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The Olympic Games are coming and the time is right for a /his olympic thread. Post your favorite iconic olympic moments, your country´s greatest athletes or whatever. Remember 25 year rule.
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Munich was kekest of keks
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Nine golds and three silvers. Best ever.
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Phelps begs to differ
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Let's suppose for a second that there was a guy called "Jesus" who lived 2000 years ago in Galilee. If I recall correctly, the original aramaic name is "Išo".
How commonly used was that name back then? Was it like saying "John Smith" nowadays?
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>>1448558
wasn't he called Emmanuel by his parents?
can't remember desu
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I doubt anyone has an answer to how common the name was back then. It supposedly means ""fasting"" and that makes me wonder if Jesus ever starved himself for religious reasons.
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If Jesus is God, what is stopping him from being born as a 6'3", blond haired, blue eyed, handsome white man?
Checkmate, atheists.
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I recently realized that Christianity is the most complete teaching of all religions.
It teaches the exact same thing as Buddhism, but goes into much more detail about how we came into being, where Buddhists simply don't care about.
I think that Christianity, looked at through an unintelligent person's eyes, is extremely poorly interpreted.
I am convinced that heaven and hell are mental states, rebirths, karma and suffering through attachments are often hinted in the Bible and named otherwise such as sin.
10 commandments = 10 percepts
It's the exact same teaching however you look at it, Christianity merely goes deeper into detail about the Creator.
I don't know much about Islam and Judaism but they are also abrahamic religions like Christianity so it's basically the same shit.
All religions teach the same things if understood correctly and believe the same things. Some are more incomplete than others, and apply better to today's society. Just like Shinto applies only to Japan.
Am I alone in this?
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>>1448281
>Am I alone in this?
No. I think the religion I follow to is the most complete, and you think yours is. This is how religious people are.
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>>1448281
>I don't know much about Islam and Judaism but they are also abrahamic religions like Christianity so it's basically the same shit.
No, not at all. Like not even remotely close. For starters, Christians have 10 commandments. Jews have 613. Six-hundred and thirteen. I will allow you to imagine the discrepancy yourself.
>Christianity merely goes deeper into detail about the Creator.
Unless you mean the creator as an anthropomorphic person (Jesus?), no, Christian cosmogony+theology is extremely bare compared to Jewish kabbalah. As far as I know Augustinian never detailed the anatomy of the body of god beyond the Trinity, or how the universe was specifically created beyond what's describe in cursory reading of Genesis.
>All religions teach the same things if understood correctly and believe the same things. Some are more incomplete than others, and apply better to today's society
This is a good point. All religions satisfy a desire for meaning, order, and transcendence from the mundane. You aren't the first person to favor this religious "perennial philosophy". Unfortunately, the school falls short after recognizing that all religions claim to be literally true - you can't have infinite divisibility and atomic theory or alchemy and chemistry, one of them has to be less correct than the other. All three of the Abrahamic religions wildly disagree about the order and validity of their prophets, for instance...
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>>1448281
>It teaches the exact same thing as Buddhism
Nonsense, they are different in almost every way.
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Why did the Cuban revolution succeed while pretty much every single other Marxist revolution failed?
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>>1448028
Extreme incompetence on the part of the government, and a shit ton of luck.
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> Batista regime was corrupt as fuck
> Batista army was shit
> Fidel was a strong charismatic caudillo and latinos love that shit
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>>1448028
Cía help, us well know fact
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What would you guys say is the most intimidating battlefield horn/whistle/trumpet/whatever?
Tie between the aztec death whistle and the carnyx for me tbqh lads
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That death whistle is the coolbeansest thing ever! I must have one.
Here's a classic, but the sound of these droning over the hills must have been quite intimidating.
https://youtu.be/2hZUZCoMKxA
And here's another crazy one - this isn't exactly a battlefield instrument but it has been used as an acoustic weapon. It's the largest noisemaker mankind has ever made.
>runs on a 180HP Hemi V8
>138dB @ 100ft - which is well above the threshold of pain and immediately damaging to the ears.
https://youtu.be/IAMiTfSU7ZA
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>screaming skulls
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That death whistle is fucking creepy.
The psychological effect was probably real indeed.
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Is there a Christian exegesis or sect which justifies or allows racism? I find it strange to see many, (mostly pro-white) groups and the like who call themselves devout Christians. Now, this could be just like Muslim terrorism for instance who claim they are true Muslims, but there are Muslim exegeses which allow their actions (however fringe) so I wonder if there is the same for Christianity?
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>>1447613
There is nothing that correlates Christianity with racism
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Europeans justified the Atlantic slave trade with the Curse of Ham
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>>1447613
In Matthew, the Jews are stooged into declaring that the blood of Christ was upon themselves and their children
Forget Medieval Longsword Vs Katana
What about Celtic Longsword vs Katana? The Celts were absolute master metalworkers who were the leaders of metallurgy in their day, making pattern welded swords.
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Celts didn't make longswords, you dingus
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this thread again..
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Why did they never develop a long-range strategic bomber?
Why didn't they use Vichy-held Syria to conquer oil fields in the middle east?
Why did they spend a year dropping bombs on random cockneys in bongistan for no reason when he could have used those resources elsewhere?
Why did they send a third of their army to try to capture Leningrad, a strategically useless objective?
Why did they halve the number of tanks per tank division thereby reducing strength across the board?
Why did they waste all their time and energy researching into the most advanced prototypes for tanks instead of finding a reliable system that worked and mass-producing that?
