Dominus vobiscum.
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thanks my dude
you too
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Footus suckus.
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>>1633935
>Foot fetish and mouth herpes be with you!
The nerve these people have to shill for Catholicism in this day and age...
Is Taoism a religion or philosophy? How does one practice Taoism?
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Just be like, yo, dig this, light and dark arise mutually and it's a deep ineffable mystery of nature like, can't put it into words man. Good and evil, son. It's all in yo mind, illusion, just wu wei and chill breh.
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>>1633870
>How does one practice Taoism?
short answer you dont, long answer is you join a taoist sect
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Most Taoism is integrated into the region's folk religions, so I'd argue it's more on the side of philosophy.
Hence why both it and Confucianism are classified together as Chinese Folk religions despite having different ideologies.
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What documentary/lecture would you recommend for learning about Caesar?
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which Caesar? The actually relevant one or the one who dicked around in Gaul
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>pic of Augustus
Reeeeeeeee
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>>1633630
John Green
tells you everything you need to know in modern perspective (for instance why should Alexander the Great be called great since no woman was called great)
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"I know that I know nothing." 2016-09-01 20:19:14 Post No.1633606
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"I know that I know nothing."
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Holy shit, this quote is 2500 years old and is still correct to this today.
How can one man do so much?
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>>1633606
how did socrates solve all epistemology so early
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>>1633606
>Humans are self-ware
>OMGTUIFDWVJ soooo much wisdom
>Brain explosions
This ancient meme needs to drink some of that hemlock.
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How effective where archers throughout the ages?
What made the most kills in battles?
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>What made the most kills in battles?
cholera
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Generally speaking, with a few exceptions, archers were a harrying force to thin out the enemy ranks or attack strategic weak points before the main lines engaged each other.
>What made the most kills in battles?
It's hard to say. Most casualties in any given pro-government battle would be inflicted while one side was retreating, usually by cavalry if there was any.
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>>1633498
>pro-government
What the shit, I meant "pre-modern"
Serves me right for being a phoneposter
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>Is protestantism just a cargo cult of Christianity?
>With lay people dressing up and pretending they're priests?
>Is this why evangelicals and other churches made up in 19th and 20th century don't even try to fake it anymore? Just organize meetings and lectures instead of a regular devoted service?
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>>1633460
>he thinks festooning churches and priests with magical amulets, fetishes and jujus enhances their spirituality
>he thinks several years of ideological indoctrination make people more holy, rather than doctrinally compliant church commissars
>he thinks groupthink and ideology delivered from on high from a remote figure cossetted away in palatial luxury is better than a group or community getting together and thinking and talking about what they believe
and people wonder why catholic and orthodox europe are so shit. the best parts of old church europe are the least obedient parts, i.e. the least inclined toward obedience
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Yes
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>>1633511
Ah, protestants like Billy and Benny Hinn makes keeping my catholic faith a lot easier.
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That's a bit of misconception and rampant simplification concerning what happened with the Old Believers. First of all, the Old Believer's were dynamite waiting to happen: there was a strong apocalyptic current in Russia always looking for the sign of the end times and signs of the Antichrist for any little thing, and when the Patriarch changed a bunch of rites, that was more than enough of a reason for them: they said the Church was now taken over by Satan, and that now all Sacraments were invalid: they said now the only way to gain absolution of sins was a baptism by fire; many burned their homes with their whole families inside in order to achieve this. They were also vocal preachers and said the Orthodox Church was the Devil and draw as many people from it as possible; there were numerous more quiet heresies throughout the thousand years of the Church in Russia, from Judaizers to basically Gnostics, but none were seriously persecuted because they weren't nearly as agitated. Old Belivers today are mostly to themselves, though, and they aren't so crazy; tolerance was given to them at that point, which was before the Russian Revolution; persecution resumed under the Bolsheviks though.
