Christianity just isn't doing it for me. I love god but I can't accept Jesus as a savior and the bible for the most parts kind of silly if you look at it literally.
I want to have beliefs that take from Christianity paganism and buddhism.
I just want a religion but abrahamic ones are so bad.
Why not take the parts you like from all different philosophies and go with that? Don't feel pressured to confine yourself within one single religion if you can't do so.
>>298643
That's what I plan on doing but I want to read more about paganism and buddhism but they are harder to learn about
>>298655
Try Stoic texts in lieu of Buddhism and see what you think of it. The writing is a lot better and there are less mystical claims.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45109/45109-h/45109-h.htm
You know the drill by now, /his/
Catholic with deep respect for the Orthodox faith here. How do you all feel about the quickening talks of communion once again between our faiths? I, for one, am very excited. This could really be a unifying force between East and West Europe. If Pope St. John Paul II was able to help end the Cold War (which he did, in my opinion), the end to this conflict will bring peace and the furthering of us true followers of Christendom, as opposed to the heathens, heretics, and unbelievers of this world.
>>298603
How do I into mysticism?
What exactly is mysticism?
What's the purpose of it?
>>298696
It depends, really. The Catholic Church views Orthodox Sacraments as legitimate and valid, and most Orthodox (with the exception of some conservatives) likewise, and the Orthodox Church still recognizes the Bishop of Rome as the First among Equals, so the Church's aren't as far out of communion with each other as one would think. The problem is just that in Orthodoxy, doctrine and dogma cannot be changed, for any reason, ever. Therefore, the idea of a "Doctrinal compromise" or a Doctrinal "halfway point" where the two can meet is simply out of the question. There's no easy way around this point, but it's not an unsolvable issue, as long as both sides recognize each other's doctrine.
How come European countries have been so relevant despite being so small?
Gun, Germs, and Steel
>>298343
Population density, natural borders, lots of navigable fresh water, industrial fuel and resources.
>>298343
Most of that land is barely habitable
t. Proud Texan
You travel back in time to 1850 America. You're allowed to bring up to three books with you, including textbooks. What do you bring, and what do you do with it?
>>298321
1984 by George Orwell.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
Das Kapital by Karl Marx.
>>298326
what do you do with it?
>>298394
I warn them about the evils of the future.
How did wedding proposals go before the extensive propaganda campaign of the diamond industry?
Dowry.
You did them at Church and they had to be accepted three weeks consecutively, then there would be a wedding.
>>298275
At least in Jewish religion/culture, you did give a ring for a very long time: By law, the man was supposed to give an object of value to the woman, but even the Gemarah notes that it's always been a ring for as long as anyone can remember, even though it theoretically doesn't have to be one.
(1) If God exists, then God has these two properties: (i) He provides an intelligent-design explanation for all natural, complex phenomena in the universe and (ii) He has no explanation external to Himself.
(2) Anything that provides an intelligent-design explanation for the natural, complex phenomena in the universe is at least as complex as such phenomena.
(3) So, if God exists, then God has these two properties: (i) He is at least as complex as the natural, complex phenomena in the universe and (ii) He has no explanation external to Himself. (from 1 and 2)
(4) It is very improbable that there exists something that (i) is at least as complex as the natural, complex phenomena in the universe and (ii) has no explanation external to itself.
(5) Therefore, it is very improbable that God exists.
!) God exist
2) God does not interact
3) God does not follow logical consistencies
4) God may or may not be imperceptible depending on person to person.
5) God exist
You'd have to first tell us what exactly you mean by complexity. It's a deeply imprecise word.
It also isn't at all clear to me that premise (2) could be given any support. It seems quite clear that human beings most certainly could create things of greater complexity than ourselves; obvious examples would be conceivable kinds of AI. Less obviously there's nothing preventing us from creating a gigantic, interconnected, non-repeating arrangements of matchsticks. Depending on your what we take complexity to mean, conceivable structures of that type could be seen as more complicated than their creators, therefore violating premise (2).
Can we have a discussion on the morality of reproduction? I myself believe that it is incredibly immoral to have a child if you are not capable of raising a child correctly. I am not an outright antinatalist, but I am determined not to have children because I am a mess. I also harbour deep feelings of loathing towards my parents for giving birth to me. I would not like to create such another being.
I agree with you, and I say that as someone who grew up with very supportive and loving parents.
The injustice of growing up in a shit tier/abusive household horrifies me.
Knowingly throwing into existence a life that is sure to suffer is pretty much equivalent to harming that life directly.
>>298232
Thank you for being understanding. Most people do not appreciate how important this decision is for me. People have actually claimed I am selfish for making this decision.
Having a child is a responsibility. If you cannot take care of your child, you shouldn't be having any children. Its the same way with pets. If you can not take care of your pets, you should not own one. This isn't just food/shelter, but health care and social/emotional development.
