What was the point of the vietnam war if vietnam became capitalist anyways?
>>1312814
>Country was divided.
>LEL WHUT WAS D POINT OF WAR GUYS
Vietnamese make Koreans look like cucks.
ALso
>Capitalism = Obeying America/The West
to prevent the domino effect, communism would have swept across south east asia and the region would have ended up a totalitarian nightmare like north korea to this day
American policy makers in the 60s didn't really understand that communism wasn't a monolithic force.
In the 5 year period before the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, you'd had the Gary Powers shootdown, the Berlin Wall, Laos had stopped fighting the commies, the Bay of Pigs had happened, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and LBJ was pretty sure the communists had killed his old boss.
LBJ saw these events as something similar to the creeping expansion of German power in Europe up to WW2. He had cut his teeth working for the Roosevelt administration in the 30s, and he figured that the communists desperately needed to be confronted.
Why is blasphemy against the faggot ass Holy Spirit unforgivable?
I think it's meant to be a law of sorts against apostasy, because cults can't work without coercion.
>>1312750
You are offensive and immature. Please return to whatever grade you should have failed.
As always, thank you for shitposting on 4chan.
>>1312767
Correct.
Belief has to be incentivized with promises of reward/threat of punishment in order to survive against other beliefs in the petri dish of ideology,..
So dogma naturally develops to fit this purpose. Note, It is not as though the religious collective does this on purpose (except the occasional founder/reformer/interpreter) it is just that the dogma that matches this criteria is more likely to survive, and survival results in more followers. It's the Goldilocks principle, only with religion.
Earth matches preconditions for life incidentally, out of millions of planets, because it randomly meets the criteria by being in the right place at the right time, not because it was deliberately and consciously fine-tuned to harbor life from some inhospitable prior condition.
What went wrong?
Inheritance law
>>1312724
Fucking Gavelkind shits
>>1312722
too hard to pull under the weight of one single person when the local lords have a lot of power each
For people who say faith alone, you do realize that when Paul (in contrast with say, James) said "works", he was talking about works of the *Law*? "Works" here means circumcision and eating kosher and all of that (Romans 4:11-13, Galatians 3:5).
"Works" as in helping the poor and being righteous in general, are what Saint James and Christ talk about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw8XE3j_c0U
Orthodox FAQ's + reading list with links for atheism and Catholicism and Prots: http://pastebin.com/bN1ujq2x
Thank you
>>1312629
Laurus is an amazing book. Thanks for the rec, Kosta.
>>1312629
Do devout Orthodox Christians generally do either of those things?
How does the ideal life look like? Let's spell it out.
I think this is less subjective than easily assumed. There are things we KNOW make humans feel good, such as regular exercise (yet many ignore this fact). Almost everyone with children also speak of how much their children, almost unconditionally, mean to them and bring them happiness - so forming a family should be another thing.
It also seems humans are prone to depression without a sense of purpose. Does it matter where this purpose is found (e.g. religion, qualified job, philosophy)?
What more is necessary for a life of self-fulfillment?
The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.
>>1312444
A healthy cat.
>>1312536
>to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.
I'd prefer to clasp to my bosom their brothers and sons, if you get what I'm saying :33
Did the man who invented college go to college?
>>1312408
Yes, to govern and teach.
Technically, the chicken evolved over hundreds of generations, so the question of whether the chicken or the egg came first is purely semantic.
>>1312446
Eggs evolved hundreds of millions of years before chicken.
Is it possible that the idea of dragons sprouted from finding dinosaur bones while mining for gemstones or precious metals?
>>1312371
>implying humans and dinos didn't coexist
>>1312424
>tfw you were born in a time where dinos and man didn't coexist
i dont think i would ever leave my bedroom if i was born in those days man
>>1312521
Don't forget the giants.
Does anyone else feel utterly powerless to make an informed opinion or try to enact a useful change in the world? It feels literally impossible to know which of the myriad views and narratives in history are true. It feels impossible to know which side is right. What can or should someone strive for in such a world?
Rather than looking for what is "true", look for what is "right". What does your conscience tell you?
THEN question it (a step to never forget). Why does it feel like this or that is right? Can you rationally explain why it must be so? From what are your feelings and thoughts formed, from what context? Have you been open-minded, have you considered the perspective of others?
Also, you know, not being confused and not questioning yourself is a sign of a bad character. You're a good person for thinking in these terms, OP. It should serve more people right, especially on 4chan.
