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What nation or individual was the most successful at removing crosscucks? Some of the possible answers:
>states
Roman Empire pre-Constantine, Japan, Ottoman Empire.
>individuals
Timur, Enver Pasha, Diocletian.
>>1191716
>Not posting the Caliphates.
The Levant and Syria used to be very Christian. Guess what happened during the Muslim Conquests.
>>1191726
Christians where still the majority for a while after the first conquests, and conversions where mostly done for tax reasons.
I'm looking for brutal removals, massacres, things like that.
>>1191716
Venice
Were there any major civilizations that never practiced religion and never invented the concept of God? I know some isolated savage tribes in the middle of buttfuck nowhere had something similar, but i'm talking about actual civilizations.
Or is religion basically a prerequisite for a civilization?
>>1191255
That bug fucking broke me
>>1191255
Define "god" then.
Because these range from "Supermen who live up in the sky" (Greeks) to "All encompassing and omnipotent (Abrahamics)" and "Avatars of some cosmic force" (Chinese folk religions).
Because not all think the same way. Gods & Goddesses is pretty much a western way to view multitudes of religious thinking the world over. You could say the Folk Chinese were without God since their """"""""Gods""""""""...
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>>1191302
Gods by any other name are still gods
What can /his/ tell me about the clash between European hunter gatherers and early farmers?
>>1191250
ooga booga das me elk, flatnose.
>>1191250
They were probably the same people.
There was no clear cut definitions of the two. People who farmed also hunted and gathered. Prehistoric communities did everything to put food on the proverbial table.
>European hunter gatherers
Around Jutland they were actually communities of fishermen. They coexisted with the farmers for half a millenium before disappearing.
If not for Watergate, would Nixon be considered a great president?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMfVnBmpMm8
>>1191083
Watergate was perfectly fine tbqh
How take so long to disband the Praetorian Guard?
Were emperors blind? Didint they see as an enemy inside Rome? Those fuckers killed more emperors than anyone.
>pic related, one of the best Emperors ever.
Augustus made the Praetorian guard with the intention of them bumping off the Emperor if he went full goober. It's frankly a wonder they didn't kill more Emperors than they did.
>>1191054
>shitty republicucks harp about "what do monarchies do when there's a bad king"
>can just say "create a praetorian guard"
>>1191060
If you have a shitty praetorian guard the problem just repeats itself.
Hey guys, I would like to write a short story about Jesus Christ in historic and realistic terms. Could you surround me of useful information? You know, info about the jewish calendar used during the time of his life, Roman and jew political influence over the province of Judea, etcetera...
PS: It's somehow a Black comedy. Imagine Joseph saying 'In times of Herod we lived better.'
test
KEK! I wish you luck, good sir. be sure you post the whole thing to Rebbit when you finish!
>>1191155
>Rebbit
>so subtle
The amount of respect I have for this man is nigh infinite.
What does /his/ think?
>>1190719
>hey Jim, hold muh beer. Imma make me a house.
>>1190726
With nothing but fuckin' dirt, sticks, and stones.
>lol i respect this man so much, he built a mudhouse! we should all be living like him!
>posted on a modern computer, on high speed global internet, sitting in a modern building with modern plumbing and nuclear electricity.
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I'm doing a thesis on new atheism and epistemology. what can I talk about?
Natural>Supernatural
and by definition supernatural doesn't exist, if it did, then it would be natural.
>>1190548
this hardly diminishes the undeniably supernatural. if we had a systematic theory for God and how he interacts with the universe no one would say "oh well see that's just a natural phenomena, not supernatural at all"
>>1190557
Being able to completely understand a process and predict the effects doesn't preclude it being natural (and non-anthropomorphic).
Is progress a myth?
>>1190290
Without progress we can't work towards a conclusion.
Not all change is change for the better.
>>1190290
Yes. At least a cultural mindset.
Perhaps this is more fitting on /int/, but I think here the conversation would be better.
What was the intended racial or ethnic makeup of the character Othello?
I've heard Shakespeare based the character off of an Arabic trader, but most modern depictions show Othello as a sub-saharan African.
So /his/, what was Othello, or does it not really matter at all as long as he is swarthy and foreign?
>>1190148
/lit/
>IAGO
>Even now, now, very now, an old black ram Is tupping your white ewe.
>OTHELLO
>Her name, that was as fresh As Dian's visage, is now begrimed and black As mine own face.
>>1190148
Clearly black, just like Dido, Cleopatra, Hannibal etc.
So a while back, I was talking with my white friends and somehow I brought up the Falklands war cause I deemed it relevant.
I was surprised when absolutely none of them knew what the fuck I was talking about.
I am a Mexican immigrant, and knew about the conflict thanks to watching latin american natgeo back when I still went to school there, and pretty much, any read person in Mexico my age an older knew that the conflict had at least happened.
Me and my friends were all 21, and it got me thinking about the fact that people around this age, and older, probably...
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>>1190133
most Americans haven't heard of the Falklands war. I only found out partly because I was always interested in history and partly because I'm a BR and it's a great way to piss off Argentinians
this isn't even exclusive to America, most Anglophone countries are completely disinterested in history that doesn't directly involve them somehow and don't bother to teach it or learn it unless they're nerds. the only reason America stands out in this regard is because America is a relatively...
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>>1190208
what do you mean?
>>1190133
They don't teach it in school so you'd never know it unless you researched it yourself. Very few people research much of anything themselves.
I know lots of people whose entire knowledge of world war 1 is that it came before world war 2.
One of the biggest struggles I have with fully commiting to Christianity is not with the idea of relativism. The fact that two people who fully believe in Christianity can come to radically different conclusions about their faith, and there is no clear-cut way to discern who is in the right and who is the wrong.
Many Christians will harp around the fact that Christianity provides 'objective morality', however people's views on the Christian doctrines change as societal laws and culture change.
There is no doubt that the early Christians believed...
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Roman Catholicism is early Christianity
>B-But every denomination claims that
We actually have writings by early Christians and ecclesiastical documents that demonstrate what early Christianity was like so it's not hard to show that Orange road Baptist Convention founded in the late 19th century isn't the same church that people like Augustine or Origen were part of
>>1190045
>The fact that two people who fully believe in Christianity can come to radically different conclusions about their faith, and there is no clear-cut way to discern who is in the right and who is the wrong.
>Many Christians will harp around the fact that Christianity provides 'objective morality', however people's views on the Christian doctrines change as societal laws and culture change.
This is not a problem at all if you're an...
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>>1190120
>A lot of "christians" are influenced by and actually worship demons.
I can smell the bullshit from here, but in the end fake gods and fake demons aren't very different.
Who used horse archers before? Assyrians or Persians?
>>1189907
Before who?
>>1189920
Did assyrians use horse archers before persians or persians used them before?
>>1189907
The blonde barbarians from the north who terrorized them.
Once again, aryans invented everything
Let's talk about Gnosticism lads.
You don´t talk about it
It talks about us.
Look for what seems out of place
What does /his/ think of Gnosticism?
malarkey, like all religion
>>1189629
Very interesting.
>>1189629
Seems deeply interesting on the surface but is actually shallow garbage upon closer examination.
