>tfw you realize you really CAN'T no nuffin
>Being spooked by nothing
>>1094144
Is Assad the new Ian Smith?
>>1094152
Yes.
How do Jews, Christians, and Muslims defend their beliefs about god when their god was once merely the god of war/storms of the Canaanite pantheon? It explains why god couldn't defeat iron chariots, for example (he wasn't claimed to be omnipotent at this point), why he loved sacrifices, told others to have no other gods before him, etc. It was always accepted that he was merely one god and not 'all powerful'. And each tribe/people had their own god, of which the ancient Israelites chose Yahweh.
This only changed over time when gradually the ancient Israelites over thousands of years attributed more and more to him until he was accepted as the only all powerful, all knowing god who created everything.
So, if you worship the Abrahamic god, why don't you accept him as he originally was, yet accept all of these later claims that came about over thousands of years and were added later with no real basis?
>>1091993
Easy, I don't give a shit.
Mental gymnastics.
>how do Christians defend their God against random hypothesis no. 3 even though the first mention of YHWH originates with the Shasu and it has nothing to do with a pantheon
Why did the Catholich Church go full retard and start selling indulgences?
Didn't they realize people cpuld get quite pissed from it?
>>1102282
>Why did the Catholich Church go full retard and start selling indulgences?
Repairs aren't cheap. They needed money for shit.
>>1102282
it seemed to make sense, to the people moreso than to the church
>>1102282
What a poorly worded question. While the subject is a legitimate topic, your manner of presenting it is offensive.
Your post is troll like and should be considered
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For those unfamiliar with the setup: the trolley is set to run over the group of people. You can pull the lever and divert the trolley to a second track, saving the group but killing the man on the other track in the process. Do you pull the lever?
>>1096052
My answer is to punch the fucker who asked me this.
If that is not possible, I argue that the binary nature of this ethical quandry is so simplistic that it beggars belief, ie, are you implying I am a fucking sociopath?
>>1096081
I've had people defend the "doing nothing" option. it baffled me.
>multitrackdrifting.jpg
On a scale of 1 to 10, how depressed was this guy?
I think his take on the human condition was more realistic. I appreciate this contribution to pessimism and antinatalist thought.
>>1102786
>antinatalist
>thought
W E W
>>1102774
Where does intellect for the wording of these questions come from...
It depends on if his depression was caused by constipation or by his appearance being similar to Martin Van Buren after facial reconstruction. I mean, look at that hair.
I'm not sure which board to post this on, as there is no religion board, but i recently saw this comment by a Muslim on goodreads. This woman claims that Aisha was not as young as people claim.
is the comment in the pic accurate?
here is a link to the review where the comment was posted:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/731124208
>>1098681
http://www.wikiislam.net/wiki/Aishas_Age_of_Consummation
Muhammad was a gluttonous wealthy slave owner, an adulterer, a child-molesting pedophile, a murderer, a liar, he encouraged theft, rape, torture and the list goes on. He was the pawn of Satan and is now in Hell.
>Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.
Matthew 7:15-20
>>1098681
The short answer is that we don't really know what her age really was. The Hadith are not historical accounts and anecdotes, they're the accumulated myths of early Islam that were indexed by storyteller and story, and it's frankly hard to tell where fact ends and elaboration/conjecture begins. What the lady in that post brings up is less the 'true account' so much as the existing evidence that what we do know of this and other biographical and chronological details about Muhammad and his contemporaries is full of discrepancies - plot holes if you will.
So it's not inaccurate, but not any more accurate than other accounts stating she was 6, 8, 9, or whatever. As historical fact they're all equally valid considering the mess of politics and obtuse literary devices that is the Hadith. But it's a more plausible explanation on the other hand.
>see China's commie-capitalism working quite well
>see China being able to control its minorities and keep the country unified
>try to pander to the west and give free speech to nationalist apes
>try to move to a welfare capitalist system, in a country with a huge black market that needs a crackdown
>fail hard and look at your superpower RUINED
>fat burger retards think it is Reagan who made this happen
How much of a KEK can a leader be? USSR could be like China today. They should have just become friendly with the west and release the Warsaw-pact countries.
Instead they now got a post-apocalyptic shithole, literaly somalia tier
>>1087985
Nah, tbqh Gorbachev needed to be icepicked and the USSR should have just kept up the good fight against capitalism rather than going full Deng Xiaoping and betraying the revolution.
