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Since the Bible has been translated from Greek, do the Greeks have a more original/true bible than others?
>>892858
No. "the Bible" as a unified entity has never existed even in Greek. There existed a plethora of manuscript traditions in the Byzantine Empire with varying degrees of overlap with the tradition in the wild west.
>>892858
Yes, NT is written in Greek.
and Dave Ramsey is a fraud. Literally called indeux funds as marxism to appease his mutual fund advertisers.
If you take financial advice from him you deserve to get fucked. Equal to glenn beck listeners who bought from gold line.
>>892902
Yes but the language has surely changed since then.
Also this isn't about Dave Ramsey, look at the file name.
Saw this on Facebook. Is it true, /his/?
>>892787
>occult university library
You know better, anon.
>>892787
I can't say I know much about occult traditions, but almost all of the Jewish ones would have come from Egyptian, Canaanite or Mesopotamian earlier traditions.
So I'd have to say I'm skeptical of his point.
>>892787
Yes. Most of it comes from Kabbalah. That's because most pagan esoteric traditions were completely obliterated, or transformed by the Church.
Jews however, were somewhat tolerated, and allowed to practice Judaism even in Christian societies. Because Jews lacked the same kind of central authority of the Church and were allowed to exist, this let them have esoteric traditions not found elsewhere in the Western world.
Because of this, it was the only secret esoteric knowledge that was permissible to study...
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What publications do you follow? I never got into reading papers, so I'm out of touch. Want to read sites that publish interesting articles, but news-focused publications will do too.
cumsluts weekly
Cracked.com
>>892693
National Geographic and The Economist.
How do you define what a "deity" or "god" is, *precisely*? What attributes does something HAVE to have to be considered a god? For example, must it have a mind? One answer I got was: "It just has to be worshiped by a human."
What do you think about that? I know that there's a common definition that says a "superhuman being", but what does that term mean? The sun technically is superhuman in the sense that it exhausts more energy than a human ever will, so it is beyond what humans could do. I'm also a bit fuzzy on the term...
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>>892654
Some sort of supernatural agency.
Depends a bit from culture to culture and there's some degree of difficulty in translating some related concepts. Like western dragons and Chinese dragons - they are not very alike, but the closest concept the westerners had to it was "dragon" so they pinned that label on that Chinese mythological creature.
Multiple definitions for multiple uses. "Deity(1) is a definition useful from an anthropology perspective, where it is anything humans have historically worshipped and needn't imply any specific characteristics beyond that. "Deity(2)" is useful from say a theological perspective, where within a specific framework to be a deity the subject must meet arbitrary criteria a b c d and e, whereas in another theological framework it must meet arbitrary criteria f g h.
There doesn't need to be one definition thst encompasses every single possible usage...
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>>892654
It's just an abstract that has moral and spiritual authority, don't overthink it
Some of you are alright.
Don't visit Honno-ji tomorrow.
Who is Honno-ji? A chinese emperor?
>>892642
Its the shrine were Nobunaga was assassinated
>>892658
Interesting, so I don't go there if I want to live got it
What would have been the outcome of the second Peloponnesian War if the ill fated Sicilian expedition would have never happened and the Athenians wouldn't have lost the bulk of their navy, leading strategoi and countless hoplites, would they have won the war?
>>892592
The war would have definitely gone on longer. However, the whole Sicilian debacle showed just how much the people of Athens could be convinced to support insane strategies, so there's no guaranteeing that the Athenians wouldn't vote for another venture just as disastrous as the Sicilian one. (I have to admit, though, the Sicilian expedition came very close to succeeding a number of times during the campaign, and total disaster could have been averted as well)
>>892636
True, if the Athenians had followed Lamachus' strategy and attacked Syracuse early it could have been a different story or at least given Athens more of a chance with a foothold in Sicilicy, Alciabiades even had plans to use Sicily as a stepping stone to Carthage, now thats a conflict i would have loved to see!
>>892669
yeah, had Athens took Sicily it well could have won the war against Sparta and its empire would have been perpetuated. The balance of power would have shifted irreversibly as Athens now had a resource and strategic base vaster than Sparta or the Thebans had they joined. It also would have been interesting to see how it dealt with Carthage. Considering their similar political structures and economic might they might well become trading partners or allies. imo Carthage was not really that much of a warmongering nation.
What went wrong?
>>892584
The Koori in NSW didn't kill them all
The worst of the anglo untermensch race live there, it needs a nuke
>>892584
>hasn't had a recession for decades.
