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Is there any proof that the final argument ever happened?

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>Largest structure ever built
>Larger than the Wall of China
>No proof or any ruins because you know, it was made of mud so it collapsed due to the rain.
But hey, we have to believe it.

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>But in those days, following that distress, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken. At that time people will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. And he will send his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the heavens. ... Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.
Mark 13:24–27,30

>Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.
Matthew 16:28

>When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next, for truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
Matthew 10:23

Christians cant defend this.

Jesus was a failed messiah and a false prophet.

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Math is the key to civilizational development.

A culture's development is entirely correlated with its perception and development of its own mathematical system.

>There are several number-worlds as there are several Cultures. We find an Indian, an Arabian, a Classical, a Western type of mathematical thought and, corresponding with each, a type of number each type fundamentally peculiar and unique, an expression of a specific world-feeling, a symbol having a specific validity which is even capable of scientific definition, a principle of ordering the Become which reflects the central essence of one and only one soul, viz., the soul of that particular Culture.

Greek
>For Greek mathematicians, number was "the essence of all things perceptible to the senses" (Spengler, 1918, pp. 63-64) – usually involving the "measurement of something near and corporeal". In order to ensure that these measurements were well defined, they had to be represented by rational quantities. Irrational quantities were unfathomable by the classical Greeks

Western Math
>Differential and integral calculus emerged in Europe in the 17th century as a totally new mathematical tool – discovered and devised simultaneously by Newton and Leibniz. Its distinguishing feature lies in its ability to deal with continuous rates of change (Spengler, 1918, p.126 note 3). This was a thought-process completely alien to Greek mathematicians – a limitation which led to Zeno formulating his so-called paradox of the race between Achilles and the tortoise.

Arab-Persian Math
>Spengler describes the Arab-Persian Culture as one which focussed on "the idea of substances with visible or secret attributes". He also points out that the most striking features of Islamic architecture are inside the mosque emphasizes that the 'algebra' which was developed by Al-Khwarizmi and others, involved working with undefined magnitudes. Thus, their equations contained unknowns 'x' and 'y' whose values had not yet been evaluated.

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ITT: Philosophers that really jerk your braincocks.

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Apparently according to Mani, Axum was on the level of Persia, Rome and China. Why do we know so little about it? Has there just not been enough work done on it?

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How did Rome manage to pacify the people they conquered, and why can't we accomplish that today?

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Including the mass rapes carried out by the Americans how many German women were raped during / just after WW2?

It must have been a great time to be a victorious Allied soldier.

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Was it autism?

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*Blocks your path*

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TFW you will never live in a Hindu-Hellenic kingdom.

>Tfw you will never witness philosophical debates between Aghori's and Epicureans...

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Why the aztecs get so much shit when they sacrifice people so the world can continue when the romans were doing it for entertainment alone?

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Could the Schism have been mended had Aquinas not fallen ill and died on his way to the Second Council of Lyon?

>In 1054 the Great Schism had occurred between the Latin Church following the Pope (known as the Catholic Church) in the West, and the Patriarchate of Constantinople in the East (known as the Eastern Orthodox Church). Looking to find a way to reunite the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church, Pope Gregory X convened the Second Council of Lyon to be held on 1 May 1274 and summoned Thomas to attend.[60] At the meeting, Thomas's work for Pope Urban IV concerning the Greeks, Contra errores graecorum, was to be presented.[61]

>On his way to the Council, riding on a donkey along the Appian Way,[60] he struck his head on the branch of a fallen tree and became seriously ill again. He was then quickly escorted to Monte Cassino to convalesce.[59] After resting for a while, he set out again, but stopped at the Cistercian Fossanova Abbey after again falling ill.[62] The monks nursed him for several days, and as he received his last rites he prayed: "I receive Thee, ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil, toiled, preached and taught...."[63] He died on 7 March 1274[62] while giving commentary on the Song of Songs.[64]

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>be congress Poland
>all your friends are revolting
>Belgium successfully independant
>France has another revolution
>decide to give this revolution thing a go
>get fucking shit on by Russia
>get absorbed into Russia