The Mozambican War of Independence was an armed conflict between the guerrilla forces of the Mozambique Liberation Front or FRELIMO (Frente de Libertação de Moçambique), and Portugal. The war officially started on September 25, 1964, and ended with a ceasefire on September 8, 1974, resulting in a negotiated independence in 1975.
Portugal's wars against guerrilla fighters seeking independence in its 400-year-old African territories began in 1961 with Angola. In Mozambique, the conflict erupted in 1964 as a result of unrest and frustration amongst many indigenous Mozambican populations, who saw foreign rule as exploitation and mistreatment, which served only to further Portuguese economic interests in the region. Many Mozambicans also resented Portugal's policies towards indigenous people, which resulted in discrimination, traditional lifestyle turning difficult for many Africans, and limited access to Portuguese-style education and skilled employment.
As successful self-determination movements spread throughout Africa after World War II, many Mozambicans became progressively more nationalistic in outlook, and increasingly frustrated by the nation's continued subservience to foreign rule. For the other side, many enculturated indigenous Africans who were fully integrated into the social organization of Portuguese Mozambique, in particular those from urban centres, reacted to claims of independence with a mixture of discomfort and suspicion. The ethnic Portuguese of the territory, which included most of the ruling authorities, responded with increased military presence and fast-paced development projects.
A mass exile of Mozambique's political intelligentsia to neighbouring countries provided havens from which radical Mozambicans could plan actions and foment political unrest in their homeland. The formation of the Mozambican guerrilla organisation FRELIMO and the support of the Soviet Union, Romania, China, Cuba, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Tanzania, Zambia, Egypt, Algeria, Gaddafi regime in Libya and Brazil through arms and advisers, led to the outbreak of violence that was to last over a decade.
From a military standpoint, the Portuguese regular army held the upper hand during the conflict against FRELIMO guerrilla forces. Nonetheless, Mozambique succeeded in achieving independence on June 25, 1975, after a civil resistance movement known as the Carnation Revolution backed by portions of the military in Portugal overthrew the Salazar regime, thus ending 470 years of Portuguese colonial rule in the East African region. According to historians of the Revolution, the military coup in Portugal was in part fuelled by protests concerning the conduct of Portuguese troops in their treatment of some of the indigenous Mozambican populace. The growing communist influence within the group of Portuguese insurgents who led the military coup and the pressure of the international community in relation to the Portuguese Colonial War were the primary causes of the outcome.
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A dying Roman, knowing his wife was pregnant, left a will saying that if she had a son, he would inherit two-thirds of the estate and the widow one-third, but if she had a daughter, the daughter would get one-third and the widow two-thirds.
Soon after his death the widow had twins - a boy and a girl. This is a possibility the will maker had not foreseen. What division of the estate keeps as close as possible to the terms of the will?
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Same with diehard evangelicals. Especially the ones that take "marriage before having sex" really seriously. They end up in like 4 or 5 marriages by the time they approach 50, because they have to get married before having sex.
Diehard evangelicals also take america and everything about it at face value. Like if I told a diehard fundie that the navy seals are war criminals they'd look at me sideways. Or if I told them that Trump really isn't evangelical himself they'd think I was lying. They absolutely lack critical thinking and get taken for a ride by con men.
Also taking the parts of the Bible that are clearly metaphorical or mistranslated literally, and then trying to make a metaphor out of stuff that is clearly ment to be taken literally.
Clearest example of all this is evangelical preachers believing the world is literally 6000 years old, while at the same time trying to make a metaphor out of Jesus saying "it is easier to pass through the eye of a needle then it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven", because they are rich and don't like what is being said.
Sorry I'm still mad at my foolish Sunday school teachers. Y'know what, if they were a bit more accepting of science, and not homophobic/bigoted, I'd probably still be a Christian right now, instead of being an agnostic atheist.
Often wonder how the mega church televangelists sit with themselves on that one.
"Nah you see, the 'eye of the needle' refers to the entrance gates of the city and heaven, all the rich man has to do is give up his possessions when he dies, then he can get through and go to heaven. Also anyway, all sins are forgivable"
"That story that's clearly a metaphor about a fruit representing knowledge poisoning man? Nah that literally happened. Also revalations, another clear metaphor about the fall of Rome and the apostolic age? Nah that's literally going to happen in the future, you're all going to get raptured!"
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I love how shitty megarich evangelical pastors just use the "all sins are forgivable" as an excuse for repeated shitty behaviour. Like repeatedly doing the same clearly wrong thingbwith no consequence. Isn't god all knowing according to them? So he can see through that bullshit, thus deny you entrance to heaven as your forgiveness was not sincere?
The brainworms on super rich megachurch pastors, holy shit.
I do find Harriet Tubman's case pretty interesting though. She claimed she could speak to god iirc. She prayed that her slave master would die and he did, she also had visions while escorting runaway slaves thru the underground railroad. Some people claim it was psychic powers or divine intervention.
At the same time a lot of slaves probably prayed the same things and had similar visions, but unfortunately didn't escape. Though the part about visions could be an interesting case in the power of visualisation. It's used a lot these days by professional athletes, visualising a match, lap, climb, race, etc play by play, and winning of course. Always wondered how useful that kind of thing is
Very well could be.
All of us that protest need to visualise beating the police and see what happens at the next protests I guess.
But seriously visualisation sounds useful for many things, even in everyday life. That mental step of seeing yourself do something must be a big hurdle to overcome in a way