Did the US lose the Vietnam War?
>>515842
Well they certainly didn't win it
>>515842
Answer me, "What was the Vietnam war" and you answer your own question.
Since the aim was to keep the South Vietnamese nation around, then yes.
inb4
>but we withdrew our support before it collapsed :^)
You don't win in vidya because you resign from the match before you're actually defeated by your opponent
Say something nice about the khmer rouge!!!!
>>515651
Their leadership had good french doctorates.
They gave your average semi-educated Westerner something to know about Cambodia aside from Angkor Wat.
They had a good approach to preventing overpopulation. If the same policies were applied to the most population and highest polluting nations, climate change would no longer be an issue!
How do Protestants interpret this (Greek interlinear)?
http://biblehub.com/interlinear/james/2-24.htm
Luther wanted to remove the entire Book of James because of this passage.
>>515609
I'm certainly no protestant, being buddhist, but I just read James 2 in KJV (yeah I know, but I'm used to it as a literary text), and the protestant argument that works are a handmaiden of faith but not necessary for salvation looks pretty stable. One who has faith will necessarily have works, and the works will be the praxis of the faith, but it is by faith alone blah blah.
Was Luther really that incompetent?
>>515632
So atheists can't do good works?
Luther wanted to remove a lot of books from the NT.
>Luther made an attempt to remove the books of Hebrews, James, Jude and Revelation from the canon (notably, he perceived them to go against certain Protestant doctrines such as sola gratia and sola fide), but this was not generally accepted among his followers. However, these books are ordered last in the German-language Luther Bible to this day.[5]
>>515645
>So atheists can't do good works?
Neither can heathens or heretics IIRC. Or people you think are outside communion (depending).
What do you think has prevented southamerican republics from being worldwide relevant throughout their whole existence?
>>513213
bad economic policies
very strict hierarchical social castes based on race (european, mestizo, native...)
And in the case of Brazil: slavery and the fact that they ended up ruled by very unstable governments after they god rid of their emperor, which was actually quite an outstanding individual.
Complete reliance on agriculture and mining as only pillars of the economy.
Having a US backed coup every time you start doing things right
Did the Nazis stand a chance to win WW2?
>>513182
No. We have this thread a zillion times. Please look in the archives or something.
Yes, if the British joined them. Obviously they didn't though.
>>513182
>Nazis not being/acting like Nazis
>tfw babtized protestant
>tfw I agree with the (Russian-) Orthodox Church on almost everything
>tfw there's no Orthodox church near me and moving isn't an option right now
What do? Should I just convert to Catholicism and enter the Orthodox Church once I am able to move near one? There are some major things I disagree with in Catholicism (the infallibility of the Pope, for example) but it seems like the next best thing.
What are some other major differences (exept for obvious things)?
Orthodox church in Russia is pretty much owned by Putin, and by agreeing with them you agree with Russian policies then why not learn Russian and travel there?
Catholic popes are shills too, most of time.
You think long and hard about it, and stop yourself before you become another Orthodox tripfag
The Orthodox are culturally minor and xenophobic. Think carefully if you really want to get in on that stuff.
Is it ever appropriate to kill someone outside of self defense?
Are people who kill knowledgable of the fact that who they kill are human beings with lives and aspirations?
Why do we still war if the people in charge of doing so are aware of the fact they they are sending people to end people at the risk of death?
>>512773
I'd say that most people don't care,
I personally don't give two shits about any wars or casualties (as long as I can't see them to be fair).
I'd also say most people probably feel that the ends justify the means, and that is all the justification they need.
We all have a great deal of empathy, but some are better at ignoring it then others.
Its not and everybody knows it not so they have to invent justifications when needed
>>512773
>Is it ever appropriate to kill someone outside of self defense?
Sure, if it benefits a stupid woman who got knocked up. And most western society agrees with me.
What does /his/ think of The Man in the High Castle?
I haven't seen any of it, but the jist of it seems to be "plucky American underdogs being oppressed by mean old foreigner Nazis".
It strikes me this is kinda disingenuous, I really don't think America in the 30s/40s/50s would have had to have been forced to accept Nazism if the racism, anti-Communism and anti-Semitic/rich aspects were played up.