Next, on the Patriarch's side, you had a very, very politically ambitious: he had plans to take control of the See of Constantinople, through Russian conquest and having it incorporated into the Russian Church. He knew that in order to facilitate this, so the Greeks wouldn't feel "occupied" by the Russian Church (they would be conquering from the Turks), he'd need to ensure there would be no change at all in services and rites. So he switched the Russian rites over to what was the Greek rites; the idea that he wanted to "restore" the rite was just a pretense he used. Anyway, this Patriarch eventually got too big for his britches, and was defrocked, and spent the rest of his life confined to a monastery.
So it wasn't really about rituals, it just formed along those lines.
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>>1633425
Honestly I always found it weird how many breakaway sects there were in Orthodoxy but most of them were either extremely minor or got suppressed quickly. They never saw something like the Catholics did with the explosion of Protestantism, only shows you what incompetent fucktards the Catholics are.
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>>1633425
>So it wasn't really about rituals, it just formed along those lines.
So when it's about other faiths it's an argument about petty rituals, but when it's about your faith it's about serious fundamental issues that merely look like they're about petty issues from an outsider's perspective?
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>>1633463
This wasn't about theologians arguing with each other, it was about a mostly illiterate populist movement who thought the new way of doing things was Satanic (which is a bit absurd, since that would mean the Greeks were Satanic, who were One Church with the Russians, but isolated and illiterate people are not necessarily going to know that). How you cross yourself is not dogma and never has been.
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Do you think the World Wars should be considered a single conflict called the second Thirty Years war?
>The "Second Thirty Years' War"[a] is a disputed periodization sometimes used by historians to encompass the wars in Europe from 1914 to 1945. It is used to emphasize the period as a whole.
>Just as the Thirty Years' War (1618–48) was not a single war but a series of conflicts in varied times and locations, later organized and named by historians into a single period, the Second Thirty Years' War has been seen as a "European Civil War" fought over the problem of Germany exacerbated by new ideologies such as communism, fascism and nazism.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Thirty_Years%27_War
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>>1633338
No, because future people will have access to the avalanche of primary sources, and they will be aware that everybody in that era considered these to be two distinct wars, and acted as such
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>>1633338
Future generations will probably see the period between 1914 to 1945 as such. Same can be said of the French unrest in Europe between 1789 to 1815.
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>>1633338
I dig it as an option, there was a lot that went on between the two that set it up as the peak and then fall of European global hegemony
ITT Comfy states/countries that were ruined by foreign countries mucking around in their affairs
Kicking off the thread with Yugoslavia which was torn apart by Russians and Americans both trying to expand their sphere of influince
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Iran used to be pretty based and then the CIA fucked it up
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>>1633008
Minoans until Thera erupted.
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>>1633008
Thebes until Phillipos II
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Summing up world history 2016-09-01 18:09:38 Post No.1633004
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I don't care much about the details of history but I want to know the basics, so tell me if this is correct:
>Egyptians and Mesopotamians build great empires and shit
>Greeks show up and invent democracy along with philosophy, science, maths, literature, and non-shit art
>Rome brings all those things to new heights and conquers Europe, spreading civilization everywhere
>Catholicism appears, makes science illegal and burns all books and scientists as witches, causing the fall of Rome
>for 1000 years Europe lives in the Dark Ages under Catholic rule, Europeans are violent illiterates killing each other and thinking the world is flat
>meanwhile the Chinese make invent gunpowder and the printing press
>the Muslims discover and continue advancing Greek and Roman science, and spread it to Europe along with the Chinese inventions
>this causes the Renaissance, Europeans rediscover science and civilization
>the Protestant Reformation happens and destroys the power of the Catholic Church, science becomes legal in Protestant countries and people learn to read and write
>Europeans use the Chinese inventions to conquer and plunder the world and become rich
>England invents modern democracy, modern science, starts the Industrial Revolution, and builds the greatest empire in history
>America becomes independent and the only country to equal Britain in greatness
>Germany becomes successful too thanks to Germanic stock and Protestant values, but chooses nationalism instead of Anglo freedom
>Britain and America ally to save Europe from Germany in two world wars, and continue to jointly lead the world to this day, politically, scientifically, and culturally
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>>1633004
and to think it could have all been prevented were it not for
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Some posters might nitpick some details, but that's basically accurate and all you really need to know.
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>>1633016
Who?
