Find a flaw.
>Cross river
>Die
>>1034548
>"holy" ""roman"" """emperor"""
>>1034553
>heart attack is a bitch
Is morality an artificial construct or does it exist?
>>1034506
morality is a tool to make sure people obey laws and societal function. morality stems from laws, so it is dependent on them. early morality was based in religious ideas because laws could not be enforced to a high degree often. modern religion is the result of modernization of early religious ideas, and religious morality is based on modern religion nowadays.
>>1034520
What is your source for that?
Any good documentaries about freemasonry out there that aren't /x/-tier? I'm interested about learning about freemasonry from a neutral, non-conspiracist point of view.
I can't say I ever saw a documentary about Freemasonry that didn't involve a heavy conspiracy lean, but if you are interested, the founding text of modern Freemasons is in this link
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1028&context=libraryscience
It pretty much outlines what is considered the mythic history, as well as certain ritual and behaviors.
You could literally just go to your local lodge and talk to one of the authorities there. You're not going to get brainwashed or made to swear blood oaths over a dead goat, and the guys are more than happy to clear up misunderstandings.
>>1034590
They're also required to lie about certain practices.
Not saying they're worthless as sources of information.
There's some stuff that' just fishy about it. It isn't a religion, but you have to acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being to be in it, for one.
If god is benevolent, then why did he create women?
If you think women are evil, you have failed to understand them
Women are not evil, they are pure. Pure in their love, pure in their hate, pure in every emotion and reaction to the point where men's understanding breaks down.
If you think women are evil it is because you fail to see what she is reacting against. If you rejoice in a woman's love, it is because you also do not see what she is reacting against, because if you did, you would not rejoice.
>>1034416
Also maybe his gf just dumped him.
You don't like having sex or something?
Not to mention God spared men the agony of giving birth.
Are there any good stories about Odin walking on earth and conversing with travellers or passers by?
Just curious, wondering if there are. I know it is said in the mythology that sometimes he would roam around as an old man.
Jung thought that Hitler was the resurrected Odin-figure that slumbered in the German mind for centuries.
In medieval Germany Odin was supposed to be the Devil, people were afraid of running into a wandering Satan at night because of the Odin-lore that got grafted onto non-Christian objects of worship.
>>1034189
the character of Pai Mei in Kill Bill part 2 is an eastern version of Odin
I don't know a lot about norse mythology sorry
>>1034189
Plenty.
Two I can name offhand was the time He and his wife kidnapped two princes from a shipwreck to teach them how to be badass and the resulting adventures of Odin as VEGTAM THE WANDERER and that one time he was Bolverker.
Educate me on mormonism /his/. From what little I know of their history and beliefs they seem pretty cool.
First off, how the hell did Joesph Smith gain a following [spoiler]dum dum dum dum dum[/spoiler]
>>1034084
He was very charismatic and told people what they wanted to hear, a story where ancient American natives received revelation directly, Eden is in Missouri, and white people are the good guys. An all-American prophet.
Less than 15 mins on the origins of Mormonism, which conceivably can answer you a bit better first question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_9QVraitjY
1 hour and half overview of theology, mostly soteriology:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzXazxES4mk
>>1034084
The South Park episode is actually pretty accurate
Like most cults he just made a bunch of shit up and retards believed him
>Germans won't defend this
>>1033994
Just like Rome.
>>1033994
They got those amphitheaters set up like germany had camps god damn
Macht Deutschland wieder groß
ITT good historical military music.
Have some Ottoman Mehter:
https://youtu.be/a00tJMDj8LA
https://youtu.be/Ulg1ahV552g
https://youtu.be/aMzQhNvus8U
https://youtu.be/KDSOiXSNdzE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyca3OI0VOY
https://youtu.be/Q88OxJu75yM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZqVOFSYRWI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXj8-H4u2ck
>>1033992
Osman go home. It all sounds like Egyptian pop songs... and I enjoyed them all.
Does existence necessitate a first cause?
>>1033623
Go to bed, Aquinas.
