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Why do atheists (and im not only talking about fedora tippers) hate bible so much? They always claim that its a piece of weak literature with no values for anyone that isn't christian. Is that true?
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>>2229061
Because the world is full of suffering.
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>>2229153
Suffering is good.
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>>2229061
>They always claim that its a piece of weak literature with no values for anyone that isn't christian. Is that true?
Never heard anyone claim this.
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Duelling: Was it autism? 2017-01-15 10:13:50 Post No.2228985
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Was duelling the most autistic and retarded thing in history
>On 1 November 1792, he was promoted to corporal of grenadiers, but during his promotion ceremony, he challenged a fellow non-commissioned officer to a duel. This sergeant major refused the duel, so Vidocq hit him. Striking a superior officer could have led to a death sentence, so he deserted and enlisted in the 11th Chasseurs, concealing his history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Fran%C3%A7ois_Vidocq#Childhood_and_youth_.281775.E2.80.931795.29
>As a young officer in Napoleon's Army, Dupont was ordered to deliver a disagreeable message to a fellow officer, Fournier, a rabid duellist. Fournier, taking out his subsequent rage on the messenger, challenged Dupont to a duel. This sparked a succession of encounters, waged with sword and pistol, that spanned decades. The contest was eventually resolved when Dupont was able to overcome Fournier in a pistol duel, forcing him to promise never to bother him again.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Duellists#Historical_basis
That's extreme fucking autism
And think of all the great men this retarded shit took from us (Alexander Hamilton, Evariste Gallois, Alexander Pushkin...etc)
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>solving a serious dispute simply in one moment without drawing it out or bringing other people into it
>autism
Pick one desu
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>>2229342
>fighting 30 duels over 19 years with a messenger who delivered you bad news
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This is it. This is the thread. The moment where calling something autism finally lost all meaning.
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Name one thing Benedict Arnold did wrong.
Fuck the colonists. Fuck Congress. Fuck Gates.
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>>2228812
his decision to become a traitor was based entirely on petty surface level reasons of not getting enough attention for something the Green Mountain Boys did as opposed to any deep rooted convictions he held. So he was a selfish prick and a traitor and also a coward who jumped ship the moment things got too difficult/he got his fee fees hurt because he didnt get a participation trophy
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>>2228835
>actually wins the battle of seratoga for America
>the battle that finally convinced the French to join and without the French America would've never been a thing
>participation trophy
Yeah, everyone wants to be recognised for stuff they actually did, cunt. Gates was a faggot.
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>>2228856
so in other words, he was only doing this shit for his own glory and the MOMENT he realized he would be praised as a king for doing his job, he became a traitor.
hes a piece of shit that only pieces of shit look up to
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Post 'em
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>white
>Yellow
>Brown
>Black
Holy shit why are anglos such simpleton plebs? Have some Naziautism.
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Not racial but ethnic
>tfw Indo-Iranian (Aryan) master race and also belong to Tajik master tribe
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Who is in the wrong here?
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>>2228767
Yes.
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Israel, because it is wrong to evict people from their homes because of muh holy book and muh holocaust and the Israeli settlements are clearly illegal, although I do agree that the Jewish people need a state
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Were the House Un-American Activities board the most blatant violation of constitutional rights by the government in US history?
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>>2228557
>since we are in the middle of a cold war, you wont be allowed to assist the enemy since doing so is treason
>REEE MUH RIGHTS ARE BEING VIOLATED!
McCarthy did nothing wrong.
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>try to overthrow the government with a totalitarian communist government that would trample the rights of everybody
>complain when the government tramples your rights
Gotta love commies
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>>2228569
And Muslims. And fascists. And white nationalists.
>muh rights to eventually strip you of your rights
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So it was really Satan, eh?
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No
It was Gabriel
Who only talks to Hebrews
Muhammad was a Jew so Gabriel could speak to him
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But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men. (Matthew 16:23)
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2 Corinthians 11:14
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
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Was liberalism just the appropriation of Native American forms of government and civilization?
It seems like that whole period was western intellectuals trying to come to terms with the vastly superior North American civilization, Rousseau specifically seemed to base almost all his ideas off the popular conception of first nation people at the time, but a lot of those philosophers were huge Indi-boos back then.
It also explains why liberal democracy has flourished in North America while it continues to face setbacks in Europe.
The collapse of feudal Europe seems to coincide with the globalization of ideas and contact with the Americas as well.
American Independence is often credited to revolutionary France, but isn't it easy to go back one step further and credit revolutionary France to America? Especially considering the ideas of "natural law", "social construct", "noble savage", etc. that were so popular back then.
No one ever talks about this, but the "western mentality", specifically that of the North Americas, seems to have inherited as much from First Nations as it did from Europe.
