>monotheism
>atheism
For too long the western world has been struggling in vain between both of these beliefs.
Polytheism is truth.
Polytheism is the way.
It's time to come home.
hinduism isn't polytheistic, and is actually more monastic than abrahamic religions
>>875984
Obviosuly we need to return to the original indo-european religion, the only true religion for aryans. Hail Dyeus Phater
>>875984
Why are they so smug
So what the fuck is this guy actually trying to say?
Someone explain the "Christianity is more atheist than atheism" talk, because it just looks like someone misunderstanding both the resurrection and Darwin's place in the history of science and I can't imagine that is what is actually going on
>>875794
fetishism of the hand which is the instrument of making/manipulation with the fetishism of the vagina which is the instrument of life, the combination or rather the interaction of the two gives insight into the fetish-perversion of the modernity, he explains it in one of the books
>>875816
The idea is that, according to Zizek's materialist theology, Christianity consists in accepting that there is nobody who can take our place in caring for our fellow man, not even an abstract deity, because in Christian theology this abstract deity takes on concrete human flesh and dies. As for his take on the Ressurection, well, Zizek isn't a Christian, he's a Communist interpreting Christian theology to fill pages. That's where the basic structure of the claim that "Christianity is more atheist than atheism" falls apart: Christianity can't be atheistic, it's a matter of definitions. But, again, Zizek isn't motivated by a desire to be correct about Christian theology, or even about Marxist theory, desu. He wants you to buy his book about Hegel.
I have a very hard time taking psychoanalysis seriously. It might be because I don't even understand the context in which the discourse is meant to be employed.
How was combat fatigue/PTSD handled prior to modern warfare?
>>875621
beating your wife or incarceration at bedlam
>>875621
It wasn't. Remember, the idea of unwanted mental conditions as something medical and not some evil spirit inside you is fairly recent.
>>875621
by recuperating with your buds on the journey home.
The fall of Ottoman Empire was a mistake.
Imagine a better Middle East today if Ottoman Empire did not collapse after WW I.
lol.
>a better middle east where now the whole area is controlled by people sympathetic to ISIS rather than most of it
>>875349
>implying isis would exist if the based ottomans where still around
If the Gallic and Palmyrene Empire had Survived Rome would still be here.
>>874818
tell me, is there an empire from this that is still here?
>>874827
.... Swedes?
Rome is still here dumbass.
Given that independence through slave rebellion made the country diplomatically a pariah in the eyes of Europe and USA and crushed the basis of the plantation-based economy, was there any hope for Haiti at becoming a well functioning nation state in a reasonable timespan?
Not after the genocide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1804_Haiti_massacre
What >>875712 said coupled with copious amounts of deforestation nailed the coffin for Haiti.
>>875712
>le poor slave owners :(((((
What conflict defines, or divides, your country? What political event has echoed down throughout history to the present day, making your weird uncles yell at each other during the holidays? Where do baffling internal identity conflicts a foreigner could never understand emanate from?
Being in the American South, the obvious answer here is the Civil War
>>874109
over a thousand years of infighting and foreign domination
>>874129
This plus taxes and bureaucracy making life a nightmare for all social classes with the exception of legislators, gatekeepers and a few others in the public sector.
Germany, Soviet Union or the USA? Where would you rather live and why?
>>873666
USA because in a decade the other places are shit and in a decade they will be even worse
>USA
great depression
>Soviet Union
great purge
ergo, Germany (as long as you're not a jew)
>>873697
Without any knowledge of future, 30s German would be my choice too.
Is islam based on arabic paganism at all or is it completely just Mohammed's adaptation of christianity and judaism?
Clearly an adaptation of Christianity and Judaism, given the same god, teachings, holy books, holy figures, etc.
I don't see anything pagan remaining in the religion.
Though it does make one wonder about Mohammed's religious beliefs before being visited. Supposedly he would have been pagan, but there were huge Christian and Jewish influences in the region at the time.
>>873588
>arabic paganism
Don't ya mean Abrahamic paganism? Com'on, it's Judaism III.
None, the message which has been given to banu israil but with no distortion.
>Mormons can't drink soda
>Mormons are polygamists
>Mormons cant use condoms
>Mormons aren't Christians
>Mormons believe God is an alien
>Mormons tried to overthrow the government
>Mormons can't have beards
Is historical anti-mormon sentiment, cross Christian rivalry, or pure modern day ignorance to blame for the long list of misconceptions, and sometimes outright falsehoods attributed to LDS history and theology?