Nazis in most, if not all alternate history fiction are cartoonesque, comic book villains devoid of any human qualities who talk about gassing Jews and Hitler saluting every 5 minutes. There's even a trope describing this shit: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThoseWackyNazis
And note, this is NOT a nazi apologist post. I feel very little sympathy towards them, but they weren't all Lex Luthors on steroids.
I mean, the things the FBI were doing under Hoover, Patton wanting to join up with the remnants of the SS to wipe out the USSR, widespread acceptance of the superiority of the white race, McCarthy.
>>512658
No, I understand. There's a tendency to "other" Hitler and the Nazis as just being "crazy" or "monsters", and I think that's a very dangerous thing to do since it denies the possibility that a human, just like you and I could be capable of what they did.
That said, really whacky Nazis can be fun when they obviously bear no relation to reality, like Iron Sky or Hellsing Ultimate or Wolfenstien.
What made the islamic reforms of wahhabism catch on so well?
>>512296
House of Saud
1916
1918
1940
1953
Take your pick
>>512296
The fall of the Ottomans
Thanks Britain!
ITT : Shitty /His/ Memes
I'll starts
>Soviets singlehandedly won WWII and no one can question their dominance
>Franco-Prussian war does not count as a France vs. Germany war
>Anglos are the cause of all the worlds problems and inferior inbred islanders who never actually fought a war and all of them think they dindu nuffin
>>510923
>History is written by the victor
>If one side has more people than the other it's automatically using human wave tactics
>>510923
>The ancient Egyptians were black
We waz kangs and kweems nigga
>>510923
>Islamic civilization collapsed when Mongols sacked Baghdad
This one is a favorite of Reddit. Its like the Ottoman empire and Mughals never existed
Was Nietzsche familiar with Orthodox theology? Seems like none of his criticisms of Christianity can be applied to Orthodox Christianity
Are you a shitposter or are you just devout and insistent on discussing Orthodoxy exclusively?
Why wouldn't they? It's still slave morality.
>>510547
Nietzsche saw slave morality as stemming from resentment, and master morality as stemming from love of life. So no.
>"It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. You are, of course, free to interpret the Bible differently—though isn't it amazing that you have succeeded in discerning the true teachings of Christianity, while the most influential thinkers in the history of your faith failed?"
You know what? Fuck Sam Harris, the Church Fathers, based on their own understanding of things at the time, were right.
To them, heresy was EXTREMELY dangerous, because as far as they knew you had to believe exactly the right things to get to Heaven. If you didn't, when you died you might go to Purgatory, but it was much more likely that you would go to Hell, and suffer eternally in a void deprived of God's presence. Hell was the worst possible fate, and believing heresy was a sure-fire way to go there.
So under that set of circumstances, with that set of beliefs, why wouldn't you deal with heretics extremely harshly? They're the equivalent of poisoners, of mass murderers. The damage they can do, the eternal suffering their teachings can visit on innocent souls, is too great for them to be allowed to persist. Sure, you have to give them a chance to recant, but if they won't better to kill one soul than condemn thousands to Hellfire through inaction.
>religion is evil because religious people justified torture of minorities with religion
>scientism isn't evil even though it managed to justify worldwide persecution of people who didn't want vaccinations for decades and still going
"It's not fascism when WE do it"
>>510432
>To them, heresy was EXTREMELY dangerous, because as far as they knew you had to believe exactly the right things to get to Heaven.
>They're the equivalent of poisoners, of mass murderers. The damage they can do, the eternal suffering their teachings can visit on innocent souls, is too great for them to be allowed to persist.
So what has changed between then and now?
How about a historical mysteries thread? I don't think it's too necessary to draw a line of significance. We can trust each other to know what's appropriate for /his/.
Also, I think we can agree that we don't need to hear about the Dyatlov Pass incident again.
I'll start with one that's pretty known but still interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Shud_Case
I found it interesting that a few others were found dead in Australia with the book near them. The brother of the opposition leader in Singapore was also found killed with the Talmud Shud.
I'll help
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript
>>508836
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_Masks_Case
So what CAN we know?
Nothing
The dick
>>508041
Ourselves
Why were German helmets so much better?
Cause they look cool. I think it was the French Adrian helmet that offered the best protection. Brit helmet was shit tier.
>>506007
Because they based them off the medieval sallet helmets
>>506060
While the Brits based theirs off the their kettle hats
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