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What went wrong?
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>>1632938
DEBASEMENT OF THE SILVER DENARIUS
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>>1632938
Envy and treachery.
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>>1632953
>implying he wasn't a tyrant
>implying he wasn't blinded by hubris
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how much better would this world be if both World Wars had never happened?
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A lot
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I think they were inevitable given Germany's growth as a major power and their pitiful colonial holdings as well as ambitions in the east
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>>1632849
maybe we could have had smaller scale wars
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Why did assimilation of immigrants work so well during the 19th century when compared to its contemporary counterpart?
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>>1632742
Number of immigrants
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>>1632742
Because back then, extremely brutal treatment of foreigners barely caused people to bat an eye. Go read about the situation in immigrant ghettoes and all the lynching in 19th century america.
It's the coddling that prevents assimilation. Foreigners need to understand that assimilating would be an advantage to them. As long as you tell them their own culture is fine and good, why would they bother?
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>>1632742
No one was actively working against it. The french government banned it in the 80s. That wouldn't been impossible to even think of a hundred years before
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The Slave Soul of Russia 2016-09-01 16:45:55 Post No.1632664
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After the Mongols invaded in the mid-thirteenth century they extracted obeisance , financial tribute , and military assistance from the princes of Rus' lands for at least the next century and a half. As the Mongols lost their grip, the Muscovite state expanded, its tsar enforcing unrestricted despotic rule over all citizens.
By degrees, starting roughly at the end of the fifteenth century, Russian peasants became more and more obliged to their landowning masters. From the late sixteenth century, they—that is, the vast majority of the rural Russia n population—were bound from cradle to grave as serfs to their masters (or to the state directly), and they were not released from this form of involuntary servitude until 1861.
The Russia n Orthodox Church, since the time of Peter the Great, was under the thumb of tsarist authority, and after the 1917 Revolution has endured periods of anti-religious persecution. Russian women of all historical periods have been victimized by their men, whether they were being beaten for disobedience in accordance with the principles of the sixteenth-century Domostroi, or were holding down full-time jobs while at the same time being responsible for the bulk of household labor in the twentieth-century Soviet state.
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For nearly three decades during the Soviet period of Russian history, forced labor was a way of life for the millions of inhabitants of the so-called gulag or system of concentration camps. Both Western and Soviet historians have acknowledged that this was outright slavery. With the onset of collectivization in the 1930s an aspect of serfdom was rein - stated, for a large portion of the Soviet population was restricted by means of an internal passport system to living in designated agricultural areas.
To this day ordinary Russian citizens, who often have difficulty obtaining the minimum goods and services necessary for subsistence, contribute to the production of certain goods and services which only an elite class, formerly known as the nomenklatura, has access to.
These facts are very diverse, and they are of course somewhat over - simplified. But a general picture emerges which is accurate—and appalling. The sheer quantity and diversity of suffering that has gone on in Russia, and still goes on there, boggles the Western mind.
The American psychoanalyst Edmund Bergler treated a class of masochistic neurotics whom he termed "injustice collectors." I know of no nation which has collected more injustices for itself than has Russia. What are the causes of the great suffering that goes on in Russia ? Whence the Russia n "need to suffer " ("potrebnost ' stradaniia") 2 —as Dostoevsky put it? Who is to blame?—to ask the perennial Russian question.
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tl, dr
this is not how you start a thread
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Everyone knows the Russkies hate freedom.
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Are Cathars the only eretics that deserved to be eradicated?
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>>1632639
Why do you think they deserved it? Weren't they slaughtered along with all the women and children in Beziers? Seems to me like a pointless crusade desu.
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>>1632639
THE FACT THAT YOU THINK THAT THE CATHARS WERE HERETICS, AND THAT THEY DESERVED TO BE ERADICATED, EVINCES EITHER, YOUR RADICAL IGNORANCE, OR YOUR "EVILNESS", REGARDLESS OF WHICH IS THE CASE, NOONE SHOULD TAKE YOU SERIOUSLY, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU DO NOT EVEN KNOW HOW TO SPELL "HERETICS".
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eretic erotic