Now you're just being edgy.
it's okay
it's normal
>My genes and familyline made me strong
Literally anime
>>1995136
kek
Why were jews thrown out of so many different countries throughout history?
Hold it with the anti-semitic remarks please
>>1994787
>take loan from jews
>kick jews out
>profit
In places like Europe
>Not Christian
>Seen as stealing jobs and undercutting society
>Seen as untrustworthy or not sociable
In places like the Middle East
>Not Muslim
>Islam does not speak highly of Jews
>Often blamed for things that went wrong
>In modern times, Israel does not help much
>>1994802
You get -2 diplomacy for along time from that.
Why do people think that the Nazi forces were so skilled and elite when it has been shown that they were fairly incompetent, under-trained, and basically gangsters raping and pillaging defenseless nearby towns and cities with Hitler giving retarded orders just so he knew he was in control over his generals?
>>1994390
Cool bait thread.
Mostly because they were more experienced compared to their counterparts, at least when initially meeting them. What they had learned in Spain would help them in France. What they learned in France would help them in Russia and North Africa.
How much of their early success was due to a French army still committed to winning the last war, a horribly confused Russian army attacked mid-reformation, a green American army that undertook no desert warfare training while employing a splintered command structure, or German Übermensch would have been a better question.
And most of the other stupid shit you threw in was just due to attrition creep.
Operational efficiency and business like manner of the German Wehrmacht and ethnic cleansing programs. It ran like a well oiled machine. Gotta respect that
>>1994499
I'm not baiting anything. It's just something people think and it's been shown over and over again to be totally false yet people still perpetuate it.
this guy confidently walks in your department with a big bright smile on his reddened face and challenges you to present any historical evidence against the resurrection of jesus christ
what do lads ? or are there any other more philosophical ways to discredit it ?
>>1994346
Yes, it says in the Quran that Isa ascended to heaven alive. Therefore if he did not die he could not be resurrected.
>>1994346
I ask him to present the evidence he has for the resurrection of jesus christ, since coming back from the dead is pretty rare and all.
>>1994356
But anon the were Gospels written much closer to the actual event which makes them more authoritative historical sources.
Why is this okay?
>>1994125
It's not, only consenting adults should be baptised
>>1994125
Because Trump said waterboarding is OK. He hates Muslims and wants to baptize all Islamic terrorists. The Webm is a video of a Muslim child held at Guantanamo being interrogated.
Was your family effected by the Dust Bowl, /his/?
>>1993965
>>1993966
Was the sexual revolution a good or bad thing? How would the world look like if it didn't happen?
Jew trick designed to promote promiscuity with the ultimate goal of destroying white families.
bad for all those dudes that benefitted from the system of semi arranged marriages that was in place, good for all those uber Chads who fuck a different roastie every weekend
all those weirdos in their 30s nowadays living as incels collecting anime figurines would have all gotten married right out of college 60 years ago think about that for a moment
>>1993789
Are you sure? I've seen more broken non-white families.
As much as South Africa was a part of Britain
>>1993741
It was a French region divided into three department, the Saharian part was for military use like nuclear test.
Wow that one is actually pretty hard to solve...
>>1993542
Give me one angle to start from and I'll tell you.
>>1993677
you don't need it tho.
>>1993542
180 degrees
Pic related. I mean, how did they even come up with this shit?
Also apparently some Hispanic Christians believe they are literally eating Jesus's physical flesh and blood. Aztec influence maybe?
>dude this one aspect of believing in an invisible omnipresent sky father is illogical and hard to understand lmao
go away
>>1993479
>Also apparently some Hispanic Christians believe
All catholics and othodox people belief its his literal flesh and blood since the early middleages.
Its not atztec influence, the atztecs were more like "hey that sounds familiar!".
>>1993488
tips fedora
>All religions have part of the truth.
>>1993467
Yeah, many religions speak some truth, but only one is the complete truth.
>>1993950
Which one is that?
>>1993952
The Jehovah's Witnesses.
What can /his/ tell me about Manichaeism?
>>1993181
Interested bump.
Book recommendations welcome.
Its absolutely Insane that Manichaeism spread completely peacefully to all corners of the world and could have been major player but now we know not much about it anymore.
Its a shame that its gone entirely.
>>1993351
a few LARPers claim to have 'revived' it
>It was, of course, sad to hear that Ms. K had been slowly raped and murdered by a common thug over the course of one hour and fifty-five minutes; but when I found out that the ordeal had taken place in plain sight of twelve fully-armed off-duty police officers, who ignored her terrified cries for help, and instead just watched until the act was carried to its gruesome end, I found myself facing a personal crisis. You see, the officers had all been very close friends of mine, but now I found my trust in them shaken to its core. Fortunately, I was able to talk with them afterwards, and ask them how they could have stood by and done nothing when they could so easily have saved Ms. K.
>"I thought about intervening," said the first officer, "but it occurred to me that it was obviously better for the murderer to be able to exercise his free will than to have it restricted. I deeply regret the choices he made, but that's the price of having a world with free agents. Would you rather everyone in the world were a robot? The attacker's choices certainly weren't in my control, so I can't be held responsible for his actions."
