Most badass photo of history
>>1956153
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Beda3kFNjo
>>1956195
they were an aesthetic bunch, the Nazis
>tfw too lazy to sin
Isn't sloth a sin cracka
>>1956096
/thread
>tfw too prideful to sin
How does atheism avoid falling into moral relativism?
Also, if this quote seems absurd to you, you might try reading the work it's from (it's not very long and you can skip the preface, which isn't by the author): http://oode.info/english/filosofia/nihilism_root_modern_age.htm
>In the Christian order politics too was founded upon absolute truth. We have already seen, in the preceding chapter, that the principal providential form government took in union with Christian Truth was the Orthodox Christian Empire, wherein sovereignty was vested in a Monarch, and authority proceeded from him downwards through a hierarchical social structure. We shall see in the next chapter, on the other hand, how a politics that rejects Christian Truth must acknowledge "the people" as sovereign and understand authority as proceeding from below upwards, in a formally "egalitarian" society.
>>1955976
What does realizing that deities simply don't exist has to do with morality or moral relativism?
I don't know, how does theism?
The Bible has an awful lot of 'metaphors' for a book that's supposed to be infallible and 100% true. There also doesn't really seem to be an objective methodology to establish the difference between metaphor and literal report, it seems to revolve around whatever feels convenient at the time
>"It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right."
The only thing keeping me from kicking out his fucking teeth is my respect for the law.
Shave your dirty beard, no on thinks you're cool.
> pays a congressman
> law says kill yourself
> nothing personel, kid
No one cares autismo
Was this as naive as it sounds now back then too, or was it a reasonable assumption to make that people would be both willing and capable of this at the time it was written?
is he a meme?
Yes and so are you
No, he's the real deal.
He just also has 10/10 bants.
>>1955813
he is based
Why Christianity is against reincarnation?
>reincarnation
These threads are the reason why other boards think we are autistic
>>1955812
But anon, we are autistic.
>>1955808
because it completely defeats the purpose of heaven and hell. and if heaven and hell are not a thing, why follow the rules?
Albert Speer - Traitor? Patriot? Good friend?
I'm reading Inside the Third Reich at the moment and he seems like a pussy.
>>1955624
Well he did fool everyone in to believing that he knew nothing and regretted everything by going "H-Holowho?" and "GOMENASAI~!" during the trials.
So I would say he is smart, spineless, but smart.
>>1955624
He was a good friend
>>1955851
Cute.
ITT: Forgotten/slandered heroes.
this guy
>>1955616
Corrupt Jacobin trash. His head should have fallen sooner
>>1955616
>Executing everyone you didn't like was heroic
>French Stalin was a hero
Would he have run China worse than Mao?
He wouldn't have run China at all.
It would be almost impossible to run China worse than Mao short of smuggling in 20 hydrogen bombs and detonating them across China's maritime coast.
probably not, but i do not think he had the skill to unify and rule china single-handedly like mao did.
Aside from Christianity, what ancient ritual traditions have survived in the West?
the Turkic-Druid deep state operating in France traces a direct lineage to 4th century BC so Id say that one
>>1955586
>Turkic-Druid deep state operating in France
Masonry and fraternities
Millitary and judicial practices
Superstion
Was he a self-hating Georgian?
Khlevuik suggests Stalin did everything he could to immerse himself in Russian culture. In 1950, he actually stipulated that only an ethnic Russian would be allowed to succeed him.
What's the deal?
But he surrounded himself with and only truly trusted his fellow eternal Georgians.
Were Georgians genocided?
No?
>>1956661
Stalin didn't genocide anybody
Has there ever been a suicide epidemic where somehow a large number of people were convinced it's not worth continuing?
>>1955374
there were a lot of suicides in Germany at the end of the war after news got out that Hitler had "died defending Berlin" (committed suicide in a bunker)
What, besides the incidents listed on Wikipedia? How large a number do you want?
>>1955398
large enough to be spooky
What's a John Birch society? I hear it in reference to Trump's fandom and want context
>>1955323
my memory is a bit foggy but I know that they were white supremacist related from the civil rights era
>>1955323
Commie-hating, jew-hating, conservative white people. Same as always.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society
Some irrelevant "think tank" that people give way too much credit to and think it's actually relevant in contemporary politics.
So about the french revolution. Was the reign of terror a necessary evil or still an unnecessary atrocity?
>>1955300
>evil
>>1955300
It wasn't a necessary evil, it was a positive good
How is this even possible? Why couldnt they just zerg rush the spanish?
Did you see Blackhawk Down?
It was a similar imbalance of technology and tactics. The Spaniards were elite, armored, motivated, and had tons of help. The Aztecs were that outclassed.
The Aztecs had literally never encountered cavalry in warfare before, and didn't know what to do, while Cortes used them to run around killing all the Aztec captains and leaders. The loss of their leaders and flag, and the sight of armoured men riding around on horseback was apparently too much of a morale shock.
>>1955292
They tried to take advantage of their numbers, hence why they fought on a plain, but like every battle against the conquistadors, it all came down to a technological disadvantage and an inflexible warfare tradition:
>Swords allowed close formations since they could inflict damage by thrusting and not only slashing (like a macuahuitl), which required some space to swing
>First lines were equipped with steel plate armors, which no Aztec weapon was able to pierce
>While it's true that muskets had an awful accuracy, cannons were quite precise
>Mesoamerican commanders were easily spotted given their military insignia
>Mesoamerican armies immediately routed when their commander was captured or killed (for example Cortes was captured two times)
Even if the commanders survived the cannon fire, the volleys generated chaos among their lines and provided a path for a cavalry charge.