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Hello, I'm an American Orthodox Jew. Ask me anything about Jewish theology or practice and I'll do my level best to answer. I'm not a Rabbi or anything, so I can't guarantee I'll know if it's something really complex, but I'm reasoanbly well versed in this stuff so I can at least make a stab at things.
I can only stay for an hour or two though.
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>>2537651
Is loyalty to the Zionist cause inherent (either in the religion itself or the culture surrounding it) to modern Judaism?
Also, do you identify as a Jew more in a religious sense or racial/cultural sens?
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>>2537721
>Is loyalty to the Zionist cause inherent (either in the religion itself or the culture surrounding it) to modern Judaism?
Not particularly. There are considerable groups, especially among the Chasidim, who are vehemently anti-zionist, and among non-religious Jews, at least in the U.S., not giving a damn seems to be the predominant position. In places like Israel, you get a different spin on things.
>Also, do you identify as a Jew more in a religious sense or racial/cultural sens?
At least for me, definitely in a religious sense. "Cultural Judaism" is in a lot of ways similar to Cultural Christianity, a bunch of things that people kind of do without really thinking about why, and then attributing it to their religious organization, whether or not that's actually the case. For instance, there's a certainbelief, although completely baseless in religious literature, that you can purify a cooking or eating utensil that you accidentally mixed milk and meat on by burying it in dirt for three days. It's enormously prevalent among Jewish communities that are from the Ukraine, you don't see it in nearly the same degree anywhere else, although there is some holding to it in other groups that are from Eastern Europe originally. I have no idea what it stems from originally, but if you asked a Yemenite or any sort of Sephardi or German Jew, they'd think you're nuts for doing something like that.
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Did he deserve it, /his/?
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>>2537599
for standing against the holy warriors of Allah, of course. The kafir must die.
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>>2537599
The fuck is this?
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>>2537822
film character
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Why didn't South Korea didn't move their capital after the war (truce)? Seoul was too close to the DMZ and is within range of lots of artillery and missiles from the North which gives the majority of the population very little time to evacuate in case of war.
I mean they had like more than 50 years to do this slowly.
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>>2537477
> why didn't South Korea didn't
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>>2537487
apologies for poor english i am north korea
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Why did Americans have to die for a shitty peninsula?
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>The foulest Babylonian custom is that which compels every woman of the land to sit in the temple of Aphrodite and have intercourse with some stranger at least once in her life. Many women who are rich and proud and disdain to mingle with the rest, drive to the temple in covered carriages drawn by teams, and stand there with a great retinue of attendants. But most sit down in the sacred plot of Aphrodite, with crowns of cord on their heads; there is a great multitude of women coming and going; passages marked by line run every way through the crowd, by which the men pass and make their choice. Once a woman has taken her place there, she does not go away to her home before some stranger has cast money into her lap, and had intercourse with her outside the temple; but while he casts the money, he must say, “I invite you in the name of Mylitta”. It does not matter what sum the money is; the woman will never refuse, for that would be a sin, the money being by this act made sacred. So she follows the first man who casts it and rejects no one. After their intercourse, having discharged her sacred duty to the goddess, she goes away to her home; and thereafter there is no bribe however great that will get her. So then the women that are fair and tall are soon free to depart, but the uncomely have long to wait because they cannot fulfil the law; for some of them remain for three years, or four.
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>>2537291
>industrialized cuckoldry
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>>2537424
You wouldn't be a virgin, though.
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>>2537437
I wouldn't be a virgin either way.
Why are horse archers so overpowered?
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>>2537211
To make way for the American Cowboy
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>>2537211
No need for slow supply chain.
The "let's retreat and then quickly go back to overwhelming them!" strategy was laughably effective.
But the real reason for Mongol success was Genghis and his superb Alexander-tier generals.
Only surpassed when Colt made every man equal (for a while).
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>>2537211
Still waiting for that shield buff to go through
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Through magic, you get to transfer a historical building (could be a temple, palace, large statue, anything) that is not around anymore into the present day. It is in mint condition, including the interior. You don't get to plunder it to enrich yourself, and it will serve as a museum right away. If you pick something that didn't really exist, nothing happens. Safekeeping and maintenance will not be an issue.
What construction that has been destroyed do you revive?
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persepolis
fuck alexander
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>>2537210
>What construction that has been destroyed do you revive?
