Was watching The Witch and came to think about the scene where his gun "fails". Was this a common thing? Was it something he did wrong? Looking at slow motion footage of muskets it does seem like your face is extremely close to the flash.
>>1228543
This is right up /k/s alley. Go ask them
I shoot a matchlock, probably by the same manufacturer as the one used in the movie.
There's a shield to protect your face from the pan. The pan has only flashed in my face once and it was my own fault. I was testing a new match and it didn't ignite the powder right away. I looked over the shield to see if the match was actually touching the powderand it flashed up and burned off my eyelashes.
The implication in the movie is that the flash was either caused by the satan rabbit with magic or because the father is an incompetent who can't do anything but chop wood.
>>1228543
I'm in a reenactment group that uses matchlock muskets and they misfire all the damn time. Also, the initial ignition is very close to your face, but you tend not to get burnt much
I want the opinions of christians or exchristians in a topic.
Which of the following you believe is true, for former christians, which you think you held as true:
1.Jesus could sin but never sinned
2.Jesus could not sin
3.Jesus sinned
Since sin isn't real, 2.
Jesus was human and everyone sins
>>1228325
>1.Jesus could sin but never sinned
This is true. Satan tempted Jesus in the wilderness but failed to make him sin.
>2.Jesus could not sin
Not true because then Jesus would not be fully human.
>3.Jesus sinned
Not true because Jesus is perfect.
>>1228631
Not Jesus because He is the perfect human.
Why didn't Hitler invade UK?
Why wasn't Hitler a cute hamster?
British air and sea superiority
>>1228251
Many reasons, the most obvious being that it basically wasn't possible without massive casualties and years of fighting. The Allies knew this when planning the invasion of Japan, you try to invade an island belonging to a great power and you're going to have a bad time.
Even though the situation in mainland Europe was grim, the Royal Navy still very much controlled the sea, the British fleet was ridiculously large. The Nazis were reduced to torpedoing merchant vessels and the odd battleship to try to starve the island.
The plan was to gain air superiority in the Battle of Britain but they failed. Even if they managed to smash an opening through the fleet and land troops on the island, what happens then? How do you supply them? How does your first landing wave survive against the homeland defence force and a civilian population that will do everything in their power to shit up your day?
The plan was to starve the population into revolt which never happened because Britain was fully invested in total war and instensive farming/rationing. Not to mention the support from America and the various shipments from other allies and colonies. They also hoped to demoralize the population through terror bombing which didn't work either.
I hate the "keep calm and carry on" meme but that was basically the attitude at the time. Everyone carried on as normal because they weren't thinking about "if" they win, they thought about "when" they win.
As I mentioned above, the exact thing happened with Japan. Their fleet was basically annihilated by the Allies but the invasion was going to be horrific for everyone involved which is why the bomb was absolutely necessary.
Someone please set me straight about Montenegro-Serbian-Yugoslavia relations in regards to a strict timeline, each marker/point only consisting of short phrases please.
I understand Montenegro was part of Serbia, and Serbia was part of Yugoslavia, but the timeline doesn't make sense.
It's like it went back and forth a few times.
Also, so Montenegrins consider themselves Serbian, and so Mont-Serbians consider themselves Yugo, or what?
>itt highschool homework
>>>/hm/
try the homework board OP
dead croats, b*snian genocide and valuable kosovar clay will come to you, but only if you post "fuck off nato" in this thread
Has anyone managed to rebut Betrand Russell's "Why I am Not a Christian?"
>There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination. Therefore, perhaps, I need not waste any more time upon the argument about the First Cause.
> If you say, as more orthodox theologians do, that in all the laws which God issues he had a reason for giving those laws rather than others -- the reason, of course, being to create the best universe, although you would never think it to look at it -- if there were a reason for the laws which God gave, then God himself was subject to law, and therefore you do not get any advantage by introducing God as an intermediary.
>Do you think that, if you were granted omnipotence and omniscience and millions of years in which to perfect your world, you could produce nothing better than the Ku Klux Klan or the Fascists?
>I come to certain points in which I do not believe that one can grant either the superlative wisdom or the superlative goodness of Christ as depicted in the Gospels; and here I may say that one is not concerned with the historical question. Historically it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about him, so that I am not concerned with the historical question, which is a very difficult one.
more in next post
>>1227954
>There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ's moral character, and that is that He believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment. Christ certainly as depicted in the Gospels did believe in everlasting punishment, and one does find repeatedly a vindictive fury against those people who would not listen to His preaching
>There is the instance of the Gadarene swine, where it certainly was not very kind to the pigs to put the devils into them and make them rush down the hill into the sea. You must remember that He was omnipotent, and He could have made the devils simply go away; but He chose to send them into the pigs.
> That is only an example. There are a great many ways in which, at the present moment, the church, by its insistence upon what it chooses to call morality, inflicts upon all sorts of people undeserved and unnecessary suffering. And of course, as we know, it is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy."
>The whole conception of God is a conception derived from the ancient Oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men. When you hear people in church debasing themselves and saying that they are miserable sinners, and all the rest of it, it seems contemptible and not worthy of self-respecting human beings.
