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The death of the Turko-Persian Tradition is why the middle east is cannibalizing itself in search of a new identity
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>>2059808
>turko
Stopped reading their kiddo, only Persia and Finland can bring peace to the Arab states
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>>2059814
Excuse me, this is /his/ not /int/ or /pol/. This was a culture that spread from the Balkans to India and lasted from medieval to the modern era. Its death marked the end of progress and stability in the middle east.
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>>2059822
>progress
Evolving war tech is only good if it helps in peace time, eg radio, please point to the technology the turks progressed in, cannons and gay orgies need not apply
Why are Young Earth creationists views marginalized, /his/?
Why is it considered by some to be acceptable for people to believe in the miracles recorded in the gospels for instance, yet following Genesis and believing the earth is 6000 years old just as Christians have done for millennia is somehow more controversial?
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>>2057083
occam's razor
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>>2057083
Good question. Personally, I have nothing but contempt for "Christians" who say things like "Genesis is just a metaphor!". What they're saying is, "I know my religion is absurd, but I'm still going to complain when you mock me for my absurdities!". At least Fundies reject reason consistently.
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>>2057083
>that image
Christianity really is garbage tier
how has this board changed you?
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>>2055675
Helped me discover history podcasts that is about it.
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Lost my faith in Christianity
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man whenever I see daniel radcliffe I want to cry. so much potential wasted....
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Was it the right thing to do, /his/?
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No
I'm not a utilitarian
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>>2055269
>was bombing civilians instead of fighting man to man the good thing to do?
Could have just blockaded Japan and let them rot if invasion was so dangerous, there wasn't a need for total victory.
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yes, just 2 little bombs and the war is over
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why are so many Christians on the internet butthurt about Constantinople? i couldn't even fathom all that butthurt.
you don't see internet Muslims crying about Spain/Andalus, do you?
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>>2055258
>you don't see internet Muslims crying about Spain/Andalus, do you?
Maybe they should
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>>2055258
Why would Muslim North Africans complain about Spain/Andalusia? They're not natives to that region
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>>2055258
Probably because despite muh golden age maymays, Andalusia was an irrelevant shit hole while Constantinople was more or less the capital of the world.
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Violence and Religion. 2016-12-07 04:08:56 Post No.2055120
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Is Political Islam always associated with violence? Is the use of violence or conflict intrinsic to Islam or religion for that matter?
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>>2055120
It's only the case for Islam and whatever crude jungle religions that bushmen follow
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>>2055120
>Is the use of violence or conflict intrinsic to Islam or religion for that matter?
To Islam, yes. The Koran is extremely clear on this subject, Muslims are forbidden from being friends with non-Muslims, and must wage war until all non-Muslims accept subjugation or covert to Islam. This is not a universal trait of religions, all religions CAN find violent passages they can interpret for political ends, but only Islam is violent without any interpretation needed. In fact, you need a tremendous amount of special pleading to NOT practise violence against non-Muslims.
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>>2055259
>all religions CAN find violent passages they can interpret for political ends, but only Islam is violent without any interpretation needed.
Ever read Bhagavad Gita? FFS at least Islam gives you rules of engagement and tells you not to kill your family or coreligionists. Meanwhile Krishna tells Arjuna just to kill for killing's sake, cheat, use dirty tricks and just murder everyone regardless of their relation to him.
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Did Mussolini do anything wrong?
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Allied with Germany and Japan
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>>2053175
Yeah! Random person from 4chan truly knows better than 60 smart persons and John Green.
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>>2053175
You should add lindybeige, that guy is an Anglo propagandist on the payroll of MI5
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>>2053189
Yes, he seems to be suitable for the list.
I will add him.
Was Teddy the best Roosevelt?
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No, FDR had to deal with the Great Depression, WWII, and the inability to get erections.
The only people who consider Ted to be better are the "le manly reddit bacon man I still browse le askmen.com man" crowd
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>>2050925
*prolong the depression
*steer the US into WWII
*being an evolutionary dead-end
fixed it for you.
(Also his wife had to run shit because he was such a useless piece of shit. The only good thing about FDR was his last name.)
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>>2050951
This
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Could atheism be considered a religion?
I know I know sounds complete bullshit and might very well be.