>constant economic growth
nothing
Are there any historical cases of sexual attraction to religious figures, e.g. Jesus Christ, Mohammed (after his death), Venus, or the Buddha?
>>892583
mohammed had like a dozen wives
dunno if any of them were actually sexually attracted to him it's hard to believe a 9 year old girl actually being sexually attracted to anyone let alone some old fart
>>892583
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pdtbKJfS_SY
>>892583
>Joseph Smith had a harem
What nations did war atrocities in world war 1 and how big were they?
Was it mainly a German thing to do it at big scale, like in Belgium, or did other nations join in at it?
>>892508
Turkey
>>892508
Every nations that fired a gun.
About my country, France, some soldiers started going on strike against war.
They were executed "for example" without a real trial.
>>892526
I still think there's a difference between executing people that are refusing their national duty (However stupid that duty may be) and executing some civilians because you fear some other guys may kill you.
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Is eurasianism a legit movement or just a bunch of butthurt russians of mixed ancestry?
literally what
>>892409
It's a legit movement. Although it's rooted in butthurt. Since everyone kept calling them Mongols, they basically manned up and ran with it.
>>892409
The latter, it's a really annoying meme. Russians think it's a perfect way to legitimize their imperialism, since apparently being neither European nor Asian makes them their own "civilization" with "unique values", shielding them from criticism and accusations of backwardness.
>>892430
It's legit in sense that many Russians actually think like that but it's not feasible to implement it in real life.
What is evil?
>inb4 "a spook"
entropy
http://mundusmillennialis.com/
>23.
>WHAT CONSTITUTES “EVIL”?
>WHAT CONSTITUTES “EVIL” IS PERMANENT OBSOLESCENCE; ALL THAT WHICH IS PASSIVELY, OR ACTIVELY, DETRIMENTAL TO PERFECTION; ALL THAT WHICH PROMOTES DECAY EITHER VIA NEGATIVE —EXPIRING— MOTION, OR NEGATIVE —INERT— STASIS.
>WHAT CONSTITUTES “GOOD”?
>WHAT CONSTITUTES “GOOD” IS NOT ONLY IMMANENT ACTUALITY; ALL THAT WHICH...
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>>892421
>24.
>SOMETHING WHICH REGARDS ITS OWN SELFPRESERVATION, AND THE STRIVING TOWARD THAT SELFPRESERVATION, AS ENDS IN THEMSELVES, IS “EVIL”.
>SOMETHING WHICH PERSISTS IN THE CONTINUATION OF ITS OWN PERMANENCE AFTER HAVING BECOME OBSOLETE, OR INAPT, BECOMES “EVIL”.
Is there a philosophy which advocates positivism to answer how things work, and moral relativism or nihilism as an answer to the questions where science and reason can't be applied (such as questions regarding morals and values)?
le winnie the pooh
Yeah, autism
>>892052
This is what early Wittgenstein and analytic tried to do until later Wittgenstein showed them how stupid the idea is, positivism is a dead field. Although even the analytics like Russel understood morality to be a relative thing. They were just trying to use positivism as a way of making relativistic statements about morality more stream-lined.
Recently i heard about bears eating books from churches.
Does anyone know if it is true?
If bears could digest cellulose, wouldn't they be spending all their time eating trees?
this should be good.
>>892003
Maybe they liked the leather and glue?
What is the difference between Continental and Analytical Philosophy?
Does it matter?
TLDR:
I'm retarded
>>891989
>What is the difference between Continental and Analytical Philosophy?
They are different philosophical traditions that use different methods to solve the same problems
>Does it matter?
Assblasted autists who don't actually read the requisite literature in order to intelligently discuss these matters will tell you it does but in reality it does not.
>>892020
>They are different philosophical traditions that use different methods to solve the same problems
How are they different?
In the early 20th century, philosophy took a linguistic turn. People started asking not "what is truth?" but "how can we know truth given that language is imprecise?". Anglo-American philosophers followed in the footsteps of Frege and Wittgenstein and tried refining language to a logical structure to make it more precise. Continental philosophers continued in the footsteps of Heidegger and Nietzsche and sought a more poetic understanding of truth. In modern times, however, philosophers on both sides of the divide have attempted to learn from their opposing...
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Why did God promise Jews some lands in the Levant and what are the proper borders of that land that God promised the Jews?
He promised the Israelites the land of Canaan.
Jews refer to the tribe of Judah, one of the 12 tribes of Israel.
They were distinctly different from the Ashkenazi long-nosed Khazarian Jews of today (synagogue of satan).
>>891813
i would promise that she could live with me tbqhwy
>>891813
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-evIyrrjTTY
