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>tfw you realize you really CAN'T no nuffin
>Being spooked by nothing
>>1094144
Is Assad the new Ian Smith?
>>1094152
Yes.
How do Jews, Christians, and Muslims defend their beliefs about god when their god was once merely the god of war/storms of the Canaanite pantheon? It explains why god couldn't defeat iron chariots, for example (he wasn't claimed to be omnipotent at this point), why he loved sacrifices, told others to have no other gods before him, etc. It was always accepted that he was merely one god and not 'all powerful'. And each tribe/people had their own god, of which the ancient Israelites chose Yahweh.
This only changed over time when gradually the ancient...
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>>1091993
Easy, I don't give a shit.
Mental gymnastics.
>how do Christians defend their God against random hypothesis no. 3 even though the first mention of YHWH originates with the Shasu and it has nothing to do with a pantheon
Why did the Catholich Church go full retard and start selling indulgences?
Didn't they realize people cpuld get quite pissed from it?
>>1102282
>Why did the Catholich Church go full retard and start selling indulgences?
Repairs aren't cheap. They needed money for shit.
>>1102282
it seemed to make sense, to the people moreso than to the church
>>1102282
What a poorly worded question. While the subject is a legitimate topic, your manner of presenting it is offensive.
Your post is troll like and should be considered
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http://www.strawpoll.me/10144467/r
For those unfamiliar with the setup: the trolley is set to run over the group of people. You can pull the lever and divert the trolley to a second track, saving the group but killing the man on the other track in the process. Do you pull the lever?
>>1096052
My answer is to punch the fucker who asked me this.
If that is not possible, I argue that the binary nature of this ethical quandry is so simplistic that it beggars belief, ie, are you implying I am a fucking sociopath?
>>1096081
I've had people defend the "doing nothing" option. it baffled me.
>multitrackdrifting.jpg
On a scale of 1 to 10, how depressed was this guy?
I think his take on the human condition was more realistic. I appreciate this contribution to pessimism and antinatalist thought.
>>1102786
>antinatalist
>thought
W E W
>>1102774
Where does intellect for the wording of these questions come from...
It depends on if his depression was caused by constipation or by his appearance being similar to Martin Van Buren after facial reconstruction. I mean, look at that hair.
I'm not sure which board to post this on, as there is no religion board, but i recently saw this comment by a Muslim on goodreads. This woman claims that Aisha was not as young as people claim.
is the comment in the pic accurate?
here is a link to the review where the comment was posted:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/731124208
>>1098681
http://www.wikiislam.net/wiki/Aishas_Age_of_Consummation
Muhammad was a gluttonous wealthy slave owner, an adulterer, a child-molesting pedophile, a murderer, a liar, he encouraged theft, rape, torture and the list goes on. He was the pawn of Satan and is now in Hell.
>Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? So, every...
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>>1098681
The short answer is that we don't really know what her age really was. The Hadith are not historical accounts and anecdotes, they're the accumulated myths of early Islam that were indexed by storyteller and story, and it's frankly hard to tell where fact ends and elaboration/conjecture begins. What the lady in that post brings up is less the 'true account' so much as the existing evidence that what we do know of this and other biographical and chronological details about Muhammad and his contemporaries...
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>see China's commie-capitalism working quite well
>see China being able to control its minorities and keep the country unified
>try to pander to the west and give free speech to nationalist apes
>try to move to a welfare capitalist system, in a country with a huge black market that needs a crackdown
>fail hard and look at your superpower RUINED
>fat burger retards think it is Reagan who...
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>>1087985
Nah, tbqh Gorbachev needed to be icepicked and the USSR should have just kept up the good fight against capitalism rather than going full Deng Xiaoping and betraying the revolution.
>see China's commie-capitalism working quite well
Uh I think you've got your timelines confused
>fail hard and look at your superpower RUINED
I seem to remember a coup, by anti-reform communist hardliners, against Gorbachev, and that's what failed. And that in turn is what caused the superpower to fial.
>fat burgers credit Reagan
Yes, here I'll agree with you. This will never not be amusing.
>>1087985
He didn't succeed but he didn't cause the collapse of the Soviet Union. It was already an extremely dire situation by the time he got power. Doubling down and making it more repressive can stay off the collapse possible indefinitely. It could also cause a much more violent civil war.
Do you think Gavrilo Princip would still kill the Archduke if he knew what he caused?
what the fuck is that thing behind him
he was a serb, and serbs are disgusting conceited subhuman trash, so yeah he would have
RIP super mario