>"Well," said the second officer, "my motivation was a little bit different. I was about to pull my gun on the murderer when I thought to myself, 'But wait, wouldn't this be a perfect opportunity for some unarmed bystander to exercise selfless heroism, should he chance to walk by? If I were to intervene all the time like I was just about to, then no one would ever be able to exercise such a virtue. In fact, everyone would probably become very spoiled and self-centered if I were to prevent every act of rape and murder.' So I backed off. It's unfortunate that no one actually showed up to heroically intervene, but that's the price of having a universe where people can display virtue and maturity. Would you rather the world were nothing but love, peace, and roses?"
>"I didn't even consider stepping in," said the third officer. "I probably would have if I hadn't had so much experience of life as a whole, since Ms. K.'s rape and murder admittedly seems pretty horrible when taken in isolation. But when you put it into context with the rest of life, it actually adds to the overall beauty of the big picture. Ms. K.'s screams were like the discordant notes that make fine musical pieces better than they would have been had all the notes been flawless. In fact, I could scarcely keep from waving my hands around, imagining that I myself was conducting the delicious nuances of the orchestra."
>"When I first arrived on the scene, I actually drew my gun and pointed it right at the rapist's head," confessed the fourth officer, with a very guilty look on his face. "I'm deeply ashamed I did that. Do you know how close I came to destroying all of the goodness in the world? I mean, we all know there can't be any good without evil. Fortunately, I remembered this just in time, and a wave of such strong nausea came over me when I realized what I had almost done, that it knocked me to my hands and knees. Man, was that a close one."
>>1992759
>The attacker's choices certainly weren't in my control, so I can't be held responsible for his actions."
This is perfectly true tho.
>"Look, there's really no point in my trying to explain the details to you," said the fifth officer, who we had nicknamed 'Brainiac' because he had an encyclopedic knowledge of literally everything and an IQ way off the charts. "There's an excellent reason for why I did not intervene, but it's just way too complicated for you to understand, so I'm not even going to bother trying. I mean, you admit you are nowhere near as knowledgeable as I am, so what right do you have to judge? Just so there's no misunderstanding, though, let me point out that no one could care about Ms. K. more than I did, and that I am, in fact, a very good person. That settles that."
>"I would have defended Ms. K.," said the sixth officer, who was notoriously careful about staying out of the public eye, "but it simply was not feasible. You see, I want everyone to freely choose to believe in me. But if I were to step in every time someone was about to be raped or murdered, then the evidence would be so clear-cut that everyone would be forced to believe in me. Can you imagine a more diabolical infringement upon their free wills? Obviously, it was better for me to back off and let Ms. K. be raped and murdered. Now everyone can freely choose to believe that there is this extraordinary cop out there who loves them like his own children."
>"What are you complaining about?" exclaimed the seventh officer when I turned to him, his eyebrows shooting up in exasperated disbelief. "I just saved a woman from getting raped and murdered last week! Do I have to jump in every time I see something like that about to happen? I would say the fact that more women are not raped and murdered in this city is almost miraculous testimony to my goodness."
What ever happened to loving your neighbor as yourself?
>>1992437
Faggots taking Jesus out of context.
>>1992437
everyone nowadays is just a rude bully ;-;
I just wish peolle could be /kind/er, it makes the world so much better to live in
It's really, really hard. Christianity is probably the hardest religion to follow truthfully, since it asks us to see the world and each other in ways that are contrary to our natural inclinations.
Was Athenian democracy really a democracy, even in ancient time, and not simply an oligarchy where nobles("citizens") decide collectively? I mean, only 10-20% of the Athenian population could vote, that's not to far from the ratio of nobility vs commoners in medieval times, and then it wasn't considered a democracy. I would agree that it would form some semblance of democracy if you could somehow become an Athenian citizen, but this seems to have been entirely hereditary. Even the roman republic seems to have been more democratic, where even the poorest pleb could have a vote as long as he was free while the candidates were all nobles, while in athens it was aristocracy voting for aristocracy, where even free perioikoi couldn't vote, and they formed the majority of the population after slaves.
Also this is why I hate all these edgy liberals pining for a "direct democracy". The only reason Athenian democracy was so "direct" and pure was because it was so far from democracy IMO.
Popular assembly of Athens wasn't voted in office, they're were chosen randomly.
>>1992414
it was a shit democracy; that doesnt mean direct democracy now would be the same; it might be different. (though it probably still would be shit)
>>1992414
>I mean, only 10-20% of the Athenian population could vote, that's not to far from the ratio of nobility vs commoners in medieval times,
It's also similar to the percentage of eligible voters in early America. Was that not a democracy? (Okay, yes, it was a fucking republic, but you know what I mean.)
>then it [medieval monarchy] wasn't considered a democracy
Medieval monarchies aren't considered democracies because THEY WEREN'T DEMOCRACIES. The aristocracy may have wielded power and had special privileges and rights but they did not determine their governments' policies by voting on issues or electing representatives. The states that did use such a system, we usually do refer to as "republics" etc, even though much of the population was disenfranchised.
A flawed, incomplete democracy is still a democracy, and a monarchy without a voting system or parliament is not, even if the country is relatively egalitarian.