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>Philip II
m8...
I love the Habsburgs, but Philip II kind of completely fucked Spain.
Toledo, the Spanish Armada, the Netherlands, all entailed political and diplomatic fuck ups.

>This satirical painting depicts a cow which represents the Dutch provinces. King Philip II of Spain is vainly trying to ride the cow, drawing blood with his spurs. Queen Elizabeth is feeding it while William of Orange holds it steady by the horns. The cow is defecating on the Duke of Anjou, who is holding its tail.

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>>455877
I actually meant Phillip II of Macedon senpai
Phillip II of Spain was awful

>>455878
Thank god.

>>455477
It depends. Napoleon III was basically the historical Stannis Baratheon.

>>457713

Not everyone watches GoT, what the fuck does this mean?

>>455477
Bonaparte won an election and his rise to emperor was approved by a referendum, though. His name obviously helped but it wasn't the ground to his legitimacy.

>>455411

Maybe god isn't all powerful?

>>455485
OP pretty obviously begged the question that we're dealing with (I assume) a protestant theological position, which means we're not talking about the world as it is, but rather, the world from within the conception of protestant theology.

Do you get how we're playing this game now?

>>455485
Then hes no god.

>>454563

>>1. The physical constants of the cosmos take anthropic values

Tell that to all the humans that are now dead

>>454563
I take issue with number 5. Every intelligent agent we know of (humans, maybe chimps and whales) have highly complex central nervous systems, with billions of neurons and quadrillions of connections. A god who is highly intelligent, therefore, most probably has a brain that is much larger and more complex than a human brain. An infinitely intelligent god would seem to require an infinitely large brain. This means that theism involves introducing more complexity, more amazing coincidences and purposively organized structures,...
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>>454582
lool what? this fucking board mane

RHODESIA #BTFO (AGAIN)

>60 million africans

fuck outta here with this reddit shit

>>453881
>truth value of a statement

Read Philosophical Investigations. All truth values of statements are subjective and subject to context.

There used to be an idea that statements contain 'atomic facts' which are the absolute bear meanings, all of them which can be assigned true or false values. Wittgenstein showed that the idea is objectively wrong.

>>453592
>plebian
He almost certainly doesn't use this term.

>...during the late 1770s the British ministry had much more on their plate than just the War Of Independence...

You've hidden a claim about what actually happened behind the idiom here. Also, for fussy classist arseholes this idiom would be considered common.

>... for the East India Company much more lay in the the balance than simple economic gain....

Here...
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>>454211

>plebian
He does. Hes kind of weird. But nice.

and i pulled those quotes out of my ass, theyre just examples as to two idioms, one of which he said was good and one of which was bad.

the tone/register of one is formal "lay in balance", the other very much less so "have on plate"

because the hold by the sultanates and the ME,was tenuous and shaky.
The brits found it out the hard way in 1857

>>452986
To add to this, The delhi sultanate did go on conversion sprees when they were able to consolidate their power for a long period of time.
tughlaq tried converting his subjects.
But more often than not they were on a war footing trying to conquer more land, especially the then rich rajput princes because of the overland trade routes they held.
These campaigns resulted in general truces and ocassional win for the sultanate, mostly under allauddin khilji. Dynastic instability also plagued the sultanates.
The...
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>>452963
The stench from the mass pooing in the streets kept them away

>>452405
Polyamory

>>452405

1. DEFINE "RESPECTABLE".

2. THE WHOLE OF THE "NEW AGE" PHENOMENON WAS SOCIALLY ENGINEERED IN THE NINETEEN SIXTIES TO DIVERT AND NEUTER THE REVOLUTIONARY SOCIOCULTURAL FORCES THAT HAD BECOME ACTIVE.

"NEW AGE" IS NOTHING BUT DECEPTION, LIES, AND PERVERSION.

>>452405
Chaos Magic

Deities are admittedly fictional.

For the same reason communists like you go to street protests against global capitalism.

>>452250

>prayer is only when I ask God to do things for me.

You have a shitty way of thinking about what prayer is.

>>452280
I'm not taking about prayer/meditation in general, I mean when someone asks God for something (examples in OP)

not possible. maybe Australia. It went down hill after the Brits went up the St. Lawrence and BTFO the frogs.

Australia and NZ?

>>451756
boring aint bad
its more fun to observe instability from afar rather than to experience it firsthand.

>>449661
>What makes Marxism so attractive to the academic class?
Because it makes sense.

>>449661
We already had this thread.

If you don't believe in God, then communist/socialism is what you naturally come to conclude.

>>448800
>Why does something exist rather than nothing?

Don't know

>Why is the world the way it is?

Probably the multiverse, all possible worlds exist.

>I will happily renounce Christianity right here tonight and buy a copy of The God Delusion first thing tomorrow morning.

I'd recommend The Miracle of Theism instead, it is a much better book for a beginner.

Why is their something rather than nothing?

Don't know

Why is the world's the way it is?

It is

I don't claim to know any answers.

But if there's something beyond us in the universe, I don't think that humans, as primitive as our brains are, could truly understand it. I'm sure the nature of humans is incompehensible to insects.

"just because it is a book" doesn't apply. People aren't attracted to the book, they're attracted to the message.

>>444497
Many great messages have been written throughout time, but only the magic books get such a religious following. For example, there is no 1,000,000,000+ group of people dogmatically following On Liberty or Treatise on Human Nature

>>444491
Faith nigger. Logic and happy existence don't go together very well. Nor does it in society, i.e autism. I just believe, as does everyone else.

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>>457114
>>go on reddit

>>457114
it's a default sub with 4 millions subscribers it's only ever Singer, Stoics and Youtube vids.

>>457114
>spooks are a valid argument

I hate the stirner kiddies. You're not suddenly above thousands of years of moral and metaphysical thought because you read le spooky German man

>>457089
I don't know, how could you fight in a melee without "clashing".

>>457098
I mean when in LOTR the huge armies come running at eachother.

>>457109
Well I figured that, but would you really want to walk at them either? I figure the fist few ranks at the front line would be skewered and the opposing armies would bleed into each other from there.