>metaphysics is dead
When will this shit meme end?
>>729846
It was never alive in the first place.
>>729955
a forced meme for sure
What is the most recent result that metaphysicists have come with that has changed our understanding of the universe.
Man you know what, fuck Rome.
Are there any stories from history of the good guys winning against impossible odds and fighting for just reasons?
>>728842
>Tax Evasion
>Just reason
Lemme guess, you think Henry David Thoreau is the coolest shit dont you?
... and don't give a shit about the Christianity and the Church?
Pascal said that the God of philosophers is not the same as the God of Abraham. What if I agree with him and just think that the God of Abraham is shit and the God of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas is better?
Can one separate metaphysics from religion? In particular can one purify the system of Thomas Aquinas from Christian theological excretions?
Inb4 Catholics saying that the God of the Bible and Thomas Aquinas are the same. Sure thing buddy...
Inb4 Marcionism, Gnosticism.
Then you've clearly never heard of the problem of induction
>>728438
about Christianity and the Church*
Please explain what you mean.
Subject says it all.
Ask for reading recommendations. Recommend other anons books. General history book discussion.
I'm very much interested in US foreign policy and looking to get into its relations with Chile during the Allende and Pinochet regimes. I don't have any background with Chilean history so some of the "classics" on this topic would be appreciated.
pic very much related.
>>727521
>Two books about Allende’s election to power in Chile during the Cold War—Harmer 2011 and Qureshi 2009—add significantly to the understanding of US opposition and response to an Allende-led Chile.
Harmer, Tanya. Allende’s Chile and the Inter-American Cold War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
>While Castro applauded Allende’s election as Chile’s president, Nixon pledged to bring him down. A three-year battle resulted in a military coup and a twenty-year dictatorship. Harmer argues that the Chilean battle helped dictate the future of Latin America and that, rather than the US–Soviet conflict, the US–Latin American conflict shaped it.
http://bookzz.org/book/1164556/dd2211
Qureshi, Lubna Z. Nixon, Kissenger, and Allende: U.S. Involvement in the 1973 Coup in Chile. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2009.
>Qureshi argues that Nixon and Kissinger were more concerned about the threat to US hegemony posed by the election of Allende than about its threat to the physical security of the United States. They feared that Allende-like candidates would subsequently be elected in other Latin American countries, which would undermine the US hegemony.
http://bookzz.org/book/1085272/18749c
I'd be interested if anyone could recomend books about Imperial Russia, Cossacks, WW1 and warfare in general during 18-19th century
>>728662
The Cossacks - Leo Tolstoy
>Reading the bible as literal history
I do this
>>726974
What are the arguments against reading it as literal history?
>>727271
It's a really ancient source. That doesn't mean there isn't plenty of history in it, but you have to read it like Herodotus.
Who is to blame for the start of WW1?
The Germans admitted it at Versailles. We were all there, don't you remember?
>>726624
White cis European men
>>726624
Read some Tolstoy, OP
Can /his/ help me out?
What countries needed to be added to the map to properly show the world before the finno-korean hyper war, Mind you this is around a few hundred years before the war so I want all the small minor states to exist before they get swallowed up by the Finns and Koreans before the Hyper War.
>>726596
Well, the landmasses are wrong, since the sea is at modern the levels. The British Isles should be connected to continental Europe and the basic map is missing Lemuria, Atlantis, Mu, Hy Brasil, and Ultima Thule.
But if this is the map you're stuck with, make sure you've got the Aryan Empire in northern India and central Asia. Keep in mind that their six-armed gods with flying nuclear palaces were still around at this point.
>>726620
I'm thinking of modding the old landmasses later. Could you draw in paint the locations of those missing landmasses.
On a scale of 1-5 where should each state be placed in the tech ratings?
>>726596
Heres a little list of things you need:
Neanderthal remnants
Lemuria
Atlantis
Aryan Empire
Mu
Amaterasu theocracy (japan)
Aztlan (texas)
Also, loose the Babylon, it should be Sumeria or Eden
Is it true that to be a Christian you must hate your own life?
No.
It doesn't hurt..
