Is there some way to believe in God, specifically Jesus without having to be constantly confronted with the fact that the probability is against Jesus being God and so many things in this religion are hard to justify a belief in?
>>2079802
Sure. Objective truth exists no matter how unlikely you personally feel it shouldn't.
>>2079802
Well as a wise man once said "You gotta have faith"
>>2079809
waait, so what do you mean? what do i do?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ao2nLF4RX8
This perfectly encapsulates the end of the Soviet Union
What would Stalin have thought if he'd seen this?
>>2079602
fukkin gommies
>>2079786
All i get from this is that 90's russia would be a sick setting for a crime series
>documentary about Soviet intervention in Afghanistan
>Eтo нe я starts playing
>>2078869
>comrades look here at the AK
>can be machine gun with bipod
>sniper with sight
>grenade launcher
>walking stick
>ALL GLORY TO MOTHER RUSSIA
>>2078969
[gets killed by illiterate afghan child soldier]
> mfw tactical blunder
The last few have been lewd and modern so let's dedicate this one to classical and romantic art devoid of vulgarity.
>0 posts
Really makes you think, huh?
>>2078803
>that
>not lewd and vulgar
Anon, I...
Let's try to shoot for the moon, before we try terraforming Mars, anon.
Let's at least try to get a thread that isn't people posting the same shit.
Also, for anyone legitimately interested in art itself, John Walsh is doing his yearly fall lecture series on Rembrandt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYh3NX2ymJc&list=PLqJmQZgy9f_exMmM9uinxHDTdTr4PisyC&index=4
Is this the right place to discuss religion?
>>2078314
Not really the best, but better than b
yes
/his/ is a christian board.
Right short and sweet here I go. Simply put I believe the old testament which is known as the Tanakch by the Jews. A collection of the Torah and Nevi'im which make up the Old testament. It is my belief that the Old testament is an interpreter's wall. It was made to beguile the people in the beginning to follow simple strict laws of God until the day the Messiah Jesus Christ was born. There is not much objective proof but only interpretations of the text in the old testament to support this. It is also my belief the Jews going back to the first temple sect of the Pharisees have been permanently been beguiled as they don't accept Jesus as their true Messiah and believe events for their benefit will lead to their true Messiah. They are simply misguided and lost.
The attack on pearl harbour was a surprise tactical strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor.
Ok, I think I knew that already though.
>>2078200
This post was a surprise tactical dub by OP on the 4chan board of /his/.
We don't know that, it could have been anybody. It could have been the Samoans, it could have been a fat guy on his bed with a torpedo, we just don't know.
What are some good UNBIASED documentaries to watch?
>>2078141
>Unbiased
>>2078141
Learn why Sub Saharan Africa has always been a shit hole.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0C4_88ub_M
>>2078406
Edy was pretty damn smart. Learning Mandarin fluently enough to be a interpreter for a state Chinese company is no joke.
>tfw both the niggers and the Chinese shunned him and he had to eat alone
10 points to anyone who can define all these terms that have to do with Napoleon or his rule
Directory
Napoleon Bonaparte
Abbe Sieyes
Constitution of the Year VIII
Concordat of 1801
Lord Nelson/Trafalgar 1805
Napoleonic Code
Continental System
Treaty of Tilsit of 1807
Austrian Archduchess Marie Louise
Battle of Nations
Treaty of Chaumon/Quadruple Alliance
Congress of Vienna
Waterloo
The Hundred Days
Rousseau
Geothe
Kant
Wordsworth
Coleridge
Schlegel
Hegel
Byron
Neo-Gothicism
Methodism
John Wesley
Herder
sounds like homework i'm not doing
>>2078143
pls
>>2078143
I have three of these to do, and napoleons head looks like an egg
What are some good books on late antiquity?
https://www.google.com/search?q=book+about+late+antiquity&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS714US714&espv=2&biw=1920&bih=925&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwilhOawiO7QAhVpwlQKHTHNA0cQ_AUIBygC#imgrc=_
>>2077834
late antiquity by peter brown is the gold standard. it's short and fascinating reading
>>2077848
fuck off reddit
Post your historical love-hate relationship
All of the Founding Fathers of America.
>>2077788
Especially Jefferson
mostly hate, but at least he was a nationalist
Anyone on /his/ have experience with learning ancient Mesopotamian languages? I want to learn Sumerian or Akkadian but it seems next to impossible.
>>2077691
most people on this board have a hard time with english
http://nelc.uchicago.edu/graduate/programs/cuneiform-studies
There's a really cool website that has a whole ton of resources for learning a bunch of different dead languages. I can't remember its name but ironically I do remember that it's short and something easy to remember.
the fuck was his problem?
>>2077683
when he was a kid he put his thumb in his mouth and blew hard to inflate his skull
He had a fivehead
>>2077690
Just saw Hacksaw Ridge, and it made me question the ferocity of the Japanese during world war 2. We always hear how the Japanese would never surrender and had extreme discipline. Are there any sources that describe this? Would a Japanese army today have these same ideals?
>>2077571
>Japanese
>army
Loled.
>>2077573
???
>>2077571
A Tomb Called Iwo Jima goes into it. How much of thier reputation for ferocity was bushido code or just fear of superiors, who knows?
You wouldn't see it with modern Japanese soldiers. Even during WW2 they were trying to stop them from wasteful bonzai charges.
I'm currently listening to an audiobook of roughing it but I also read Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. What implications does this board feel that Mark Twain has contributed to literature?
Personally I believe him to have painted a good picture of what it means to be american.
>>2077439
He definitely deserves the title of Father of American literature, even if his "children" surpassed him.
>>2077449
Really?
Also, /his/, I'll be breaking into kurt vonneget after I finish twains novels. Anyone have a good author that I could take a chance with? I feel I've been following this chain of what someone should read in his life but it's getting boring.
>>2077470
Cormac McCarthy is always a popular choice for ameri-lit
ITT post civilizations that deserved what they got
>>2077409
Calling that shit a civilization is a bit of a stretch OP.
>>2077409
Are you saying Persian Turks
>>2077412
its being used loosely obviously