Why is it that the population of the United States of America doesn't celebrate Easter? What events have led to the countrywide non-celebration of such an important christian holiday in what is a largely christian nation?
protestant SHITS
But they do? What are you talking about?
Proteniggery.
You can be reborn into a new time and place. You are permitted to choose a profession. What would /his/ do?
>16th Century Barbary Corsair under Barbarossa. Stationed in the East side of Constantiniople/Istanbul
Ur dad 14 years ago lmao
>venice as a adriatic jew
>Roman Consul
>Spain, France, England as an important aristocrat, maybe daddy did all the work.
>>2674620
>east side of istanbul
You like expensive things I see.
Why would God allow free will if he wants us all to be completely perfect anyways and then send his beloved creations to hell for one tiny sin only to torture his son to forgive us instead of just willing it?
>>2674555
1. GOD ALLOWS FREE WILL SO THAT WE CAN STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM.
FREE WILL IS A CONSEQUENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSCIOUSNESS IS A FUNCTION OF THE MIND WHICH WAS IMPLANTED BY SOFIA SO THAT WE CAN REMEMBER OUR DIVINE ESSENCE, AND ACT BY ITS IMPELLENCE.
2. GOD DID NOT CREATE HUMANS; HUMANS WERE CREATED BY THE DEMIOURGOS.
3. SOULS GO NEITHER TO HELL, NOR TO PARADISE, AFTER DEATH, BUT TO THE HYPERZONE, REMAINING THERE UNTIL THE FINAL DAY OF JUDGMENT, AFTER WHICH SOULS WILL THEN BE SENT EITHER TO HELL, OR TO PARADISE, ACCORDING TO THEIR ETHOS DURING THEIR LIFETIME.
4. THE GENERAL CRITERION FOR SENDING A SOUL TO HELL IS NOT DISOBEDIENCE, NOR "SINFULNESS", BUT IGNOBILITY.
5. JESUS WAS NOT A DIVINITY; HE WAS NOT "THE SON OF GOD"; JESUS WAS A NOBLE HUMAN PERSON, AND PROPHET.
6. JESUS DID NOT DIE AS A "SCAPEGOAT" FOR "HUMANITY'S SINS"; THAT IS A JUDEOCHRISTIAN NOTION —ID EST: A CORRUPTION.
because then they wouldn't be completely perfect. they would be incomplete in that they lack freewill.
>>2674587
someone just bombed the threadq
I applied for a degree in history but I find philosophy more fun. Help me retroactively justify my bad decisions and tell me why a history degree's better
Should've just gone for an Economics degree, or something else that would actually make money.
>>2674511
Hell nah I don't wanna kill myself. Everything I wanna do is low-paying and needs a generic degree anyway.
The problem is I've done the equivalent of going into STEM for money and taking a botany degree.
History is a good way to get into law.
ITT: Historical figures you could beat up IRL
Pic related
>Manlet
>Fucked up arm
He will beat you with his conqueror haki
>>2674454
He rob a bank one time, actually it was the biggest robbery in Russia during revolution 05-07, killed 2 policemen and 3 cossacks
>>2674454
Why should people have "rights"
>>2674332
The concept of negative rights acts as a counter to the concept of laws.
If laws are edicts the government gives that must be obeyed lest the citizenry be punished, rights are things the government must respect lest they be violently overthrown.
These two ideas together form part of the Social Contract, wherein people give up a portion of their negative rights [such as the right to murder, rape, or steal] in return for the benefits of law.
>>2674332
>Why should people have "rights"
The origin of the concept comes from the halls of medieval monasteries, where rival cadres of bickering monks asked each other this question:
"What is the right way to treat someone?"
They framed it in a religious sense: in order to achieve a more perfect union with the dictates of Christ, we need to categorize behaviors which do and don't fall within the parameters of those rules which flowed from Jesus's commandment to love your neighbors as yourself. Neighbors who love each other don't steal from one another, don't covet each other's wives, etc.
Because the salvation of the soul was at stake, Christians were obligated to treat each other in a loving manner, and as such "the right way" to treat people became social obligations, or "rights".
It was precisely this line of thinking which inspired enlightenment thinkers such as John Locke, which in turn inspired the American revolution to reverse this trend of thinking of "rights" as a privilege granted by citizenship, but something inalienable and inherent in all people, with the government's role to act as an enforcer of these self-evident truths, which vary over time as technology changes the circumstances of the human condition and allow for a wider variety of possibilities.
>>2674332
They don't, rights are obviously an artificial concept and a very recent one at that
Why didn't Mr. President listen to him?
>inb4 drop nukes on chinks and north korean commies.
