Why do you believe in a higher power? Why don't you?
I don't care if you think there isn't any, but please refrain from just posting "no evidence", it doesn't make for very good readin'
>>445576
What else am I supposed to say besides that there is no evidence?
>>445576
Why would I?
I have a question to muslim anons. The Quran says that every nation was sent a messenger but... who was the messenger in America? (the entire continent)
This is a serious question, by the way. I'm not trying to criticize Islam, nor am I interested in what anti-Islam anons want to say.
Also, any information about messengers from other parts of the world will be greatly appreciated.
>>445569
Muhammad (pbuh) was the last messenger, the messenger for all of the nations
>>445569
Allah knows
>>445569
Read about the Perennial Philosophy and check out SH Nasr.
The Quran does not list a set of peoples and their corresponding messengers. The theological idea is that God, since God is most just, did not leave humans in moral darkness. All humans in all of time and space have possessed: 1) fitrah, the ability to perceive morality and act according to it 2) access to spiritual guidance based on/containing a legitimate revelation which ultimately is sourced in God.
I forget the name for number 2 and I may have framed it incorrectly, but I think this is the rough idea. No human on judgement day can claim they did not ever hear words of truth.
Why have the Jews been oppressed by so many groups throughout history? I once read they are basically the immigrants that never assimilate and make an easy scapegoat because they are also always a minority, but is it really that simple?
No /pol/ shit.
>>445557
They're a mercantile disapora culture and sadly, those are never liked anywhere. The Armenians and some of the Chinese diaspora living in the island countries get the same treatment and have the same reputation in their respective spheres of existence. It's just that the jews are familiar to us.
It's actually because they never assimilate, not because they're a minority.
Their religion is racist to some extent, in that you can't just join in one day and be welcome into the club.
That gives them some "secret society" sort of feel.
>he's a biblical literalist
>>445407
>get btfo by science
>its just a metaphor guys lol
>>445407
>he takes the Bible seriously
>>445407
What is the point of teaching a religion though the bible if you'll just make it nothing more than a compilation of fables with some morals every now and then?
That's what Buddhism is for.
During its peak, did the Roman Empire have more complex infrastructure and technology for the time than the Song dynasty at its peak?
>>445390
No. The Roman Empire was more powerful that the Han Dynasty, but not the Song. Then again, the Song came over 700 years later
>>445398
Sorry, I don't know why I wrote powerful, I meant advanced. Powerful is a loaded term
>>445426
Well, the Song had gunpowder. That's a big deal.
Is pic related a good show?
Also, /his/ approved shows, movies and documentaries.
>>445318
I enjoy Narcos. It's a very well done look inside Latin America during the 80s
I was just watching it. Seems interesting. They made a point of saying the whole 'brainwashed child murderer' thing about the Hashishin was propaganda by the Sunni to make them look bad.
>>445920
Yeah, good show. One of the few Netflix shows I didn't drop out of halfway through the first season.
Catholicism is the most overpowered religion that has ever existed. Prove me wrong.
Pro-tip:
>You cant
>frogposter
Pro tip: kys
>>445260
>overpowered
Elaborate.
>>445260
If you mean overpowering little boys, then yes.
When you look at a map of oil in the middle east, suddenly american foreign policy in the region starts to make a lot more sense.
>>445153
We should created a coalition against isralel and Saudi Arabia instead of Iraq.
>>445173
Well meme'd my friend.
More realistically we should force those rich ass gulf states to take the Syrian refugees, then partition Iraq and Syria along Shia/Sunni/Kurdish lines.
What's the greatest work of art of this century so far?
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/sep/11/arts.september11
>>445045
[The attacks of 9/11 were] the greatest work of art imaginable for the whole cosmos. Minds achieving something in an act that we couldn't even dream of in music, people rehearsing like mad for 10 years, preparing fanatically fora concert, and then dying, just imagine what happened there. You have people who are that focused on a performance and then 5,000 [sic] people are dispatched to the afterlife, in a single moment. I couldn't do that. By comparison, we composers are nothing. Artists, too,sometimes try to go beyond the limits of what is feasible and conceivable, so that we wake up, so that we open ourselves to another world. […] It's a crime because those involved didn't consent. They didn't come to the 'concert.'That's obvious. And no one announced that they risked losing their lives. What happened in spiritual terms, the leap out of security, out of what is usually taken for granted, out of life, that sometimes happens to a smal lextent in art, too, otherwise art is nothing. -Karlheinz Stockhausen
This man said "everything in the world is rational" but i don't really understand his philosophy right now; how can you say this after USSR, Auschwitz, Nazism. If everything is rational, what were the goals of these huge ideological mistakes of mankind ?
