Neoplatonist gang
come on m8 !
>>1259864
IT'S YOUR FAULT WE HAVE CHRISTIANITY REEEEEEEEE
>>1259864
Fuck a plato
based fucking plotinus
ITT: We post God-tier Architecture
>read book on thing
>watch documentary on the same thing
>I had been pronouncing all the people and place names incorrectly
IT KEEPS HAPPENING.
Who else knows this feel?
>I always assumed the g in Agincourt was silent
I don't know why
>>1259522
Depending on the quality level of the documentary they get it wrong more often than you think. I notice it more with science documentaries but I also know the correct pronunciation or a lot more science shit.
But yeah I fucking hate that shit.
The trick is to never leave the house, that way you never have to speak to anyone (and thus avoid mispronouncing anything).
What are those things on the scabbard? Shuriken?
>>1259284
Could be small knives or even a whet stone with a handle.
>>1259284
Japanese swords often did have little knives on the saya called kogai. supposedly a boy would have to learn tho throw them accurately before he was given a sword
>>1259284
They're utility knives that fit into the scabbard instead of their own sheath. The larger blade is presumably a hunting knife/messer, so would be used to finish off the wounded animal and carry out basic butchery. Then the small knives would be used for more delicate work.
>Be Stalin's right hand man for decades
>Support every purge and genocidal policy
>Have your signature on many execution orders
>Stalin dies
>BTW Stalin was evil, here's a 4 hour long speech on why he was awful
t. Kruschev
Well he would know, wouldn't he?
>>1259215
You obviously don't understand how Soviet political system worked.
What Stalin basically did was that he created a whole new ruling caste which he put down under him and made it loyal only to him. For any difference in thinking you could easily lose your career and your life, hell, even if the man as paranoid as Stalin saw you as a threat you were gone. This is why you had to tread very carefully if you wanted to stay in the system. Khrushchev perfectly understood this.
Now to the system, the famous Soviet nomenklatura. Nomenklatura was no different than, let's say, medieval feudalism or even better, ancient Roman clientele system. Each and every single Soviet bureaucrat, no matter how petty he was, owned his job and status to someone else above him. Basically an entire senior-vassal relationship system of personal connections and influences. Every top Soviet politician had his own "vassals", and so did Khrushchev. Without your own loyal followers within Party, you'd be nothing.
In this situation, you need to imagine Stalin as a dying king, and his possible successors around him, Khrushchev, Beria, Malenkov, as his vassals. After Stalin's death, a clash emerged, and Khrushchev prevailed. Beria was killed like a little bitch he was and Malenkov was too stupid to even pose a threat.
After this, cleaning of the ranks issues. Khrushchev needs to throw out all those Stalinist bureaucrats (of whom many support his rivals) from the Party and bring in his own loyal men, his own clientele to top positions. Otherwise, if he lets the Stalinists stay, he won't last for long. This is why he needs a condemnation of sort of Stalinist policies. How else is he gonna justify the purge of Stalinists from the Party? He needs a reason, and he finds it in Stalin's oppressive ways.
Hope i made it more clear. Khrushchev was later sacked in a similar way he rose to power, by Brezhnev and his clientele.
>>1259215
Either that or get purged along.
What is "the best" i.e. The most liberal/western orientated version of Islam?
Atheism
>>1258986
Non denominational maybe
The one that doesn't blow up people for disagreeing with them.
I don't care about Muslims being Muslim, I care about large sections of Islam being against freedom of choice. Beyond that, I don't give a shit what clothes they wear, whether they starve themselves to death all year around, etc.
>Moore's Law has an interesting and particular form of self-replication. The conviction that the "complexity of semiconductor doubles every 18 months," became more than a predictive observation but a performance target of an entire industry as it was believed extensively. Manufacturers now fight for the next generation of semiconductor technology to recreate the performance gain from the previous generation to maintain belief in Moore's law.
>mfw meme magic is literally real and changes industries
any other examples of real meme magic?
>>1258918
>Trump's probable rise to presidency
>Khan's rise to the seat of the mayor of London
>Egyptian god Kek
bump
I really wanna discuss this
>Directly killed 5% of earth's population
Why was this allowed?
It's a doggy dog world
>>1258780
He's not white
>trying to oppose the Scourge of God
I remember someone on here making a post here concerning the very excessive anti-clerical/anti-religious sentiments and action in revolutionary Catalonia in the 1930s, which - even by revolutionary standards - was seen as over-the-top by commentators in its intensity as well as in its participation by people not particularly affiliated with the Republican or Anarchist movements.