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Because they were fucking terrible and everything they did was based on pointless idealism and mad theories rather than practical strategy.
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>>1447542
>dude, lets just go across the mediterranean and land in syria instead of a short hop across the water to Libya.
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>>1447542
They couldn't compete with superior western liberalism and free market capitalism
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So we all know that the Hussars were pretty damn cool, hard arse, wodka chugging, mudslime killers, BUT! The leopard skin and what not you may see them wearing. Where did they get those from? Did the travel east enough to find a leopard or like.. what? Where did they come from.. and why did they wear them in the first place? Halp
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>>1447370
Tell me,why do they wear leopard skin?
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>>1447430
Yeah, why do they?
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>>1447370
Obviously they got them from merchants of some kind. The reason they wore them is because Alexander the Great's Companion Cavalry wore them.
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Post historical heroes.
I'll start.
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What happened /his/?
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Lack of a strong leader and rising nationalism + economic stagnation
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>>1447059
serbshits chimped out and had their ass handed to them every single time
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And British,American and French involvement.Let's face it,men like Milosevic,Izetbegovic and Tudjman were great orators,but they've simply lacked the resources,the reputation and the diplomatic standing to cause such a devastating conflict all by themselves.They've had outside assistance,lot of it's in fact.
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Has anybody had a go at writing their own book?
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>>1446678
Yeah i never got past the planning stage.
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>>1446681
What was it about?
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Large, heterogeneous societies = least successful and stable historically? 2016-07-22 08:10:46 Post No.1446364
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Large, heterogeneous societies = least successful and stable historically?
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>There is perhaps some hope to be derived from the fact that in most instances where an attempt to realize an ideal society gave birth to the ugliness and violence of a prolonged active mass movement the experiment was made on a vast scale and with a heterogeneous population. Such was the case in the rise of Christianity and Islam, and in the French, Russian, and Nazi revolutions. The promising communal settlements in the small state of Israel and the successful programs of socialization in the small Scandinavian states indicate perhaps that when the attempt to realize an ideal society is undertaken by a small nation with a more or less homogeneous population it can proceed and succeed in an atmosphere which is neither hectic nor coercive."
-Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer"
How true is the above? Is stability impossible in large heterogeneous societies?
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Using early Bolshevik Russia as an example is the pinnacle of cherry-picking,and you know very well why,don't you?
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>>1446364
That would depend on your definitions of successful and stable
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Society with small/no white population = least successful and stable historically
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Who was politically and militarily speaking, the greatest Sassanid monarch, /his/? Otherwise pre-Islamic Iranian/Persian general thread or whatever.
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>mfw Persians will always be noble and Arabs will always be barbarians
everything that started out on the Arabian peninsula is literal subhuman tier
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>>1446061
Okay but that doesn't answer my question
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>>1446061
Hey fellow Scandinavian pagan keto dieting youtube vanguarding defender of Evropa that's NOT AN ARGUMENT
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Can we talk about the philosophy of quantum mechanics here?
Not posting on /sci/, because I don't want to discuss the science, but rather the metaphysical implicaitons.
How do we reconcile our everyday worldview with the proven facts of nonlocality (e.g. quantum entanglement), non-realism (Bell's inequalities) and the special role of the observer (collapse of the wave function)? Obviously these discoveries invalidated a lot of previously popular philosophical theories, for example the Kantian idea of the thing-in-itself or Hume's "is-ought" problem. Did any philosophers address these issues and constructed a new theory of philosophy embracing the knowledge of quantum mechanics?
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>>1445232
>Obviously these discoveries invalidated a lot of previously popular philosophical theories, for example the Kantian idea of the thing-in-itself or Hume's "is-ought" problem
how do you figure
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>>1445232
Free will.
(layman's understanding)
In the smallest scale, matter is not a set of cause and effect rules that strictly determine interactions. It's a probability. A quanta existing in two places gives rise to the possibility of Free Will and the Multiverse.
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>>1445232
This has the potential to be a good thread, but either nobody on this board knows enough about this topic or cares enough to actually discuss it, so I'll just add some of my own input.
There is actually vociferous debate over how to interpret Bell's theorem. Nonlocality is favored by most because while the implications are perturbing, the alternatives are even more so. We can sacrifice a weak formulation of realism (counterfactual definiteness) to save locality, or sacrifice free will to save both (superdeterminism). Superdeterminism would end science as a legitimate practice and denying counterfactual definiteness would essentially make it so that quantum mechanics isn't "about" anything at all, only an extremely precise tool that seems to correspond to observable phenomena the universe can produce. Though if we're to accept nonlocality, then we permit that nature allows for some form of action-at-a-distance. It's a difficult choice to make and one that has profound consequences for the fundamental constitution of the world.
The other thing of note that is particularly interesting is how Wheeler's delayed choice experiments essentially demonstrated that matter is intrinsically undefined at the quantum level. It is neither a particle nor a wave, but something entirely different or in-between. But if we're to take the wave function as a complete description of the physical system, then that is the ontological picture that qm teaches us. The ultimate nature of matter remains profoundly mysterious. As for collapse, I don't have much of a preferred interpretation, only that Copenhagen should not be considered one.
Nothing about QM invalidates Kant or Hume though, don't know how you got that. There are even interesting similarities between transcendental idealism and relativity that were pointed out by Godel. I'd recommend reading some Maudlin, Shimony, Wallace, Albert, and Lewis (two of them) for more on the philosophy of qm. It's fascinating stuff