Can the philosophy of history of Hegel be still right and credible in our century ?
If you cant see the rationality behind these things than you wont understand the rationality behind hegel
>>444975
that's why i'm asking for help ! I haven't managed to read hegel's books, too complicated for me, but i've read books about him so explain me please.
Reason as the faculty that conditions our experience of the world; he sets out from Kant here. He isn't saying that every single action ever taken was done because somebody looked over their syllogisms, found they were all sound, and proceeded to act exclusively on those rational principles. He means that the very perception of a historical event implies that reason is at work. This perception negates the original content of the event and produces a new negated negation (that is, interpretation) of the event in question. Apply this principle to everything and you get Hegelianism. The French Revolution was the end of history because it gave birth to the modern State, not because everybody suddenly started being logical when the Jacobins started chopping off heads.
Let's say hypothetically its a couple thousand-something years ago, you are in a market place, and you come upon a slave merchant.
Would you buy a slave? be honest.
Reminder you'd be in a society that has no social issue with slavery.
>>444940
Yeah because I'd be raised in an environment where this is the norm.
This thread is pointless.
>>444940
Depends on my needs.
Anyone who says absolutely not is assuming their morality would be the exact same across time and space.
>>444940
oh course....shit I'd do it a couple hundred-something years ago.
Why is there no left-wing intellectual or activist who criticizes dekulakization (and decossackization)? Even among liberal humanist types, who criticize Stalin's Great Purge and the Moscow Trials, the liquidation of kulaks as a class and the destruction of the cossack ethnic group are either ignored, or their criticism is merely about the economical failure of collectivization, never about the moral issues surrounding the destruction of entire ethnic and social groups.
I'd say the reason is that while the victims of the purges and trials were fellow leftists, the victims of anti-kulak and anti-cossack reppressions were mostly independent landowners and military types, so they don't really count as humans deserving of compassion in leftist ideology. Just see the drivel they constantly produce against Southern whites, who are the American equivalent of kulaks.
And that's scary, because that means it can probably happen again. So please soothe my fears and mention at least one major leftist who said that dekulakization was bad because destroying the kulaks wasn't moral and ethical.
>>444609
>leading on this much
It's hilarious because the commies used to portray the kulaks like the nazis portray Jews, a clique of shady rich people deliberately destabilizing the society.
Even though in real life someone got classified as "kulak" because he owned one more cow than a "poor peasant."
>>444609
Because there is literally nothing wrong with "de-kulakisation".
>and then he said morality is a social construct
>>444492
>morality exists without social elements
>rocks and trees can be immoral and moral
wat
It is, they are created so the specific society can function.
For example the Mongols saw nothing immoral about killing masses of innocents, while we do.
>>444492
You're right, morality isn't socially constructed, it's passed down from God after he appears as a burning bush or sends his angels to talk to a man in a cave.
Let's discuss why is the concept of a World War reserved exclusively for a XX century, when there were in fact other major wars in the past that were fought on a global scale. For example, Seven Years' War.
>>444043
I can't find a picture with a nose big enough to explain why.
>>444043
7 years war and war of Austrian succession are kind of transition-points of military thought. Somewhere around the time war stopped being only about capturing fortresses and avoiding battles 99% of times and started being about destroying the enemy army(Napoleonic campaigns were basically 100% about it).
Also WW1 was at first called the great war and sure, 7 years war or 30 years war would be called word wars/great wars but it was way before we've had journalists looking for catchy title for their article.
The Seven Years' War was only on three continents. Both world wars were on six.
There are only five original civilizations, all the others ultimately descend from at least one of them: Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China and Yucatan
y/n?
>>444032
No
>>444032
What about the Greeks? All Western civilization descends from them.
>>444032
I don't think Inca civilization descends from Yucutan. The Peruvians appear to have developed agriculture independently.
