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I've unwittingly let Mormons inside my house cause it was raining outside. Then they started about babbling about their cult and i found it all dubious.
They'ed left me a copy of their book i read some parts of it and i don't think i can stomach the ramblings, they said they'll be back in Sunday. I need a crash course and insight on these fucks.
>>1324071
Read the "Letter to the CES director"
It was written by a Mormon scholar after he did a lot of research and concluded that the church is a scam.
>>1324082
I'm thinking of just bolting out on sunday. Seriously though the discussion was pretty good at the start, we talked about the dubiousness of organized religions and the callousness of modern society.
Then they started babbling about their fucking cult leader and how "god" himself showed himself to the fuck. Shit they even mentioned shit about a baptismal.
And i was planning on jacking off all Sunday.
>>1324094
Just tell them to fuck off you limp dicked dipshit. What are they gonna do, threaten you with some caffeine free soda?
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Why have countries like UK, France and Germany always hated Spain?
Is it jealousy?, Is that the reason they created the "black legend"?
>>1323714
They didn't always. Fierce competition explains the rest.
As a Spaniard I wonder why other Europeans, specially the French and the Brits, despise us so much
What have we do done to you assholes?
I feel like playing Sid Meier's Pirates now. Such an old, good game.
Hitler explicitly ordered that the British and French be allowed to cross the channel back into Britain.
Why? Did he think his conquest was already won and he didn't want to spill anymore blood?
Hitler loved British culture. He saw it as very similar to German culture and didn't want to have conflict with them.
>>1323690
No, he ordered the German Army not to attack. He still tried to bomb the shit out of them as they were leaving.
He did this because he still had to deal with the French Army in the West. His troops were over extended, and there was a real chance if they pressed the Dunkirk pocket, the dunkirk pocket would press back.
>>1323690
No he didn't. He ordered the Luftwaffe to keep them bottles up until he could deal with them.
Didn't work.
At what point does the exercise of freedom of association become racism, sexism or any other form of discrimination?
Idunno. When does it, OP?
>>1323540
More to that point, does not freedom of association mean the freedom to practice racism, and sexism, in the same way freedom of speech lets you say racist and sexist things?
>>1323570
I don't know either, I don't know much about these issues, which is why I'm asking the closest thing we have to a philosophy board.
My father was a forthright xenophobe, who went into the back of the store he worked for whenever he saw colored customers approaching, and took a cigarette break. He used to say that the worst customers were Chinese, who would always demand a discount, even though he never served any non-white customers himself. My mother, on the other hand, grew up in a very poor...
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Aren't most critiques of the Christian God as 'unjust' defeated when one factors in the afterlife?
Remember, Christianity teaches that this earthly life is not the only life, and that in fact earthly life is just a small fraction of overall existence. In Heaven and Hell (and Purgatory) all injustices are accounted for, all wrongs are righted, and everyone gets exactly what they deserve. That seems like a pretty strong answer to things like the problem of evil.
>juridical conception of heaven and hell
Dammit, Catholics
>>1323360
Since the vast majority of people dont go there, no
>>1323360
Maybe I'm wrong on this, but doesn't Orthodox Christianity believe everyone goes to heaven after a time in hell for their sins?
So its not all permanent?
I'm not Orthodox but I could be wrong.
Who does /his/ prefer and why? Genoats seemed to be better traders/merchants but the Venetians had a much more lasting influence on the area.
Map of Genoa (dark reds)
Map of Venice (reds)
>>1323324
I'm neutral but which one lasted longer
What is the largest mountain ever climbed by man in history?
>>1323041
uh Mount Everest?
>>1323041
Ar you a idiot?
>>1323052
Just wondering..
A 35 year old man from the year 1920 just amazingly time traveled to the current day and you are personally in charge of introducing him to our current world and catching him up on what he missed since the 20s.
What is the first thing you introduce to him? How do you go about doing it?
>>1322615
4chan
Nothing happened. Literally.
>>1322615
The general acceptance of sodomy to the degree where anyone who denounces it is deemed to have an irrational fear of it.
What went so wrong?
>>1322595
>>1322595
South American Silver and usury.
>>1322595
Bad Kings since Phillip II and the Catholic church
As a Levantine Arab, I was wondering why there's such diversity in the genome of the Levant. Is this because of the numerous civilizations that existed on top of the Arab, Roman, French, and Ottoman conquests? Who are the indigenous people of the Levant?
>>1321984
I mean it's the fertile crescent, people from all sides came to trade, grow food and potentially conquer it. And for the second part it depends on how far you go back :^)
Remember that it were the Macedonians and Greeks that civilized the primitive Asians. The Seleucids turned Syria from a Semitic shithole wasteland into a thriving cosmopolitan center of commerce.
>>1322224
Who are the 'primitive Asians?'
What went wrong?
Italy seems pretty damn nice to me. So... nothing, I guess?
There are much worse states on earth.
>>1321630
Please, be more specific
All memes aside, why do people like Kennedy?
because he died
>>1321177
Because getting shot in the face by commies during the Cold War does wonders for your public image. If he'd survived he'd be just as hated as Johnson.
>>1321177
meme fail
What was his fucking problem seriously ?
>>1320980
It was post-imperial Russia.
Everyone had problems.
>>1320986
Don't act like you don't understand what I mean.
>>132098
>What was his problem
Jews
Why did people start using trenches only in WW1, and not before that during line battles?
>>1320731
That's some American-tier understanding of history there friend.
Trenches have been used for millennia..
>>1320731
Trenches existed in the era of line battle
They just werent that effective so they were rarely used
I think the Russians dug some trenches at Borodino
>>1320742
They were effective but due to amount of work you've had to put when making them they were mostly used in sieges. Well, western front, kind-of was a never-ending siege.
>le spears were a peasants weapon meme
>what are samurai
>what are knights before lance was invented
>what are Romans
>what are greek hoplites
let's face it you dumb swordaboos spears and polearms were kings of battlefield until muskets were invented
Not this shit again.
>>1320471
/k/
>>1318893
Stop, ones a side arm the other is not. Hoplites, romans, and probobly samurai all had swords on them along with the spear. No one is arguing that the spear is shit.
How fucking dim are you that this is what you get angry about. Now fuck off to /k/