>>1312039
This extended pattern of behavior sucks though. It is hard to accomplish anything when you could always be going down a morally false path. I'm not sure if such doubt without action and not just 'moving forward as best you can while still progressing' is considered neuroses, but either way, it is a valid question to ask and it isn't that simple.
Also, that might've been the nicest thing that has been said on 4chan, anon.!
>>1312009
Look after your brother, always. And helping him doesn't mean examining his flaws and explaining them to him. That's just pouring salt on the wound.
Encouragement, love, and compassion for when he needs it. Love your brother as you love yourself. It sounds corny, but you want to help, that's how.
The poor, the widow, and the prisoner in a cell. All could use love and compassion.
And not to do these things as rote, but from an understanding of their despondency. Don't kick people while they're down, lift them up.
Have you violated the NAP today?
>>1311828
Nope, I actually just took a great refreshing nap
>>1311828
Looks like you need a NAP
>>1311828
Pretty sure the shit I took after eating that burrito counts as an NAP violation to anyone who passes near the restroom at work.
I'VE TRIED SO HARD
>>1311740
Lmao rekt
IT ALL RETURNS TO NOTHING
Is Russell or Hume the worst philosopher of all time?
A fine job taking care of Italy, Ostrogoths. Well done, well done indeed.
HOWEVER
Yes, well done, Napoleon, well done.
HOWEVER
>>1311325
Was he the Wilhelm the second of his time?
>>1311325
can someone explain this HOWEVER bs? whatis this referencing?
You would be given 10000 random people from all periods of history. Your enemy would be like you, another anon with same 10000 random people for the army. Each your soldier have their respective weapon be it a sword or a gun. Battle would be in California. You would be given enough food for an army to feed for entire year. You can choose one and only one historical character to help you with leading, organizing and motivating people. Here is no linguistic barrier, so everyone understand each other. The question. Who would you choose to be your general and why?
Ragnar Lothbrok. Because he's a fucking viking. A VIKING.
>>1311261
Napoleon, I don't need to elaborate.
Adolf Hitler.
What does /his/ think of this article?
http://andymatic.com/dont-call-women-girls/
A butthurt SJW.
What's new?
It's feminist shit.
So some people here will agree with it.
most women don't mind being called since it makes them feel younger than they actually are.
you won't find too many people over the age of 30 posting that
![voltaire_and_rousseau_by_worgue-d4yp7fd[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/reUk6m2.jpg "voltaire and rousseau by worgue-d4yp7fd[1]")
Voltaire
>Literally starts his career as the Baroque equivalent of that guy who won't fucking shut up in cinemas
>"Wow, England is so cool! I love their feudalistic, aristocratic institutions that are so much better than our feudalistic, aristocratic institutions!"
>"Wow, Prussia is so cool! I love their absolutist and only nominally enlightened king who is so much better than our absolutist and only nominally enlightened king!"
>"Societal institutions should be based on rational thought, except for the arbitrary aristocracy that's totally cool even though I'm not part of them and almost got executed for offending a nobleman"
>"We should all be multiculturally diverse and tolerant of everyone, except for the Jews who Jew'd me out of my money once!"
>"I will defend your right to disagree with me until death... unless you happen to be a philosopher whose ideas are directly opposed to mine in which case I will get you branded a heretic by the inquisition that I oppose"
>"Let's also not forget about how Christianity needs to be destroyed!"
Rousseau
>"Having modern medicine, an agricultural system that can feed most people most of the time and clean paper to wipe my ass with sucks. We should totally go back to living in tents and chucking spears because humans are perfect and using rational thought makes us imperfect even though we're perfect!"
>"Freedom is fundamental, but what's even more fundamental is the freedom of the state to force us to be free"
>"MUH FEELS"
How did such lunatics become so influential they affected all of France and the world beyond for centuries to come? No wonder the Revolution was such a fucking mess that only ended in the restoration of the status quo.
>>1311169
The people back in the day were just looking for answers as we do now
I wouldn't be surprised if our generation will follow some new creed just because it is new
>>1311176
That justifies very little, considering there wasn't exactly a shortage of thinkers who actually knew what they were talking about.
>>1311475
Are you surprised that people prefer flawed ideas that vindicate their own biases and dispositions?
Who would win in a fight ?
Rousseau was cold hearted man who hated his own children so I bet on him.
>>1311000
>Rousseau
>Cold hearted
>He actually believed the lies spread by a scum like Voltaire
You've never read the Confessions, you clearly don't know what you're talking about. If anything, Rousseau is a hypersensitive man, too romantic for his era.
However, I agree, Rousseau would probably destroy Voltaire.
>>1310998
Rousseau was a real nigga, Voltaire would get pumped