An to a future extent, this will apply or rather should apply to the creation/ownership of AI robots.
Educate me in the verses of history where women played a major role
Side question, why do you think less women conquered and and controlled nations than men?
Discriminatory inheretance laws.
>>298139
Well, why did that occur?
Why did the women of those families not fight this, or if they did, how did they lose?
>>298145
I don't know, but men has traditionally been seen as the "stronger" sex. The protection and the decision making in a family has mostly been taken by the father and it is natural for a lot of people to extend this to the country.
This is what a patriarchy is btw, a society run by fathers.
Can someone give me a couple of comprehensive history books?
I'm looking for a knowledge of
United States History
Medieval Europe
And Classical Europe
I'm reading through The American Nation. And maybe its because I'm spending a little too much time on /pol/, but I don't trust this author.
>>297920
any of those topics is way too big to be covered in one book. try and narrow it down to specific topics like "muslim spain" "christian spain" "medieval france" "feudalism" etc. etc.
>>297920
What are some books US history of:
>Discovery
>Pilgrimage
>Foundation of the US
>Civil war
?
>>297967
>Discovery
you mean by the spaniards? or the exploration of the north american continent? or its settlement by the british?
Quinn, David Beers. England and the Discovery of America. New York: Knopf, 1973.
>A collection of essays that brings together some of the most important pieces written by the premier historian of exploration, as it examines the shift in the enterprise from one of being narrowly aimed at the discovery of fisheries or routes to the east, to the undertaking, during Elizabeth’s reign, of colonization by military adventurers, religious dissidents, or profit-seekers.
Williamson, James. The Age of Drake. Cranbury, NJ: Scholars Bookshelf, 2007.
>A traditional and classic account of the exploration enterprise, focusing on Hawkins’s building of the fleet and the voyages that resulted. Valuable for its placing the enterprise within a larger political and diplomatic history, as well as its command of naval detail.
>Foundation of the US
the revolutionary war or the period after up to the constitutional convention in the late 1780s? anyway I think that Empire of Liberty (1789-1815) would be the book for you:
http://bookzz.org/book/955036/284a1b
>Civil war
Battle Cry of Freedom is a classic I've heard, but its close to 1000 pages
http://bookzz.org/book/704692/9ac464
part of the same oxford series as Empire of Liberty
>Pilgrimage
Bremer, Francis, and Tom Webster, eds. Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2006.
>Contributions by some of the leading historians of puritanism on both sides of the Atlantic, with nearly seven hundred entries covering Puritan biographies, ideas, events, and issues; with glossary, primary sources, and a bibliography.
http://bookzz.org/book/872446/05a507
Which philosophers were drug-users?
>pic unrelated
Sartre
Foucault
Most people I went to high school with
>>297883
Me to be quite honest.
How would Malcolm X's legacy be different had he not been assassinated?
>>297847
Equally as shit
>Kant
>laid foundations for fascism and Nazism
>Spinoza
>black
What? Wasn't he Portuguese or something?
People would be more aware of his rejection of Legacy of segregation and acceptance of Islam. Most people don't know he mellowed the fuck out after his pilgrimage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvsoVgc5rGs
Wes Cecil did a lecture on Max Stirner.
Stirnerfags seem to be growing in number, I see him more often on Reddit, 4chan, 8ch. Is 2015 becoming the year of radical individualism?
Fuck spooks, let's have a party, Stirnerfags.
>>297790
>Wes Cecil
Who?
>>297923
Does a shitload of philosophy lectures on youtube, actual academic professor.
>>297972
Thanks, worth a look later I suppose
ITT: We post things pertaining to military history whether it be items or interesting facts.
Pic related
>>297493
Cold war era Russian gas mask with hose and filter
>>297495
Hitler youth knife replica
>>297500
1877 French gras bayonet (hand guard broken)
Can anyone explain Marx's "coat equivlence" theory in terms that make more sense?
To me, it seems that Marx is arguing that despite 2 commodities having 2 physically different forms, and different utility, that the value is equivalent if the labor is equivalent, no matter the difference in utility/physical form. Is that a valid interpretation, or am I missing something?
>>297369
Gib source for the specific section of text you're asking about plz?
>>297369
use-values are incommensurable
exchange-values are commensurable
for a social relationship mediated through a thing or service to possess value, that relationship must both have a use-value in the sense that it will be realisable by sale, and have an exchange-value in the sense that it is a product of realisable [socially-average necessary] labour power
Say you have two dildos. One is a dragon dildo designed for your asshole which ejaculates fake semen. The other is a vibrator made after a horse penis and it glows in the dark.
If both have the same labor put into it both have the same value even though they are used for very different things.
Only a greedy capitalism would charge more for the dragon dildo than the horse vibrator!
In the old days, did people use to bath in the open at wells?
Like, medieval age, etc.
They didn't bathe much at all.
>>297322
Falacy
>>297334
Not really. Christians believed washing was a sin.
