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why did the people's republic of china never collapse like all the other commie countries?
Because it wasn't/isn't really communist? If it weren't for Deng China would still probably be an unstable shithole. It also helps that coming out of several years of civil war and internal strife + Tiananmen Square nobody wants to try any sort of popular uprising.
>>1404172
Capitalism.
>>1404172
>quick version
It's not communist.
>long version
Chinese people+US support+Mao+Jews+existential threat of Japan+isolation+hated by lots of other countries
Does science and empiricism sterilize culture? Do you ever find yourself wishing that people would still participated in weird spooky rituals and ceremonies to achieve some task?
https://youtu.be/Qq5biHCw7Qc
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Everything is all "hurrr there's no scientific reason to do this" nowadays which just makes everything so boring..
Well in western europe we still celebrate various local rites, but they are done because they always have been done that way and serve an entertainig purpose for the particioners.
I agree OP
>>1404053
>Do you ever find yourself wishing that people would still participated in weird spooky rituals and ceremonies to achieve some task?
Why would you bother doing a ritual to accomplish a task if it had no practical effect on completing the task?
Look, if dressing in a smock, covering yourself in the ashes of a burnt chicken and howling at the new moon actually cured your cancer then people would do it. It's precisely because it doesn't work that people don't...
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I am hoping someone here can help me identify the god/symbol on this supposed "Indian" lock. I haven't been able to find anything.
probably used to stop people from using the bathroom
>>1403905
Its Krishtnayaja Patel.
>>1403911
Search reveals nothing meaningful... explain?
How did corporations become subordinate to nation states? Why aren't there any corporations that are independent of governments? Why don't we have megacorps?
>>1403855
States create the legal framework upon which corporations rests.
Also corporations do not have that magical power that states possess: taxation.
In addition, corporations cannot fund military forces of their own. You could talk of PMCs all day but in the end these are just upjumped security guards.
>>1403855
Well, I'll start off with, Corporations don't hold territory and don't have the military apparatus to hold territory if they did. The Nation State tells the Corporation, "Play by our rules or you can't play inside our territory."
>>1403855
>How did corporations become subordinate to nation states?
Since always, they have never not been. If anything the rise of globalism has weakened the state's control over corporations to an unprecedented degree.
>Why aren't there any corporations that are independent of governments?
How would they do business?
>Why don't we have megacorps?
Give it time, they are coming.
What were the underlying causes of the Tito - Stalin split. Because this is the largest factor on why Yugoslavia was kicked from Cominform, and why they didn't join the Warsaw pact. Is there anything that could have prevented the split? What would have happened if it was prevented?
>>1403738
Disagreement over the Greek Civil war
Hold on, but Tito was a Russian right?
>>1403774
Gtfo pls
Pearl harbour does not count. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean_theater_of_World_War_II
Someone find me one, I don't care how insignificant.
>Someone find me one, I don't care how insignificant.
Well seeing as a 'battle' is a pretty arbitrary term and you asked for any insignificant one, there definitely was some random bullshit like 1 Platoon of A Company losing 20 guys against the 5 losses of the 31st Shinkansen of 55th Animu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Makin
There ya go senpai
Iwo Jima had more American cassualties.
Simple and short question. Are Bohemians practically just.. pre-Czech folk? And who were the Moravians and what connection to they have to the Bohemians/Czech.
>>1403526
Is that suppose to be simple and short?
I wouldnt bet my money on any real ethnic connection with the Bohemians from 9-10th century, and todays czech people.
>>1403526
yes, and they are the same, like for example bavarians and franks
>>1403526
Bohemian and Czech are literally the same word in Czech senpai
So what was up with Huey Long? I hear all the time how much FDR and his crew were scared of him becoming the new president, and everyone at the time comparing him to Hitler. And then theres the conspiracy theories that FDR had some influence in his assassination.
What would have happened if he became president instead of FDR?
T H E K I N G F I S H
>>1403496
gas the syndies, civil war now
The Hitler comparisons are pretty silly considering he was one of the less racist politicians in the South.
Personally I think he'd have expanded the executive branch even more than FDR and would've tried to force through a bunch of socialist bullshit that would hold us back.
to what extent does the probabilistic problem of evil support atheism ?
the stricly logical problem of evil is largely discredited today, although i would be happy to see an original defense of it
>>1403330
to restate the argument:
>The world is filled with so many seemingly pointless or unnecessary evils that it seems doubtful that God could have any sort of morally sufficient reason for permitting them.
