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Why do some sects of Christianity not celebrate Easter?
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>>1350482
because they are dirty fucking heathens that's why
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>>1350482
Because Easter is a pagan festival, Jesus wasn't born anywhere near it.
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>>1351594
> Jesus wasn't born anywhere near it
but he was killed in easter or passover
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What happened to the blade that cut the Gordian knot in real life, /his/?
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>>1350425
It rests above the bed of maharajah/whatever bla bla bla
T. Wonderslut
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>>1350425
Rusted into nothing by now. It was only a sword and I've never heard of Alexander having any particular sentimentality towards his.
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Most historical artifacts are forgeries anon.
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You can't hate Enver Hoxha.
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I mean sure, what's not to love about run-of-the-mill autocratic Marxist dictators who have genius ideas like pouring huge quantities of an already destitute nation's resources into fucking *bunkers*???
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>>1350428
>I mean sure, what's not to love about run-of-the-mill autocratic Marxist dictators who have genius ideas like pouring huge quantities of an already destitute nation's resources into fucking *bunkers*???
I said you can't hate Enver Hoxha
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>>1350428
>Being THIS revisionist
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How much do we really know about the history and culture of the Aztec Empire and the general civilizations of Mesoamerica?
How is it possible that they share such striking similarities to the Mesopotamian civilizations?
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>>1350218
Phoenicians
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>>1350340
The greatest civilization builders of all time?
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>>1350218
>How is it possible that they share such striking similarities to the Mesopotamian civilizations?
Elaborate please
What do you think of Jung and Freud?
While both certainly have their divergent paths of thought, each man has ideas worth engaging, whether you agree or disagree.
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Both are crackpots and massively overrated by popular imagination.
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>>1350068
>Freud
more like FRAUD
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until early empire legion,
did they wear panties?
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no. pants are for uncivilized savages.
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No why would they? As long as you aren't riding a horse you don't need pants
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It always baffled me why leg protection was disregarded prominantly in ancient warfare. The leg might be a harder target to hit than the torso or arms, and has the benefit of being shielded better, but still.
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Historical figures whose ass your pretty sure you could beat?
For me, I pick Pedro II of Brazil. I can just imagine him coming at me like he's going to talk his way out of the imminent ass whooping and then I just pounce and start fucking wailing on him. I'm pretty sure I could put this dude 6 feet under, no contest
You?
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>>1349995
does Oedipus count? I could kick his incestual ass
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ez
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i could definitely beat this bitch nerd ass
Is it really his dick?
How exactly did they get it?
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Did Rasputin cuck the zar?
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>>1349986
>Is it really his dick?
Probably not.
>How exactly did they get it?
There's a whole story about its travels, but they're inconsistent with the object in the jar.
>>1349992
>Did Rasputin cuck the zar?
In the broad 4chan sense of the term wherein he was played, then yes. But no, in the sense that he probably never stuck his dick in Alexandra.
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>>1349992
Gregori was not a pleb, he did not wasted time fucking the tsar old wife, he probably was a fellow cunny bro.
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So when alls said and done which philosopher was most right? Why?
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Voltaire.
>Common sense is not so common.
>Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
>Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
>I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.
>If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
>Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
>Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
>The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
>Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
>It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
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upvoted
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>>1350014
You forgot his best quote: This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
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What are the most important concepts that we must consider when we talk about Plato?
Please explain to me
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>>1349869
muh forms
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>>1349872
OP: Explain to me the theory of forms
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>>1349882
A form is a metaphysical template that the material draws from to become what it is. The form of beauty makes things beautiful. The form of blue makes things blue. The form of large makes things large. And so on.
From the cave allegory
>the shadows are human conceptions/opinions of the material
>the puppets are the material
>the actual things the puppets represent are the forms
>the light of the sun is the essence of the good
Wisdom comes from knowing and understanding the forms of things rather than focusing on the things themselves, and thus knowledge/wisdom itself is "the good".
