https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q8i0CYs-CM
this is orthodox chrestian music i listen to
but listen! it sounds EASTERN, arabic, muslim even
so who ripped off who?
Considering where the Holy Roman Empire was based, they probably both come from the same Pagan source.
Muslims probably ripped them off, desu, like they did most other things.
Ancient Egypt? the Renaissance? when did your soul was born, anon?
fuck, not this shit again
That's pretty stupid.
What ended the cold war?
Was it the military-industrial complex of reagan and bush, or was it gorbachev's policies?
I guess both helped, but what was more fatal?
>What ended the cold war?
>>990093
Oh man, someone beat me to it.
You can totally trace the cracking of the Iron Curtain to John Paul's visit to Poland.
I would say it was khrushevite revisionism and the sino-soviet split that truly hamstrung the socialist camp.
If he could choose only two books from antiquity to survive the cataclism (namely, Abrahamic barbarity), Proclus, the Neoplatonic Philosopher and last head of the Platonic Academy in Athens, had no doubts: he would choose the Timaeus by Plato and the Chaldean Oracles. Unfortunately, the Oracles were "lost", together with a huge number of books by the Neoplatonists themselves.
Seeing as we're living in similar times, when once again the gloomy shadow of Abrahamic darkness is seen crawling from its desert homelands, I find that this is a relevant topic.
I for one would like to see the extant Chaldean Oracles myself and as for the second choice I am divided between the lost commentary by Proclus and the Harmony of Orpheus, Pythagoras and Plato with the Chaldean Oracles by Syrianus
Honorable mention:
Abaris the Hyperborean's prose theogony and Pentemychos by Pherecydes of Syros.
This is easy, I'd pick the Thebaid and the Diliad.
Why not just make an anti-Islam thread instead of vaguely talking about Abrahamic religions as if they're all the same? You're clearly talking about Islam, the one Abrahamic religion that's really expanding.
De philosophia, by Marcus Terentius Varro
Ab Urbe Condita Libri, by Titus Livius
How many historical figures were struck with illnesses yet managed to be great
>i often read that Julius Caesar was struck with a certain falling sickness which is often thought to be epilepsy
Napoleon wasn't popular with the ladies, especially when he was younger. He was a qt though, women are pleb.
>>988635
lol prolly why he was considered smol
>>988625
Many of the great philosophers seem like they were on the autism spectrum.
Kant was clearly the assburger king.
Can a bad or malicious person be considered wise?
Is wisdom linked to good morals?
>>987675
You're asking that because of Plato's Republic aren't you? That nigga is wrong, senpai.
>>987691
It's an argument I had with someone where they say that wisdom it's a trait of a good person but I believe there has been people who are considered wise yet acted in a "bad" way.
Like leaders and what not.
>>987818
Leaders are not necessarily considered wise.
Wisdom is also not strictly defined
>Still recovering from being absolutely obliterated in WWII
>Indochina literally on the opposite side of the world
>Enemy used fairly unconventional warfare
>Even America got its ass handed to it
>"France losing Indochina was pathetic! France sucks!"
Look at the circumstances, anon
Okay, Pierre. Hope you feel better now.
>>986883
Literally an American with no French heritage
>>986883
A French doesn't punctuate like that! But like that !
t. French
How do we turn Neoplatonism into a popular contemporary religion?
Neoplatonism was somewhat of a semi-religion but the writings of Plotinus and Proclus take years to master and somewhat impenetrable to the common man.
Some suggestions:
1) Create somewhat of a church structure and hierarchy
2) Make a more user-friendly, exoteric version, while leaving the complicated stuff to philosophers and theologians
3) Anthropomorphize some more; the one, being, intellect, soul, it's all too abstract. Give them names like Zeus, Apollo, Diana, etc.
4) Appropriate Renaissance architecture and iconography such as pic related to make it more appealing to ex-Christians and Westerners in general
5) Create a reformed liturgy based on Iamblichus On the Mysteries with elements from Catholic and Orthodox liturgies
6) Incorporate some Renaissance and Modern occult stuff like Thelema
7) Compose a prayer book contaning classic poems.