"pointless" ex. an african child getting malaria and dying before age 3, "unnecessary" ex. a pious person dying gruesomely in an accident, cutting short their perceived ability to spread piety
>Accordingly, it might be argued that given the evil in the world, it is improbable, even if not impossible, that God exists.
this itself isn't very supportive of atheism at all, and can be roundly debunked by long-extant christian theology, among others with simple rephrasing
>god is good
>evil/suffering is the lack of god
>therefore, anyone who is insufficiently godly is sufficiently suffering
>this is established through holy scriptures
>cosmically speaking africans dying of malaria is insignificant in comparison to the infinite reward godly behavior furnishes for the faithful
>the suffering of the pious is no different, and both of these scenarios are pieces of the (rightly) inscrutable divine will
yes, good work, HOWEVER,
appeals to such a moral system - "evil is straying from god's will (1), which you are free to do (2), because god gave you free will (3), because god wanted to give you free will (4), because 4 (5)", and the justification that it is indeed the proper moral system to stray from - "this is divine will because the divine told me it was the divine will" - are ultimately tautological without an irrational leap of faith - ex. I was visited directly by a spirit who confirmed this beyond reasonable doubt - and necessarily give more credence to the loose and relativistic morality of "evil" as simply deviation from the fallible morality of man, from which the cosmic significance is stolen, and deflated entirely, rather than deviation from the infallible and objective morality of the divine.
>>1403404
The issue for theists, not only Christians but judging from the OP they may be specifically included, is that their very definitions of what is "evil" and what is "good" are tautological, and rely on the mentioned leap of faith into an objective moral guideline to be credible. Why, for instance, does a Christian theist subscribe to Christian morality and not Hindu morality? They must, I claim, interject with an argument for the divinity of Christ, from which the validity of their scriptures, their...
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>>1403330
Behold!
Bait!
Our daily dose of that dude's face (OP's pic) .
Conversely, to what extent does the probabilistic problem of Christianity support evil.
Religious folk kill a lot of people.
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Are Mongols the true warrior culture?
>true warrior culture
See: Jivaro, Scythians/Sarmatians
>>1403273
Where did they get the statistics from?
>>1403279
Can you not read the source
Where can I read the Non-Canon Gospels.
Books, links, whatevers. Post em.
>>1403206
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/index.html
>>1403206
1. You could have searchengined that, you lazy moron.
2. Questions should have an interrogation sign at the end, not a period.
3. >Lore Thread
What does "lore" have to do with your request? Do you even know what the word "lore" means?
>>1403229
Are you christian!
Any examples from history in which there was a shortage of a certain resource? I can only think of wood and maybe during wars. But am looking for a kind of resource depletion.
Anasazi, Mayans, Norse in Greenland, Khmer empire, Rwanda etc.
>>1403036
Are you Jared Diamond? I cannot remember what kind of resources run out in those examples. Am not so much talking of collapse.
>>1403042
Food production potential is a resource.
How were Romanians so powerful?
Well, they had a fucking vampire prince.
>>1402986
Were they, though?
>>1402986
I guess not. Ottomans were far more powerful, at the end of the day Vlad was killed, Mihai failed and they were Ottomans bitch until late 19th century, only to be saved by Russians.
Can religion be reintegrated into modern democratic societies? What i mean is the end to separation of state and church.
Instead of trying to integrate religion into democracy or have it excluded do it the other way around. Democratize religion and integrate its ideas and cutoms on a national level.
So inspect and filter all ideas through a much more open fluid and less authoritative religious structures. Have religion pervade society and social thought and be considered when questions are asked and answers are proposed.
Can Christianity with certain changes fit...
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>>1402912
>So inspect and filter all ideas through a much more open fluid and less authoritative religious structures
Not in the United States of America. We are protected from that kind of thought by our wonderful Constitution. (Thank God)
>>1402912
>dogmatic oppressive ideas
Such as? There isn't exactly a Christian sharia.
>Inb4 muh laws of Moses
>>1402912
Wouldn't that just be to call the religion itself untrue? I mean if the authority and "truth" of the religion doesn't come from God then you're basically just writing fiction by comity.
Why aren't you a part oft he largest and most popular philosophical conversation in the world?
>>1402867
>Why aren't you a part oft he largest and most popular philosophical conversation in the world?
WE ARE.
We spend our time on /his/, and >>>/int/ , and >>>/pol/
>>1403638
>literally joining a cult
shiggy
>>1403638
That guy looks a lot like my old Arab classmate.
