You are God.
You are Omnipotent. Paradox free.
What is the most fucked up, mind bending thing you can do?
exist while not existing
alternatively, not exist while simultaeously existing
though god is beyond the dichotomy kek
>>486059
I reveal a religion to some desert genitalia mutilating fucks.
making rape morally good
Anyone care to discuss various things they were lied to/mislead about regarding history at school?
How accurate would you rate your upbringing with regards to historical events?
Personal examples (these still baffle me)
>Romania is the oldest country in Europe
>Nothing noteworthy happened to Canada's indigenous populations
>Napoleon Bonaparte didn't exist, he was just a disney character (wtf?)
I graduated in 2014.
>>483149
>Napoleon Bonaparte didn't exist, he was just a disney character (wtf?)
More details on this.
>>483149
>There was a global flood
>Marshal Plan rebuild Germany
It's hilarious how much of our history lessons sucked Uncle Sam's dick.
Question:
What is the policy of Christians on considering what is and is not idolatry?
I only ask because I often see statues like pic related in churches. It doesn't really make sense to me how you can put a statue with a explicit depiction of a man who you believe is the embodiment of god at the forefront of your place of worship, and say that you have not created an idol. It just causes some confusion to non-Christians.
>>482488
to put it extremely simply, you have to worship the object itself as a God for it to be an idol in most none protestant churches.
I think that idea refers to non-christian related idols. Things which might draw your worship away from a depiction of Christ.
>>482500
But the Jews for example, practice it as if you even so much as look at an image of SOMETHING while praying, you're practicing idolatry. I believe that most Greeks and Egyptians didn't think that their statues were actual gods, but they are thought of as idolators.
I guess my question is, why did this practice come about? When? And why is idolatry so important to Christians when they have abandoned about 95% of the other Old Testament commandments?
>worst
>best
>most underrated
>most overrated
>personal favorite
>the one who would be into anime the most
> inb4 edgelords shitting on my nigga FDR
>>470981
>>worst
WW
>>best
Jackson
>>most underrated
Nixon
>>most overrated
Reagan
>>personal favorite
Teddy
>>the one who would be into anime the most
Carter
>>470985
youre presidentfu a shit
t. japanese
Popular Opinion thread!
History is boring.
Hitler wasn't a very nice guy.
It's in the past. It's all irrelevant now!
the ottoman sultanate was the continuation of the byzantine empire which was a continuation of the roman empire
modern turkey is the new roman republic!
t.mahmood
Roman """Empire""" lasted barely 500 years.
Chinese Empire 4000+.
>>490584
lol no, it didn't.
>>490600
Xia dynasty was founded 2000 years BC.
this is clearly not a bait thread
I know Charles Darwin never said this, but how true is this quote about Africa? Did sub Saharan African never build anything other than huts?
>>489183
>Africans never mined Diamonds.
Why the fuck would they? It is a shiny rick with absolutely no practical value.
Are we seriously judging a culture on whether or not they have the exact same culture as us to the point that they need to believe a rock in the ground with zero use needs to be mined, just like we believe for some reason.
>>489183
>Why the fuck would they? It is a shiny rick with absolutely no practical value.
Diamonds have tons of practical uses but even then, they've started using them industrially in the 70's or something like that.
They "contributed" AIDS, Ebola and many deadly Plagues too.
ITT: Historical quotes
"No gods, no masters."
'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.'
"THE BEGINNING & END OF THE LAND, THE BEGINNING & END OF THE OCEAN: EVERYTHING ENDS & BEGINS AT THE BEACH."
>>481553
Were is this shit from?
What is the most recent army that the Romans could beat? I was watching Kingdom of Heaven which is set in the 1100s and I really don't see why Crassus' legions couldn't beat the Knights Templar. Nobody was wearing plate in the film all they have over the Romans is the stirrup and maybe crossbows.
>>486695
Plate armor wasnt a thing for next few centuries
>>486695
I assume you mean the Late Republic legions since you mentioned Crassus. The answer is whoever can match the Romans discipline and/or catch them at their weakest. Technology wise isn't nearly as important since per se, but it would give the Romans an edge since they have manufactories to supply their legionaries a lot better than any medieval army in the high middle ages.
>>486801
but muh lancers and longbows
Did the samurai ever fight non-Japanese in any significant way?
Not usually into military history, but the samurai are often held up in the media as the "ultimate warrior". But weren't they still using swords/bows when the rest of the world used guns? Didn't Japan only become a world power when they modernized?
I hate to ask history channel-tier questions, but would they have been comparable to other warriors of their time form different cultures (European, Chinese, middle eastern)? Were they actually exceptional warriors or is the "muh warrior society" media hype?
>>486602
Invasion of Korea 1592 (give or take a few years)
Later on the Chinese joined in and it became something of a stalemate.
Besides that they were hired in large-ish numbers by various European factions and other Asian countries such as Thailand.
>>486602
They fought the Mongols and they got rekt until saved by a storm. The ultimate warrior thing is a total meme, they were basically Native Indian warriors but with better technology in that they were obsessed with ritualism and single person combat. These are not good traits to have when facing Europeans or Central Asians.
