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What if it was the East that collapsed and the West that remained in order? Would it have lasted anywhere near as much as the East did without Constantinople's ideal location and Theodosian Walls to protect the capital from Arab and German armies?
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why would East collapse before the West?
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>>1541705
I think the point of hypothetic scenarios isn't to question how you get to that point, but to consider it a fact.
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>>1541719
But in order to discuss what would have happened, it's necessary to define the cause(s) and their implications no?
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Orthodoxy or Catholicism? 2016-08-13 00:14:01 Post No.1541586
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I've been Catholic my whole life, but recently I have been taking the importance of religion much more seriously, and thinking that it would be really nice to follow a religion that is within my values.
I value family values, tradition, following a "true " path, humblety, etc. Basically your typical mid western farmer/republican.
I also want to know what's the differences between Orthodoxy and Catholicism, in regards to:
1. Bible interpretation
2. Basic principles
3. Who is the patriarch guy?
4. What kind of people go to the orthodox church?
5. A bit of history
6. Is Orthodoxy legitimately Christian?
7. How fervorous are Orthodoxes when compared to Catholics?
Appreciate the help.
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Neither.
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>>1541586
>humblety
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Are there any actual sources for Comanche/Apache torture methods and how many Europeans and other native American tribes were subject to them?
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Try reading "Comanches, The Destruction of a People" by T.R. Fehrenbach
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I remember hearing one particular method in several western flicks.. would be interested to see documentation but I have to assume it is true.
Anyway, the method of execution/torture described consisted of tying down the victim, opening their abdomen, cutting the intestine and lashing it to a dog...
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"Indian Depredations in Texas" by J.W. Wilbarger. He compiles all known attacks as well as the primary sources for each one
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Well?
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Damn that really made me think
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Baby George Bush never existed, those photos are just forgeries created by "scientists" and the "chinese".
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And the people that claim to have met baby George Bush? They're just delusional, just like those mindless "scientists"
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>No forests are more than 200 years old
>mesas are perfect hexagons.
what do you think guys could there have been mile high trees?
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Stone trees?
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>>1541472
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Bitches don't know about my square-cube law.
Was he England's worst King?
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>>1541411
England's worst King has yet to ascend
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Well, he did consolidate his rule and end the chaos of the War of the Roses. His dynasty only fell because the male line went extinct, plus it helped pave the way for the Stuarts inheriting the English crown, creatong the United Kingdom. Overall, pretty great
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He freed them from having to worry about the Pope so much.
I mean sure, his daughter had to deal with Phillip II's autistic Catholic ass, but that set up events for England to become the dominant naval power.
Really you could say he was indirectly one of the best English monarchs.
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>"top ten crazy beliefs christians have"
>list mentions leviticus and deuteronomy
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>>1541329
>Belief in God isn't included.
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>>1541329
You mean those books Christians use to justify hating gays?
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>>1541364
>hebrew bible
>christians
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>Humans are terrible monsters, we're ruining everything good in the world!
This is a common opinion (and sometimes I even agree with it) but if you think about it, it's a black hole of confusion.
How can the only known carers come to the conclusion that they are awful because they're ruining what they care about?
Should we see ourselves as fundamentally noble no matter what we do? We are the centre of value.
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>>1541326
I don't think its a matter of values of good and evil. More of "we are doing things that may actually affect us" bit that seems odd.
>We must destroy life to preserve life
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>>1541326
Hippies are retarded. In other news, water is wet.
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>>1541326
Humans are basically selfish and have no long-term planning skills. So what? Is there any creature we know of that isn't basically selfish, or has long-term planning skills? Does an asteroid have long-term planning skills?
The tragedy of humanity is that we can imagine a better way to do things, but can't do it. When people talk about "humans evolving into AI", what they really mean is humans intentionally destroying themselves and replacing themselves with the AI they always wished they were.
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Help me identify the ones on the left side. I love you all so much, I'm actually a communist and I'm going to fight for all of us. I want to instigate a cultural revolution. Like the MLK movements. Don't ask me about ideology because it's irrelevant to discuss it here. I spew my propaganda face to face with people, that's how I get the red out of them because everybody has a little bit of red inside them.
P.S.: I'm also a vegan, so beware of my moral high ground, please, comrades.
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>>1541221
morality is a spook. Marx never refuted Stirner
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> I'm actually a communist and I'm going to fight for all of us. I want to instigate a cultural revolution.
> I'm also a vegan
Can't say if troll or just a 17 year old.
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>>1541229
It's a troll pretending to be a false-flagger
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Why did the communist revolution happen in rural Russia and China rather an industrial country like Marx predicted?
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>>1541218
because Marx was wrong and a faggot
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>>1541218
Because marx's work was wrong about pretty much everything
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>>1541218
Industrial countries could put down their communists.
