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>>1396264
>/his/ humour
This entire board.
>>1396264
These man has based in Vietnam
None of the popular atheists know Scripture well enough to settle debates; neither do I follow the popular nor do your deluded retarded memes apply to me. My post was antitheist. I somewhat doubt your kind can learn new proper words..
>>1392392
So just finished watching the 2nd season of Marco Polo .
Obviously, seen as its for entertainment and everything happend 700+ years ago, most of it is fleshed out for the show but how much of the main events are real and did Polo really play that big of a role in Kublai' empire
Also, I know there are translations of his journal but if anyone has recommendations on which one would be best it would be appreciated
(And sorry if this is a common shitpost at this stage)
Marco Polo basically made up most of his stuff. It's likely that he never actually went to China.
>>1409558
>It's likely that he never actually went to China.
It's more likely that he actually went. Several details point genuine fist-hand experience.
>>1409445
>id Polo really play that big of a role in Kublai' empire
No idea. Though Khublai actually did extensively uses foreigners in his administration (most of them were Muslims though).
>>1409558
Well fuck
>"But Leonardo, how is your conception of Justice compatible with your ideas on free will?"
>>1411698
I wonder what sick and disgusting fetishes he's developed. There's no way plain old boring vanilla sex does anything for him anymore.
>>1411698
>here is the bombshell: reflexivity permits us to see that the belief in rationality, induction/generalization/categorization, imagination, intellect, reason does not lead us to the good life.
>animals are the most rational beings, but they lack reflexivity since they fail to see that the faith in abstraction to reach knowledge/truth/objectivity/reality/universality is sterile since it brings only conventions which are, by definition, always fluctuating through,...
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>>1411698
I wonder though how red-pilled someone like Leo has become over the years? I mean he started young, and he has had the attention of countless of women beyond measuring probably. When you are young it's great, but surely at some point you realize more and more that the women only like you for your money and fame, and you will never manage to connect properly with another person as they would not love you for who you are but for the image of you?
Is there any objective way that zoophilia can be rendered worse than eating meat?
Fucking an animal can't be worse for it than you cutting it to pieces to eat it, can it? Especially if the animal is breeded and have untergone the generally quite stressfull and painful parts gone through while reaching the end of the slaughterhouse.
No, anon
Don't fuck animals
>>1411375
>objective
Well lets start by defining some objective properties. Suppose mental anguish, and that we might seek to limit it, for example, I'm not sure of your take on the issue. Or you may arbitrarily define life as objectively valuable and seek to preserve life whenever possible. I'm curious what you consider objective morality good for animals.
>>1411392
You may use whatever reasoning you want of course.
I don't think there are any objective morality amonge animals, just that humans should try to limit any pain they inflict on them.
>Wars are pointless
>Why can't everyone get along?
>How is there no world peace?
What /his/ related things do people say that piss you off?
>>1411059
Anything about >current year memery, including doomsday preaching. Fuck you niggers, the world didn't start with you and it won't end with you.
>>1411059
>we are all one race -the human race
That line pisses me off every time.
>>1411470
It's technically true it's just meaningless.
It's about as helpful as telling the two sides of the Spanish Civil War; "You're both Spanish! Stop fighting!" You can't even keep peace within a nation, much less between hundreds.
Why is gambling illegal and why is it that only the natives are allowed to make business of it?
I don't get it.
>>1410995
Because in order to turn a profit gambling relies on the philosophy that "the house always wins", and because of that all gambling really does is suck money out of addicts in the lower classes and into the gambling businesses. It's disastrous economically since it's essentially just free money with nothing actually being produced. So governments banned the practice.
Natives are allowed to because states aren't permitted to regulate activities within reservations.
>>1411009
So basically natives are just parasites?
Doesn't actually produce things
Really makes addicts suffer, especially if they have families.
Indian reservations have the rights of sovereign nations.
Abu Tahir al-Jannabi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Tahir_al-Jannabi
>In 930, Abū Tāhir led the Qarmatians’ most notorious attack when he pillaged Mecca and desecrated Islam’s most sacred sites. Unable to gain entry to the city initially, he called upon the right of all Muslims to enter the city and gave his oath that he came in peace.
>Once inside the city walls the Qarmatian army set about massacring the pilgrims, taunting them with verses of the Koran as they did so.
>The...
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Why are you glorifying the murder of civillians?
>>1410802
not him but what's the difference between murdering civilians and soldiers?
Can I post an example of Catholicism being BTFO considering it's almost as bad as Islam?
Joseph Fouché
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fouch%C3%A9#A_revolutionary_republican
>Fouché went on to Lyon in November with Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois to execute the reprisals of the Convention.
>Lyon had revolted against the Convention and needed to be dealt with.
>The two men then formed the Temporary Commission for Republican Surveillance. He inaugurated his mission with a festival notable for its obscene parody of religious rites.
