyon, controls the world"
So thus, you see the stylized bread appearing with Islamic Caliphates, Clerics, and Imams who want to exert their power.
But power is a two edged sword, there's the power to do good and then, to do bad. The Sikhs, in my theory, have taken the philosophy of ancient Persian Buddhism and brought it through the middle ages and into the modern world keeping the sense of personal power but using that power to do good than in promoting clerics and Islam-A-Badism.