what a meaningless question

>>1204060
are you afraid of words you don't understand kid

>>1204059
Read Hume on whether empirical knowledge can be accurate.

>>1203992
Maybe you're really fucking dumb, but you're asking a normative question about social behaviour: ie: a political question. Imagine which board you should go to to ask such questions?

No idea, but I was conceived by in vitro fertilisation (infertile father, blonde hair, blue eyes anglo donor sperm).

:^)

IVF is already accepted.
Cloning whole humans is useless, won't happen.
Designer babies will. China will go ahead with it, and America and Europe will have to follow some time later.

>>1203923
Sedentary tending of horticulture and later agriculture encouraged city formation.

They grouped around places of worship, like Gobekli Tepe

>>1203936
Wow, you'll even try to attribute religion for the very start of civilization. You really are a one-track motherfucker.

>>1203491
>Do people seriously think this?
If you want to talk about the ideological content of contemporary working class thought, FUCK OFF TO >>>/pol/

>>1203491
does saying you that get you into a girl's pants? if so, i have tons of pseudo intellectual shit to say about civilization or humanity

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>>1203491
>Do people seriously think this

Yes, they also believe that we would be colonizing Andromeda right now if religion didn't exist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ulkFhAmE6M

WE WUZ QINGZ N SHIT

>>1203194
Post your eyes then andnnot some potato picture of an outlier

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>>1203208

What's there to defend?

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>>1203056
Israel = the Church

>>1203056
Post the whole thing you phag.

...cont
With the variables of measurement stated, I do believe in the notion of cultural inferiority/superiority. Since all human action beyond that of maintaining existence is arbitrary – dependent upon the subjectivities of individuals, and therefore upon the subjectivities of their interactive commune, and vice-versa – it can be stated, without offense, that certain individuals, and therefore certain communal groups, are more proficient in fulfilling the benchmarks that denote a culture as superior, thus rendering the remaining cultures as inferior. So within the quantification...
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Every one is equally worthless to me. What is it with your islam like fanaticism towards equality?

>>1202986
I do not believe in equality. I just posted picrelated because I knew it would make the alt-righters gather their pitchforks

>really detailed and convincing
t.Never read a line of the Book of Mormon

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Who stacks up to this?

Muhammad himself

>>1202806
He is arguably one of the most successful people on the planet, for better or worse famalam.

He is part of the war on women.

He would rather rid the world of a human right rather than a heinous crime.


I.E. autistic

He means that a "tips fedora" moment is more important than ending rape.

>Why would someone identify as a Nihilist?

Who does this? Just because people think morality is subjective or whatever doesn't mean they wear black and tell everyone they meet "by the way i'm a nihilist, why haven't you stopped believing in morals yet?".

>What would be 'desirable' about believing such (or not believing I guess in this case)?
Philosophy isn't religion, what you think is desirable is irrelevant.

>From what I gather Nietzsche proposed the Nihil as something that should be avoided
Not avoided, rather 'overcome'. Nietzsche thought Nihilism was inevitable and there were two possible outcomes to it, the Ubermensch or The Last Man (basically millenials/modern society).

>>1202684
I apologize for my poor language? Now what I mean by identify as a Nihilist is more in the sense of actually being a Nihilist, so I guess me specifying them identifying with it was pointless, but we all make mistakes.
As for the desirable thing, what I mean is why would people prefer that to say, existentialism or another ideology, and didn't know if the word rational could be applied in this scenario and as such was unable to think of another word to place there. I did not mean to allude to it as if it were...
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>>1202709
nihilism is usually used as a kind of bogeyman. you demonstrate that someone's philosophy when taken to the extreme results in nihilism, and you just sort of close the discussion on that point.

nobody's a nihilist and nobody would rationally defend it. i'm not sure what you're trying to ask about here.

>>1202616
Some middle eastern guy was in black communities decades before the civil rights movement and told them about a religion that sounded familiar and that also empowered them. (people forget a third of African slaves were Muslim or Islamic all you influenced)

It also is influenced by the Afroasiatic movements that formed in reaction the the mass support/membership of the Ku Klux Klan and White Supremacy pervading everywhere.

>>1202772

ugh, never has a post been so wrong.

Not only were more than 2/3rds of slaves brought from Africa Muslim, no Muslims triggered the Islamic movement in the African American community.

The African American community learned that their ancestors were Muslim, and developed an idea that mixed with the racism of black people at the time. Everyone was racist, but African American racism was reactionary to white racism.

As much as we want to believe Blacks and Whites are 2 seperate cultures, they are...
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>>1202882
It was not 2/3rds and you literally said just about exactly what I said.

>>1202547
The person that doesn't know Christ (never heard of him) would go to Limbo, because he was ignorant of Christ word. Because he's ignorant of it, he wouldn't know what sin is, if someone told him about it, I think it would be mighty damn good time to convert. All you have to do is be a good person if you're ignorant or a dead infant to make it to limbo.

*tips fedora*

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>>1202562
What of the ones who are contacted by Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, etc. first, but never get the Skinny on Yeshua?

>>1202520
I think there might be a few left. Or is that Mandeanism or something?

ISIStianity beheaded those infidels.

>>1202520
A form of is still alive in China.

It denies that God is all powerful. The earth is a battle ground between the forces of light led by God and the forces of evil led by Satan (who is the second most powerful being in the universe). God never intended there to be suffering pain, or evil this is the result of the evil Satan (who they might even consider another God). The two of them are trying to defeat the other, no holds barred. It emphasizes defeating evil in this life to help the forces of good win. Less concerned...
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>>1202469
what conclusions did he come that you can't come to yourself

>>1202601
That's not a very good question because if you grew up in any sort of part of the western world you would have been exposed to something that contained Platonic ideas. A lot of what passes for "common" ideas about the nature of religious things started with him.

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>mfw I said platonic love at work and a co-worker didn't know what I was talking about.

>>1202364
It's called the Catechism. Only the 2 Apostolic Churches, Orthodox and Catholic, have one and it's why both aren't retarded FEEEEELLLLLZZZ American-style Fundimentalist Evangelicals that insist Christianity begins and ends with reading Scripture.

>>1202375
is it heresy? can I hear a justification for it?

>>1202391
Is what heresy? A Catechism?

The Catechism is just a handbook summation of the orthodoxy and theology development of Christendom, what these summations mean and why we believe believe them to be true. It goes very in depth to try and be as clear as possible to why we believe X is X.

Most of the Christians who bring up your kind of theology are American evangelicals who lack history and often are just self-proclaimed scriptural experts with a cult of personality and tenuous attachment to a wider congregation....
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