daily reminder this is socrates not diogenes
Daily reminder OP is a fag.
it´s clearly Diogenes
kys plato
What was the taoist response to buddhism?, how did it survive?
Why aren't they just both variations on a theme?
I've studied both a lot lately and I find it ludicrous that they aren't just considered essentially equivalent.
both were born in the same century
Taoism was assimilated into he Buddhist cosmology
The Jade Emperor was considered equivalent to the Indian Indra as king of the gods for example.
The deities occupy a rank above mortals and below boddhisattvas, they still need to be enlightened.
But the idea is "well, while they're here we may as well pray for stuff to make our lives (and meditation) easier.
Where did the black skin = Curse of Ham thing originate? Why did all three Abrahamic faiths believe it for so long?
Bumping for interest. Although, a possible explanation as for why they hated blacks, people feel more inclined to hate what's different.
>>1716244
Ham and his people went south into northern Africa and became blacks.
The curse of Ham was Noah's curse not on Ham, but on Ham's son, Canaan. That curse manifested in the existence of Canaan's son, Nimrod of Babylon.
Nimrod of Babylon, his wife and son are the source of every pagan religion on earth. That's the curse.
Just like the blessing that was to come from the seed of Abraham is Jesus.
>>1716244
Take a thing people believe in and alter it so it fits what you want and your views and if people question it your social cred, status and maybe life is at risk because why would you question xyz?
What happened to them, /his/?
>>1715755
shoa'd by the centaurs
They decided to get /fit/ and did too much bench pressing.
>>1715755
They didn't get ahead
how powerful did they get?
>>1715224
Before gunpowder, sieges of castles could last years.
>>1715234
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_(1099)
>implying after gunpowder things changed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Leningrad
>>1715224
Quite.
Torsion artillery (the most common of the ancient world) did massive damage on soldiers, and helped cover the advance of the siege machines (rams, ramps, ladders).
They usually did not break walls, but the powerful pic related probably could.
Who's your favorite North African/West Asian historical figure and why?
Mine is Jesus because he died for my sins
>>1714510
>North African/West Asian
Middle Eastern?
>>1714510
shitposting is fun
The founder of Stoicism was a Phoenician
How is this flag both Burgundy and Spain?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_Burgundy
>>1713285
The Spanish King Phillip I of Castile, father of Charles V was Half-Burgundian and inherited Burgundy via his mother.
Charles V was thus Quarter-Castillian, Quarter-Aragonese, Quarter-Burgundian and Quarter-Austrian. It's very odd that such a mutt had a lineage that ended because of inbreeding.
>>1713342
>Charles V
>no inbreeding
The Universe is EVERYONE's will.
Will is a solid concept but it is so fundamental it almost doesn't add anything of value
>>1710184
an infinite of space and time made up of non divisible units inherent in self ownership and with such property rights
What is the border of Europe, in ethnocultural terms?
There is no such thing as "Europe", it doesn't exist either ethnically or culturally or in any other way.
>>1717873
Depends on the time period.
Europe ends where the churches end
some german dude said that and he was right
Name better heroes than Heracles and Odysseus (can be from other mythologies). You can't.
Diomedes
Diogenes
>>1726368
>4chan glorifies a bum
color me surprised
Did they do anything right?
Yes, up until 1914.
>>1725448
They have, they've agreed on the Compromise of 1867 which placed them on the path of no return.
End
Formosa is a better name than Taiwan.
Any other examples of countries giving themselves terrible new names
burma/myanmar
>>1709796
Pakistan is the worst, I couldn't believe at first that a country would actually have initials as its name.
>Although known as the ‘Pakistan Resolution’, the Lahore text made no mention of ‘Partition’ or ‘Pakistan’ as such. The term was still an academic fiction. It had first been adopted by a group of Muslims at Cambridge in the early 1930s as a wishful acronym for a greater Muslim homeland consisting of P(unjab), A(fghania, i.e. the North-West Frontier), K(ashmir), I(ran), S(ind), T(urkharistan), A(fghanistan) and (Baluchista)N. It also meant, according to its inventor, ‘the land of the paks – the spiritually pure and clean’.
>>1709796
Formosa sounds like some latin american shithole.
t. Taiwanese.
How can anyone unironically be a communist despite century of failures?
>>1728318
How can anyone unironically be a republican despite millennia of failures?
>>1728318
because fuck you dad
you're a communist when you realize capitalism only "works" in the usa, western europe and its peripheries and has the rest of the world living in utter squalor
and does she look like pic related
I guess Rand is the closest, regardless of how fucking dumb she was.
>>1725208
Rand was everything Stirner hated
>Morals don't real do what you want
vs
>I exploit people but it's moral allow me to justify this with circular reasoning
she was so spooked up they're going to make a shitty "based on true events" horror movie out of it
>>1725222
>she was so spooked up they're going to make a shitty "based on true events" horror movie out of it
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
Why aren't the Mormons widely considered to be a different religion than Christianity?
Their views and beliefs differ way too much from general Christian views to be considered to be simply another Protestant denomination. So why aren't they simply seen on par with the Rastafarians or the Druze as alternate Abrahamic faiths?
Many evangelical denominations do view them as non-Christian, but they have a strong base and like any religion they market relentlessly and collect directionless, depressed people who see their strong community and outwardly cheery disposition and feel like by drinking the Kool-Aid they can get some of that.
>>1723571
>Why aren't the Mormons widely considered to be a different religion than Christianity?
Mormons aren't widespread. They are concentrated into 1 state in the USA. And even within that state, they are a minority of the population. So knowledge of their beliefs is not widespread either.
>>1723571
They were considered non-Christian for most of their history, but then again it used to be that Protestants and Catholics called each other non-Christians as well.
Since western Christians in general are being exposed so much to outside culture, they're more willing to identify their "other" as Muslims and atheists instead and be more forgiving of other Christian denominations.
I live in Utah and my two cents are that Mormons are resolutely Christian but with a bunch of fanfic shit tacked on. You could argue that makes them non-Christians but then again you could say the same thing about the Apocrypha.