Could this especially fervent hatred for established religion (i.e. the Catholic Church) have been the result of some distant echo of the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars, ingrained in the collective psyche of the people there? After all, Catalonia was Cathar heartland, and a very significant portion of the population there willingly discarded Catholicism for Catharism (only to be forcefully converted back under penalty of death under the Crusade which also razed the countryside and destroyed the autonomy of the local lords and merchant-oriented urban polities and forced them under the yoke of the feudal King of France).
Or it could be that 99.99% of the gommies and other revolutionaries were anticlericals.
>>1258760
This is bullshit but I choose to believe it because it's a nice narrative
>>1258786
Well, as I said in my post, the anti-clericalism seen in Catalonia was noted for being particularly violent (more so than in other regions), and - most importantly - in that the anti-clericalism was grassroots, with people unaffiliated with the Leftist movements joining in and even starting up riots and the looting of churches and monasteries.
It simply seems too coincidental that the most fervent anti-clericalism in Spain happened to show itself in the same area that had some centuries earlier borne the brunt of a particularly devastating Crusade.
To the right, a profile of a neanderthal
To the left ... a profile of me
The fuck is this? grade school show and tell.
You're unfortunately ugly.
I'm sorry.
Hey where did that guy go?
somewhere between Urals and Kamchatka
>>1258685
The tide came in and took him away because he's a mega manlet.
>>1258685
Gulag
Can any greekfags shed some light on a term used in Ephesians 2:2. In it Satan is called the "prince of the power of the air". What does it mean?
>Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience
KJV
http://biblehub.com/ephesians/2-2.htm
>ἐν αἷς ποτε περιεπατήσατε kατὰ τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦ kόσμου τούτου, kατὰ τὸν ἄρχοντα τῆς ἐξουσίας τοῦ ἀέρος, τοῦ πνεύματος τοῦ νῦν ἐνεργοῦντος ἐν τοῖς υἱοῖς τῆς ἀπειθείας·
Greek
http://biblehub.com/interlinear/study/ephesians/2.htm
Hail satan.
>>1258581
It's not Satan. It's a modern understanding that is Satan. If Paul meant "Satan", Paul would not have any trouble saying "Satan". It's not a guessing game.
The "curse of the world" is original sin, "spirit at work in the disobedient" is the spirit of antichrist, or that which denies Jesus, so "ruler of kingdom and air" is whatever greek or roman god the people to whom he's speaking (gentiles, in this specific case believers in Ephesus) formerly worshiped. He's saying, "when you used to be one of and live among those who still deny Jesus". Not even sure how, entirely, people get satan from that at all. Seems ignorant.
>>1258677
Every fucking thing is satan to them so they don't have to accept personal responsibility. As long as everything bad is satan, and they can say they're on the right side of things, they are never bad. Fucking trainwreck people fucking up christianity.
>>1258677
Thanks, but I'm a bit confused. The translation is:
>Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to
If "curse of the world" is original sin how does that accord to a pagan god? Wasn't their 'god' artemis/diana?
Can privilege theory be reconciled with Marxism?
If not, does Marxism gave an inherent Eurocentric bias?
>>1258473
Privilege theory IS Marxism, the question is inane
>>1259041
uh-huh
>>1258473
Yes it's called intersectionalism and has basically been universally accepted among Marxists for decades now.
>you will never explore the dark continent with your loyal manservant Byunbu, making love to the native Umbeezi women and leaving tribes of mixed race bastards behind as you search for the source of the nile
Why even live?
>you will never die in a jungle or desert because of a painful disease
>ywn be a shitty expedition leader that alienated all your expedition members
>ywn be a decent human being to unknown tribes and faciliating the colonization of unknown lands
>ywn make witty one-liners upon meeting the guy who was supposed to find you
>ywn be part of a human zoo to get food
And I just realized Livingstone is the man who made OP's memes.
>>1258418
Dam that is my fetish.
Having dumb natives think I am their God and them giving me their virgin daughters to deflower for luck and blessings.
Or just leading my expedition on a trail of pillaging and rape.
I was born too late.
So this was the most effective way to manage a large empire right? Instead of causing cultural tensions you let each cultural group do their own thing while still being a part of a coherent empire.
>
>>1258371
>HRE
>coherent
this is some next-level Voltaire bait
