And what are your general thoughts on him?
>>1735607
>Ireland
Why are you posting about such an irrelevant shit stain?
>>1735607
>was x a proto-x
No
Does he deserve the hate?
Yeah.
yes he was a huge fag
Nah. Established the first modern state.
Did people not suffer from PTSD in historical warfare?
It seems like medieval warfare wasn't psychologically damaging at all and that some actually enjoyed it.
>>1735403
they did. Numerous stories of people coming home from war, changed.
>>1735403
It was probably just not recorded nor considered a medical condition, just the natural effect of war on the mind.
>>1735403
some continue to enjoy it
What the fuck was their problem?
>"La Serenissima? Oh yes Venice is far superior to Florence"
>>1735378
Perfect example that italians are worse than jews.
>>1735378
I don't see a problem beside that little 4th crusade mistake
If religion is the tool used to create evil in the word, how come mankind is too blame for the existence of evil?
this was an ongoing debate in my theology class yesterday, and some of the students wouldn't accept the fact that religion, not mankind, is the cause of evil in this world.
Well this seems like a bait thread but fuck it. Man is free to pick his actions because he has free will , said actions can be good or evil.
Bam, fucking done mate. Religion has no action or will as it is not living, it is merely a collection of people striving towards their beliefs. Thus religion is not the cause of evil in the world as it has no free will but rather the will of the people that follow it. Man on the other hand has free will and can pick good or evil actions.
>>1735329
Chimps go to war FOR FUN meaning sadistic violence is innnate in humans. Gorillas and Orangs dont do the shit chimps do meaning around 7 million years ago our ancestor mutated a gene that gives them dopamine rushs when they inflict violence on anything they see.
>>1735329
this is ridiculous. The fact that people can practice religion peacefully proves that it isn't religion that causes man to be evil. Sure some religious doctrine can excite people more easily than other things but it isn't religion per se, religion isn't a tangible thing.
the more and more i look at the political domain of today the more and more i feel that imperialism is the cause of a large amount of today's problems, of both a political and social nature am i right to assume this?
>>1735171
That map is utter cancer.
>>1735174
yeah i only got it for a thread starter
>>1735171
No,thats like saying your grandfather is the cause for majority of your problems today.
Has there ever been a Kurdish state or have they always been subsumed within other states?
>>1735145
Keep in mind nation-states are relatively new.
>>1735154
Perhaps not a state, but how about a kingdom, principality, republic, etc?
What is most retarded philosophy that could still be argued for being true and coherently followed?
>>1734983
Solipsism is the obvious answer. There is no way to disprove it as of now, and its just lex parsimoniae applied to the max (not even assuming that anything exists, which all other philosophies do),
but its still completely useless because it in no way tells us how to live what we (or just I) percieve as life.
Anarcho-Capitialism
Could Spain have won the Spanish-American war?
Should they have won?
Was America right in claiming places like the Phillipines and Peurto Rico as their colonies after?
>>1734879
>Spain have won Spanish-American war.
Nope. Spain was a wreck in the late 19th Century.
>Should they
If they ever did, they'd just be BTFO by all the revolutions of their last colonies.
>Was America right in claiming places like the Phillipines and Peurto Rico as their colonies after?
I heard the Americans helped Flips win their independence and then backstabbed them. So no.
>>1734879
>19th century Spain
>winning
>a war
>>1734895
>I heard the Americans helped Flips win their independence and then backstabbed them
President McKinley sent a team of experts to determine what should be done with the Philippines after the war. They concluded that the islands lacked the institutions for self-governance and if America did not annex them, Germany was waiting in the wings ready and willing to take control. Thus McKinley, on their recommendation, annexed the Philippines until such time as they could be ready to self-rule.
>Daoism
>Laozi
>Maozedong
>Daodejing
>>1734094
do you want to elaborate what your point is?
>>1734094
>one of these things is not like the other
>>1734201
>Daoism
>Laozi
>Maozedong
>Daodejing
instead of
>Taoism
>Lao Tse
>Mao Tse Tung
>Tao Te Ching
Are ancient Romans and modern Italians the same people?
Yes, you retard. The Italian peninsula was densely populated and had a large urban component to its population.
>>1733838
italians are literal niggers
>That gypsie looking motherfucker
Tell me not all Italians look like this
I actually like you guys
What have Jews historically thought of Paul and his appropriation of their religion for the benefit of gentiles?
>>1733493
They've not fans.
They dislike him, but they don't vehemently hate him as with Jesus.
A Sunni guy told me that Shia Islam was started by a Yemeni Jew, Abdullah ibn Saba', who converted to Islam and there began to immediately subvert it. Is this true? What theology similarities are there between Jeudaism and Shia Islam?
>>1733373
Conspiracy theories trying to make him out to be the muslim Saint Paul.
I'm a Salafi, but even I know that they're just misguided, theologically unsound souls.
>>1733373
Islam in general is crude copy of Judaism. Shia if anything is less Jewish because it adds all kinds of Persian pagan elements.
Imams in Sunni Islam are basically just the equivilant to pastors in Protestantism, whereas imams in Shia Islam are like rabbis and bishops folded into one, plus also seen as the rightful political leaders of Islam.
What do you guys think of Jung? Is he worth getting into?
Yes and read some Freud before because he starts from there
>>1732385
What of Freud should I read?
Yes! Start with Freud, then go to Jung. He makes much more sense -- as he isn't projecting his own sexual inferiority. Check out his theory about archetypes
If sentient extraterrestrial species were discovered to exist, and interaction with them became not only feasible but commonplace, would Christians or other religious believers be opposed to the more intimate variety of interspecies relationships? If so, on what grounds?
>>1730862
If viable young come about I don't see why not. They likely don't have the same gender and sex designations we have but if anything religious institutions would want to validate any unions that can make children to save them from eternal damnation.
Christians already have relationships with humans, so I don't think it would be a problem.
>>1730867
No, they would not be able to produce biological children. That's retarded.