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THE ONLY GIRL I'VE EVER LOVED
WAS BORN WITH ROSES IN HER EYES
BUT THEN THEY BURIED HER ALIVE
Who is the greatest theologian of all time? If all the great theologians had a debate, who would win, judging only on their theological/philosophical points, exposition, persuasiveness of their character etc.?
2 rules: We're talking theologians, not philosophers. Also, the person must have actually written something. So you can't say Jesus or Buddha, though their followers are fair game
Also, dubious writings (Like Lao Tzu's writings, or certain letters by Saint Paul) will be considered genuine as long as the far majority of their historical followers considered them genuine. For example, Paul's pastoral epistles are acceptable, apocalypse of Paul is not.
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>>1132500
Charles Darwin, founder of the religion of Darwinsim
>>1132505
>See fresh blank thread
>Can't resist urge to make the first post a shit post
I don't blame you, I know its tempting
>>1132500
Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman Girondi
Anyone who can win a rigged theological debate like the Disputation of Barcelona is going to win this challenge.
So apparently there's a big difference between master and slave morality (slave morality victimise themselves, everyone are equal, etc).
But when you come to think about it, it doesn't matter. Both of the moralities are just used by people to support their own interests. I don't want to go full /pol/, but for example, feminism tends to be a slave morality, but that's only because it's serves their interests. And it's the reason why white heterosexual fascist movements are master moralities because it serves their own interest.
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>>1129229
Of course all morality is to promote their own interests dumb-ass. That's Nietzsche's point. Everything is Will to Power.
The Master has real power so he follows the Master Morality which gives him the maximum potential to use his power for his own benefit: that which harms him is bad and that which helps him is good. Using his immense power and pragmetic approach to life the Master gets many subjects.
The Slave has no power and is subserviant to the Master. So he follows a morality of subversion,...
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>>1130626
And understanding the Will to Power will cause one to valorize strength (master morality), rather than weakness (slave morality). Nietzsche admits that it was in the self interests of the weak to valorize themselves, but he points out that in doing so, they ignore reality--life affirms strength. It's an almost Aristotelian observation of his. OP is only focusing on the effect of morality on the individual, but Nietzsche was making a larger statement about the reality of the human condition, and nature more broadly....
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Wasn't Nietzsche's point to transcend both anyway?
>>1130650
I really don't see how that can be the case. Life does indeed affirm strength, but there is undeniably a strength to be had in numbers, and it isn't by shaming that slaves make masters step down.
If every past President ran for President today against each other, who would win and why?
G Wash
>>1128644
Eisenhower Club m8.
He is the surpreme US hero and associated with the golden 50s and the best Generation.
Washington, Jefferson or Roosevelt.
I'm interested in the history of atheism.
Why didn't atheism gain momentum earlier than the 20th century? Why didn't the free thinkers of the middle ages or the dark ages already liberate themselves from religious oppression? Surely back in that time there also used to be a lot of guys who knew they didn't need a sky daddy. So what exactly was holding back science from winning over superstition for almost two millennia?
Hateful beings, I don't care about them and they only exists through religion
>>1134268
>posted by a nu male hipster faggot probably named Ryan whose never left his state or has the slightest conception of God as a metaphysical reality entails but thinks he can wax philosophic about "superstition" and le ebin religious oppression maymay because he played some weebshit jrpg where the church was the villain
>>1134268
Religion no longer offers a valid explanation for the origin and state of the world, the Earth and all the species on it, whilst science does. There is simply no evidence for the existence of any deities, much less those of organized religions, so there is no reason to believe in a god.
today it's Independence Day for my country so i thought of making a thread retelling the story of my people
questions are welcome and also banter about the Triple Alliance vs. Paraguay war, why not
>>1134445
Why did you guys go full retard and kill a third of your population that one time?
>>1134445
greentexted story raccount:
>once upon a time, fertile jungles full of trees, snakes, piranhas, birds and natives
>Spanish crown still obsessed with reaching the Indias via the west is still looking for a way to go across the newly discovered continent
>fuck it, there's gold and silver here
>oops gold & silver 404
>nevermind that, there's plenty...
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>>1134452
honor before reason
Genghis Khan is outside of your city. What do you do?
>>1131383
Flood the moat
>>1131383
Surrender.
>>1131383
I live in somalia so probably technikos.
Imagine them against horse archers.
let's face it, Darwin's theory of evolution is nothing more than a justification of mid-victorian social structure.
