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>salt of the earth
What did he mean by this?
>>594164
JESUS IN THAT DEPICTION, IS HOLDING "THE BOOK OF 4CHAN".
>>salt of the earth
>What did he mean by this?
THE VERSE CONTAINING THAT TERM MEANS THAT THE GNOSTIC ONES ARE THE MATERIAL WORLD'S MEDIUM TOWARD GOD, AND THAT IF THEY LOSE THEIR GNOSIS, THEY ARE ESSENTIALLY WORTHLESS.
SALT INCREASES ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY, AND IS THUS A MEDIUM FOR ELECTRICITY, AND ELECTRICITY TRAVELS VIA THE AETHER WHICH IS THE UNIVERSAL MEDIUM,...
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>>594195
Then Gnostics inherit the material zone?
>>594220
NO; THEY TRANSCEND IT —TRANSCENDENCE ESSENTIALLY IS THE TELOS OF (TRUE) CHRISTIANITY.
How is this even a debate?
All countries in the world were defined by war. Jews fought and won. Even if it wasn't theirs, tough shit arabs. Move away.
The only thing keeping the """"""""""country"""""""""" of Palestine alive is our need to be politically correct
This is one of the few posts when this is valid:
*tips fedora*
>>593968
>Jews fought and won
fighting only on easy mode doesn't unlock new levels m8.
So why are former colonial states in asia so much more successful than former colonial states in Africa?
>>593955
are they really though?
china/japan/korea werent colonized m8
>>593983
The major economic hubs of china were colonies, don't give me that.
Korea was colonized by Japan.
Singapore was colonized by Britain.
And they're all doing great.
How did the scourge of corporations come about? How do we destroy them?
pic related
>>593766
Corporations have a vital role in the future perpetuity of humankind. They're fine.
>>593770
Is Byzantium's fall Basil II's fault?
Seems like most of the chaos that occurred after his death could be avoided if he produced a male heir.
>>593662
No. A bigger reason would be the Fourth Crusade.
>>593704
Pretty much, though even after the 4th crusade if they had made a concerted effort to kick the turks out of anatolia they could have recovered. After they unified it was useless
>>593709
I suppose, if you consider that the Byzantines were left alone to retake Anatolia, which wasn't the case. Michael VII wasn't just concerned about the Turks, but a repeat of an attack from the West by the same forces that sacked Constantinople.
What was the regular diet of a roman citizen from ca. 27BC? Was it different for a soldier than for a farmer than for an aristocrat? If so, how?
Poor people would eat bread with dried food such as olives, potatoes and tomatoes, hardly any meat. The aristocrat had access to sugar and coffee. Jokes aside, I have no idea but I want to bump the thread because I'm interested as well.
>>593589
>tomato
>potato
>coffee
>jokes aside
I almost jumped at your comment without reading it
They had tons of grain imported from Egypt, sometimes paid for by politicians seeking popularity, poor plebeians might eat nothing but bread provided by the state.
Alternating legumes and grain could be practiced in some areas so plebs would often eat puls, a kind of pottage/porridge like that eaten by medieval peasants, made by mashing up grain, beans, peas, herbs and seasonal vegetables.
The Origin of the Golden Ticket.
Back in school I would often be given prompts. The prompts usually involved a task in order to be solved. They were tasked so as to unravel perplexities of the human mind, civilization, time and necessity. One of these was called the Golden Potato, the successor of the Golden Egg.
The reality behind the Golden Egg is that all commercial geese meat at one point had a common bloodline. They were the stockiest, the most delicious. If you were said to possess the original golden egg, you'd control society.
Now lets get...
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>>593478
I don't see how it would be a golden potato.
Let's say potato A mutates a new gene and becomes a new potato B which goes off to become a famous staple crop while potato A's unmutated kids are still in the Amazon jungle.
Then centuries later after the original potato A is dead, you find its potato A descendents in the jungle and say "hey I have the original potato, I get to patent all potatoes".
However other people can say "potato B was potato A's kid too, don't...
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>>593523
It can be the golden maize as well.
Remember these crops are susceptible to bacteria, viruses and humans are more than capable of moving to a better location to grow their crops. People will follow the surplus.
>>593478
If they didn't have that exact species of starch source, people would just find some other source of calories in their biome.
![Gutenberg_Bible[2].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/OLunS7I.jpg "Gutenberg_Bible[2].jpg")
Where does one start with biblical studies?
>>593255
Richard Carrier
>>593255
By learning the original languages, Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek.
>>593267
And Latin
So one thing I've been on a kick of wanting to learn more about recently is the Gilded Age. It seems like an incredibly interesting period of time and recently I've been reading a Garfield biography which is a nice small window into the upper level politics of the time.
What's some other suggested reading I should be doing on the time period, be it politics, biographies of presidents/other important people like James G. Blaine or business tycoons, the development of the railroads, social history of the period, the West/frontier... anything really although...
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>"maybe not straying too much into Marxist "EVERYTHING WAS BAD" territory or at least some stuff to balance that out"
This makes it difficult. Usually people writing about it also praise the so-called progressive era and later, FDR, Great Society etc. All things that sound good but there are legitimate questions and controversies about them. Textbook history is just the worst.
Historians are rarely interested in economics.
>era of rapid economic growth, industrialisation, expansion of schools and hospitals and wage growth of 60% despite the massive influx of immigrants
>people only talk about "muh inequality"
It was a great time, OP.
Carnegie did nothing wrong
What happened to Spain? How did they go from a world power to what they are today?
The eternal anglo.
The eternal anglo.
>>592747
Not surprised
So I was looking through this old collection of photos of women from the American Wild West in the 19th century, and the women were either models or madams or "soiled doves", and I noticed half the women were what we would consider chubby, and half of those cub tubs were definitely on the fat side. So what the hell, was this actually considered attractive back then? It makes less sense to me when you consider the fact that many women wore corsets back then plus any illustrations of ideal women back then, like the Gibson Girls, show them to be physically fit and thin...
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>>592435
When there is very easy access to food, abstention is attractive.
When there is little access to food, plumpness is attractive.
Only in modern times is being skinny considered attractive.
>>592450
Physical fitness is always attractive.
>yfw you realize that tumblr landwhales actually would be better suited for wild west prostitute movie roles
They are still active?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teutonic_Order
>>592270
Yes. You can even join if you're a German noble.
>>592400
What if you're a direct descendant of a German noble that had to flee East Germany after the war?
So why didn't the Pope just have Luther burned at the stake?
>>592218
would have pissed people off more
>Why doesn't Israel just genocide the palestinians?
> Why didn't Stalin just kill all his enemies?
How responsible were Neville Chamberlain and Stanley Baldwin for WWII through their appeasement policies, and Baldwin's inaction over the militarization of the Rhineland?
>>592051
The UK and the US are the reason for WW2 of course.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-German_Naval_Agreement
>Signed the day of the battle of Waterloo
And then the Anglos will complain about the fall of France.
>>592051
>That result
I still cry at night
>>592051
You have to consider the appeasement policy through the lenses of European balance of power diplomatic policy to answer that question anon.
What is it, and why does it work so well?
>>591969
>person with agency has the means to provide agency to others in the set of folks related to that person
>repeat ad infinitum
>another dimension to the feedback cycles that produce power hierarchies
its not that tough just give your shit to who you fuck with
>>593181
Jews actually just flat out copied the WASPs. Read any of the sources criticizing the Anglo-American upper class:
>nepotistic
>rich & parasitic
>controlling the banks
>controlling the media
>exploiting the workers
>sowing conflict
You know how the SJWs chimp out over everything white, that's just a remnant...
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