My parents are forcing me to go to church today since it's Christmas
i'm 31 and a staunch atheist but they're forcing me
How do I get out of it?
2/10 I replied
>>461796
For you, its over 9000 !
If you are an atheist, then you should go to church because you want to spend some time of yours FOR YOUR PARENTS, not for god..
My opinion. I am not an atheist (i am a theist), even so, i dont believe in religions, nore in churches, and also like that: If your parents are happy for that small gift, if my parents would be: we should do it.. cmon.. isnt like shooting yourself or something, get over it!
>>461796
>I'm 31
>They're forcing me
Then they're illegally holding you as a hostage. Call the police because they are clearly using a gun to do so. Otherwise you're a fucking retard.
STOP CALLING IT BYZANTINE EMPIRE
ROMAN EMPIRE
>>461183
BASILEIA ROMAION
ROMAN EMPIRE
>Osmanlı Devleti
What kind of -boo are you? Do any of you secretly loathe your culture and your ancestors' history so much you wish you were something else?
>tfw Manchuboo Northeast Han Chinese, but I hate Chinese culture so much I wish I were Manchu or Mongol
N/A
Picking a side goes against the Lurker Code.
>>460203
>Persiaboo
>Byzantiboo
>Grecoboo
I love all peoples and cultures of the mediterranean with the exception of Arabs. Fuck Arabs, fuck Arabs to fucking hell.
>>460224
Turks too, I really fucking hate turks. Forgot to mention that.
What were these guys up to before the Euros came?
Some did not even have fire
>>459897
Burnt land protein management.
Eel farming.
Making up really convoluted stories about big rocks and forcing their kids to memorize them
Are you smarter than Schopenhauer was? If not, why would you claim that Hegel's philosophy isn't bullshit?
Schope a boss hog
Are you smarter than Hegel was? If not, why would you claim his philosophy is bullshit?
>>459272
>le super deep dialectical man
>In order to discourage the reader beforehand from taking Hegel's bombastic and mystifying cant too seriously, I shall quote some of the amazing details which he discovered about sound, and especially about the relations between sound and heat. I have tried hard to translate this gibberish from Hegel's Philosophy of Nature as faithfully as possible; he writes: '§ 302. Sound is the change in the specific condition of segregation of the material parts, and in the negation of this condition; -- merely an abstract or an ideal ideality, as it were, of that specification. But this change, accordingly, is itself immediately the negation of the material specific subsistence; which is, therefore, real ideality of specific gravity and cohesion, i.e. -- heat. The heating up of sounding bodies, just as beaten or rubbed ones, is the appearance of heat, originating conceptually together with sound.' There are some who still believe in Hegel's sincerity, or who still doubt whether his secret might not be profundity, fullness of thought, rather than emptiness. I should like them to read carefully the last sentence -- the only intelligible one -- of this quotation, because in this sentence, Hegel gives himself away. For clearly it means nothing but: 'The heating up of sounding bodies...is heat...together with sound.' [p. 28]
BTFO
Why did the Southern Cone succeed while the rest of South America failed?
white people
>muh Argentina is white
>>431360
Argentina just went bankrupt and Chile is an american puppet.
Uruguay is cool tho, 4/20 blaze it
What are your thoughts on existence? As in, why is there something instead of nothing? Why do we have a universe instead of nothingness?
Because atrophy hasnt wiped out everything yet.
Give the universe a few trillion years and absolute zero voids will start popping up.
>>464328
but wouldn't an absolute zero void still be surrounded by other things, therefore containing some unit of space, therefore being something rather than nothing?
>>464328
>atrophy
As for me, IDK man I think there's something to it all. Like I just suddenly exist as this naked monkey alien thing for 80 years and then don't exist forever again. Lmao what That sounds illogical to me I think we came from something to exist here
>Norsemen were shit
When will this meme die
>300x197
noice resolution fa.m
Vikings had 10/10 eyesight or were very little apparently
Were the Dark Ages real or was it a period where they merely made fewer sculptures and paintings for future historians to gawk at?
If I was a historian angry at them for not giving me cool art I might call it the Dark Ages too. I might even tell lies about how not having sculptures and paintings means everyone back then lived in literal shit.
There was a period of time in the Western part of Europe where things did go backwards. However some people will exaggerate how long it lasted or imply that it in the Eastern part as well.
The dark ages are labelled because very little of the time was recorded compared to before and after,and because a vast quantity of earlier knowledge was destroyed
>>461566
>Anglo-Saxons.
Did not blossom at all. Fucks were perhaps the longest Western European entity to hang around the dark ages.
>heard there is a show about vikings
>cool they were interesting people what could go wr-
>BDSM ''armor''
>female warriors
>soldiers in every village what the fuck
>hipster haircuts
>despite the fact that norsemen liked colorful clothing everyone wears this fucking grimdark brown and black
what's even better is that this shit airs on History Channel
I hope one day we will get a proper norse themed show
is Rome better or it's also on the same RPG game level of bullshit?
>mfw everything wants to be GoT
>>465813
I fucking wish this show wanted to be GOT because then we would get some proper story it's not like blood feuds weren't a thing in norse society but no it's just
>HURR WE GO TO DA VILLAGE WITH MUH BITCH AND THERE IS 30 SOLDIERS AND WE ARE UNHARMED AND WE WON AND ODIN XDD
it's Amon Amarth: The Show
>>465800
>I hope one day we will get a proper norse themed show
so a bunch of naked cave savages running around and bullying monks and then getting BTFO by every army on earth?
When did the Wagnerian romanticism go over the top, with people actually believing in romanticised pictures of pillaging seafaring peasants dominating the history of Europe in the early Middle Ages.
what's with all the snowmonkey threads today?
![Vikings-Season-3-2015-TV-Show-Images[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/RxKI3Qo.jpg "Vikings-Season-3-2015-TV-Show-Images[1]")
>>465707
people are tired of 'muh epic vikings' shit that is being pushed everywhere.
>>465707
1. Raging stormfags are hilarious 2. Everyone is tired of them being portrayed as uber warriors when they were just pirates
where were you when a muslim btfo the entirety of christianity in just 30 mins?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VOMFjQfJ8w
>Reza Azlan
What a fag.
I read Zealot, it's full of inaccuracies even if the general message is correct.
Also considering Islam considers Jesus to be a prophet of God and his mom a virgin I don't get how this fucker can call himself a muslim.
>>465638
>Also considering Islam considers Jesus to be a prophet of God and his mom a virgin I don't get how this fucker can call himself a muslim.
They also consider Moses to be a prophet of God, but that doesn't make them Jewish.
In order to be a Christian you need to believe that Jesus IS god.
Is it true that europeans never invented writing and it was brought to them from the middle east and it evolved over time? If so is the same thing true for the wheel?
>>464859
No.
>what is Ancient Greece
>what is Rome
>>464936
didnt their alphabet evolve from the Phoenicians or something? If so, that's not an example of europeans inventing their own written language.
What are the requirements for a "being" to be a deity?
>>463640
A favourite one historically is:
All good
All powerful
All present
>>463640
being really really strong so as to protect the people that worship you
Fitting the definition in use.
Incredible moments thread.
Dumping what I have, feel free to contribute
Monk carrying out self-immolation in Vietnam
Allied siege of Monte Cassino monastery in WW2.
Built in 529, it was believed to be holding a German garrison (It wasn't). It was completely destroyed.
>>460609
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME
![V-Pride[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/CdWNzAd.jpg "V-Pride[1]")
