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This is what your typical ancient Roman looked like
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>>2628038
So swarthy and Mediterranean brown skinned.
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Rambo would be much more fun if it was about an ancient Roman legionary who time travelled to 20th century America and became a super Roman commando.
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>>2628038
the lentil diet
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Ever pray to a Greek god?
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>>2627930
You don't pray to them, you make an offering or sacrifice.
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>>2627930
not worth it , don't bring attention to yourself
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>>2627970
this
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>commander
>gunner
>loader
>driver
>co driver
Is it me or are tanks overstaffed?
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>>2627845
idiot
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>>2627845
t. Gamelin
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>>2627845
5 crew members was like the perfect amount for tanks in WW2
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Who are the most bitter rivals in history?
To my mind there's
Hungary and Romania
France and Britain
Greece and Turkey
The USA and Russia
France and Germany
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>>2627790
Japan and Korea
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>>2627790
Britain and Russia.
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Kurds & Iraqi
Why did the term griffe fall out of favor as a descriptor for black Americans?
It is unique and rolls of the tongue better than black American or African-American, terms that subtley misrepresent this unique ethnic group.
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>>2627619
Because this is not colonial U.S. or contemporary Haiti and white people never cared about non-black ancestry.
Get over your race quantum autism
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>>2627659
This doesn't answer my question at all.
Why did it fall out of favor, to be replaced by cumbersome misrepresenting terms?
It just doesn't make any sense at all.
>whites don't care about non-black ancestry.
Dumbest thing I've heard in a while.
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>>2627678
Whites in the colonial era quickly realized that the value of black people was not in identifying their white ancestry as something to differentiate. It feel out of use because the white American population sought to limit "stepping" stones to whiteness and the census actively told the census takers from marking them down.
In the 1930's all of African descent were Negro/coloured/black
Stupid retard
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Good Books about Politics 2017-04-07 06:58:54 Post No.2627550
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I know that the Dictator's Handbook is kind of a meme, but I enjoyed the read so I was wondering what other books on political analyses you guys recommend.
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>>2628003
Gracias.
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>>2627550
"The Art of War" by Sun Tzu
"The Prince" by Macchiavelli
"On War" by Clausewitz
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Occultism & Magick: Library Update 48
The Ape of (ID: !Th0tH..7io)
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Hey guys. Been a minute. Last thread I hosted here was to announce the Tantraloka, scanned in full for the first time in English online. It's the core text of the Uttara Kaula Trika and the magnum opus of Abhinavagupta. I've made a few more updates since then but figured I should alert you guys that my cache of Enochian manuscripts is now complete, and my Sloane MSS folder is fuller. Pretty sure this is the first time all of these Sloane MSS have appeared together under the same digital roof.
John Dee was an English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occult philosopher, and advisor to Queen Elizabeth I. He devoted his life to the study of alchemy, divination, and Hermetic philosophy.
Dee straddled the worlds of science and magic as they were becoming distinguishable. One of the most learned men of his age, he had been invited to lecture on the geometry of Euclid at the University of Paris while still in his twenties. Dee was an promoter of mathematics and a respected astronomer, and leading expert in navigation, training many of those who would conduct England's voyages of discovery.
Some other goodies below but first the usual links then the new materials:
/sum/ pastebin:
http://pastebin.com/HhU18gCW
Library:
https://mega.nz/#F!AE5yjIqB!y7Vdxdb5pbNsi2O3zyq9KQ
>Sloane MSS
Sloane 3198
Sloane 3191
Sloane 3188
Cotton Appendix XLVI, pt 1
Cotton Appendix XLVI, pt 2
Also are copied into the Enochian folder. I think this is the first time ever this many of the core manuscripts have been under the same digital roof.
>A.'.A.'.>Philosophy
Ancient Philosophy of Religion
Occult Powers and Hypotheses: Cartesian Natural Philosophy under Louis XVI
>Shamanic
The Teabo Manuscript, which is an interesting little document, a Late Mayan manuscript in which the people of the Feathered Serpent attempt to make some vague sense of Christism, and the start of what COULD have been a Mayan-Christian syncretic faith.
I'll bump with some pics from the Enochian manuscripts.
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>>2627112
Background on Dee:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dee
Background on his magickal system:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enochian_magic
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Catholicbros, how specific do I have to be when confessing the sin of porn?
I've watched and fapped to hentai and even porn with homosexual content. Do i have to specify those, or could i just say that I've masturbated to porn?