>muh animals are adaptive machines
>muh malthusianism in animal populations
Here's Engels' statement on the matter:
>The whole Darwinist teaching of the struggle for existence is simply transference from society to living nature of Hobbes' doctrine of 'bellum omnium contra omnes' [everyone against everyone else] and of the bourgeois-economic...
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>>1131063
>this is why I am a Catholic stalinist now
pretty sure stalin didn't like christianity :^)
Marx agreed pretty much with Darwin though, they even shared letters with each other.
And Catholicism isn't exactly the right sect if you want to oppose evolution, try with something form the US south.
>>1131077
Marx never took on Darwin directly iirc, though their theories are similar in that struggle is the driving force of history, or in Darwin's belief, natural history
>no sex outside of marriage
This I get
>can't remarry after divorce
>can't use birth control
>can't masturbate
But this is straight up autism. Why is Catholicism so afraid of sex?
>>1128951
They want all sex to focus on making new catholic babies
>>1128951
>can't remarry after divorce
"For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, 8and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh."
>can't masturbate
It is a sin to have sex outside marriage, why wouldn't it be to masturbate? It is a pure act of lust, completely selfish and unfruitful. It has all the features of a sin.
>>1128977
oops, forgot:
"9 Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”
Let's have a thread about Poland's invasion of Czechia a year before WW2, /his/.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Czechoslovak_border_conflicts#Annexations_by_Poland_in_1938
it's not like Czechs invaded Poland for a meagre scrap of clay as Poles were defending Europe from the Communist offensive
>Poles attack USSR in 1920
>Attack Czechia the same year
>Attack Czechia in 1938 because got BTFO before
>Attack German radio station in 1939
>Attack USSR again in the same year
Why is Poland attacking everyone all the time? They should be partitioned again.
>>1134043
Wasn't that particular attack (the radio station one) a Nazi false flag op to create a reason to invade Poland?
>*knock-knock*
>oh, it's my friend Jimmy knocking.
>"Hello, Jimmy!"
>"By the way why do you have a worrying look on your face?"
>"A murderer is stalking you? And you need a shelter? But ho-"
>The fucker rushes his way into my house
>1 minute later
>*knock-knock*
>it's...
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>>1133838
>abloobloo, my extremely contrived, impossible in reality situation has much to say on morals and ethics.
>I develop my morals based on le trolley problem right guys :^)
>>1133838
Imagine that Doctor Devil is planning to go to the nation's nuclear power plant. If he can get his hands on the radiation crystal there he can complete his Terror Bomb and successful destroy all life in the universe.
Fortuntly Doctor Devil does not know where the Nuclear power plant is. He runs out of his secret lab carrying the still uncomplete Terror Bomb.
While running around looking for the power plant he spots Kant
"Kant where the nuclear power plant? I need to steal the radition...
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>>1133838
that wasn't utilitarian
Why are so many great scientists and philosophers german?
>>1133639
because their entire race has congenital autism
>>1133650
Yeah, but what about Finns then? I cannot name any Finnish scientist for the life of me
We don't have all that much else going for us, I guess. There also seems to be some kind of general feeling of "Weltschmerz" among most of us. Most Germans I know, even the happier ones, either struggle with or have come to terms with certain nihilistic principles. I could see this being fertile ground for philosophy, art and the sciences.
But that's really just speculation obviously.
Why did men stop wearing hats?
Because they felt when people were driving the first cars.
Because of the *tips fedora* meme, people felt ashamed to wear them
>>1133626
Probably because people actually went outside more.
Haiti:
GDP per capita US$1,849
HDI 0.483 (163 in world)
Mostly Catholic
Dominican Republic:
GDP per capita US$6,663
HDI 0.715 (101 in world)
Mostly Catholic
They live on the same island but Haiti can not seem to get its shit together. So what I am wondering is was there something about Spanish colonial rule that somehow set Dominicans up with good institutions vs what the French did? Is the answer that slavery is to blame? Slaves were about 15-20% of DRs population, Haitians were 90% enslaved. Did this breed a culture of oppression and...
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It's indeed slavery. Slaves governing themselves is like children governing themselves, doesn't even matter if they're nigs or whites.
>>1132983
Well consideringthe Haitians conquered and ruled the Dominican side for a while, nah, not really.
Haitians just had more incompetent rulers.
>>1132983
Haitians are niggers, dominicans are only half niggers.
If Napoleon had won Waterloo could he have defeated the coalition and finally ended the Napoleonic Wars?
Extremely unlikely
>>1132928
no...
>pic related.
The importance of Waterloo has always seemed overstated to me. Napoleon was pretty fucked either way.
Now Leipzig, there was a battle.
