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>WW1
ALLIES!! :D :)
central... :( :/
>WW2
ALLIES!! :D :)
axis... :( >:(
Why was this allowed?
>>564734
What
>>564734
>frogposters
Why is this allowed?
>>564734
>What is the Entente
Is it plausible that another being brought us mathematics long ago? How did we come up with numbers and all the do-hickey symbols that mean multiplication or division or other symbols that have mathematical meaning.
Is that what happened in our history? How can humans have come up with math on their own?
>>564402
>picrelated
Im not reading all this shit
Aliens/UFOs are demons.
Don't fall for the coming Antichrist deception.
Is counting rocks really so complicated that it had to be aliens?
Paintings focusing on women.
>>564228
Is it correct that Gallileo was actually anti intellectual in the sense that his proposals did not follow the accepted methodology?
Him being the equivalent of someone today making claims about some field without doing research(as an example)?
The catholic church not supressing ideas(they had no problem with research) but simply following the accepted norms methodologies and standards of accepting new information as correct.
No, I don't think so. I'm catholic an agree that the popular conception of the Galileo affair is biased, but in favorite empiricism over scholastic theory Gallileo was not acting anti-intellectually. He was very impolite and hasty but challenging the current academic paradigm because you think it could be more rigorous and grounded in observations doesn't make you an anti-intellectual.
>>563920
But that is only in retrospect since we now think that the modern scientific method is better(and galilleos way of doing things was closer to it).
Imagine these days if someone made claims not based on the methodologies we accept as the scientific method?
Why should the church have accepted his new method? big institutions must be conservative and not jump on any new thing because they risk spending a lot of resources on incorrect rash ideas.
>>563883
yes. a high-ranking church official even sent him a letter explaining that he was free to continue hypothesising, but he was not allowed to continue claiming that he was right (because he had no real evidence that he was). galileo ignored the letter.
why didn't he have any real evidence? well there's a few reasons. he was claiming that the earth revolved around the sun and basing this claim on observations of the moons of jupiter that he had discovered via telescope.
one problem was that nobody...
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Scandinavian countries (as well as Iceland) all abolished slavery before the year 1400 and were quick to institute social democracy. By contrast, many influential fascist thinkers as well as a not insignificant percentage of the Nazi leadership were composed of Southern and Central Europeans. Why is this?
because southerners are stupid and ugly
>>563789
Because southern Europeans are the real master race.
>>563789
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_slave_trade
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_slave_trade
Enlighten me on Musalmiyah, Sajah bint al-Harith and other people claiming priesthood around the time of Muhammad.
Doesn't that show that Muhammad was simply the most successful of many similar claimants around the time of a great social upheaval in Arabia?
>the most successful
No, more like just the luckiest one. The competing prophets of early Islam just show that Muhammed was merely voicing something that was in the air at the time in Arabia.
If you lived in Arabia in the 7th century, and you knew about the Byzantine Empire and Persian Empire being involved in an all consuming war, I figure that apocalyptic screeds about God ending the world very soon will seem pretty convincing. Same thing happened in the nihilistic hell of post-invasion Iraq, that's where ISIS get their popularity from
>>563626
>I figure that apocalyptic screeds about God ending the world
Arabia was largely spared any destruction. Rather, the titanic war between the Byzantines and Persians caused both empires to pull out from supporting various client petty kingdoms in Arabia. Without their patrons' gold and armies, the old Arab rulers quickly lost their authority. The power vacuum was filled by various warlords who sought to legitimize their power by claiming divine favor.
>>563586
No as Maududi suggested, an ideology like Hegel's (ie History needed a religious social and political reform on the eve of Islam) might have made a change necessary but only God could have produced the specific reform needed.
Besides most of these people popped up after Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and were copying him by trying to perform similar miracles, producing their own holy books in a Quranic style and even trying to gain legitimacy as a partner or successor of Muhammad صلى الله...
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Did generals ever get assassinated in the field?
>>563336
Sultan Murad the First was assasinated by a wounded Serb soldier while walking in the battlefield after the battle was over.
![522px-N.Vatutin[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/JgY961Y.jpg "522px-N.Vatutin[1].jpg")
>>563336
KIA? Plenty. Assassinated? Well, I can remember General Vatutin who accidentally drove into positions of Ukrainian nationalist partisans with the small amount of people guarding him and promptly got killed but that thing was more of a huge accidental turn of events more than anything as neither party expected the other to be there.