> Religion ≠ god
There's religion without the presence of Gods. Buddhism, laveyan satanism, confucianesim... These are just some famous examples, ...
Wikipedia defines religion as: rites, dogmas, beliefs, practices, world view.
> Atheism
Now atheism in a strict sense is the disbelief in god.
Because, skeptics and empirist would say that since there's no proof for it then, people don't chose to not believe but rather take a normal stance (like a default) like using a Occam razor to say, I don't choose to not believe.
But there's no real default, and let's take in consideration that all of those are philosophies.
When we are born we are incapable even of adressing the question and growing up in a certain environment will shape us.
(thus there's no default)
Although god, as any incomplete problems, is not possible to resolve.
Like a Matrix (Holographic theory of universe) it might very well be but we can't materially test it.
I'm convinced although that to reach the conclusion "I don't believe" a person needs some kind of subsets of beliefs.
So I don't think the burden of proof, should be taken as default in this case.
Thus I think that those people do believe in a system that excludes the presence of god or any supernatural manifestation from their mind.
>Believing (or not) is a personal choice
Since is a matter of believing in it, is a mere choice of beliefs or belief system that gives atheism, namely a personal preference. So to say believing or not is a personal preference.
I need to add that I also abhor the majority of the religious beliefs, and I think they are wrong, not because they are wrong in itself but because they lead to discrimination, violence and irrational choices.
So some atheist are indeed seeing atheism as a religion, more than the simple no to the existence of god.
I'm not here to criticize atheism, I'm an atheist myself.
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>>2050636
I'd say so. The following is quoted
Non-theists, Atheists, Agnostics, and Nonbelievers - People who identify with these categories, lacking the “supernatural beliefs” of most definitions of religion, could be considered nonreligious.- However, they derive meaning and purpose from natural symbols through a worldview, much like those who practice religious ritual.
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>>2050656
This is what strangely occurred to me.
>Irrational fear?
just a thought, generated by the fear that atheism will be the next radicalized ideology in the coming years.
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>>2050677
>in the coming years
It essentially is now, and certainly has been the case in several despotic regimes for a while now
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It's a proud British tradition that inspires soldiers and boosts morale.
French officers (and soldiers) on the other hand run away and cower before the battle even starts.
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His entire persona is a gimmick at this point
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>>2048159
> 60.000 casualties in the killing zone on the first day of the Somme
> h-hey but morale is great....
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>>2048159
Clearly watching my officer get his head blown off by shrapnel makes me more willing to fight Jerry. I don't see what's wrong with the video.
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Why does /his/ hate him?
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>>2046198
Because people keep making threads about him every goddamn day
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>>2046198
He's incredibly biased
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Do you know anyone personally who lived in the DDR back in the day? What was it like?
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Goodbye lenin is a good movie about this
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>>2045796
Awful, like all communist regimes.
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>>2045796
The GDR was basically the Soviet Union on steroids, because the Germans don't fuck around maybe. The Stasi had basically no budget to watch the entire population, but damn if it didn't try its best to make everyone feel like they were watched 24/7. Also, being in the Warsaw pact meant travelling was nearly impossible, getting shitty communist versions of products, when products were available (lol Kaffee Mix), and bending over to the USSR. Also the fucking Trabant lol.
On the upside, no homeless, stable jobs (and prison for those who refused to work lol), free education and gender equality I guess?
There's the website of the DDR Museum in Berlin that has a bunch of info on the topic available, if that's your thing.
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How can we rank the Allies in importance of their roles in at defeat the Axis? IMHO
1 Russia
2 UK
3 USA
4 China
5 France
6 Australia
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>>2037617
>UK over USA
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>>2037617
Ranking is a clickbait methodology that assumes qualitative aspects can be directly compared.
This thread will devolve into spook confirmation and /int/ faggotry right after this post.
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/his/, why don't you support the independence of glorious Tibet? Are you paid 50 cents by the commies?
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>>2055936
Communism today is more like fascism. State capitalism, nationalism, traditionalist values, statism, Uncle Joe really ended it as a Jewish program for the destruction of nations and turned it into the force that made China into the sole world superpower.
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>>2055936
I support it.
I just dont have time to deal with the ramifications, or contribute much other than that.
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Because I don't like Tibet.
They're a bunch of religious goat-fuckers and I could literally not care less that the Han are oppressing them.