>>486602
>Formally
Koreans.
Mongols.
That one tussle with the Jurchens in the 1590's in Korea.
Yuan & Ming Chinese.
Burmese.
They did OK with Mongols and Chinese, and wrecked Koreans hard.
>Informally
Usually in the form of Ronins going pirate
-Spaniards in the Philippines
-Portuguese in various places in Southeast Asia
-Various Southeast Asians.
-Chinese again
-Koreans again
Contemporarily: people in the region respected the Samurai (possibly except Korea, which saw everything Japanese as barbarous). The Chinese said they were pretty brave, and the Spanish in the Philippines actually welcomed Christian Japanese Samurai exiles in their colonial armies in the 1500's-1590's. But it wasnt because they were super-soldiers or anything, but they're free professionals without a job and they exploited this given how very few of the Spanish Army in the Philippines consisted of Europeans due to the difficulties of getting from Spain to Southeast Asia.
Who gets bragging rights for building the most unassailable fortress?
Pic or it doesn't exist.
>>484419
The ones that were not attacked.
Unassailable you said.
Och aye
King Arthur
Alright /his/, after a long time being an atheist, I realized that God existing is more logical than God not existing, and God would probably be a personal God, and I also browsed /pol/ a lot back then so I was exposed to deus vult memes, and so I became a Catholic.(I was also raised by a lukewarm Catholic family who were basically universalists, but I dont think that played much of a part in my choosing of the religion)
Now, after about a year, maybe a little more, I find myself questioning the faith. Now, I am not questioning God, just Christianity. This is because I am beginning to look into philosophy, specifically ancient Greek/Roman stoic and cynic philosophy, and I like what I see, It just makes sense and seems more complete than Christianity, but I am conflicted. While I see something special in these philosophies, I also see that Jesus Christ is something special. As CS Lewis describes in "Mere Christianity", due to what Jesus says, there are only two ways to look at him, either a lunatic, or the actual Son of God sent to save us. I don't think Jesus is a lunatic. So, now you see my conflict, and I just need some guidance on which way to go.
>>481247
Reread the stoics and then the gospel of John. The logos, or word, is a very much greek idea, but also comes to truth in Jesus Christ. Also realize that Christianity makes few claims that a specific ideology is 100% wrong, holding bits of truth. You can see this in the use of aristolean philosophy, especially in the middle ages.
>>481247
>As CS Lewis describes in "Mere Christianity", due to what Jesus says, there are only two ways to look at him, either a lunatic, or the actual Son of God sent to save us
How about as a legend? He could have just been a radical rabbi that people started making tall tales about. Sort of like how most historians think Hercules was a real person but he probably didn't go around telling people he battled Hydras.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKAHoYCWXF8
>>481247
Read Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard
It will help you immensly
Who were Sumerians? I mean they weren't Semitics, they weren't indo europeans.
Please keep the thread /pol/ free.
>>485821
they weren't white, so you can stop fantasizing
>>485825
The ruling class was extremely white/aryan.
>>485821
>Who were Sumerians?
Sumerians.
>Women are inferior to men in matters of justice, honesty, and conscientiousness. Again, because their reasoning faculty is weak, things clearly visible and real, and belonging to the present, exercise a power over them which is rarely counteracted by abstract thoughts, fixed maxims, or firm resolutions, in general, by regard for the past and future or by consideration for what is absent and remote
>Nature has not destined them, as the weaker sex, to be dependent on strength but on cunning; this is why they are instinctively crafty, and have an ineradicable tendency to lie. Nature has provided woman for her protection and defence with the faculty of dissimulation, and all the power which Nature has given to man in the form of bodily strength and reason has been conferred on woman in this form. Hence, dissimulation is innate in woman and almost as characteristic of the very stupid as of the clever. Accordingly, it is as natural for women to dissemble at every opportunity and they feel in doing so that in a certain measure they are only making use of their rights. Therefore a woman who is perfectly truthful and does not dissemble is perhaps an impossibility. This is why they see through dissimulation in others so easily; therefore it is not advisable to attempt it with them. From the fundamental defect that has been stated, and all that it involves, spring falseness, faithlessness, treachery, ungratefulness, and so on. In a court of justice women are more often found guilty of perjury than men. It is indeed to be generally questioned whether they should be allowed to take an oath at all. From time to time there are repeated cases everywhere of ladies, who want for nothing, secretly pocketing and taking away things from shop counters.
>Neither for music, nor for poetry, nor for fine art have they any real or true sense and susceptibility, and it is mere mockery on their part, in their desire to please, if they affect any such thing.
I'm literally shaking
>2015
>Thinking you can will what you will
I have yet to find a better philosopher than ol' Schopey, desu. I doubt there is one.
>literally
as opposed to figuratively shaking?
Fuck off American, this board is for smart Europeans only. I know your American because you're the only ones stupid enough to keep using "literally" where it's unnecessary like the fucking retards all of you are
>>478758
>I'm literally shaking
triggered?
Can I get an armour porn* thread as a late birthday present from /his/?
*Not literal armour porn please and thank you
>>474878
Looks like everything except the mace is made out of plastic or aluminium.
Fucking fantasy LARPers.
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