What di d the /his/torical Jesus wish to achieve?
>>1110311
The Salvation of your soul
>>1110318
Man, that quote can justify some mean bullshit
>>1110321
Like what?
What do you personally think souls are?
nonexistent
>>1105655
allegories for what people think about you.
Divergent thinking, basically. Your brain's ability to unconsciously sort patterns and present that to you, inspiration ect.
I don't think it's anything metaphysical. In fact
>>metaphysics
How is "scientism" bad? Science is the only consistent source of fact and an going project of building. What facts have philosophy or religion proven?
>fact
>implying facts preserve order and build culture
>>1113254
hey its Goblinham Lincoln
So /his/ did king arthur exist ?
I read once that his story was based on a celtic king fighting against the angle invasions.
I read somewhere else that he could also have been a late roman warlord.
So is there any truth to this ?
He was an almost entirely mythological figure probably based on a historical Dumnonian warlord fucking the Saxon's shit up.
The grail legend was added much later, while things like the green knight and Excalibur on Welsh myths.
>>1107108
>Celtic King
More like Romano-British Warlord.
>>1107135
The britons were roman celts right ?
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What do you like about the 18th century, /his/?
Personally, I don't understand the 18th century. I have no idea what happened and what the main themes and processes of the century were, and what makes it stand out as a distinct period.
If we're talking about 1600s, we have the advent of modernity, adoption of empiricism and the scientific method, creation and solidification of nation states, baroque.
In the 1800s we have nationalism, the industrial revolution, empires, romanticism.
The only things I can think of within the 18th century are Kant, the elevation of masonic societies and enlightenment and of course, the revolutions in France and America. But I don't see how they fit into the natural historical dialectic of the previous centuries. Enlightened monarchies were failed experiments, which didn't really work in this century either.
If we're talking about European high culture, to me it seems like a century of bland formalism and soul-killing pretensions of class and refinement which seem simply crass and tacky to me (vis. the pretty, anodyne colors and airbrushed feel of Rococo.) Even music of the classical period sounds a little too constrained and formalised to me.
In the East, we have the decomposition and decline of all the great Asian powers and the beginning of their fall to European colonialism (Ottoman Empire, China, etc)
We have Russia losing its old cultural identity to the Eurocentric whims of Peter I.
it seems like it was only Japan where this century was more or less stable and interesting.
Also I don't get the whacky, colorful military uniforms all the European powers adopted. It just looks stupid and impractical to me.
I am hoping someone can prove my stupid, uneducated self wrong on this subject.
>>1106547
Rococo is generally considered one of the worst styles in art-history. But the 18th century north American colonial history is very interesting and the 17th and 18th centuries saw the beginnings of truly modern that culminated in the Napoleonic era.
Peter I seemed like a really interesting character that was necessary for the survival and expansion of the Russian Empire, that being said, I do wish he had not existed and Sweden remained dominant in the Baltic.
>>1106571
Peter's economic and military efforts were doubtless very expedient and efficient, and allowed Russia to overcome many obstacles and indeed prosper on the global arena, but his cultural eurocentric caprices led to the creation of a Europeanised upper class isolated and detached from their national roots, which led to a cultural schism between the upper and lower classes, which itself proved to be a major weakness in Russia's social order and a major target for the subversive efforts of socialist and communist parties.
Also it allowed the Russian ruling classes to get used to a quality of life enjoyed by the European elite, which forced them to spend more money than they could afford, because Russian agriculture could not provide the same yields as European agriculture.
The end result was a bloody revolution and and a bloody civil war 150 years later.
It could have been done better, and by far not all of Peter's policies were necessary.
>>1106617
You keep using words like "Europe", "Eurocentric", and "Europeanized", and in all cases the appropriate thing to refer to is "western". Europe and Russia are not separate concepts and you will never understand their history to any significant extent if you maintain this silly modern "Russia OR Europe" dichotomy in your head.
What made this archaeological find so rare?
Just that the bodies were disposed of without being first stripped of their armor? If that was a result of hot weather causing the bodies to decompose -in Scandinavia- surly this happened elsewhere.
So is it more a matter of finding mass graves or that this burial was truly unique?
>>1103270
Feel free to ask questions, discuss Catholic theology, history, saints, share artwork, chants, etc.
Welcome: All Respectful Christians, Deists and Atheists
Not Welcome: Anti-Catholic Protestants
>But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.
2 Timothy 3:1-4
>>1112180
Would you be able to respond to these claims put across by Constantine regarding Aquinas and the legitimacy of his theology?
>Aquinas literally advocated idolatry of the cross (giving latria to it on grounds that it partakes of Christ's self), anyone who thinks he's a great theologian hasn't read him.
http://www.newadvent.org/summa/4025.htm#article4
>Yes, it places Aristotle as a higher source than the Church Fathers. For instance, there are many instances of the Church Fathers describing God in terms of energy-essence distinction: https://www.suscopts.org/q&a/index.php?qid=1246&catid=383
>However, the Scholastics redefine God as Actus Purus. This is wholly and only derived from Aristotle, it has ZERO precedent in Patristic writings.
Was this post in response any accurate?
>Wasnt that only reserved for the true cross and only to the blood of Christ upon it and not the wood itself? You make it sound like he thinks all crosses deserve latria.
>>1112180
>Anti-Catholic Protestants
There's another kind?
Why is Marxism only embraced by young, middle class intellectuals? Why doesn't the working class act in their own self-interest?
pic related
>>1109070
Also I'm aware of the irony that Russell was a socialist. The quote's appropriate though.
the working class doesn't act in their own self-interest because most working class people haven't heard of anarchism
Please do not sexualize Athena
She is the goddess of wisdom and is off-limits to penises.
>>1104939
i must sexualize the athena
t. SNK
Pagens
>>1104939
More like she will motherfucking murder you with Zeus' approval and thunderbolts.
Athena is also fairly chill and the least likely to fuck you up hardcore. Don't be a jerk. That is all you have to do when Athena confronts you.
"The Ottoman Empire should be cleaned up of the Armenians and the Lebanese. We have destroyed the former by the sword, we shall destroy the latter through starvation."
Just normal Turkish respect for human life.
>>1115489
Roaches gonna roach
I think he meant what he said. Genocide that is.
Is ignorance bliss?
I don't know
I dunno faggot, is it?
>>1115462
I'd say both, because while lack of ignorance will make man less happy, he is still going to grow as a person, purely because of the virtue.
From a philosophical point of view, what is more immoral: dating someone in a relationship while believing love to be a transcendental, pseudo- religious force
OR
dating someone in a relationship while believing love to be a subjective feeling without deeper significance?
>>1115171
who cares. it's not like you'll ever get a date anyway you fucking neckbeard loser
>>1115171
how can a belief be immoral?
>>1115184
how is morality anything but a belief?
Are there any situations in which death is objectively better than life?
depends on what that life would contain
but that doesn't mean this is a reasonable question.
>>1115083
being stuck in a vegetative state
sure being locked up in some dungeon getting tortered to death
Holy shit, he compared Rawls's a theory of justice argument to the sexual marketplace (and the hypocrisy of society thinking one thing about money, the other about the redistribution of sex). Redpilled as fjcwkw
Which of Rawls' arguments are you talking about? He makes many arguments in his book of that title, the main one being in favor of the difference principle. Is that the one you mean?
Money determines way of life though sex is not materialistic
How do I start living an ascetic life if I still depend on my parents?
Ask your dad if you can convert his tool shed to a cuck shed you can live in
Stop using technology
Go beg for for food
>>1114619
>begging
That shit is immoral son
>>1114624
Diogenes was a begger