>>1227957
>I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
I guess I'm not profoundly humane then.
>>1228056
I guess not, but that means Christ isn't either.
What was his problem?
>>1227757
No. Fuck you.
Xiang Yu needed to be put down.
>DUDE, QIN SHI HUANGDI IS A TYRANT :DDD WE SHOULD RETURN TO HAVING OUR OWN KINGDOMS AND FIGHTING EACH OTHER PERPETUALLY LMAO
>>1227757
being a chink
>>1227757
Liu Bang was the only sane man post-Qing Period.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31TqJsTObBc
Why did the Catholic Church abandon so much of her rich traditionalist art and music? I mean, obviously they still have this kind of music in Latin, but why wasn't it translated into English, as with the Orthodox? Instead, English Catholic Liturgical music sounds like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0iOBOIwQ2o
What gives?
>>1227450
It depends on where you go. Luckily people like pic related are encouraging a more traditional liturgy. I blame 1960s "spirit of Vatican II" hippie bullshit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OcRMNsctyU
Vatican II
>>1227450
because traditionalist stuff is seen as boring by the majority of lay people
What's the general consensus of Anne Frank
>>1227375
semen covers the mountain tops
>>1227375
Never happened.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/02/world/europe/reprint-of-hitlers-mein-kampf-tests-german-law.html
> Should this reprint be allowed?
> How will this affect the interpretation of the text?
> What does this say about freedom of speech in Germany?
I would like to hear everyone's opinion of this article,Deutschfags in particular
NZ fag here, completely banning a book from production is no more justified than straight up book burning. The fact that they would even consider banning this book means that free speech is on its way out in Germany and perhaps the Europe in general.
>>1227349
> Should this reprint be allowed?
Pretty absurd that it was banned in the first place. Banning of books is a pretty huge affront to freedom of speech.
> What does this say about freedom of speech in Germany?
That comedian being prosecuted in Germany for insulted Erdogan pretty much says all you need to know about freedom of speech in Germany.
>>1227349
I'm digging that sword cover on the left
What would the USA be like today if 9/11 never happened?
Gay
>>1227272
Yeah, pretty much this
>>1227272
He meant if 9/11 never happened.
What went right?
>>1227059
Their flag is a plus
Democracy
>1227059
Gun rights and staying aloof of Europe's nonesense.
Did the Romans base their civilization on the Etruscans?
No you fucking mong, read the Aeneaid.
The surviving Trojans sailed to italy, met the Latins, and the Alban Kings ruled for several hundred years until rome was founded.
>>1227074
Oh I guess the Trojan war never happened right?
Troy and Sparta were just mythical cities that never actually existed
Who is the worst leader in human history, and why is it Nero?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQIYeWHtyRM
>>1226634
We don't actually have reliable sources about Nero. The monks decided to make a horrible person out of him because he happened to have persecuted the christians. I don't caution that mind you, but to be fair he was prolly not even that bad a leader.
He also tended to favor the people over the senate, which did not help. Hell, he basically made every group of individuals that could be influential on his trace in history despise his person. Then we got stuff like "Nero intentionally caused the great fire in order to build the Domus Aurea" for instance.
Also, you'd be interested in reading this:
https://pocketbard.wordpress.com/fun-saint-stories/emperor-nero-conceives-and-gives-birth-to-a-frog/
He was a p alright poet, too.
What a horrible beard
Let's try to have actual religious discussion without it turning into debate, /his/.
I would like to know more about the Orthodox Church. How does it see itself, and justify its authority?
What does worship entail, and on what does it focus?
Historically, how was its identity as a unique religious body formed? What does it value in its identity and in what forms does it express this?
What does it look like as a minority religion as compared to areas in which it is a majority?
Thanks. I would like to know more about the Orthodox Church and how it functions as a religious body. I'm open to book reccomendations on the subject.
>>1226401
Like all Churches of the Orthodox faith, it follows the idea that the state must rule over it.
>>1226410
Care to elaborate?
>>1226401
You're just talking about Copts, Ethiopian Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox, Syriac Orthodox, etc. right? Not Eastern Orthodox?
I can tell you that they have a few different forms of liturgy. Copts and Ethiopian Orthodox follow the Alexandrian rite, Armenians have their own rite (the Armenian rite), which Syriac Orthodox and follow the West Syriac rite (there is a confusing situation with St. Thomas Christians in India, not all of them are Oriental Orthodox but they also follow the West Syriac rite).
You can probably look up what these liturgies look like on youtube.
Were the Hussites affiliated with the Kingdom of Bohemia or was the kingdom loyal to the emperor and thus their enemy?
anyone?
Here's the view of German tourist Mr. A.H., who visited in 1939 with many compatriots
"Of all the Slavs, the Czech is the most dangerous one, because he is diligent. He has discipline, is orderly, he is more Mongoloid than Slavic. He knows how to hide his plans..."
So be careful!
>>1226580
Serious question, were the Hussites part of the Kingdom of Bohemia or were they fighting against it?
