Why was usury allowed?
>>791541
because it works
Because it carries a profit margin.
Saying you have a problem with usury, is like saying you have a problem with selling a boat for more than it cost producing it.
>>791541
It was the most expedient method for jews to make money for themselves.
NEURON ACTIVITY DOES NOT EXPLAIN QUALIA
YES IT DOES, WE JUST DON'T KNOW THE EXACT DETAILS YET
U CANT RILLY NO NUFFIN
>>791265
>consciousness
>reducible to and explained by a physical process
nice meme
Has anyone ever been to Mecca that wasn't a Muslim and took photos for proof?
>>792497
Ugh, i can sense the fedora behind the camera
>>792497
That is a lot of fucking cranes.
So if one wanted to refute Stirners whole philosophy, one would only have to disprove his notion that everything everybody does is in their self interest or whats best for them right?
That would absolutely BTFO the point of a spook( to stay within ones self interest).
Has anybody ever tried to refute this mans philosophy?
realtalk is it just one dude spamming stirner threads every few hours, or is this a real philosophical topic?
Stirner is a philosophical dead end m8 don't bore yourself.
>>790511
The latter, and there's always a couple little faggots like you who get their panties in a bunch because there happens to be 1-2 stirner threads on /his/ out of the 50 some odd threads allowed on /his/. But do a search for Nietzche at anytime on this board and you get 5-8 threads about that brittle superficial cuck. Go back to /mlp/ faggot
If Vikings were so based, why did they fail to conquest anything notable ?
Vikings are basically a White Nationalist meme at this point.
>>787175
Whys he so smug, bros?
Since when do raiders conquer anything?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_OLom4lvdA
Orthodox FAQ's for atheists and Catholics, among others: http://pastebin.com/bN1ujq2x
This thread is about two issues, one is the incoherence of materialism, the other is the Roman Catholic conception of transubstantiation, and they sort of tie together. First, pertaining to materialism, if you reject the existence of noumena, you would be suggesting that phenomena is all that exists, which would make you an idealist. Now if you believe that in the reality of noumena, then you cannot be a materialist, since a noumenon is synonymous with a thing-in-itself, which is something metaphysical. So how do materialists get around this?
Second, to address transubstantiation (accidents-substance seems to be to parallel phenomenon-noumenon): do Catholics hold "substance" to be material or spiritual? The Orthodox hold ousia, which roughly corresponds to substance (one ousia/substance) to be spiritual rather than material. If the Catholics say that substance is metaphysical, then they obviously left the backdoor open for Protestant theology of the Eucharist, since they are suggesting it is not physically Christ's Body and Blood, just metaphysically. But if they say substance is a physical quality, then it becomes incorrect to say there is one substance called "God" shared by all three persons of the Trinity. But if you say it can be either, then there is an issue, because being that we are not Gniostics or Nestorians or any of that, we'll agree that Christ's Body is Christ, maybe not *all* of Christ, but definitely 100% Christ, not an accessory to Christ. Yet as far as I know, Roman Catholics confess that Christ had but *two* substances, human (that is his human soul) and divine (God)...if you say that his Body and Blood had a substance distinct from his human soul, then you are saying he has at least THREE substances.
cont
>>792541
Now, the more learned Catholics might point out that an Orthodox Council affirmed transubstantiation, but in rejoinder I must point out that
A: Most important, this is tu quoque, which doesn't resolve anything.
B: That council (which has never been recognized as Ecumenical) was basically a hurried reaction, because we had an Ecumenical Patriarch (Cyril Lucaris) who tried to make the Church Protestant and proliferated a confession that said Christ's Body and Blood are just a ceremony and not actually his Body and Blood. So the term "transubstantiation" was employed to make it absolutely clear that the Church rejected the Protestant conception of the Eucharist. It was employed specifically because Cyril Lucaris used it (in Greek, see the following point) to refer to the idea that the Eucharist was more than a remembrance. So the point was to explicitly and overtly contradict him so as to leave no doubt whatsoever.
C: That council's terminology is almost never employed today, because it has zero precedent with the Church Fathers, and unless there is precedent with the Church Fathers, something cannot be dogma. That doesn't make the term heretical, but you see what I mean, here is an article on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metousiosis The term the Orthodox commonly used, and is attested by the Church Fathers, is "metamorphosis" ("transformation" would be the Latin equivalent).
FINIS
>>792541
>since they are suggesting it is not physically Christ's Body and Blood, just metaphysically.
since when is the metaphysical opposed to the physical?
>That council's terminology is almost never employed today
it was used before, that you changed your own understanding is your problem, not mine
OK /his/ I've decided to stop being a fedora. I've done a lot of research into religion trying to see which one's hold up and I've come down to two choices.
Judaism or Islam?
>>792038
Yes this is bait
Sage, ignore
Jews cause we are the chosen race
What are the best films about the Eastern Front?
Certainly not the propaganda trash in your picture.
Possibly this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108211/
>>789618
pleb detected
>>789610
Stalingrad 1996(I think). Maybe it was 1994.
As an atheist i struggle to understand how people can wholeheartedly believe in god.
Is it possible (especially the dark ages etc) that everyone had their own skepticism but it was too taboo in the society they lived in to even mention any sort of disbelief?