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>>2627491
You don't even need confession if you feel true guilt for your sins. Not sorrow because of your punishment, but a sorrow that comes from your love of God. God is always willing to open his arms to you as long as you are willing to accept him and follow his commands. Even death bed confessions and request for redemption can be heard if you do them for a love God and not a fear of punishment. And yes even Hitler.
>Former Catholic
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So tell me about how your god needs you to tell somedude in a secluded and dark space about you touching your dick at night.
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>>2627513
wait, isn't this salvation by faith without works?
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Hey, /his/ do you think dragons were real but went extinct? Sure, they probably didn't breathe fire, but the idea of a large flying reptile surviving into early human history isn't out of the question. Dragons show up in almost every ancient culture too, so it seems they were well known and widespread before they died out.
What do you think?
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>>2627182
Large, dinosaur-era reptiles/birds surviving into the modern(ish) era isn't completely out of the question. Look at the elephant bird, saltwater crocodile, etc.
However, there is no hard evidence for dragons, at least not yet.
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We would have found a shred of evidence by now
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>>2627182
The word "dinosaur" was coined in the 19th century AD.
Before that, people called such creatures serpents, flying serpents, dragons, behemoths, leviathans, etc.
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What are some historical examples of long-lasting alliances? Of true fellowship between countries?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Portuguese_Alliance
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>>2627098
Yeah, thats the only one i could think of, are there any more?
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Was the execution of the Romanov family the most tragic event in the entire recorded history of humanity?
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It wasn't even the most tragic death of a monarch.
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No doubt
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The collapse of the 1st Roman Empire is the saddest thing in recorded history, followed by the destruction of the 2nd Roman Empire and the fall of the 3rd Roman Empire.
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>North Italians keep complaining non-stop about terroni dragging the country down
>it was North Italy that started the unification
>annexing South Italy against their will was one of the first things they did
really activates my almonds.
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Maybe us north italians just wanted to help the south out but they weren't really cooperating. I have family in the south and I don't its bad or worse than the north in most ways.
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They underestimate how different the terroni were
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Spain can take Sardinia and Sicily back if Italy does not want them.
ITT: Sum up your country's best know history using up to 3 "muh ___" and people can try figure out where you mean.
>muh culture
>muh monks
>muh rebels
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Ireland?
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>muh Nazis
>muh Holocaust
>muh 6 gorillion
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>>2626553
>Muh monarchy
>muh empire
>muh colonies
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Some points to clear up about Orthodoxy.
1. God is existentially three, but ontologically one. The Son is, according to a literal translation of the Nicene Creed from Greek, "essentially the same as the Father".
2. Christ is ontologically two (God and man), but existentially one.
3. The Filioque, according to the official explanation of the RCC, means that Father and the Son are the Spirit's joint existential principle. This is based on the Roman assertion that a person's existential principle is an essential quality, and since the Father and Son are ontologically the same, the Spirit must proceed of both; in Orthodoxy, by contrast, existence precedes essence; if the Roman position were true, the Spirit would also proceed of himself, since he is ontologically the Father and the Son.
4. To say the Spirit proceeds through or even from the Son in sense of always operating through him, is perfectly Orthodox (since they are operationally identical), but it is wrong to say the Son and Father are a dual principle of the Spirit, which is how the Filioque is intended. Not surprising, since the Spirit's procession in the Creed was originally about existential principle.
5. The terms "energies" and "synergy" in Orthodox theology mean the same as the Latin equivalents: "operations" and "cooperation". Therefore to do is to be, and to be is to do; but essence is being as well. We can become one with God's being through our energies being in total unison with his energies, even though his being remains essentially inaccessible. This process of becoming God in practice--but not in essence--is called "Theosis", or its Latin equivalent, "Deification".
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6. God is absolutely impassible and absolutely static, therefore subduing the passions and cultivating hesychasm (stillness) make one more like God in practice. God is sometimes described in emotional states, but this in the same vein as describing him with hands; we prefer poetic to discursive description of God, which Scripture, an Orthodox creation, bears witness to.
7. God, though essentially transcendent, is practically immanent; this immanence is generally described as a light or fire. For those who are unison with it, with God's energies, that is Paradise; but if you are not in synchronization with God's operations, they are intensely jarring, an experience of Gehenna. Therefore it makes sense that Saint Isaac the Syrian calls the fires of hell, the torment of God's love.
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All you need is John 1:1, literally.
From there you can find out that the will of God is THE will.
All existence is will.
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>>2626505
all false, orthodoxies worship satan
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What went wrong?
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Chiang Kai Shek
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The Righteous and Harmonious Fists
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Mandate of heaven chose the commies