I'm trying to curate my digital collection of historical photos, and am having trouble dating this particular photograph. If someone could help me figure out when the photo was taken that would be great, in return I have a bunch of old historical photos I can post.
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bumping w/ interesting photo
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I'll bump every 15-20 minutes with another photo
>He realizes a jew is taking his picture
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>>1349916
Rationing
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How did it happen? No memes, please don't post that dumb green text about aliens.
How did England (Britain/UK if you insist on pretending it wasn't just England and here vassal states.) conquer India, not just "India" as we know it tosay but the India in the pic.
Book and Documentary recommendations would be good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4qVqcL-InI&list=PL0e91V0KgzlUqWjDxRfWGh5uC9W7LnZaL
Those are pretty good desu pham, but I would like to know about the conquest.
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>>1349541
England never conquered India, it ruled it in an alienince with local indian elites. They had a ready made army which the illegitimate indian states were allowed to use to oppress the population they were supposed to be governing.
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>>1349541
India wasn't a unified country back in those days, there were hell lot of kings and nawabs who were always ready to fight each other, English used this for their own benefit and conquered eastern India pretty easily,after that it was just a matter of time before traitors started joining them and they started expanding their territories.... They faced tough opposition only in Northern/Southern India which they conquered anyways with some diplomacy and advanced warfare.
All in all Indians were assholes at that time and Britishers were smart(still they are assholes)*.
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>>1349541
same reason most empires conquer.
Internal division, distrust/dislike of the previous ruling parties.
Britain had the extra benefit of being able to shoot them without them being able to shoot back.
Free will is one's imagination of possible outcomes and actions. These actions might not be logical or might not be possible physically but one can still imagine oneself doing them or attempting to do them.
Even If im in a cell and its locked i can still imagine myself breaking the bars and escaping but when i physically try i might not succeeed.
Now, One's personal experience is not reducible to neuroscience and the physical workings of the human brain as percieved externally nor can it be fully simulated.
A full simulation is exactly the full experiece of yours as you experiece it yourself in real time.
No matter how powerful a lab or how skilled the scientists your personal inner world cannot be scientifically understood, your will, as the simulation and de facto your existence as a self experiecing individual can never be fully simulated.
Free will as described above, is exactly this full self experience, free will as imagination. It is a result of the personal self examination of an experiencing entity as it exists in time not and can never be an external simulation or examination through the specific methodologies of the scientific method.
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While I agree, if free will doesn't exist (I believe it does), one can still say your imagination of possible outcomes was determined.
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Who controls this will? Some magical soul?
Thanks theists.
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>>1349491
In what way? you cannot know a person, you cannot get intside his head and be him which is the only full determining simulation. It determines itself it is expereincing in time.
You can determine how its neurons are firing but not the experience as the experience itself is the determination.
Nor is it determined anymore than you trying to determine your next actions. It is its own determinator.
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What's your favorite CIA coup?
I personally like the removal of Patrice Lumumba, a potential Communist who ran for election in the Congo. Swift and effective.
>In the election of Patrice Lumumba, and his acceptance of Soviet support, the CIA saw another possible Cuba. This view swayed the White House. Eisenhower ordered that Lumumba be "eliminated". The CIA delivered a quarter of a million dollars to Joseph Mobutu, their favorite horse in the race. Mobutu delivered Lumumba to the Belgians, the former colonial masters of Congo, who executed him in short order.[51]
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Chile
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>>1349413
Only the generation today can find itself so far up its own ass that it finds praising the CIA as radical
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>>1349413
Definitely that time that those spooks couped a country and it went to shit :DD
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So why does no one mention the several attacks Poles made on Germans when discussing the invasion of Poland? Because that is a Casus Belli for war and if anything means it was a German war of Polish aggression.
No, i'm not memeing, just wondering why you never hear of those attacks.
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>it's a /pol/ and /his/ crossover
worst episode
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Meme harder you fucking retard.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident
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Second post best post