Is your god pure ideology?
>>852646
No He is a man named Jesus Christ.
My God is beyond omnipotent transomniversal entity.
>>852646
I pray to Rob, son of man.
My holy book is Blade Runner.
Rob died for us to colonize other planets.
Shit was so cash.
Was slavery in America as bad as many say?
>Slavery
>Bad
>>>/tumblr/
No only a small percentage of land owners had slaves at all, ~4% and almost all were in the south. Slaves were metaphorically high end farming equipment, why mistreat it?
>>852600
yeah I mean basically yes.
Occasionally some slave owners would be exceptionally kind but then again some would be exceptionally sadistic. Most were just bad.
Was an Inquisition progressive for its time or it was institute of repressions and unjustified witch hunting?
>>852585
supposedly before the inquisition there was a lot of inconstant and haphazard local prosecution. Or mobs would just kill any "heretics"
Not gonna defend the other things it did, but it was surprisingly little into witch hunting.
>>852585
It was to weed out jew, muslims and renegades(christians that helped the muslims) During the Reconquista
Were mercenary armies a thing?
Did medieval/renaissance nations who were at war send armies of mercenaries at other nations' mercenaries, or were paid fighters mostly used as bodyguards/rebellion-crushers while the citizens of the state in question were the ones involved in actual country-on-country combat?
>>852410
yes, see the following
http://pastebin.com/q3NKTU7J
>>852410
I don't think it was as common in the medieval era, but by the renaissance it was standard procedure to bolster your army with mercenaries.
>>852410
BANE?
Even if there was a meaning to life and the universe, Wouldn't that meaning be meaningless?
At the most fundamental level everything will always be meaningless.
>>851984
Meaning and meaningless are human value judgements. Stop being a sad sack.
>If X were true, wouldn't X be false?
The meaning of life is energy. That's it. Quit being a faggot.
What was this called again?
>>851711
Airshippelin
>>851711
a blip
Big Guy
Was Judas' betrayal necessary to fulfill scripture, or was Jesus' crucifixion and death inevitable and someone would have eventually betrayed him and Judas just jump-started things?
Seems kind of unfair if Judas is basically born to be damned.
>>851353
He chose to kill himself. Had he not and just gone into exile or something, he could've seen the Resurrection (Jesus manifested in the middle of a room so he could probably do that to a guy in a cave or something), begged for forgiveness, gotten it and become a holy Saint.
But again, he chose to kill himself.
>>851353
>Seems kind of unfair if Judas is basically born to be damned.
Calvinism is the only way to actually reconcile omniscience with free will, and it is horrifying.
>>851392
>Calvinism is the only way to actually reconcile omniscience with free will, and it is horrifying.
lol no
> People are too stupid and greedy to stay true to the ideals of any political system for more than a few years.
> 95% of people are too uninformed to have a coherent opinion about any kind of public policy. Sexy Jane the Health Sciences major should not have a say in international diplomacy.
> The other 5% of people are only informed in certain areas and may have a coherent opinion on one or two aspects of public policy at most.
> The success of a group is primarily determined by the ability of the ruler to enforce his ideology, and is not very dependent the actual ideology itself.
> The most pure form of government is traditional centralized, authoritarian systems like oligarchy or theocracy, because those are the ones that best enable a ruler to enforce his ideology.
Other types of government will either be overthrown or degenerate into something that is in effect centralized and authoritarian.
Are these stupid opinions? Is there a name for them?
Being an edgy elitist faggot.
>>851203
Fascism.
Sounds like some arrogant elitist nonsense only someone retarded enough to think they're part of that super special 5% would evince.
Does the moral character of an orgy change when the participants wear Nazi uniforms?
Only if they're doing so erotically.
>>851183
The hell are you on about?
>>851183
Perhaps they are embracing shocking imagery to demonstrate a sublime truth regarding power differences.
What went wrong, /his/?
Austria didn't unify it
Some retard assumed unifying these vastly different peoples simply because they spoke the same language was a good idea.
>>851180
this
On this day, March 17, 1861, The kingdom of Italy was created.
A dark day for mankind.
>>850465
yet ireland gets all the glory
how does it feel to be cucked by a country that has never achieved anything and is using the same flag as you but with orange instead of red?
>>850491
Feels bad man
Please explain why each of these little shits came into existance and why exactly they're not annexed by their neighbors.
> they're not annexed by their neighbors
Literally what would be the point
>>850166
They're meme states. They aren't annexed because they're offshore tax heavens.
>>850173
They look ugly on maps and make the job of those who are in charge of writing map keys a little bit harder.
There would be literally no downside to annexing them.
Nobody would even care.
99.9% of the world population barely knows they exist.
They're not members of the EU, NATO or anything of the like.
With a small company of 100 soldiers you could take each of those countries several times over.
They're fucking useless and their borders disgust me.
Can we talk about the philosophy of mind here?
I'm really not sure anymore what to believe. On the one hand I dislike dualism because it means there is something inherently mysterious and inexplicable outside of what we can research scientifically. On the other hand all the thought experiments concerning qualia are so convincing and I've never seen them being refuted, so it seems qualia cannot be accounted for by purely physical models.
Can you please either disprove dualism or explain it in such a manner that it becomes a tenable position without too many gaps?
>>849840
> I dislike dualism because it means there is something inherently mysterious and inexplicable outside of what we can research scientifically.
But why should we assume that even the scientific method can do away with all mysteries? Ultimately, it seems like scientific explanations rely on basic forces - that is, to avoid an infinite regress, we must postulate some irredcible power(s) of nature - and *why* these forces, rather than more or fewer or different forces, will remain an unanswerable question. Even if we could find some deeper explanation X for those forces, it seems like we could further ask "why?" and seek a still deeper explanation for X.
In other words, it seems to me that humans can always ask "why?" and thus some mystery will always remain.
>>850961
Sure, but it's a different situation. In particle physics we have working models with predictions and experimentally verified. Asking for even deeper explanations is some very high-level curiosity.
In studying consciousness however we don't even have a starting point. We still haven't figured out any method of explicitly relating the subjective experience to anything physical. We have no mechanism for qualia. All we have is some vague hope to say "Somehow our experiences are caused physically, but we don't know how".
Have you tried reading the critic of pure reason?
Is transhumanism compatible with animal and civil rights? Transhumanism here as the modification of the essentially human to improve its function, as opposed to posthumanism which is the erasure of the essentially human through technology.
As I see it, essential "humanity" has always been used to justify oppression does to those undeserving of it. Slavery is the obvious one, meat industry a more contentious example. Not gonna waffle one.
>thoughts
>abuse
>etc
quite drunk so just replace all the words which don't make sense with ones that do, you know what I mean
>>849493
t. PETA member
It depends on robust heuristics to decide in fuzzy cases.
As long as you define principles to redrive rights, you can apply these principals to "discover" the rights of new transhuman agents.
The trouble is parse out sociopaths who love to muddy the waters by arguing against human rights.
Saw this today on Facebook. I'm aware of the poor treatment they received during the 19th century and had heard of the slavery thing but was never shown any evidence. Just wanted to clarify before I spoke about something.
>trusting black lives matter on history
WE WUZ SLAVES
Indentured Servitude was a thing and in many ways even worse than slavery because when you own a slave you don't want to kill it because they're an investment but an indentured servant doesn't so they'd beat the shit out of them and a lot of them died.
![Il_Condottiere[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/CRFsaNe.jpg "Il Condottiere[1]")
