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The typical "rock-solid" defense of abortion is that self-ownership is an absolute whereas the typical argument against suicide is as soon as someone is suicidal they are in the "wrong frame of mind" and their self-ownership becomes null and void.
In what way is this not pantsu-on-head retarded?
What if I support both?
>>1397806
suicide and abortion? Well then at least you have logical coherence.
>>1397814
Yes.
Where did mythology come from? Were they just making it up? Taking drugs? Metaphors?
>>1397717
God
>>1397717
All of the above.
Imagine the hundreds of unwritten religions lost in prehistory.
>Bored storytellers by the fire
>Con men
>Parents trying to keep children from wandering
>People doing drugs and tripping balls
>Trying to explain what they don't understand
>Leaders trying to promote their right to rule
>Genuine lunatics
>Cultures praising their ways and demonizing others
What is the "Good Life"?
Is it possible to live a philosophically perfect existence?
being NEET
>>1397728
Superlatively meme'd, friend.
>>1397701
A Christian moral life.
>The Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, also known as Magdalene asylums, were institutions, generally run by Roman Catholics, that operated from the 18th to the late 20th centuries. They were run ostensibly to house "fallen women". An estimated 30,000 women were confined in these institutions in Ireland. In 1993, a mass grave containing 155 corpses was uncovered in the convent grounds of one of the laundries.[1] This led to media revelations about the operations of the secretive institutions. A formal state apology was issued in 2013, and a £50...
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>>1397595
>£50 million compensation scheme for survivors was set up, to which the Catholic Church has refused to contribute.
Mind you, this is the group that - unironically - refers to itself as "God's Regency on Earth."
>>1397595
>Also, what was the Orthodox equivalent to the Borgias in terms of depravity
There lived a certain man in Russia long ago
>>1397734
>The Sisters arranged to have the remains cremated and reburied in another mass grave at Glasnevin Cemetery, splitting the cost of the reburial with the developer who had bought the land. It later transpired that there were 22 more corpses than the sisters had applied for permission to exhume. In all, 155 corpses were exhumed and cremated.[1][26][27][28]
What's funny is that this before Vatican II, when the RCC still said cremation made you ineligible for a Christian burial.
What really sparked the economic explosion of growth in the US during the 1980's? Was it really due to Reagan's tax cuts? Foriegn investment?
The beginning of outsourcing manufacturing, First Iraq war and Saddam trying to drop petro dollar.
>>1397598
>first Iraq war
Y-You mean the Iran-Iraq war right?
>>1397584
The fact the economy was recovering from a huge inflation-led recession caused by the oil embargo.
Almost none of the neoliberal policies of Reagan had a real effect until the late 80's-90's.
> When Plato sat down and wrote of the wise teacher Socrates in his work "The Apology" this statement, in which Socrates was purported to have said is one of the gems that have withstood time and place.
> To know we know nothing is to remain humble and heart centered, not ego driven. Since it appears that most issues in society are centered on having power, retaining power, empowering oneself or others, or dis empowering another for perceived one-up-manship, this wonderfully inspired sentiment gets lots on...
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>>1397511
> Socrates was considered a dissident in Greece in his time. He was condemned as a heretic for that which he taught his students and sentenced to die by ingesting hemlock. It was the answer that the Oracle at Delphi gave when asked who was the wisest man in Athens at the time. The Oracle replied it was Socrates, although he believed this to be a paradox. Those in Athens who believed themselves to be wise were actually not wise, but Socrates who knew he was not wise was the wisest of all for...
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>>1397519
> Not wanting to change who he was, Socrates remained true to his beliefs and willingly drank the hemlock that killed him at the end. His death makes him a martyr for his beliefs and opens the door for his student, Plato to write of his thoughts and philosophical discussions that were compilations of possible discussions in his lifetime. When he was on trial for corrupting the minds of the youth of Athens, he used his insights to demonstrate to the jurors that their moral values are not aligned....
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I've posted several times and I need help. I'm willing to do whatever it takes to change this system. And if any responds to google, um no. This is the biggest risk I will take.
>>1397491
I hope season 2 is good.
Please I have a situation that will bring some of the most evil people I.e, child predators and others. It involves the judicial system. Is there any one who can please give me some advice. I am not going to google on a computer which may have malware. Please, I am begging you, as a mother who lost a child to a predator and as someone is is aware of all the injustice caused by the corrupt political and financial alliances between the court. I'm begging you, I know I can change this but I need computer help. Thank you who respond in advance
Is this /tv/? What's going on?
How influential were Enlightenment era secret societies? Were they directly behind big events or was it just a coincidence that big names in history were members of these societies?
Friendly bump because this interests me as well.
There's a reason Masons on both the Catholic and Orthodox shitlists
The "Enlightenment" only happened at all because of Luciferians. They run things now.
Now that the dust has finally settled; was the Industrial Revolution a mistake?
Everything post-reformation was a mistake
>>1397463
industrial revolution raised millions of people out of poverty and improved the living standards of everyone.
Has there ever been a battle where modern machine guns were used against charging cavalry?
I'm pretty sure that happened during the Battle of the Frontiers.
>>1397442
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZTWCwqmgLc
The Rast Samurai
>>1397442
Yeah, and the horses won.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_of_the_Savoia_Cavalleria_at_Isbuscenskij
>Corporal Lolli, unable to draw, as his saber was frozen in its sheath, charged holding high a hand grenade; Trumpeter Carenzi, having to handle both trumpet and pistol, shot by mistake his own horse in the head.
Where did it go so wrong?
>>1397377
Subscribing to a shitty meme ideology like fascism
Be born English
>>1397480
This, comming from a former facsist
>tfw mosposting is dead
Watching this History Channel show on D.B. Cooper. Not bad considering how hit and miss the channel can be.
Had't heard that a couple suspects were female or transgender male.
Cooper is Tommy Wiseau.
What are people's favorite theories?
What are the probable ones?
>>1397375
I still maintain that your pic is both the most reasonable and probable.
Is this accurate?
>>1397304
>France dindu nuffin dey wuz gud bois
You need to put Franz Ferdinand in tried to stop it tier.
>>1397304
Lacks diversity.
Where are the black philosophers you CIS piece of shit.
Did the Persians and Romans care about this? Did they just see it as useless sand? They certainly should have cared about it.
Nobody cared, no oil back then..
... Persians have a history of annexing the Oman area.
They didn't really care. Persia took control of the southeastern coastline (Oman/Yemen/etc) for sailing purposes but not much came out of it. The northernmost tribes would sometimes be employed by either side as mercenaries.
They were both in deep enough shit without the sudden unification and rise of muslims anyway. Economically and militarily depleted and with tons of internal conflict, especially in Persia.
Fun fact: Sassanid lands were steadily converting to nestorian christianity. Zoroastrianism was a thing of the urban upper class. If the islamc conquests...
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Why didn't the US advance to Baghdad and dispose of Saddam Hussein in Desert Storm?
Any older /his/torians have Desert Storm trading cards as a kid?
Because they feared being bogged down in a costly guerilla war.
>In 1992, the U.S. Defense Secretary during the war, Dick Cheney, made the same point:
>I would guess if we had gone in there, we would still have forces in Baghdad today. We'd be running the country. We would not have been able to get everybody out and bring everybody home.
>And the final point that I think needs to be made is this question of casualties. I don't think you could have done all of that without significant additional U.S. casualties, and while everybody was...
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