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Is Adam and eve a true story or is it a metaphor? If so explain the metaphor press
It's a story about a snake who tries to set humanity free and how thankless they are for it
>>323969
Can any Christians explain the used the tree of knowledge as a bad thing? Surely knowledge is a good thing?
>>323969
Basically the entire story is about why humans shouldnt think for ourselves. We were perfectly happy in God's nature preserve until eve the human actually starting thinking for herself and convinced adam to think for himself and god was so mad that his sex dolls were given reason that he removed the exhibit from the zoo and made childbirth painful. We have since done our own thing and fought for our own destinies and this is why humanity is evil.
Also a talking lizard that is then transformed into a snake...
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>God
Who began this meme
Monotheistic God?
Zoroastrianism?
>There is a god
>>323905
Some sandnigger named Moses
Hello /his/,
I've been listening to Rasputin by Boney M. lately and I'm wondering how many songs there are out there from contemporary times with a narrative or theme drawn from historical events/people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yTVWXYctoY
OP obviously related, but I also know James K. Polk by They Might Be Giants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StTiCU_fqCg
I'd also accept songs from Television shows that are supposed to be educational, a la Animaniacs or Histeria.
A few of my favorites from Histeria! Which is actually a show I hardly ever see talked about.
Invasion Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75F5RaU5wSM
Terrible Tudors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAmRSHRwADE
>>323851
Anything from that show with Stalin was always A+.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHZQXNe2HpQ
>>323847
Alexander the Great by Iron Maiden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oTEQf1d9Iw
And then he said "I'm a philosophy major"
Why are some mayors "better" than others?
>>323863
Because philosophy is a dying field.
>>323934
The humanities are a dying a field because they are being co-opted and usurped by positivism and scientism.
Philosophy will continue regardless if it is taught in the Universities or not.
>"Ezekiel tells us that Gog, the nation that will lead all of the other powers of darkness against Israel, will come out of the north. Biblical scholars have been saying for generations that Gog must be Russia. What other powerful nation is to the north of Israel? None. But it didn’t seem to make sense before the Russian revolution, when Russia was a Christian country. Now it does, now that Russia has become Communistic and atheistic, now that Russia has set itself against God. Now it fits the description of Gog perfectly." - Ronald Reagan
how...
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>Now it fits the description of Gog perfectly
Confirmation bias
>>323712
>yfw you realize Reagan was really thinking his times were the apocalyps
goddamn 'muricca
>>323712
>Protestants
>Christians
Was it ever possible or did Hitler just take too much meth?
It would have been somewhat possible if the Germans had any amphibious landing craft. Their lack of air superiority would have fucked them, though.
The German invasion of England seemed rather half assed. They didn't commit to it long. They just spent some time harassing British citizens and then quit. Committing to an invasion on the scale of Operation Barbarossa might have worked.
With the navy the Germans had? No chance in hell. The RAF also decimated the Luftwaffe.
So /his/ what can you tell me about him, both historically and philosophically
Basically the inventor of Abrahamic religion
Mithraism as one of the systems of belief which originated from Zoroastrian doctrines. Of Persian origin, Mithraism flourished in Ancient Rome and elsewhere, and was considered a "mortal enemy" of early Christianity. So many parallels existed between the two, as much in doctrines as in practices, that the early Christians, on becoming ascendant, took every measure possible to eliminate all traces of Mithraism. They destroyed the Mithraic temples, and violently eliminated the priests and adherents of Mithraism wherever they found them. It is therefore somewhat surprising...
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He invented the concept of an absolute dichotomy between good and evil.
imo
How does it feels to be forced to know how to speak english (and to speak english) just because the anglos were good merchants, when some country with a far superior culture have very few speakers in comparison?
(It feels bad)
ITT : Which langage should be used internationaly, according to history?
English
>>323542
english is easy and very flexible, that is why it did stuck with everone in the first place.
>>323542
We actually all speak English because Britain lost a war to some peasant helped by France in 1783
>French replaced Latin as the most important language of diplomacy and international relations (lingua franca) in the 17th century. It retained this role until approximately the middle of the 20th century, when it was replaced by English as the United States became the dominant global power following the Second World War.[40][41
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language#History
Ever...
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I've been reading a lot of pic related and it seems there is a major change between his earlier and later works, my question is: is resistance a possibility in his work? Can we ever break from the simulacra? His later work The Agony of Power makes me think that his philosophy can be reconciled with some sort of autonomist resistance.
>Baudrillard general
Postmodernism has eaten itself and been shat back out.
>>323557
nice try Habermas
Baudrillard, along with Barthes, Derrida, Foucault etc, illustrates the key weakness of the French intellectual left: their refusal to acknowledge human reality.
The basic idea that everything is a simulacrum was robustly refuted by the Anglo Saxon tradition in philosophy. It is either dishonest, or if seriously meant, false.
He was an intellectual charlatan,Philip K Dick without the pills
At what point does one draw the line between philosophy and religion?
Nietzsche.
Most atheists are more religious than you think
The relative quantity of spooks
I wish I was kidding
>>323799
>Most atheists are more religious than you think
How so? Isn't the absence of belief not a belief?
What were the historic reasons for the Iraq war I.e. how was it justified.
it wasn't
>>323368
saddam was mad that kuwait had more oil than him and invaded
>>323368
technically speaking there's no discernible justification short of
>le oil
>le 9/11
>le you're either with us or against us
>le WMDs
>le insert democracy!
>le failed dictatorship
of course these days it's mostly
>le stop extremists, save yurop
>le...
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What do you think was going through the mind of the first Indians who met the first settlers? It must have been crazy only ever knowing people to be red and wear basic clothing then coming across white people who wear shiny metal clothing and holding guns coming off a boat that had crossed the entire sea. For thousands of years they would have thought themselves and their lands were all there was out there
>lel these white devils are going to starve to death
You're thinking of "Indians" are one giant hivemind people. The interior people hadn't even seen the sea before and probably had no idea when the Europeans even landed on the continent.
The most interesting part to me is how a stone age society can so quickly adapt and adopt then modern technology like guns.
>>323245
Probably thought they were gods, it's not a meme some natives actually had pale people in their myths.
glorified cheerleader
>anglo shitting on joan
>anglo shitting on adolf
remove yourself anglo scum
>>325418
this type of shit (in the pic) never fails to trigger me
how can people reasonably accept something that happened more than 200 years ago is somehow their fault? i could even understand if you great-great parents were slave traders or had negros working the field for free on your big ass mansion in the middle of mississipi, but for fuck sake most of the people doing that kind of shit are struggling low-middle class citizens whose only crime is to be white and having no self-awareness
>>323214
Nelson Mandela
For the longest time I've had a bit of an intrest in Sun Tzu's quotes, but don't know much about him, I could look it up on google, but I think I'll just ask you for your knowledge.
His dad was Sun Wan, and his Sun was Sun Three.
Thanks anon but it's son not sun
His grandson died on a sinking ship during a naval battle and was called Sun Ken.
So /his/ do you guys think that Europe colonizing the world was a bad or good thing for it.
bad and good are useless categories when examining history
>>322914
Fair enough I should've probably stated it as did the goods of spreading the knowledge of the Europeans out way the cost of the destruction of the homogeneous cultures of the area taken over
>>322910
define good
define bad
