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Is Ancient Egypt a hoax? What does /his think of this?
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How would you rebut this? Egypt is mentioned several times in biblical scripture but no mention of the Sphinx nor the pyramids or anything describing its appearance.
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>>2488930
We all know all pyramids are built by based slavs from Atlantis.
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>>2488930
>African heritage
>a hoax
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Bit of a normie here, Im about half way through guns germs and steel any ideas for my next book?
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Years of Rice and Salt
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I was expecting something non fiction but this book looks REALLY good, thanks for the suggestion! Looks like my first 4chan post was a sucess!
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For history or in general? For religion: The Religious Experience by Ninian Smart and The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James.
Both are good resources for an overview of different faiths, and as is typical they kinda tiptoe around thr controversial stuff.
I also found The Seven Mysteries of life to be an interesting book, but that isn't exactly history.
why did the ancient greeks call africa libya? didn't they know libya is it's own country?
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at what point in your life did you give up hope
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>>2488748
delet
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Sup guys, I'm looking for media (books, TV shows, movies, Chinese cartoons) to consume on pre-modern Vietnam, Cambodia, or Burma.
Anybody got any leads?
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>>2488685
Are you looking for literature also? If so, then you should look into the Tale of Kieu by Nguyen Du
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>>2488843
redpill me
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The best country and military to ever exist
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i'm sure nothing will happen in this thread
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really "best military" threads are just /his/ powerlevel threads and are garbage for pretty much the same reasons
>moving goalpost
>obnoxious fanboys
>power dependent on various mental and physical factors
>not taking account on the general power of the world (or in this case era/region)
lets just agree that UK has an ok army yet scary navy while France has a scary army yet ok navy (cir. 1700s-1800s)
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>>2488679
I mean if that's what you think
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Which ancient had the best boipucci and why was it Hephaestion
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>>2488613
Hadrian disagrees with you
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That's not Elgebalus
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>>2488627
Hnnnng
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What is the utility of having a child in a poor country? 2017-03-11 01:01:04 Post No.2488608
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What is the utility of having a child in a poor country?
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What does one more child in an impoverished, overpopulated country add but more misery?
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Children are future economic units. At age 5 they will go to the acid mines, bringing in precious pennies to feed your coca leaf habit.
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poor people fuck a lot, India tried to remedy this by introducing television in many villages.
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>no social safety net
>creating children is the only way to ensure that somebody looks after you when you get old
>you get to use them as farm equipment in the mean time
Was Camus ever suicidal and did he ever seriously contemplate suicide? Because I've been through some serious depression and have considered suicide, and his solution to why not suicide makes no sense to me. It seems like he's only considered suicide in the abstract, he knows his answer is not suicide, and he came up with a justification to why not suicide.
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What you should do is date a bunch of supermodels and drive your car off of a cliff.
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>>2488591
"However dark, we must supply our own light"
Not necessarily Camus, but to me suicide is bad bet. We'll die eventually so you may as well try to find life before that.
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>>2488591
>It seems like he's only considered suicide in the abstract
Well yes. Clinical depression is different. If you want to kill yourself because the hormones in your brain are in the wrong proportions, no argument is going to matter.
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Reject all Churches and Accept the Sermon on the Mount... 2017-03-11 12:27:15 Post No.2488456
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Reject all Churches and Accept the Sermon on the Mount...
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Based Tolstoy
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>>2488456
>ywn live in an anarcho-christian society
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>hasn't taken the Green Pill
wew
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>Xerxes, originally, wanted to leave Greece alone. His father had led a long and painful campaign against the Greeks and lost, and >Xerxes was not eager to follow in his footsteps. Some of his generals pushed for him to go to war, but he was not going to listen to them—until the Greeks asked him to.
>A lot of Greeks actually loved Persia. They thought they were an incredibly diverse and progressive nation. Some of them were so eager to become a part of the empire that they actually came to Persia and asked Xerxes to be their leader.
>First, the Aleuadae family came over and offered to pay Xerxes to come to Greece. Then another family, the Pisistratidae, came and offered him even more. They even brought an oracle with them, who told Xerxes he was destined to build a floating bridge and conquer Greece.
>By the time they had left, Xerxes was convinced he was meant to rule Greece. He called together his people and announced that they would be going to war. “I will never rest,” he declared, “until I have taken Athens and burnt it.”
Xerxes bought into the prophecy the Greeks gave him. He wanted to play out every moment they described leading to his victory, and so he set up a floating bridge across the Hellespont River. It did not work out—as soon as the bridge went up, a storm knocked it down.
>Xerxes had some issues with anger. If someone made him mad, he got revenge—even if that someone was a body of water. He ordered his men to put chains on the river and whip it for its insolence. So, they tossed some chains in the water and gave the river 300 lashes, yelling, “You are a turbid and briny river!”