>>1033654
why though? for all we know what exists has always existed
Define existence
>>1033490
http://glossary.mundusmillennialis.com/
>EXISTENCE:
>A SENTIENT ENTITY'S OUTWARD PERSISTENCE; EXTENSION OF BEINGNESS ONTO THE WORLD.
I agree
>>1033490
go back to univision
>>1033499
So does god exist ?
Unsolved murders general
>History & Humanities
>>1033503
>>History
>>1033516
>please do not start threads about events taking place less than 25 years ago
>December 14 1995
Why do Irish-Americans like to play the "WE WUZ OPPRESSED AN SHIEET" card whenever someone brings up racial inequality involving blacks? Were conditions for the Irish in the United States really comparable to what the Africans endured?
>>1033353
Worse.
African slaves were guaranteed home and board. The Irish weren't.
Eh, I don't really know, cause they weren't really considered white people
until the Chinese started immigrating to the US
>>1033353
Conditions for the Irish in Ireland were certainly comparable to what African Americans endured.
>>In 1845,OttomanSultan Abdülmeciddeclared his intention to send £10,000 to victims of the Irish potato famine, butQueen Victoria requested that the Sultan send only £1,000, because she herself had sent only £2,000.[1][2][3]The Sultan sent £1,000 along with five ships full of food. The British administration allegedly attempted to block the ships, but the food arrived secretly at Droghedaharbour and was left there by Ottoman sailors.[4][5]
Was he autistic?
autism didn't exist back then.
>>1033336
Autism had not yet been invented by the government to destroy the gay community
>>1033336
Autism's a spook
Schopenhauer has been an interesting study.
Having gone through the works published in his lifetime, I'd invite any questions and opinions about him and his philosophy.
Please restrict discussion to Schopenhauer and his predecessors.
SOME SURPRISES: 1) Schopenhauer accepts that there might be more than just the will-in-itself and its appearance (the latter being the world as representation); he allows that there might be an aspect to being-in-itself that has nothing to do with willing - an aspect that therefore has no relation to the will-in-itself or to our spatiotemporally known universe. This other is "relative nothing," and it is plausibly the destination of those individuals who deny the will-to-live, who renounce the miserable world of representation and its underlying will-in-itself, and who thus will not be remanifested in a new worldly incarnation upon their death, but will be released from all willing and all representation. (But since this "relative nothing" has no connection with the universe or with its underlying will, we can't fully apply the concepts "is," "be," "destination," "it," to this "relative nothing.")
2) Schopenhauer is quite open about the limits of his philosophical system. Especially in his chapter on "Epiphilosophy," Schopenhauer says that some questions can be asked, but will remain forever unanswerable. For example: "Why does the multiplicity of human individuals show a diversity of moral dispositions from person to person, when all human characters are manifestations of a single, undifferentiated, metaphysically identical will-in-itself?" "Why would being-in-itself be spurned into the original error of willing - into the primal mistake of the will-in-itself, which manifests in space and time as this miserable existence, this self-cannibalizing natural world, this tragicomedy of human delusion, which displays its fundamental wrongfulness via the inevitability of disappointment and death - rather than remain eternally at peace?"
Do you have that quote he said on his death bead about women?
Schopenhauer fails to see the dhamma. he fails to infer that from life sucks, the sole solution is to strive for more acceptance+equanimity towards what he feels and thinks. that what he feels and thinks is not relevant to be happy.
This shows that no rationalism is systematic. The systematic way to see the dhamma is through contemplation, then on meditation on your failure to escape the misery of being alive, then on more contemplation to establish irreversibly the equanimity+benevolence.
>>1033281
I really think he was just conflicted on whether attempting to reject the will or accepting it as the lord of all worlds.
Besides that he was an intelligent man that found warmth within himself and wrote a few good reads.
Anyone have anything interesting about rare or obscure colonial possessions throughout history?
My favorite is the Courland Empire, which was actually able to have islands in The Gambia and in Trinidad even thought is was located in Latvia
Another good one is the Belgian Possession in Tianjin, its so rare, there are basically no pictures or maps of it
maps of Tianjin concessions, the Belgians sold all of their Chinese lands for pretty much nothing
Remember that time Scotland colonized Panama, and bungled it so badly it led to the Act of Union? The Eternal Anglo remembers.
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