Polytheists pls go.
>>873519
>Mormons can't drink soda
Well, they can't drink hot beverages like tea or coffee. Which frankly seems worse than not drinking soda because soda is worse for you.
>Mormons are polygamists
Well they were originally. I don't see how they can blame anyone but themselves for this unfortunate fact
>Mormons can't use condoms
I think that's Catholics, actually
>Mormons aren't Christians
They aren't trinitarian, which would make them not Christians according to many theologians.
>Mormons believe God is an alien
No, they just believe Yaweh was once a man, or man-like being who was created by a more powerful being and resided near a star called Kolob. And that Jesus and Satan were his sons. To a Catholic, Oriental, or Orthodox Christian, this seems just as heretical as God being an alien
>Mormons tried to overthrow the government
Strawman. You're trying to deflect criticism from real events like the Mountain Meadows Massacre
>Mormons can't have beards
It isn't outright prohibited in writing but like many cultural practices there is an unspoken bias against beards.
>>873528
>implying recognition of the god head being three distinct beings is polytheistic
>implying the "trinity" isnt intentional double think that has never found anything even close to an apologetic response
![529px-GustaveDoreParadiseLostSatanProfile[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/nLZoxfX.jpg "529px-GustaveDoreParadiseLostSatanProfile[1]")
Christposters, can you prove that Satan exists?
>empirical proof for anthopomorphisized concepts
This meme again
Satan exists but god doesnt
What God creates, Satan can destroy.
>2015
>people still think that history is determined by ideas and ideologies
Kill me
The supreme truth of history, as illuminated by Karl Marx (PBUH)
1.Social progress is driven by progress in the material, productive forces a society has at its disposal (technology, labour, capital goods, etc.)
2.Humans are inevitably involved in production relations (roughly speaking, economic relationships or institutions), which constitute our most decisive social relations.
3.Production relations progress, with a degree of inevitability, following and corresponding to the development of the productive forces.
4.Relations of production help determine the degree and types of the development of the forces of production. For example, capitalism tends to increase the rate at which the forces develop and stresses the accumulation of capital.
5.Both productive forces and production relations progress independently of mankind's strategic intentions or will.
6.The superstructure—the cultural and institutional features of a society, its ideological materials—is ultimately an expression of the mode of production (which combines both the forces and relations of production) on which the society is founded.
7.Every type of state is a powerful institution of the ruling class; the state is an instrument which one class uses to secure its rule and enforce its preferred production relations (and its exploitation) onto society.
8.State power is usually only transferred from one class to another by social and political upheaval.
9.When a given style of production relations no longer supports further progress in the productive forces, either further progress is strangled, or 'revolution' must occur.
10.The actual historical process is not predetermined but depends on the class struggle, especially the organization and consciousness of the working class.
>marxism
>any kind of materialistic worldview
>ever
I have a question for /his/ since I don't know where else to ask.
Has there been an instance in history where a general had his spearmen tie oiled rags to the ends of their spears and have a rider with a torch light them as he goes by?
I can't see any downsides to having a wall of moveable fire for a frontline.
what are the upsides? surely it would warp the metal of the spike or the spear handle itself?
not to mention it would reduce the piercing power of the spike itself
>>873136
This would be a very stupid idea, I doubt anyone pulled that off.
>>873136
While that might be good for the spook factor and all, would it really function well as a weapon?
How were the Arab Caliphates and Ottoman Empire different to Rome or Macedon? They too conquered vast amounts of land and led the people they conquered to convert to their religions.
The only difference I can see is that the Romans and Alexander were polytheistic. They were all just conquerors.
>>873073
...because they're Arab? And Turk? And Muslim?
What kind of a fucking question is this OP, of course they're different. Did the Ottomans have a Senate? Did Alexander conquer the world for allah?
>>873083
I meant in terms of how one set is portrayed as a group of barbaric savages, while the other is portrayed as a bastion of civilisation.
You're spot on OP. None of them were Christian and they all practised a savage oriental religion built on murder and pederasty.
>Asserting an equivalence between fairies and God
>because, as he says, there is zero evidence for both
How philosophically dumb is Richard Dawkins?
DUDE BELIEVING IN THE GROUND AND PRINCIPLE OF REALITY IS THE SAME AS BELIEVING IN LEPRECHAUNS LMAO
Guy has no idea what fucking planet he's on
>>872898
How do they differ then?