>>2674263
Because it literally would of caused WW3
>>2674263
Even if what he was suggesting wasn't insanity, MacArthur had just presided over possibly the most embarrassing defeat in U.S. history through sheer incompetence, having previously presided over the largest defeat in U.S. history about ten years before. Why the fuck would anyone listen to him? He should've been fired years ago desu.
>>2674263
Jesus
> in 1960, he challenged a statement by Truman that he had advocated using atomic bombs. Truman issued a retraction, stating that he had no evidence of the claim; it was merely his personal opinion.
Both Truman and the Joint Chiefs had sent nukes to be possibly used in Korea, the whole "Macarthur being a warmonger" is a lie. Truman fired him because he was going over Truman's head talk to foreign officials and seeking more public approval to push the Chinese back.
Childhood is thinking the Nazis were the bad guys.
Adolescence is thinking the Nazis were the good guys.
Adulthood is realizing the Nazis were the bad guys all along.
>>2674223
Is that the man that sleeps with your wife?
>>2674223
So you've basically gone through a process that brought you back to where you started with no big change?
alright then!
>>2674223
fuck this is me. I hated Jews so much when I was like 16 I got arrested for a hate crime. I watched the "greatest story never told" and I thought I had been lied to so I dug deeper. it's kind of depressing to think about I wasted years of my life just talking about jews.
Redpill me on Slavoj Zizek. What concepts did he create/discover/think of?
>>2674180
its called irony bb
And so on...
>>2674180
Pure ideology
Let's have a thread where we post other cultures opinions on each other. I'll start:
"On the Arabs [Dashi to the Chinese], compiled from the records of Du Huang, who was a POW in the Abbasid Caliphate following the Battle of Talas."
>>2674152
>The Dashi (Arabs) were originally under the rule of Anxi (Persia). The men have high noses, are dark, and bearded. The women are very fair [white] and when they go out they veil the face. Five times daily they worship Tianshen [lit. Heavenly God]. They wear silver girdles, with silver knives suspended. They do not drink wine, nor use music. Their place of worship will accommodate several hundreds of people.
>Every seventh day the King (Caliph) sits on high, and speaks to those below saying, ' Those who are killed by the enemy will be born in heaven above; those who slay the enemy will receive happiness.' Therefore they are usually valiant fighters. Their land is sandy and stony, not fit for cultivation; so they hunt and eat flesh
>>2674156
>Kufa is the place of their capital. Its men and women are attractive in appearance and large in stature. Their clothing is handsome, and their carriage and demeanor leisurely and lovely. When women go outdoors, they always cover their faces, regardless of whether they are noble or base. They pray to heaven five times a day. They eat meat [ even] when practicing abstention, [for] they believe the taking of life to be meritorious.
>The followers of the religion of the Dashi have a means to denote the degrees of family relations, but it is degenerated and they don’t bother about it. They don’t eat the meat of pigs, dogs, donkeys and horses, they don’t respect neither the king of the country, neither their parents, they don’t believe in supernatural powers, they perform sacrifice to heaven and to no one else. According their customs every seventh day is a holiday, on which no trade and no cash transactions are done, whereas when they drink alcohol, they are behaving in a ridiculous and undisciplined way during the whole day
>>2674158
This is Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta talking about the Africans.
>The negroes possess some admirable qualities. They are seldom unjust, and have a greater abhorrence of injustice than any other people. Their sultan shows no mercy to anyone who is guilty of the least act of it. There is complete security in their country. Neither traveller nor inhabitant in it has anything to fear from robbers or men of violence. They do not confiscate the property of any white man who dies in their country, even if it be uncounted wealth. On the contrary, they give it into the charge of some trustworthy person among the whites, until the rightful heir takes possession of it. They are careful to observe the hours of prayer, and assiduous in attending them in congregations, and in bringing up their children to them.
>Another of their good qualities is their habit of wearing clean white garments on Fridays. Even if a man has nothing but an old worn shirt, he washes it and cleans it, and wears it to the Friday service. Yet another is their zeal for learning the Koran by heart. They put their children in chains if they show any backwardness in memorizing it, and they are not set free until they have it by heart. I visited the qadi in his house on the day of the festival. His children were chained up, so I said to him, "Will you not let them loose?" He replied, "I shall not do so until they learn the Koran by heart.
Why is Germany and Scandinavia's culture so "robotic" compared to Western and Southern Europe?
>>2674066
allied propaganda
>>2674066
Dey don got autism
>>2674082
It is called Aspergers.