>>725944
No. What the fuck?
If b8, then 3/10
What's the spookiest shit you've ever heard, /his/?
>Don't fight for your country, fight for your species
>>Don't fight for your country, fight for your species
Sounds like a logical sentiment to me.
>>725836
>merit
>your country
Spooky
>that feel when human history is essentially an unbroken litany of massacres and rapes
It's also an unbroken litany of love and devotion?
What is this glass half empty bullshit.
>>725802
>what is political, intellectual, social, cultural history
Fuck off
>>725806
But that stuff doesn't get into the history books.
How did nazis justified killing jews?
>they started it
>>725629
With screencaps of reddit.
Most Germans didn't even know about it.
Is she right?
>We do not allow oral contraceptives, which have always been prohibited by the Church, because they are a kind of abortion. We do allow the use of condoms in marriage, because we consider them just an advanced form of coitus interruptus. Did some Church Fathers dislike coitus interruptus? No, only Saint Augustine opposed it (all of the other quotes by them supposed opposing it are talking about oral contraceptives, or are by people not considered Church Fathers by the Orthodox Church--to be a Church father, you must be both a saint and not have taught heresy, so Roman Catholic Church Fathers are not necessarily the same as ours), but let's contrast his view with what Saint John Chrysostom says in On Marriage and Family Life: "If for a certain period, you and your wife have abstained by agreement, perhaps for a time of prayer and fasting, come together again for the sake of your marriage. You do not need procreation as an excuse. It is not the chief reason for marriage. Neither is it necessary to allow for the possibility of conceiving, and thus having a large number of children, something you may not want." But how can we affirmatively settle the matter as to whether the Church treated it as a sin? Very simple, we look at the penance manuals for confession for the first thousand years. Only one of them, Poenitentiale Hubertense, lists coitus interruptus as a sin, and we know that is due to a misunderstanding of biology--how do we know? Because it gives the penance time as *ten years*, which is what every manual gives for abortion; compare that to the ten to twenty days typically given for masturbation, or the three years generally prescribed for sodomy. Could married couples just not have sex if having more kids would put their family at risk of poverty? Yes, but it’s important for married couples to maintain a sex life as long as either of them has urges, as per 1 Corinthians 7:5.
>>724589
>Pic is talking about Catholics
>Post is talking about Orthodox
What?
Also Catholics who use ANY BC are in the wrong as they by fucntion remove the natural outcome of sex from the equation and make it more about the pleasure of the couple than about the uniting act of bringing forth life through the love of Husband and Wife as Christ loves His Bride, The Church.
>>724610
But Paul says marriage is a concession to lust, not procreation.
>>724589
Who gives a shit what cultists think.
Since crossbows were easy to use and very deadly why they even bothered with infantry? Why not just have an army of crossbowmen instead?
Too fucking long to reload.
>>723549
Also the range isn't great.
>>723549
so were the muskets yet that didn't stop people
>You are not allowed to think ahead of things
Why is the slippery slope even a fallacy?
If there isn't any solid evidence for something, then there's nothing wrong in making predictions for that something
>The problem with this reasoning is that it avoids engaging with the issue at hand, and instead shifts attention to extreme hypotheticals. Because no proof is presented to show that such extreme hypotheticals will in fact occur, this fallacy has the form of an appeal to emotion fallacy by leveraging fear.
/thread
>>723326
Read the example and then you'll understand, maybe.
if you have situation like - there's burning burning, firefighters put it down and then you want to check if its structural integrity wasn't fucked up then you're retard who does slippery slope
you're committing the fallacy if you want to check if the building is well prepared against flooding because since it was on fire now it may be flooded later because the building is totally cursed
>>723378
>if you have situation like - there's burning burning, firefighters put it down and then you want to check if its structural integrity wasn't fucked up then you're retard who does slippery slope
I mean that it doesn't work like that
Was being a jester a hard job? How much did they get paid?
They were the only ones allowed to call the king a cunt
>>722462
>How much did they get paid?
I assume people like that back in the day they just got food, housing and the protection that comes with living in a castle.
Usually they were autists and their lives were short.
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