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Does it matter? Germany is a secular state religion is irrelevant.
Well, it is not. The catolic church has a lot of economic and political power in Germany.
More than the Protestants?
The only Buddhist region in Europe
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#32Bald has been there couple of years ago, that's when I first heard about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR_eA_c_Yts
Just a friendly heads up: I used to be a huge fan of this YT channel until I saw some pretty damning evidence that the guy is a predatory sex tourist/pick up artist. I really enjoyed the content (the editing is a breath of fresh air on YT), but ultimately unsubbed and stopped watching. I'd encourage others to look into it and make your own judgement, of course.
Whenever I see this man mentioned, I always see a comment saying, "This man travels AND has sex!"
It's about as surprising as someone visiting Amsterdam and having the audacity to smoke weed or single guys doing what single guys do when they visit SE Asia.
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#33What's the big deal:"a piece of Asia on the European continent", Europe and Asia are two parts of one continent, Eurasia
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
also worth noting that some people go _well_ out of their way to express this point of view. There's even a subreddit dedicated to it (and at least once upon it was 'busy'). My issue is that it gives the impression that someone has a lot of free time and a serious axe to grind. Nothing he is accused of is illegal, it may be reprehensible but I don't demand moral consistency of those that entertain me, just adherence…
I'm not too surprised people spend time to express this point of view. I loved his channel but there was always something that felt a little off for me. One evening I launched a Google search wondering if I was the only one and found the subreddit. I stopped watching afterwards.
> I stopped watching afterwards.
Do you realise if you want to be morally consistent like that then the only limiting factor is your ignorance? By that I mean its likely A LOT of the content you currently consume or products you use/buy are unethical in some way but you just don't know they are.
I'd like to suggest that if you're not trying to fog-bust your ignorance by personally auditing all your supply chains actively then that is also ethically inconsistent. To permit your own ignorance suggests that its more about how people perceive you to be supporting unethical brands (once the lack of ethics becomes clear) as opposed to one actually caring about the ethics. I'd suggest your phrasing here backs that up.
Idk, that's just too exhausting a mentality for me to handle tbh. I don't think its my job to force everyone in the world to conform to my precise standards, I think there's value in being able to trade with those I wouldn't consider friend.
I mean lets spin it another way, you think the people Bald meets in his videos are all "good people"? A lot of them likely have issues in one way or another but we can celebrate that they're friendly and hospitable and that Bald is going out there and showing us that part of the world which we typically wouldn't see. Lets not forget that its likely that Bald is probably one of the more progressive individuals in his videos. I think that context matters a bit.
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On thing that really surprised me watching his channel is just how empty all these periphery russian republics appear to be. I understand that there is economic struggle as in many other parts of the world. But I was really surprised by the general lack of actual people against the large swaths of land.
Russia's population is half that of the US, in twice the land area
And a lot of the US is pretty sparsely populated.
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#36Re: The only Buddhist region in Europe
#37What's the big deal:"a piece of Asia on the European continent", Europe and Asia are two parts of one continent, Eurasia
agreed, and even more sensible would be to just think in regions. Bosporus, Black Sea and the Mediterranean are natural boundaries for the European region, the Himalayas are the natural boundaries between East/Central and South Asia, the Saharan / Arabian / Afghan and Kazakh deserts and steppes are natural boundaries of the Middle East / North African region. Whenever a civilization has tried to cross over from one of those regions into the other, big world events ensued.
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#38Bald has been there couple of years ago, that's when I first heard about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR_eA_c_Yts
off topic, but people keep mentioning youtubers here in a way that makes me wonder: Hm, should I know that channel? Am I completely out of the loop?
Yes, it would be more helpful, if they would not talk about these Youtuber's as they'd be our next door buddies but be a more explicit: The Guy's channel is named "Bald and Bankrupt", he is from the UK and travels a lot, which he documents on Youtube. The link to the video is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR_eA_c_Yts
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#39The title should correct the spelling to "Buddhist" from "Buddist"
EDIT: now it has been corrected, thank you!
Re: The only Buddhist region in Europe
#40Bald has been there couple of years ago, that's when I first heard about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR_eA_c_Yts
off topic, but people keep mentioning youtubers here in a way that makes me wonder: Hm, should I know that channel? Am I completely out of the loop?
I dunno, but I was hoping the comments on the story would offer some insight into the region. But half of them are gossip about some random youtuber who went there once.