And of course we all know that the bloodiest war in modern history was started by a guy who failed to get into art school...https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/7511134/Hitler-sketches-that-failed-to-secure-his-place-at-art-academy-to-be-auctioned.html …
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It’s a testament to how undertaught Asian history is at American schools that I — a history major at a selective college and person who reads things — was today years old when I heard of this war.
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Or a testament to my own myopia but I’m blaming society
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And if Hon Rengang had pulled off a Heavenly Kingdom win, China - or at least southern China - would be a largely Christian nation Would make an interesting alt history Netflix series
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This is presuming so much (spread of + beyond court, etc.) even beyond defining what “Christianity” would look like. All my money for a Netflix treatment of the rebellion itself, let alone an alt-History.
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Ironically Taiping means "Great Peace" in Chinese...
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So it does
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So what you’re saying is that if schools accepted everyone who applied, we wouldn’t have any more wars.
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Platt’s Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom is a great telling of this period, including the role of the West.
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Sounds like a job for
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it's on my to-do list
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Non vedo l'ora
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How about a guy who started a war because he didn’t makw it into art school?

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*make
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"Hong declared that he now understood that his vision meant that he was the younger brother of Jesus and that he had been sent to rid China of the "devils", including the corrupt Qing government and Confucian teaching" vision of grandeur? schizophrenia maybe?
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Both? Not mutually exclusive.
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Visions if grandeur is a symptom of schizophrenia . just wondering aloud if that was the case here.
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Tbf those tests can be irritating
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Litterly the second coming which brought an apocalypse to the world's most populous nation flowed by a rule of the meek, which to this day still hates and fears it's radical Christian minority.
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