>>563336
Depending on how you define "the field".
Lots of German officers were assassinated in Poland during the WW2 in retaliation for their atrocities. The most prominent was the assassination of SS general Franz Kutschera, commander of all SS units in Warsaw. Kutschera was shot dead together with his chauffeur. It was an utter shock to the Germans because Kutschera was known for extremely tight security measures. The assassination took place within the sealed-off German District, a part of Warsaw for the...
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dont know exactly how long people stay on this board but a long time back but I said i was going to be a Christian monk(Anglican monastery), i went to the monastery, which met all my ideals, i mean its literally a working communism, it fucking works! but God told me it wasn't what I should do, which sucks
Im fully aware im talking to atheists right now, just had to express how every awsum thing history and everything says about monasteries are true, so gloriously true
Okay
Religion can really draw people to the single-mindedness and selflessness that can make living communally work well. Not only having the idea of something bigger and more important than one's self to guide you, but living in a small enough community to affirm that those around you feel selfless as well sounds like a perfect way to live. Of course, not everyone can live like that but still...
Hope you find success in wherever you feel called.
>>562505
But Communists don't teach you to hate yourself and have no sex.
Also, you claiming you speak directly to god? You know that's just plain silly right?
What would the world be like if there were no horses or domesticable equines?
Would we have seen war oxen? Would weapons tech have not of progressed so quickly?
>>560500
I guess there wouldn't be any steppe nomads as we know them. So that would mean no huns, mongols, selcuks and ottomans. Also are there actually animals that can be tamed for war like horses ?
>>560500
Well, the empires Aztec, Mayan and Inca, they don't had horses. Just imagine the rest of the world like that empires.
Also:
In that world /mlp/ doesn't exist
>>560500
Cows could have been bred for riding
What are some /his/ approved movies?
>>551909
>mfw shit casting
Awesome movie tho.
>>551919
>shit casting
What was wrong with the casting?
To contribute:
Das Boot
Lawrence of Arabia
>>551919
Really? It's Russell's best movie and the rest of the cast is great.
2015-11-01 11:36:48
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How are muslim women oppressed? Does freedom mean something different in the middle east?
>>586355
As of now western muslim women aren't totally oppressed ( I would argue they are brainwashed ) But in every third world shithole run by Islam, they definitely are.
Abrahamic religions are clearly misogynistic.
While a Muslim woman in the West can claim that she is wearing the niqab or hijab voluntarily, it is clearly a symbol of the patriarchal need of that culture to control and subordinate women.
>>586355
> woman says she likes western culture and patriarchy is bullshit
> internalized patriarchy, brainwashed, conservative
> woman says she likes Islam and Arab culture
> wow, true feminist, so brave, please respect her being beaten and rights taken away
Is taoism the real conclusion to buddhism? Going back to ordinary life and going with the flow?
>>586805
More like Taoism being one of many precursors to Christianity
>>586816
I don't see the connection in terms of actual doctrine.
>>586824
There isn't, some Christians have just misunderstood the Tao as being the same as the Logos.
In the first christian communities it was a requirement to be Jewish. When did this change? When did they abandon this archaic teaching and turn to the true teachings of Christ that allow ANYONE to become a Christian. What early community accurately followed Christ's example?
>>586658
In the first christian communities it was a requirement to be Jewish. When did this change?
The roman empire you cuck.
>>586658
Would've helped if Jesus actually existed.
*tips*
Paul's church I'm pretty sure.
Why is America so proud of their social mobility?
And why is it so inferior to almost all other civilized countries?
oops, just realized I posted on wrong board, but for some reason I can't delete it.
>>586609
>Why is America so proud of their social mobility?
Historically, it has had a very high degree of social mobility throughout its history. Only recently has it begun to fall behind.
>And why is it so inferior to almost all other civilized countries?
Because it's based on early 19th century knowledge of the economy that isn't really feasible anymore. Globalization meant the slow down of American internal markets, as less money and jobs go to...
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>>586609
Also
>civilized countries
What the fuck does that even mean nowadays? Almost every country on earth is a multiparty democracy, be them flawed or not.
