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Myth =/= metaphor.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with Genesis, but it's written in a language that modern man struggles to understand. But, hey, the Bible was not made for us to read.

>>1871873
Correct along with the omega of the biblical canon.

>>1871902
Myth =/= metaphor.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with the Epic of Gilgamesh, but it's written in a language that modern man struggles to understand. But, hey, the clay tablets were not made for us to read.

Any myth/religion can play the muh deep symbolism/metaphor no one can understand card ;^)

Youre religion is man-made like any other.

Originally: being paid good money to do it.

Now: contrived notions of 'duty' or 'sacrifice'.

>>1871872
Most people truly believe they won't die especially when they first sign up.

Silly anon, always is another side will lose.

there is nothing wrong with historical revisionism

>>1871856
It was about out of control federalism
http://youtu.be/KPiDqUB9k1I

>>1871856
>Who started this ridiculous meme?

Google "Lost Cause" movement. Basically an entire industry with the sole purpose of whitewashing the Confederacy.

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Was*

Also, the anglos caused a lot of religious tension to already severed ties between individual city states. They couldn't govern India for shit then fucked off when they drained the subcontinent from its wealth, leaving behing a pooinloo country.

Also
>Britain unified India meme

They didn't unify India, setting up shop there and gaining influence from rich Muslim and Hindu land owners didn't mean they then controlled them.

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>>1871778
Divide et impera.

>>1871808
oh look its the obligatory 'ze british zid this!' post

>>1871749
You'd probably be better off asking /tg/, seeing as they know their history AND their tabletop.

>>1871749
Apocalypse Now is about the Nicaraguan Civil War, anon..

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>>1871749
Too long didn't read. Watch Come and see. It's schindler's list made by people who actually went through the war and it used real ammunition on child actors. Aside from the shenanigans it's a 10/10 movie

>>1871737
Where are the ebin Jewrentheses?

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>>1871741
>(((Money)))

>>1871737

John Money did nothing wrong. Brenda Reimer would've turned out fine except that her parents fucked up the experiment by acting weird around her since they knew the truth. Her dad especially fucked up by telling her she was born male and her penis was accidentally burnt off. She probably wouldn't have killed herself if it weren't for her dad doing that, and she would've adapted much better if everyone had followed Money's instructions. He was 100% right, gender is just a social thing. Dogs don't care when you cut off their testicles and neither would people if it weren't for screw-up parents sending negative social queues over it.

>>1871564
Source: my ass

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>>1871564
spoopy

>>1871564
I'm legitimately excited about this.

Got a link where I can read more?

>>1871431
The original edgy neck beard. What a loser

>>1871439
This is how I always thought of Nero until I watched I, Claudius and saw him portrayed as an obese, flamboyant faggot. Then when I read about him again everything became just a bit funnier.

> Nero
Nemo.

Non human personhood should probably be a thing for elephants, orcas, and dolphins. They're sentient yo.

>>1871411
What about humanzees?

well, first you would have to ask the Pope if humanzee has a soul

>>1871352
Allah is a shit-tier pagan cave sprite that Muhammad chose for his fake bozo religion, fuck off.

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>>1871352
Fuck Islam and all who sail in it.

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>>1871583
>>1871595

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It made the enemy roll over in laughter giving them the opportunity to strike.

The shaved ones were also sometimes mistaken for women.

>>1871270

Because it shows off how much money they can afford to spend on the extra fabric and therefore what great soldiers they must be to be paid so much.

>>1871270
Swiss soldiers where the big Senpai for the Landskenchts. With the Swiss, officers and such whore colored bands around their helmet or even feathers if commander. Also, valued veterans where given clothes in the color of the flags. The Germans imitated this, everybody made himself the most fashionable fantasy uniforms.

>>1871079
It's Maoist-capitalism

China is more capitalist than the US.

>>1871229

I was about to call you an idiot but then I looked it up and it turns out you're right. Government spending accounts for a larger percentage of GDP for the US than for China.

>>1871057

Probably because they fought pretty damn well against Germany's compareatively "strong" army, yet everyone seems to think the jerries just blitzed them.

>Poles' contribution to WW2
You mean starting it?

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>fight the krauts, ruskies and everyone else trying to steal their clay while suffering massacres and rape that no one gives a fuck about
>today the only thing people think about when they hear Poland is EU's toilet cleaners and cheap prostitutes
I'd be pretty pissed too.

>>1870972
The societies where sharia law is applied dont seem so happy. Iran for example is quite high on the misery index and the people are getting more and more jaded of religion. There is also a growing civic resistance. Even in saudi arabia people start to get pissy

>>1870972
>Meanwhile, shariah law is shariah law, and it seems to work.
That's not exactly true, however. Shari'ah law as many envision it is something like Bushido - something masquerading as a tradition older than it really is and interpreted in ways neither intended nor practicable at the time.

Shari'ah was less a system and more what a generation of political idealists and opportunists began to call a mishmash of legal traditions newly reinterpreted to conform to revivalist religious trends. So its what's wrong wrong with it, among others, is that it declares itself to be legally and morally supreme with only the weight of a short-lived manufactured tradition behind it, which is why it's having all sorts of problems of abuse in rapidly changing modern societies.

Random ass clerics frequently make up new rules or bend/break old ones. In some Muslim countries they will put you to the sword for using opium while it's okay in others.

>inb4 all abstract art is degenerate jewry

>>1870993
I still feel there would be better discussion here than /ic/ though

Was Gauguin an absolute madman or what
>literally tell your wealthy wife who's supporting your midlife crisis that you're fugging some 12 year old tahitian