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What are /his/ thoughts about noocracy? How would it look like? That's how I do:
>Power distribution works as it is now does in science community : the more proficient and successful in ruling practice one gets higher post. Observation and assignment are performed by specialised authority, which members are specially educated professionals and former governors. This authority makes a decision, that determines reliability of a candidate based on observations of his/her previous work results. However, it have nor the direct legislative and executive, and judicial power and have to be highly secured and transparent. The candidates on key posts, like president or minister are determined by highly dependable committee, which chooses from among experienced governors, or the ones that have shown eminent talent or abilities. Basically, this department is studying current political, economical and social situation with a scientific approach, and bases it's decisions on huge amount of verified data.
> and then i woke up.
Share your opinion on this.
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>>1541108
*thats how I do see it* my bad
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>>1541108
>Basically, this department is studying current political, economical and social situation with a scientific approach
That would be great if economics, sociology and polsci weren't bullshit pseudoscience. Also, how do you expect to stop the proles from rebelling without turning them against each other?
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>>1541215
>Economics
>sociology
>pseudoscience
What did Richard III do to get such a bad reputation?
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Guess who defeated him in battle and usurped his throne? That's right, the same dynasty infamous for its use of propaganda against its enemies
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He couldn't stop playing with his pinkies, much to the chagrin of everyone around him.
Your pic demonstrates.
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I want to talk about ancient metalworking. Pic related is an iron dagger with a gold sheath and hilt found in Tutankhamun's tomb. This tomb was sealed in the 14th century BC, when iron smelting was not yet known in Egypt, so it has long been suspected that the blade was worked from the solid metal core of an iron meteorite. Composition analysis finally confirmed this origin in 2016. You can read about it here:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12664/full
This blade was surely a ceremonial object, which is sensible given that solid iron would have been rarer even than gold. The Egyptians at this time had knowledge of bronzeworking and the use of edged weapons, so it is not difficult to imagine the origin of the model for their ceremonial gold and iron blades.
However, I have read references in various sources to discoveries of gold daggers and axe heads dating from before the bronze age. These objects are also described in the literature as purely ceremonial. A gold blade could not actually be used for cutting in any case, as the metal is too soft to hold an edge (which is why gold could be worked before the invention of smelting in the first place). What was the model for these prehistoric blades? Flint and obsidian weapons were of course very common in the "stone age," but, excepting axes, do not really resemble gold ceremonial weapons such as swords. To put it bluntly, what is the point of making a gold model of a sword that could never have possibly been used, when swords were completely unknown (stone being too brittle to hold such a long cutting edge) in the first place? What ceremonial purpose could they have served? What did they imitate?
It seems to me that meteoric iron could be one possible explanation: could some warriors have possessed superior "heavenly weapons" wrought of iron that fell from the sky, long before the discovery of copper and bronze? Could golden imitations of these swords have found their way into ritual?
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Copperworking dates back to like 4000 BC.
From there, people realized you could add tin or zinc to the mix, and you get bronze and brass items
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>>1541095
Any examples of these pre-Bronze Age gold daggers?
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Wikipedia is telling me that gold was actually the first metal ever worked by humans.
Is she right? Is collectivism the problem?
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>>1541071
Why was she such a fucking hypocrite?
>They (Native Americans) didn't have any rights to the land, and there was no reason for anyone to grant them rights which they had not conceived and were not using. What was it that they were fighting for, when they opposed white men on this continent? For their wish to continue a primitive existence, their 'right' to keep part of the earth untouched, unused and not even as property, but just keep everybody out so that you will live practically like an animal, or a few caves above it. Any white person who brings the element of civilization has the right to take over this continent.
>Now, I don’t care to discuss the alleged complaints American Indians have against this country. I believe, with good reason, the most unsympathetic Hollywood portrayal of Indians and what they did to the white man. They had no right to a country merely because they were born here and then acted like savages.
>The Arabs are one of the least developed cultures. They are typically nomads. Their culture is primitive, and they resent Israel because it's the sole beachhead of modern science and civilization on their continent. When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.
>If you mean whose side one should be on, Israel or the Arabs, I would certainly say Israel because it’s the advanced, technological, civilized country amidst a group of almost totally primitive savages who have not changed for years and who are racist and who resent Israel because it’s bringing industry, intelligence, and modern technology into their stagnation.
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>>1541071
Daily reminder that she died claiming social security.
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>>1541109
Do as I say, not as I do. Or are you one of those people who thinks Nietzsche thought he was the ubermensch?
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1) Why do people get upset when someone kills someone they don't know?
2) If you had to name his philosophy, what would you name it?
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>>1541057
Radical selfishness.
Or
Naive narcissism
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>>1541057
Toxic masculinity
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>>1541057
Toxic virginity.