Suicide: Mary was actually ... think about the area they lived in. THE MIDDLE EAST. Dutch people don't live there, and Belgium is on a completely different continent
Anonymous3: the belgians who don't speak french (walloons) speak dutch (flemish -- the people and language of flanders, which in dutch is spelled vlaanderen). so anon1 was correct.
the caption, Onze Lieve Vrouwe van Vlaanderen, means Our Beloved Lady of Flanders.
it's a fairly typical thing for catholics in different parts of the world to mythologize 'visitations' of the virgin mary. there's our lady of lourdes (france) and our lady of medjugorje (former yugoslavia) which are quite famous in europe, and la virgen de guadelupe in mexico, which is similarly famous in the western hemisphere.
which is not to say Suicide was wrong in that the original mary and jesus, if they actually existed, would have been semitic people and resembled modern syrians, palestinians, lebanese etc. the might possibly have looked as white as persians (iranians) or even afghanis, but that's less likely... no more likely than that they would've looked like kuwaitis (dark-tan skin and moderately kinky hair) or even ethiopians, since after all christianity has been practiced in ethiopia longer than almost anywhere else, especially if you disqualify places where christianity was displaced by some other faith (islam, mainly) for even a hundred years. even italy went through a period of moorish occupation.
...sorry for the lecture, y'all go back to your porn now.
Anonymous5: Dutch (Nederlands) is a West Germanic language and the native language of most of the population of the Netherlands, and about sixty percent of the populations of Belgium and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second language for another 5 million people.
Dutch also holds official status in the Caribbean island nations of Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten, while Dutch or dialects assigned to it continue to be spoken in parts of France and Germany, and to a lesser extent, in Indonesia, and up to half a million native Dutch speakers may be living in the United States, Canada, and Australia. The Cape Dutch dialects of Southern Africa have been standardised into Afrikaans, a mutually intelligible daughter language of Dutch which today is spoken to some degree by an estimated total of 15 to 23 million people in South Africa and Namibia.
Dutch is closely related to German and English and is said to be between them. Apart from not having undergone the High German consonant shift, Dutch — like English — has mostly abandoned the grammatical case system, is relatively unaffected by the Germanic umlaut, and has levelled much of its morphology. Dutch has three grammatical genders, but this distinction has far fewer grammatical consequences than in German. Dutch shares with German the use of subject–verb–object word order in main clauses and subject–object–verb in subordinate clauses. Dutch vocabulary is mostly Germanic and contains the same Germanic core as German and English, while incorporating more Romance loans than German and fewer than English.
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the caption, Onze Lieve Vrouwe van Vlaanderen, means Our Beloved Lady of Flanders.
it's a fairly typical thing for catholics in different parts of the world to mythologize 'visitations' of the virgin mary. there's our lady of lourdes (france) and our lady of medjugorje (former yugoslavia) which are quite famous in europe, and la virgen de guadelupe in mexico, which is similarly famous in the western hemisphere.
which is not to say Suicide was wrong in that the original mary and jesus, if they actually existed, would have been semitic people and resembled modern syrians, palestinians, lebanese etc. the might possibly have looked as white as persians (iranians) or even afghanis, but that's less likely... no more likely than that they would've looked like kuwaitis (dark-tan skin and moderately kinky hair) or even ethiopians, since after all christianity has been practiced in ethiopia longer than almost anywhere else, especially if you disqualify places where christianity was displaced by some other faith (islam, mainly) for even a hundred years. even italy went through a period of moorish occupation.
...sorry for the lecture, y'all go back to your porn now.
No way, Anon 3, moorish occupation is hot.
Dutch also holds official status in the Caribbean island nations of Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten, while Dutch or dialects assigned to it continue to be spoken in parts of France and Germany, and to a lesser extent, in Indonesia, and up to half a million native Dutch speakers may be living in the United States, Canada, and Australia. The Cape Dutch dialects of Southern Africa have been standardised into Afrikaans, a mutually intelligible daughter language of Dutch which today is spoken to some degree by an estimated total of 15 to 23 million people in South Africa and Namibia.
Dutch is closely related to German and English and is said to be between them. Apart from not having undergone the High German consonant shift, Dutch — like English — has mostly abandoned the grammatical case system, is relatively unaffected by the Germanic umlaut, and has levelled much of its morphology. Dutch has three grammatical genders, but this distinction has far fewer grammatical consequences than in German. Dutch shares with German the use of subject–verb–object word order in main clauses and subject–object–verb in subordinate clauses. Dutch vocabulary is mostly Germanic and contains the same Germanic core as German and English, while incorporating more Romance loans than German and fewer than English.