>"On 4 December, 60 men, chained together, were blasted with grapeshot on the paline de Brotteaux outside the city, and 211 more the following day.
>Grotesquely ineffective, these mitraillades resulted in heaps of mutilated, screaming, half-dead victims, who had to be finished off with sabres and musket fire by soldiers physically sickened at the task."
>Alas, Fouché's enthusiasm had proved a little too effective, for when the blood from the mass executions in the center of Lyons gushed from severed heads and bodies into the streets, drenching the gutters of the Rue Lafont, the vile-smelling red flow nauseated the local residents, who irately complained to Fouché and demanded payment for damages. Fouché, sensitive to their outcry, obliged them by ordering the executions moved out of the city to the Brotteaux field, along the Rhône.
>From late 1793 into spring, 1794, every day "batch after batch of bankers, scholars, aristocrats, priests, nuns, and wealthy merchants and their wives, mistresses, and children" were taken from the city jails to Brotteaux field, tied to stakes, and dispatched by firing squads or mobs.
I'm not sure any city's ever been BTFO worse than Lyons.
Religions' obsession with what we eat and how we eat it.
Where does it come from
People who are fasting often argue that this is good for you but obviously back then where these (rather arbitrary) rules were made no one could have known of that
It has to do with ritual cleanness and the sacred. Depends on the religion, but the basic idea is that this is one of the things sets apart a people, time, or place, from a common to a holy use, or to prepare the way for holiness.
back in the old days, we did not have many health regulations, so to avoid widespread disease, religions made laws about what to eat. Pigs, in ancient times, had parasites that would infect people.
those were the main reasons religion was around, for laws and government. all the stuff about heaven and hell is just to make people obey it.
>>1410618
Because food is an integral part of culture, even today.
All those OT dietary laws talk about how you shouldn't mix with the Caananites, and we do have pig bones in old Caananite archeological digs.
It preserves ingroup/outgroup separation.
Why the hell so many strong, smart and influential people including famous scientists were interested in such meme things called magick and alchemy? Those magick and alchemy stories are physically impossible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_occultists
>>1410039
Because we are much more smug about our knowledge than they were. Scientific Method to most early scientist was " cool model making that might even correspond to reality a bit.... oh shit that experiment was awesome, how can we make cooler ones?". Where the modern conception of science is that the results of scientific inquiry are more than just fairly accurate models, but that reality can actually be reduced down to them. Thus everything that falls outside of the scope of the physical sciences when...
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OP's grammar reminds me of something, I see lots of threads open with the phrase "Why [noun] is [adjective] ?" instead of "Why is [noun] [adjective]?"
I suspect Brazilians but I can't confirm.
>>1410039
>Those magick and alchemy stories are physically impossible.
Which stories are you talking about?
You had wise enlightened men who were looking to rationalize their religion, science, and the philosophy and learning of the ancients.
Read "Oration on the Dignity of Man" (1486) by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) (Medici was his Patron). It's about 70 pages. A 23 year old (brilliant multi lingual) edge lord takes on the Catholic Church and attempts...
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Hi, i have a question about eastern roman empire soldiers.. suppose we have a soldier in 1453, how would he have looked like?
How much different from a wester roman empire soldier in 476?
Leather armor? plate? Which colors in battle? Crest yes or no? Which color? Etc..
I'm having an hard time picturing them, and since 476 and 1453 there was a lot of technology so i'm guessing they were probably very different from the western soldier?
Hope someone knows a lot about it, links are welcome, ERP thread.
>>1409876
ERE, sorry
>>1409876
>Leather armor
>>1409876
Google it
Redpill me on the Victorian days? Was everything as fucking awesome as it looks? I bet these women were total freaks behind closed doors.
>>1409571
Awesome for whom?
>>1409592
Check out the relativist.
>>1409607
What?
Discussion of "what if" scenarios of history.
The Axis winning WWII or WWI.
Japan never modernized.
Age of Enlightenment never occurred.
Renaissance never occurred.
Schism of the Catholic Church never occurred.
Just to name a few. Discuss.
what if people didn't make these threads
What if OP wasn't gay?
>>1409175
What if your daddy left you in your mothers mouth.
>meanwhile, in an alternate universe where everything isn't shit...
>>1409032
How long until Napoleon V's conquest of Russia counts as history?
It would end up being the same because religion, art, and culture are still technically part of history and people would just have crypto threads instead very much like how they do on /v/ and /tv/ now.
>>1409032
Oh boy, it sure feels good knowing that Hagia Sophia is one of the oldest standing churches today. Can you imagine how awful it would be if it was turned into a mosque by muslims?
>criticize communism
>"HURR FUCK OFF YOU NEO-NAZI!"
>criticize fascism
>"HURR FUCK OFF YOU JEWISH COMMUNIST!"
>criticize Liberalism
>HURR FUCK OFF YOU NAZI COMMUNIST
ok
>>1408986
hurr fuck off you strawman