For a lot of people, might makes right above all other considerations. What's imposed upon them by their parents and society is what they ultimately feel is most moral, and most popular systemic religions feature a god of ultimate power but not necessarily a true monastic god, the domain of philosophy.
>>788826
>What's imposed upon them by their parents
Sheeple
>>788809
Imagine if you only knew one language and never talked to someone of different language. Thats the theistic mindset.
Now imagine someone from above later interacted with another person of another language and then happen to understand some parts of it. Then they try to explain to the person above how its stupid to believe in the fact that you only need one in this life. This is the reactionary atheists.
To what degree is xenophobia instinctual, as opposed to learned? For instance, obviously xenophobia relating to the hijab or someone speaking Spanish, is not instinctual, because that has nothing to do with instincts, but learned cultural differences.
>>788418
You mean Russism right?
>>788418
>is not instinctual, because that has nothing to do with instincts
A source would be fine, thanks.
>>788443
I mean in all countries.
What were the Paris protests of 1968 all about?
>Scruton first embraced conservatism during the student protests of May 1968 in France. Nicholas Wroe wrote in The Guardian that Scruton was in the Latin Quarter in Paris at the time, watching students overturning cars to erect barricades, and tearing up cobblestones to throw at the police. "I suddenly realized I was on the other side. What I saw was an unruly mob of self-indulgent middle-class hooligans. When I asked my friends what they wanted, what were they trying to achieve, all I got back was this ludicrous Marxist gobbledegook. I was disgusted by it, and thought there must be a way back to the defence of western civilization against these things. That's when I became a conservative. I knew I wanted to conserve things rather than pull them down."[4]
>>787254
>What were the Paris protests of 1968 all about?
FULL COMMUNISM, NOW.
In particular the discovery by French students of the wage relationship in the production of higher skilled labour power.
>>787254
UN demanded French people actually bathe and they werent having any of it
Mr. Yokoi returned in 1972 to Japan -- an entirely different country than the one he had last seen in August 1940 -- and he stirred widespread soul-searching within Japan about whether he represented the best impulses of the national spirit or the silliest.
''I am ashamed that I have returned alive,'' Mr. Yokoi declared after his return, reflecting the traditional warrior spirit that it is better to die than to give oneself up to the enemy.
''Your Majesties, I have returned home,'' Mr. Yokoi said during a visit to the grounds of the Imperial Palace, where the Emperor and Empress live. ''I deeply regret that I could not serve you well. The world has certainly changed, but my determination to serve you will never change.''
It is not clear what Emperor Hirohito thought, but many young Japanese were embarrassed at such an expression of antiquated values. Although Mr. Yokoi said the one thing he wanted most was a meeting with the Emperor, Hirohito never obliged.
Mr. Yokoi's case highlighted the extraordinary transformation that Japan has undergone -- psychological as well as material -- in the decades since the war.
He was the epitome of prewar values of diligence, loyalty to the Emperor and ganbaru, a ubiquitous Japanese word that roughly means to slog on tenaciously through tough times.
This persistence struck many elderly Japanese as inspiring and moving, while to younger people it seemed pointless and symbolic of an age that taught children to stick to what they were doing rather than to think about where they were going.
[...]as millions of Japanese watched on television, he seemed overwhelmed by the changes in the country to which he had returned. He had never heard of television, atomic weapons or jet planes.
[...]The homecoming was televised live across the nation, and cameras were everywhere as [he] stopped at the village cemetery and wept at the family gravestone, which recorded that he had died on Guam in 1944.
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He married six months after returning.
Read his book. Great read, besides the part where he talked about doing bullets.
>>787223
Care to explain?
>emperor, i have served you for 32 years by hiding in a cave and stealing food and underwear from people
>please give me welfare
>please
Are we more happy than our ancestors /his/?
We can circle the globe in less than 24 hours for a fraction of a year's wage, we can communicate with people in nearly every country within a fraction of a second, we can watch forms of entertainment that would've been considered witchcraft not but 100 years ago, and we can pleasure ourselves to women that are miles out of our league. But are we truly any happier?
No. What a monstrous society soulless international capitalism has created.
I've never considered myself a right-winger, but I'm really beginning to wonder if the Industrial Revolution and the Enlightenment weren't the worst mistakes in history.
>entertainment that would've been considered witchcraft not but 100 years ago
People 100 years ago would not have considered computers, modern televisions, or other forms of contemporary tech witchcraft. Neither would people 200 years ago, for that matter.
>>786425
Yet we have plentiful food, shelter, and entertainment. Do you really believe that man can only be happy if he enjoys occasional victories in his persistent struggle against nature?
Or are you just an unhappy person?
>>786390
Kind of. Billionaires are still more balanced than kings, we have lots of food and a large variety.
How can one learn good history if people (Even professional historians) with agendas and obvious bias are constantly meddling and putting falsehoods in it?
Learn to interpret what you read.
>>789801
Learn critical reading skills, read the peer reviews of works you read
Just learn about history that boring enough to put any agenda on it.
I remember some anon posted an infographic about katanas, dispelling some of the myths, both pro and con. I remember it went really into detail about the whole "inferior steel" part, about how japanese iron and steel wasn't mined, but rather made from iron sand, or something. Does anyone have that image saved?
Katana/Sword/blacksmithing thread I guess
It's common knowledge that katana is the best sword in the world and could easily cut through armor.
>>789397
This. Some katanas can even cut thru diamond, the hardest metal known to man.