>It gets weirder. Xerxes, apparently, felt bad about whipping the river, because, once he got his bridge to stay up, he apologized to it. He burned incense on the bridge and threw golden bottles into the water—which, according to Herodotus, was his attempt to apologize to the sea.
Any more stories about people doing stuff like this?
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>A lot of Greeks actually loved Persia.
Not true. There were some that admired particular leaders like Cyrus, but being a subject wasn't fun. They sent land-surveyors to assess cultivable land and taxed the harvests 20-30%--which was pretty significant back then. Ironically the Jews who praise the Persians for defeating the Babylonians that ultimately freed them from their captivity and granting them to return to their homeland in the Bible, also mention in the book of Nehemiah how the taxes under the Achaemenids rule in their homeland is too demanding and causing many to take out mortgages or selling their kids or themselves into slavery, but accepted the whole situation as if it was just a fact of life and Nehemiah's role in it is basically just making due and abiding by their subjugation while trying to enact more reforms to prosper more with what they had.
>They thought they were an incredibly diverse and progressive nation.
1. The Greeks couldn't had care less about diversity. To them, you either were some unruly savage brute (like Thracians, Scythians, Celts, and the mountainous tribes in Asia and Europe) or a servile decadent degenerate (like they considered the Egyptians, Mesopotamians, and many of the Anatolian civilizations; or Greek (which they considered themselves exceptionally for being both civilized while also naturally self-ruling).
2. They disliked the concept of monarchy, and didn't consider it progressive, but serville. The exception is with Sparta, but they thought it didn't count because it was a dual monarchy that had a prevailing geroursia that was elected by the citizenry, and considered the citizenry class in Sparta to be more of self-independent dudes who voluntarily just pledge to the King to achieve a greater collective cause.
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>Some of them were so eager to become a part of the empire that they actually came to Persia and asked Xerxes to be their leader.
No one besides for figures who wanted Persian support so they could carry out their own personal ambitions in their State wanted this. The only exception that comes to mind is with Athens with allegedly the democratic fraction wanting Persian aid and rule in exchange of removing Hippias, which still counts as them coming to them for carrying out a favor.
>First, the Aleuadae family came over and offered to pay Xerxes to come to Greece.
They wanted him to come over so he could give them satrapy powers and so they could squash their neighboring enemies.
>Then another family, the Pisistratidae, came and offered him even more
This was after Hippias was removed and in exiled, and wanted them so they could restore him. Both of this was during Darius' reign.
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Who are some female intellectuals that you admire?
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Jeane kirkpatrick
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>female intellectuals
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top 5 guys on the manhattan project. who would they be?
obviously Oppenheimer and Fermi. Neumann and Feynmann?
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The atomic bomb was one of the many invent stolen by the burgers from the III Reich.
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Einstein
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>>2488201
Einstein never did jack shit.
Current year and people still think Einstein did anything but steal other men's work from a patent office.
>Flunked uni entrance exam
>Genius!
>christians aren't extremists
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niggers aren't human they don't count
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>>2488098
I would rather argue that Christianity has its extremists, just like every other idea.
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>>2488098
>Comparing a nigger nigging to the religion of the White Man
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Do you think its weird that the Catholic Church changes its mind on certain issues and attempts to modernize? It seems as though doing this makes the church seem very imperfect, sort of saying that the message that was supposedly perfect and straight from God actually had it wrong, which also would make one skeptical of future and current 'rules'.
It also introduces the idea that society and non-Catholic culture is as important as Catholic beliefs/culture- adapting to non-Catholic ideas may be justified theologically, but it will always seem a little like the Church just wants to keep relevant and powerful rather than deliver a perfect and universal doctrine.
Overall, I'm just not quite sure how Catholics can be so fine with the Church adapting so much. It seems like it's just making the religion easier, and is introducing the idea that the Church is second to the rest of the world than the other way around. It makes it seem like the Church is more of a market trying to attract people to its establishment than a true and theologically sound belief system.
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From a Catholic perspective, the Vatican 2 reforms are 100 years of Satan being able to tempt the church. At least we have a metaphysical reason for the current catastrophe. Compare that to the Protestants who just suck without any obvious reasons why.
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>>2488072
fpbp
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No. Religion is something that is interpreted and exists at specific times in humanity to guide those in a certain direction. Certain laws and commandments are those that will never change - customs and general opinion always does and religion is a reflection of that
>Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
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>my shallow frame of reference prevents me from understanding things
Good job, OP
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>Spanish Austrian Netherlands
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>parthian empire
>Sassanid empire
>Greco Persian empire