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It's the same shit Greeks, Persians, Indians, Assyrians, Egyptians and Babylonians believe in.

All paganism traces its roots back to the Tower of Babel, shortly after the Flood.

Start with the Greeks. You'll have a lot better understanding when you move on to Rome.

>>2392030
Queen Elizabeth hands down.

Tbh though, ms frizzle could get it over Elizabeth.

>>2392046
>ms frizzle could get it over Elizabeth.

get what? my love and affection?

>>2392051

This 8inch dick bruh. That's what...

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Looks like the author of this book.

>>2392029
St.Anthony?

>>2392039
That was my guess too. I'm sure hes orthodox tho

>>2392047
Perhaps, hes the obvious choice. I was hoping an Orthodoxy expert could chime in

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>>2391986
That came later m8
Darius was first

>HËY MEHMET
>WË WÜZ TROJÄNS ÄND SHÏT, LAN

>>2391986
>bronze age
>hoplons

Top 10 Pranks That Went Too Far

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Top 10 Anime Characters That Died Too Soon

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Top 10 Anime Death Scenes

One day people will come to terms with the fact that Luther never actually nailed the theses.

>>2391923
Elaborate

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>>2391908

>>2391751

This should be one of those

*record scratch*
*freeze frame*
"Yup thats me... I bet you're all wondering how I got in this situation."

Threads.

>>2391774
this

mitanni got cucked so hard went from pic to a hittite tributary in like a few generations

>>2391751

Why did the Egyptians have such a hard on for them?

Please elaborate

>>2391582
>tfw you will never be king of Navarre, Leon, Galicia, Aragon, Castile, and Portugal.

>>2391582
It looks like Balkan though

Feels bad man

Depression did not exist until recently. The Jews invented it to sell pharmaceutical drugs.

People were to hungry to be depressed

No cameras back then.

Washington didn't have any kids.

the only reason everyone makes a huge deal of it now is that there's a massive news industry that gets bored.

The trump children are perhaps a little different due to the issues around conflict of interest, but usually news about obama's children was pretty benign.

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>>2391381
I don't know. I love me some TMR, but he was a curmudgeonly old dick in his later years. The way he pushed Taft into a presidency he didn't even want, and then relentlessly attacked him afterwards was inexcusable.

>>2391425
He'd have been better than fucking Warren Harding. He probably would have allowed the US to join the League of Nations, and thus probably prevented World War II.

Teddy was a warmongering child, and i'm sure he would agree.

>>2391380
I'm in the same situation, except I want political science

>>2391380
If you don't want to do stem, then don't bother going to college. Get yourself thousands of dollars in student debt for a degree in table wiping? Fuck that.

Become an entrepreneur.

>major in something with a good number of jobs
>minor in what you love
>start fires

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Shut up shitskin. This is our land now.

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>>2391194
WHITE MAN

>>2391174
>>2391194
You don't own that land

The Hindu tradition, both in its brahmanic and Buddhist com-
ponents, had given special consideration for some long time to
the notions of jivanmukta (one who, while still alive, rids himself of
the bonds of existence) and of videhamukta (one who achieves the
fullness of liberation only when his spirit becomes free from the hindrances of the physical body; this occurs either at death or at a
later stage). Similarly to other traditions, whether religious or not,
the Hindu tradition emphasizes that the way and the mental
frame in which one dies have far-reaching repercussions in the next
world. Tantrism alone, however, formulated a real "science of death"
and emphasized the notion of "freedom of choice" toward our
otherworldly destiny.

This principle does not apply to the vast majority of people,
however, for whom death represents a deep crisis. The change in
state that corresponds to this crisis is experienced by people as
some kind of swooning or as being knocked unconscious, according
to an almost mechanical connection of causes and effects called
karma (everything one does during an earthly existence has far-
reaching repercussions). This connection will determine a new con-
ditioned existence, totally unrelated to previous lives, since there
is no true personal continuity of consciousness between them all
("as a flame ignites another flame"). We may notice that one of the
possible meanings of the term pashu - referring to the ordinary,
conditioned human - is "sacrificial victim," an animal about to be
sacrificed. This brings us back to the concept of pitriyana, which is
one of the two paths to the next world considered in Hindu tradi-
tions.