8) Assemble a Neoplatonist "bible" with Hesiod and Homer as the Old Testament
The Catholic Church already has over a billion members.
>>992085
Lol. But they won't admit it though, that half their stuff is Pagan.
>>992088
Not my point. My point was that all that is good in Neo-Platonism has been preserved in the Church. I'm sorry you can't recognize the universality of Reason and instead only see paganism when it's acknowledged that wise men can live outside of the Church.
So /his/ I've always had problems with the way Hinduism spread throughout SEAsia. How come there is hardly any literature or work done on the pre-Hindu beliefs that were prevalent before Hinduism spread throughout SEAsia? Why did the native peoples adopt Hinduism in the first place? Did Hinduism in SEAsia have any influences from the Pre Hindu belief systems? Basically why do we know so little about this era in History?
>>988393
Hindus were basically Indo-Europeans, the same ones who invaded Europe. Powerful people who dominated and wiped out the native cultures. Although in India the natives got pushed south and maintained an identity.
>>988443
Thank you /pol/.
But how come we know so little about what was there before hand?
>>988393
>pre-Hindu beliefs
Let me draw a comparison with the unfortunate history of pre-Islamic Arabic polytheism.
We know a few things, like the names of the goddesses, that even the Qur'an references. However, there's a problem:
WE DO NOT HAVE A GODSDAMNED MYTHOLOGY
NO CREATION MYTH
NO THEOGONY
NO END TIMES
NOT A SINGLE STORY
Sometimes you have to consider that the information you're looking for has been lost.
Hinduism in SEA came in 200 BCE, so it's kind of late for any suriving oral tradition to inform us. We're talking over two Millennia for crying out loud.
Was there even literacy back in the day, for you to find any primary written sources?
Were there artisans to make icons?
What is the most stupid thing we have done in human history?
Exist.
women's rights
How do Muslims explain man made law made such well-developed and stable societies in the West, while god's law produced shitholes?
>>987464
*Redpill me on how Muslims explain how man made law produces stable and well-developed societies and F*d's law produces shitholes.
Fixed4uOP
They pretend they didn't hear you.
>>987464
The same way any religion explains away bad things happening to good people and good things happening to bad people.
The bad things happened because we didn't believe enough or those other guys had the strength of [Insert Religion's Devil Here] backing them up and ruined it for us. But don't you worry God has a plan and we'll get rewarded eventually.
The good things happened because we didn't believe enough or those other guys made a vile deal with [Insert Religion's Devil Here]. But don't you worry God remembers and they'll get just punishment eventually.
On this day, 151 years ago Abraham Lincoln died.
What does /his/ think of this man?
He's honest.
>>985922
good president and a good man.
Pretty good.
Wish he'd had a better VP.
>Universal education was a mistake
What did he mean by this?
>>983536
Take a look over at Twitter or Tumblr sometime
Universal literacy was a mistake.
>>983536
All things universal become meaningless. If everyone is "educated", the meaning of such a thing is necessarily reduced.
>>983791
All things that exist, exist, thus existence is meaningless.
You wake up tomorrow and its 1603, what country are you in and what do you do?
>>957085
>be suddenly in 1603 pacific northwest
>contract syphillis
>die
>>957085
I'm in a territory inhabited by the mound builder culture. I go to work building temporary shelter and scouting the swamp, cataloguing the native factions. I build some weapons with my advanced knowledge and personally defeat the weakest faction with bows, swords, and makeshift bombs. I force the survivors into a small army of slaves, and then go to work on the next most powerful tribe. When I have enough slaves, I'll be able to build even better weapons for myself and my human shields. I soon take over all of Louisiana as the dreaded White god-emporer and found New Orleans as a toiling city of slaves moved by my godlike will as the natives outlive their usefulness as anything other but chattel.
I greet La Salle and offer myself as the first proprietor of New France
Quickly go to the nearest French fur trading outpost if I survive long enough to find it, then find a way to get a ship to bring me all the way up the St. Lawrence River, beeline southeast across the Atlantocc, round the Cape of Good Hope, and arrive at a port city on the Indus delta
Then I conquer the region
Great military uniforms thread.
>>991812
Ww1.
Formal with a dash of tactical.
Carlists uniforms.