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the noble savage is a complete myth, native americans were a bunch of thugs like everyone else
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>>2228491
So you're saying the eternal prairie nigger is to blame for the liberal lunacy? In that case they deserved getting wiped out.
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>>2228497
Unless you consider that thugishness a positive aspect.
But regardless, it seems like most of the "enlightenment" was Europeans seeing the healthy, free, and happy Native American tribes and trying to reconcile their "civilization" against it.
Even today, there's an obvious trend towards animalism and paganism in American spirituality that doesn't seem to exist in Europe.
American philosophy, that is pragmatism and transcendentalism, seem almost undeniably influenced by the behavior and lives of the people that first inhabited the Americas.
Yet history books act as though Europeans never interacted with First Nations tribes, as though there was never a flow of ideas between the two cultures.
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Guys, add more, I don't have enough autism to make it big.
Probably ceasar is necessary.
Also debate my choices, as they are very debatable, and great for discussion.
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>>2228395
Remove Stalin and FDR.
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>>2228395
>FDR
youre list is already shit. Replace him with Teddy if anything
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>>2228399
I think this only can be an official list
>>2228404
FDR made America actually relevant.
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>you will never live in Baghdad during its apogee under Harun al-Rashid
>you will never see traders from as far as Norway and china trading in the same market
>you will never sit on a rug in a coffee house smoking nargila and sipping coffee in the hot afternoon while playing backgammon and listening to a public storyteller
>you will never bump into the Caliph at night while he prowls the city disguised as a beggar to chat to people
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I really wish I could live in that era
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>>2228390
I want to be Caliph instead of the Caliph!
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>>2228390
I want to stumble through the marketplace stoned as shit on afghan kush. The geometric patterns common in caliphate mosques and architecture at the time are still some of my favorite things to look at while high.
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>>2228390
We live in the wrong timeline, Baghdad was never supposed to be destroyed. It was supposed to pull the Middle-east into further enlightment. A city of traders, scholars and ambitious people all ruined in one fell swoop.
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What was their tragic flaw?
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>>2228290
Being united solely by the values of the French Revolution.
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>>2228290
Unification. Even to this day they're huge cultural and linguistically differences between northern, central and southern Italians. Centuries of city states and occultation by other European powers will do that.
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>>2228290
Being Italian
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If General MacArthur had been given the green-light and been able to continue the Korean War into China and attack Chinese cities, would World War III had occurred? Was it even feasible? Was it autism?
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>>2228270
he would have nuked korea and china, likely resulting in some hardcore soviet retaliation
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>>2228270
Probably not but Russia will immensely increase support for China
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>Land war in China
I really really don't think the US will be able to sustain such a large battlefront without the public going against it
Especially after WW2
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America becomes a pariah state, France and Italy elect communist governments, what's left of the Chinese army overrun Korea and slaughter anything that opposes them.
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Why was Nobunaga a westaboo?
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Because guns>swords
The real question is why does Japan portray him as a literal demon? Was it because he killed those dumb monks that were in his way and involved in the conflicts?
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>>2228210
The Japanese expected warfare to be carried out in a certain way. Nobunaga didn't care for the traditional limits on warfare and just did whatever he thought expedient
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>>2228132
At the time the West had superior culture, technology, and weaponry. It was also exotic and most people love exotic stuff.
>>2228210
>Why portray him as a demon.
He backstabbed his sister's husband and attacked them after making a deal with them, and some other shady shit.
Japan would've benefited from him being Shogun and replacing the Emperor though modernizing even earlier, and having large changes that wouldn't stagnate it for a long time.
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Is gender a social construct?
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Sex and gender are the same thing.
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Definitions are.
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yes
the fact that women are always universally submissive and the fact they are the weaker sex is a complete coincidence and the result of a social construct
male men wanting to ram their cocks into female pussies is also the result of societal conditioning and a conspiracy by the cishet white male patriarchy
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(this is a spinoff from that other helmet thread)
I've been noticing that helmets in classical Europe often had ear holes built into them, whereas medieval (let's say, post-1000AD) ones typically had the ears completely covered, oftentimes even when the helmets in question were designed to be light and unobtrusive.
Now, I'm pretty sure that in both eras people were generally rather pragmatic when it came to helmet designs, so that makes me think there's a reason behind this.
Were the weapons they were facing part of it?
The doctrine?
Did they handle signals differently?
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This seem pretty interesting OP, but i know nothing about it. Have a bump instead.
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>>2228004
In classic europe, in war, infantries are commanded by voice, thus need for sound.
Later on, mongols showed them how to lead an army without vocalization and through flag signals/drums/etc
That's the most I could think of.
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I'm gonna say that the Romans made their helmets with ear-holes because they had very strict tactics in combat so the soldiers needed to hear the shouted commands from the centurions.