/His/ red-pill me on the Holy Spirit
>Been reading the Bible, intensely, and recently finished the Nag Hammadi
>Jesus, and prominent figures in the Bible were in 'the Spirit' when talking with God, the Father
>Does not mention the Holy Spirit as a ghost, instead as the Holy Oil
>Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit
>In the Nag Hammadi, Jesus almost gives the recipe for the Holy Spirit, tells us to figure out the rest ourselves
Anyone else go this deep into the Holy Spirit? Some other interesting things I found out, the holy oil (water) we use today is totally fake. True baptism is when we brew the Holy Oil and 'drown' in it. Like our lungs fill up with it and we somehow breathe under water with it. Then you enter the 'Spirit'.
>>1187010
meant to say,
>Holy Spirit is the Holy Oil
Also I brewed a small batch of what I thought it was, had some very interesting aspects, though it says in the Nag Hammadi not to disclose the recipe for everyone must find it themselves.
My only concern is doing is on a full scale and drowning in it to become baptized. I love God, and the Holy Spirit, but this will be something I have never done and my balls cringe thinking about it. If anyone else believes this give me some encouragement.
>>1187010
>>/x/
>>1187026
>>/b/
Celts seemed to have substantial territory, and done influence on the classical cultures of the Mediterranean. Why is it that they never seemed to make anything much beyond that era? I understand that Gaul was well on its way to being a nation of city-states, did Rome simply kill Celtic civilisation in its infancy? What made them never have their time like Slavs, Germanics, and Italics?
Celtic civilization died in the cradle
>>1186798
Stabbed to death by the eternal Latin
>>1186779
>did Rome simply kill Celtic civilisation in its infancy?
Pretty much
>What made them never have their time like Slavs, Germanics, and Italics?
They kind of did, just "their time" was so early that it's basically irrelevant by now.
What foods would Jesus have eaten?
Bread and fish
Figs and olives.
For 40 days, nothing apparently.
What was the silliest thing about the Holy Roman Empire, /his/? I imagine this gigantic clump of city-states, duchies and whatever else must have attracted some snide comments from contemporaneous figures of its era.
There is literally nothing silly about the Holy Roman Empire.
>>1186634
What made them holy, roman, or an empire?
>Your typical Voltaire poster
Good history books?
>>1186630
Mein Kampf
http://pastebin.com/u/jonstond2
Stalingrad by Antony Beevor was probably one of the more entertaining history books I've read.
What exactly made feudalism obsolete from a practical point of view?
Also, are there any countries that still had/have a (neo-)feudal system post-industrialization?
Plague
Suddenly the serfs had the merchants and nobles by the balls
automation
most communist countries ironically enough
>>1186436
When you think about it, the plague was kind of a reset button.
What is /his/'a opinion on this book?
>>1186073
/his/'s, my bad.
Bullshit pseudohistory with a dash of futurist speculation to boot.
The guy should stick to medieval military history.
>>1186073
I thought his treatment of prehistoric culture was great.
Lost interest as he started to go off on tangents about legal theory 'n' modern applications of anthropology 'n' shit.
Can a depression be healed by nihilism? And how does one reach that state?
>>1185978
On the contrary. I find niihilism depression-inducing.
>Can a depression be healed by nihilism?
Absolutely not.
>>1185978
Nihilism can't, but probably absurdism can.
Imagine if Germany stopped existing after 1918...
Imagine where the world could've been by now...
launching colony ships
Hundreds of millions more white people alive today. Dozens of ancient European cities would be intact. More monarchies and aristocratic families would survive. The world would be tremendously better.
>>1185932
Not to mention that half of Europe wouldn't be under the thumb of the soviets for half a century.
>early modern philosophers were all atheistic but had to include god in their system to appease the plebs
>>1185795
Most people -believers included- treat religion as a background thing really.
>>1185795
>atheistic
>ic
Atheism with autism!?
>>1185817
same thing tbqh
What can you tell me about pre-islamic Arab religion? I have been led to believe that genies are a big deal, and even in some Sufi sects today they claim control of "muwakil", or good slave genies. Was their religion prior to Islam similar to Caananite religion?
Were there many Jews/Christians/Zoroastrians living there?
>>1185790
Some of them were Christian, some Jews, most were polytheists.
>>1185790
Look into the polytheistic Hindu influences. Most evidence 'erased' with the advent of Islam.
>>1185805
>polytheist
It's probably worth noting that polytheism does not necessarily imply a strict pantheon of gods that is mutually exclusive with the worship of other gods.
i have a vague memory of reading about one but every time i search about it only stupid lists like "top 10 smallest countries" shows upp.
Wasn't there this crazy medieval German dude who tried to create this?
Vatican City occupies 0.44 km^2. I'm sure many if not most ancient city states had a smaller footprint. But I guess it gets fuzzy when you consider what is a "sovereign state" and what lands actually count as part of them. Well-defined borders have not always existed.
Does Sealand count?
>the American civil war wasn't about slavery
>>1185388
I think you're oversimplifying things if you say it was entirely due to slavery.
wehavethisthreadeveryday.jpg
Why can we never have threads just talking about the war
>>1185388
Property rights were part of the question of state sovereignty.
RAF Kitty Hawk crashed in the Sahara
Was there a people in Germany who are racists and antisemitic but doesn't support or hated the nazi and Hitler? What could be their main point?
>>1185093
Plenty of conservatives were racist and anti-semitic yet disliked the Nazis. However, most of the conservatives even if they disliked Hitler preferred him over the political left, which is why they supported his cause. Without the conservative parties - including the predecessor party to Merkel's CDU - Hitler couldn't have become a dictator because he lacked the absolute majority.
>>1185093
Yes.
The statism and regulation of the economy could easily do it.
>>1185155
Why conservatives dislikes Nazis?
