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>>1259555

t.assblasted Christcuck

Sam Harris

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1. Albert Einstein
2. Nikola Tesla
3. Leonardo Da Vinci
4. Isaac Newton
5. Jesus Christ
6. Stephen Hawking
7. Galileo Galilei
8. Adolf Hitler
9. Charles Darwin
10. Benjamin Franklin

>>1254582
>8. Adolf Hitler
Back to /pol/

I'd bet that there were at least a couple geniuses who were born into hunter-gatherer or illiterate agricultural societies and had no chance of making an impact on history, because the tools simply weren't there.

Out of the people we know of, I'd have to include most of the really good physicists and mathematicians.

Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, Fermi, Bohr, that sort of thing.

Huge Network of Mysterious, Man-Made Caves in China

>In 1992, a man in the Chinese village of Longyou pooled his money with his neighbors to buy a water pump and began siphoning out the pond in his village, only to eventually discover that it wasn't really a pond at all, but the flooded entrance to an ancient, man-made cave. Upon investigation, it turned out that, rather than the entrance to Chinese Batman's secret lair, this cave was one in a network of 36 hidden chambers in the area, all dating back to the early Han dynasty, about 2,000 years ago.

>There are no documents whatsoever, at least none that have been discovered, that record the construction or purpose of the Longyou Caves, although the excavation would have been an immense, government-contracted project involving the movement of 900,000 cubic meters of rock. This is especially odd considering the ancient Chinese were meticulous record-keepers.

>>1242121
It's likely there was a massacre by Indians who dumped the bodies into the river.

My biggest unanswered question: what caused the Maya to decline?

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>>1242121
The medieval snail meme, which remains unexplained.

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>evil
>implying that's not totally made up bullshit society wants you to believe

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There is no self-improvement without suffering, nor any context to appreciate the good things in life,
Achieving mastery and self-discipline via the wilful subjugation of the self is a central point of Christianity, and indeed many other religions.

The ways of our Lord are mysterious.

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>>1257288
I agree.

>>1257296
It's fedoraish but it's still true.

(You)

>implying ancient egyptians had a different ethnicity
>implying conquest leads to significant change of ethnicity

This is most likely bait.

We're still here dummy

>>1254686
Obviously

/int/ faggots think literally every pre modern war or conquest was a game of thrones tier genocide/rape festival

>redpill

>>1253776
>Implying 'redpill me on...' isn't now just another way of saying 'tell me about'

>>1253773
What do you want to know apart from the origins? It's a very broad subject.

Anyway, the Sassanid dynasty was founded in theory by a dude called Sasan (I will talk more about him below) but actually the first semi-relevant Sassanid is Papak who may or may not be Sasan's son depending on who you read.

Papak and his son Ardashir were persian local potentates who revolted against the ruler of Pars, who was a vassal of the Arsacid ruler. Papak killed and usurped this ruler of Pars. With the death of his father Ardashir continued to conquest of several vassals of the parthian ruler until eventually the Arsacid king Artabanus came to fight him personally. Long story short, Ardashir won and he became ruler of Iran to continue his campaigns against eastern and western neighbours. It doesn't look like his wars were motivated by ethnicity but personal ambition and maybe religion.

Ideologically, Ardashir claimed to descend from the ancient iranian rulers of the past. This is where Sasan enters. This Sasan was a priest of Anahita and, according to the Sassanians, was a descendant of the Kayanian kings. This Kayanians are a mythological or maybe legendary dynasty that ruled Iran before Alexander. They're not the Achaemenids although some Achaemenids are or may be included as Kayanians (but this is a complex subject that has generated a lot of scholarly debate).

Anyway, several parthian families were very powerful during Sassanian rule. And they all claimed to descend from those Kayanians. So the anti-Arsacid sentiment of the Sassanids cannot be interpreted as anti-parthian. You should keep in mind that Sassanians didn't call their kingdom Persia but Iran, and parthians were iranians.

>>1253143
Got into desert, untouched by man - feast for days - purify your mind and soul and ask God.

Or simply go with Orthodoxy.

>>1253164
You hinting on that Orthodoxy would be the outcome after such a spiritual pilgrimage?

>>1253168
It's the outcome of Jesus Christ - God in human flesh together with Holy Spirit that's still present today and can speak with you not in desert - but in Church.

With the baptism, you get the armor of Holy Spirit on you - while still on earth your soul becomes angel like in human flesh.

But yeah there's also lots of mysticism in orthodoxy and lots of miracles - many actually, still today - mainly because of the Holy Spirit.

And because role of Church on earth is to prepare souls for eternity - not just wait idle until death - Holy Spirit will train you, test you, teach you and make your soul greater while still alive, so that when you die lots of rewards wait you - eternal boundless joy.

>>1250056
Why do you say God is a Christian?

>>1250056
I don't have historical evidence to support this, but given how much time they spent on their mythology, it's probably not unreasonable to think that it wasn't mythology to them. But there's also no reason to think that they were deluded enough to create deities and then believe these deities existed on their own.

>>1250070
So you're saying Christians can believe in a non-Christian God?

bump, okay

>>1261351
Is Brittany France?

>>1261357
Is Galicia Spain?

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>>1260998
kuso thread

>>1260998

Well yes, if you do things like count the number of Chinese soldiers killed in the Korean war, things are going to get bloody.

This is the essential problem with ethics based on pure utilitarianism. I for one don't see anything wrong with killing soldiers of an invading nation in an attempt to help out your ally. If those are the sorts of deaths that the U.S. is responsible for, good.

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>>1260998
And?

>>1260872
Amen

So man was God's first mistake? Wtf is this fedora faggot pointing at?

>>1260872
wtf! i hate women now

Luigi

>>1260743
Meow Dingdong

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That's Mao Zedong, former dictator of China
Enjoy a pic of my pussy

No ayy lmao's involved but it's still shit.

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>>1260706
>Out of Africa

Wew.

>>1260608
Moore's law

>>1260608
Six million

>>1260608
Computers