Treblinka Death Camp
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OPs picks:
>Library of Alexandria
>Palace of Constantinople
>Colossus of Rhodes
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Are states, as we understand them in the modern sense, a fundamentally Mesopotamian/Egyptian invention? In Europe, it seems like all "pure" Europeans like the Celts and the Illyrians had very loose state structures, whereas the Greeks and the Romans borrowed the concept of a state from the east.
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>>2537178
Minoans didn't borrow the concept of state from the East
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>>2537223
Were the Minoans the basis of later Greek poleis?
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>>2537229
For the Mycenean state, yes.
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Who recorded the various WW2 footages? For what purpose? With what kind of camera?
>pic unrelated
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War correspondants. For newspapers and for propaganda.
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what if the war correspondants got shot
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>>2538933
You know I bet they never though of that.
Why did the Achaemenids use Elamite so much for their official records? Wouldn't it have been easier to write them primarily in Aramaic or Akkadian?
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>>2537119
Official stuff was published in more than one language as far as I remeber
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>>2537119
A lot of administrative papers that still survived were written in Babylonian or Egyptian
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Why the greek language became so irrelevant ? It was the language of the richest part of the roman empire, and now it's only spoken by a few millions. It's true latin also died out, but it gave birth to other languages (Spanish, french, italian) it isn't the same for greek, where slavic language have completly replaced it. What happened ?
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>>2537016
Suppression of the language and it's people by the Ottomans when Constantinople fell. Unlike Greece, the foreigners who came to Italy were influenced by Latin culture which gave rise to the Romance languages.
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>>2537016
communism
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>>2537519
But what about those slavic tribes, why they didn't hellenized?
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Turkic people and Native-Americans
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Are they related?
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Yes, we are all related and pink inside. Stop inciting racism.
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>>2537002
Indeed they are, during the ancient Finno-Korean Hyper War the prototurks volunteered to test out the Quantum Teleportation Devises which sent them across the globe to another continent in an effort to colonize the American Great Lakes.
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>>2537002
They're both mongoloids, though from different branch
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Goguryeo & Yamato: "WEE ARE EMPIRESU N'SHIEEETU"
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>>2536977
So how long does Japan and Korea has been hating each other exactly? this is some ancient shit
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>>2536983
At least from the first contact of Yamato and Goguryeo in 391.
They struggled for Silla and Silla started to hate both of Goguryeo and Yamato.
More older record of Silla said Wa Japanese people had attacked from the beginning of Silla.
However they said also Hogong, the first prime minister and Talhae Isageum, the first king of second dynasty of Silla were from Japan.
About Baekje, they were ally and always friendly to Yamato.
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>>2536977
I'd swear it's the same autistic Jap that keeps spamming these threads.
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Has anyone attempted to reunite the catholic and protestant faith since the reformation?
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>>2536802
Yes, satan has
Semper Reformanda
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>>2536809
protestant """""Art"""""
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How can you be an athiest and not a fatalist. If you deny the entire school of metaphysics because you dont believe in a soul or god, then you must think that we are just brains in vats. If you think you are athiest and not fatalist/nihilist, explain why you are right
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>>2536767
>If you deny the entire school of metaphysics because you dont believe in a soul or god, then you must think that we are just brains in vats.
that's a possibility but there's not reason to specifically accept that.
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>>2536767
Many of them are neither fatalists or nihilists, but hedonists. They argue that we live in a cosmic soup with free will and that preferential utilitarianism is the highest ethos. As an atheist I was a Peter Singer fanboy.
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Like Ferris Beuller I don't believe in isms.
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How come there are so many soldiers who were dedicated anti-communists and spent their whole life fighting its expansion, but you don't hear about many communists who spent their whole life trying to spark revolution in the same manner?
The most famous would be Che, but I can't think about many others.
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>>2536742
>How come there are so many soldiers who were dedicated anti-communists and spent their whole life fighting its expansion
There are not. At least not the ideological ones.
>but you don't hear about many communists who spent their whole life trying to spark revolution in the same manner?
You didn't grew up in 2nd world, did you? Then the answer would be that your gov. doesn't want you to know.
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>>2536765
fpbp
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>>2536742
> but you don't hear about many communists who spent their whole life trying to spark revolution in the same manner?
The Soviet Union, Eastern Bloc, China, North Korea, Cuba, Zimbabwe, Africa all had these.