In this path, which most people are forced to tread, death
releases personality to the ancestral forces of the stock of origin, the
same way an animal is sacrificed to the gods and becomes nourish-
ment for other lives. Thus the only thing that continues to live on
is the abovementioned karmic process. This was also the case of the
second path, the "path of the gods" (devayana). The exoteric teach-
ings on reincarnation never put much emphasis on the deceased's
freedom of choice, and understood the various changes of states
leading to the great liberation to be almost automatic, or to be mere
effects of a preexistent force and knowledge. Conversely, the texts
I have mentioned in this appendix contemplate a higher degree of
indetermination and freedom, as well as the possibility of directing
the supernatural processes "as a horse is led by the bridle." Through
the "narrow and dangerous crossing of the bardo" (bardo designates
the hereafter) the karmic determinism can be halted (even that
karma which "could have led one to the deepest of all hells"), the
great liberation may be achieved, and one may even create a better
destiny for oneself. As I have said before, however, these possibilities are not
within everybody's reach. It is assumed, for instance, that during
the earthly existence one must already have trodden a part of the Way and sought the unconditioned, without having arrived at the
end of the journey, and yet having shifted one's inner center out of
samsara's reach. Therefore the texts emphasize the "great impor-
tance of having had experiences."

These people, too, see death with
the same traits that are seen by pashus; it befalls an individual at
a given time, owing to extraneous causes. Esoteric teachings offer
advice on how to prevent death from being an interruption, and
how to take advantage of the postmortem states in extremis, as far
as the goals pursued in life are concerned.

The starting point consists in a lucid and objective knowledge
of these states. Woodroffe calls this knowledge "a traveller's guide
to other worlds." 4 After giving a description of these states, the
texts explain their meaning and indicate the stands one is supposed
to take in each of them. These are the contents of the Bardo Thodol
(the Tibetan Book of the Dead), the Egyptian Book of the Dead, and
other medieval treatises, such as the Ars moriendi. 5 The Bardo be-
longs to the category of tertna, namely, of "secret revelations"; it
therefore has an initiatory character. According to tradition, the
Bardo was originally composed by the sorcerer Padmasambhava,
who came from northwestern India to Tibet in the eighth century.
The text was hidden by him, but was recovered by his disciples in
the fourteenth century. The Tibetan Book of the Dead is almost a
viaticum; it is read by the lamas to those who are about to die, in
order to prepare them for what is to come

>>2391024

No. too divided. Too poor. Too shit teir relgion to last.

>>2391024
Isn't that what ISIS is trying to achieve?

>>2391024
>>2391025

Fuck outta here /pol/

Caliphates as in a religious empire? Or caliphate as a united region under one religious leader instead of multiple?

Or some other interpretations?

If you're referring to caliphates like the old there is no way. Though Islam is growing very fast it is growing in places where Islam is seen as hostile. What we have today is a very tolerant state of peace towards overall Islam and though since the rise in terrorism and terroist groups such as isis, the faith is still readily protected under most laws in western societies.

The united arab emirate is probably the closest thing we have, for today's word. Islam isn't bent on world domination anymore, this isnt the middle ages where we have mass crusades or jihads, this is an age of social acceptance. Also it is in that acceptance that true religion will die and only ideas and concepts will remain. Just as Christianity has been diluted to multiple sects and cults, as well as just basic ideology. Where going to church on sunday used to be law is barely optional if at all on the minds of people who call themselves "christians." Of course this differs per person. But Turkey is a perfect example of Islam conforming to just a ideology instead of a religion.