>see China's commie-capitalism working quite well
Uh I think you've got your timelines confused
>fail hard and look at your superpower RUINED
I seem to remember a coup, by anti-reform communist hardliners, against Gorbachev, and that's what failed. And that in turn is what caused the superpower to fial.
>fat burgers credit Reagan
Yes, here I'll agree with you. This will never not be amusing.
>>1087985
He didn't succeed but he didn't cause the collapse of the Soviet Union. It was already an extremely dire situation by the time he got power. Doubling down and making it more repressive can stay off the collapse possible indefinitely. It could also cause a much more violent civil war.
Do you think Gavrilo Princip would still kill the Archduke if he knew what he caused?
what the fuck is that thing behind him
he was a serb, and serbs are disgusting conceited subhuman trash, so yeah he would have
RIP super mario
let's talk about this
it is honestly the most remarkable archaeological find in my opinion
here is what we know
>megalithic structure, built around 9 500 BC
>older than Stonehenge by 6 000 years
>bigger and more impressive than Stonehenge
>built by hunter-gatherers
>I'll repeat: built by hunter-gatherers
>built before agriculture, before writing, before the wheel
>deliberately buried and left around 8 000 BC
so what do you think?
people think it's spoopy because it was deliberately abandoned and buried
but I think it was the proto-Sumerians who left it when they developed agriculture in the Syrian area
I don't remember the site, but there is a village south of Göbekli Tepe where the earliest evidence of grain cultivation is found
>>built by hunter-gatherers
>>I'll repeat: built by hunter-gatherers
>>built before agriculture, before writing, before the wheel
I highly doubt these
>>1076350
Why wouldn't hunter gatherers do such a thing?
We don't give early humans enough credit. I know it sounds ignorant, but it really is just some carved rocks.
There's probably a lot more which has been lost or eroded away.
>>1076370
look into it, senpai
they have found tons of traces of humans around there
including tools and weapons
but ONLY pre-agricultural tools
that's another thing
this find challenges the conception that we need a cohesion through civilization before temples can be built
Every other author on WW1:
>oh the humanity, such horror, war is bad, when you stare into the abyss yada yada
Ernst Junger on WW1:
>holy shit what a rush, I've never felt more alive
What gives? Were the artists of the day just huge pussies or was Junger a bona-fide Ubermensch?
People react to combat in different ways.
It's not actually that uncommon for people to enjoy it. Like 2% of soldiers if I remember right.
>>1102029
Hitler said he enjoyed WW1 and was sad when it ended. Than again he never even fought and just ran around delivering messages and getting shot at.
>>1102029
Most people don't have the stomach for combat and hate the thought of having to actually shoot a weapon.
A minority of these people adjust well to combat and actually get some enjoyment out of it. In the past, these people would be some of the few who actually fought in wars while the peasants stayed home, but the advent of total war and the drafted army changed that permanently.
What's the most cringeworthy common historical misconception you can think of that continues to persist?
My pick goes to "le war of northern aggression"
>>1099063
Christian Dark Ages
>>1099063
Hitler did anything wrong
>>1099063
The """""Enlightenment"""""
Post a better waifu. I dare you.
Genius-level IQ, witty, pure virgin, pious, etc.
You cannot surpass that. Not even in another dimension.
>Not wanting a qt greek willing to do anything in bed
>>1096354
>histrionic personality
>big nose
>unrestrained mega-hypergamy
>degenerate
The fucking better be good.
How realistic is the Kingdom/Society of Westeros from Games of Thrones? It is often said that Westeros is a realistic representation of middle age
we don't really know much about the politics of that fantasy setting to make a judgement
there are variously powerful nobles and a king, which is, well, which was a thing
>>1086857
It's basically the Victorian view of the middle ages taken to the extreme. A grain of reality, but heavily distorted.
>>1086857
Some of the societies don't seem too realistic. More so in Essos though, like the Dothraki.
Why is it so hard to put Marxism into practise?
Where did Lenin and Mao fuck up so badly?
I realise they must have made some changes to his suggestions, but what were they and why adapt the theory anyway?
The reason I ask is because everyone I've spoken to about it seems to think that communism is so good on paper but can‘t explain to me why it went so wrong in practise.
H U M A N N A T U R E
>>1085194
How many years of biology have you taken, anon? There have been plenty of hunter-gatherer tribes that were completely egalitarian.
Because people have learned to enjoy their cuckoldry and will never think for themselves
But what if the opposite was true?
I claim that the truth is somewhere between the two extremes--some might call this a paradoxical viewpoint, I call it a parallax view.
[inappropriate paean to stalinism]
[tugs at tshirt clinging to his moobs]
