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Historically, what people, groups, or countries were absurdly lucky?
>>401656
Europeans, generally
>>401656
Spain, England/GB/UK, France, Austria, Prussia/Germany?
Only reason Sweden have been allowed to do pretty much anything or attempted anything trough history is because the other major powers always assumed that, due to the land size, about as many people lived there as in France.
By the 18th century, everyone assumed it lived 20 million people in Sweden while it was closer to 2 million.
This despite the Swedish government having a very good count on their population trough Church-books keeping tabs on everything, to the degree that pretty much everyone can track their lineage back to the 16th century.
Jew here, I have a question for Christians. Why do you think the messiah has come? He is supposed to fulfill a list of prophecies:
>The whole world will worship the One God of Israel
Isaiah 2:11-17
Currently does not happen.
>Knowledge of God will fill the world
Isaiah 11:9, Jeremieah 33:31
This means irrefutable evidence. Knowledge, not faith.
>All Israelites will be returned to their homeland
Isaiah 11:12
I am still in America.
The Jewish people will experience eternal joy and gladness
Isaiah 51:11
Holocaust? Inquisition? Progroms?
Nations will recognize the wrongs they did to Israel
Isaiah 52:13-53:5
Holocaust deniers
The peoples of the world will turn to the Jews for spiritual guidance
Zechariah 8:23
Spiritual, not monetary.
Weapons of war will be destroyed
Ezekiel 39:9
Not destroyed by nuclear weapons.
All of the dead will rise again
Isaiah 26:19
You claim one dude, I want them all.
Also, Ezekiel 40-42 lists exact specifications for a third temple as a building, not a person.
The Messiah will be a warrior king. He will also be preceded by Elijah. He will be a human, born of a young woman, and will not die and come back as he will have a mortal life span to fulfill the prophecies.
As per Bar Kochba, who was thought to be the Messiah. Once he died, the Rabbis shrugged and said "I guess it was not him". So the Messiah must be alive in order to fulfill the prophecies.
>Why aren't you a Jew?
Would if I could. It's impossible for a goy to become a true member of the tribe.
I actually agree entirely, Jesus messianity should be based upon his resurrection not by artifically aligning him with prophecies
>>400457
This. You may convert, but you will always be a second class Jew. Even by marriage the club is exclusive, and your kids may inherit your stigma too.
wewps
How are my fellow egoists doing?
>>400045
>how
>are
>my
>fellow
>egoists
>doing
spooks
>>400048
>"my" - a spook
You dun' goofed.
>>400060
>imposing random spooks on others
Just how spooked are you
Well, /his/?
Modus ponens:
If free will exists, then evil will exist.
Modus tollens:
If evil does not exist, then free will does not exist.
even if free will didn't exist in heaven it wouldn't matter anyway since you are already following god's will in the first place
like if someone made a law forbidding you from sticking your head in a pile of shit.
>>391244
I don't see how that works.
You wouldn't say free will doesn't exist because I can't choose to massacre an entire city with laser beams from my eyes.
Why would it affect my free will to choose whether to have a cup of tea or coffee it was impossible for me to choose to rape or kill?
I'm a Solipsist. Can anyone of you 'people' refute this position?
We don't have to because we don't care.
>>407625
I'm telling you I'm real. Would you doubt yourself?
>>407625
fucking kill yourself you nigger piece of shit
Has the Quran ever been proven wrong (as in, different texts in the same style could be written)? Because that sounds relatively easy to do, yet it hasn't apparently happened in half a century.
>>406098
Pretty much every single 'holy' book has been proven wrong. The believers don't care, thats why you call them believers.
>>406112
The Quran is the only holy book that claims to be the direct word of God and that says "ok, do this simple thing and it'll prove me wrong". Hence why I'm making this thread.
But thank you for your euphoric reply nonetheless.
Why the hell does this country exist
Out of all the European countries that seem to be randomly placed, this one seems to be the most out-of-place
>>405258
if celts somehow survived why not illyrians?
>>405258
the country is not out of place, not even the people, but the culture is out of place. when ottomans came they subjugated the albanians to basically be their house servants providing them with women and children. the albanian society became so tied to the ottoman culture through this symbiosis and islamisation that today the country is more ottoman middle eastern than european, aswell as their culture and mentality is.
>>405258
The powers that be were really keen on letting it exist for some reason. Even the Greek parts in the south.
What happened in the rest of the Roman Empire? The provinces way out on the edges of the maps. I know about all the slave revolts and the invasions and the battles and all that, but were they actually living the Roman life in the meantime? Was the ruling class ethnic Roman or ethnic Dacian/Illyrian/Gaul/whatever? Did they have more to do with Rome or with their barbarian bros outside the empire? Did everyone in the empire's borders actually speak Latin, or just the government?
>>400858
>barbarian
Rome was barbarian. They were brutal murderers, they brought nothing to Europe but a Dark Age.
They were the destroyers of Civilization.
>>400858
The big lot of them spoke some manner of Vulgar Latin.
Is this board complicit in the closing of Being that is the trajectory of the west since Plato?
Are German, Ancient Greek and Sanskrit the most philosophical languages because of they have a lot of grammatical cases and therefore allow you to speak and think of "Being?"
>Is this board complicit in the closing of Being that is the trajectory of the west since Plato?
Probably, I don't see how it couldn't be. This is a place where petty academic arguments are carried on in a more violent way than they can be in journals and institutions. It's a toxic academic environment; the Academy was the beginning of this decline, and we've removed all virtue from the concept of logos, so it seems like Heidegger would loathe us.
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>>409700
top lel
Yeah, I think Heidegger is interesting but flawed because there's a lot of pro-Nazi thought in his philosophy and ultimately the Nazis were flawed (even if you don't invoke the Holocaust).
While I do see the similarities in the three languages, and how German and Greek are similar, I feel this kind of German patriotism was blind. Finnish could easily have the claim for language most open to Being.
Heidegger would probably contest that German is closest to Homeric Greek. I can't confirm...
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>>409728
>I think Heidegger is interesting but flawed because there's a lot of pro-Nazi thought in his philosophy
If you actually read Sein und Zeit, you would know that wasn't true.
The only reason you say that is because you know that Heidegger was associated with the Nazis.