Did the Nazis truly view Slavic people as subhumans or was it a more political thing (anti-Communism)? I ask because the Nazis did try to cooperate with some Slavs (the Croatians come to mind first and foremost). Indeed, according to Wikipedia, up to 20%* of the Wehrmacht's manpower on the Eastern Front in the initial stages of Barbarossa was foreign, with half being Russian. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_collaborationism_with_the_Axis_powers
*Don't actually know if this statistic is accurate or not.
The Nazi racial policies were quite based on necessity.
We need to control a messy region, without committing massive numbers of troops? Welcome, fellow Aryan Croatians!
The war with the USSR is going well?
Fuck off Ukrainian untermenschen, we have no need for your wish to form twenty divisions to fight the Soviets!
Latvians and Lithuanians? You are somewhat smelly, you can serve, but in Schuma battalions, and may not be awarded the Iron Cross - here, take this smelly easterner medal.
The war with the USSR has gone to shit?
Congratulations, great nations of Europe! You may now form Waffen SS divisions! Iron Crosses for all!
>>2674003
Definitly racial cultural and geopolitical thing, depending on what person you'll ask.
>I ask because the Nazis did try to cooperate with some Slavs
If ayys come to Earth and try to conquer us, I'm sure you'll find people collaborating with them.
As for the collaborating Slavs Germans needed manpower, so they had no problem with using them, as long as they were not on Lebensraum.
>>2674003
If you read Goebbels and Rosenberg's diaries you'll find that the sub-human (which to be honest is a bad translation of untermensch should be lesser human, like how you have lesser boar greater boars adn shit in warcraft) meme originates from the Wehrmacht propaganda office which competed with Goebbel's own propaganda office. Both Rosenberg and Goebbel's tried to stop this propaganda because it was completely stupid. The army propaganda guy however thought the moral boost was more important and also it made it easier to follow the 'new war' mentality Hitler wanted fought in the east, aka no geneva conventions.
Ultimately, who can say who was right? I tend to side with Rosenberg and Goebbels on this one but its alot easier to do so when you know how the war ends.
that he converted to Christianity at the end of his life effectively making his life work meaningless
THat would have made his life work coherent instead of edgey with all his
>muh buddha
Nothing is lamer than a white upper middle way buddhist.
Incorrect.
He never ceased to be a catholic and he explains his reasons in his works, which you didn't read. And no it doesn't invalidate his work. The reasons for which he also explains. Looks like you have yet to read a single paragraph let alone a book by Evola. And no, I will not give you a rundown, you lazy degenerate low attention spam, low IQ bum.
>>2673991
>Evola died unmarried, without children, on 11 June 1974 in Rome.
He died a failure as a man
This schismatic man and his associates have sentenced the West to death and are responsible for all damnable modern dogmas, such as 'Individuality,' 'Democracy,' and 'Capitalism.'
'Sola Scriptura' is the ideological basis for subjectivism and was dogmatized by these heretics and for it the West slowly dies a painful and degenerate death.
>>2673960
The only mistake the Reformation made was not getting out of its crippled Catholic phase and completely purge the Vatican, Pope - Lord of Lords and Jesuits from the face of earth.
Truth be told, most men want to be told what to do by a despot now after a few millennium of 'civilization' which is really just the art of self domestication.
On the bright side it did highlight what man is capable of when freed from the shackles of a despot.
>>2673960
t. catlicker
>>2673960
this
What religion do you guys follow?
Are you by the book or do you just follow some practices/beliefs?
Were you raised on that religion or did you convert?
>Buddhism
>follow some beliefs and practices but not vegetarian and I'm bad at not being a dick to people
>converted
>>2673832
>What religion do you guys follow?
NONE, BUT I ADHERE TO A SPIRITUAL DOCTRINE: GNOSTIC CHRISTIANITY.
>Are you by the book[,] or do you just follow some practices/beliefs?
I BELIEVE, AM FAITHFUL, AND KNOW.
THE ONLY RITUAL THAT I FOLLOW IS PRAYER BEFORE SLEEPING, AND PRAYER AFTER WAKING.
>Were you raised on that [SPIRITUAL DOCTRINE][,] or did you convert?
I CONVERTED.
>>2673832
>What religion do you guys follow?
Lutheranian Christianity
>Are you by the book or do you just follow some practices/beliefs?
I try to follow the "christian values", but i personally think that taking the bible literally as in thinking that all that is written in it actually happened usually only leads to being a very close minded person
>Were you raised on that religion or did you convert?
My parents are both pastors (inb4 catholics get mad at a woman pastor) so i was raised as a christian, but i was always tought to respect the different religious beliefs.
>>2674608
LUTHERANISM IS A FORM OF JUDEOCHRISTIANITY, NOT OF CHRISTIANITY.