Why are Western converts to Eastern Traditions such arrogant, holier-than-thou assholes?
>>1246221
Statistics. Given its prevalence in European cultures, most of those converts were Christians before they converted to whichever eastern tradition we're talking about.
And Christians tend towards arrogant, holier-than-thou assholery, before and after they switch to something else. It comes with the religion.
>>1246226
Is there a source to back that up? Most of them I've met were former atheists or agnostics very critical of Christianity.
Christians are a very arrogant, dogmatic, and holier than thou bunch of people
This attitude pervades all western culture regardless of gnosticism
That's what western converts from Xtianity take with them to other faiths
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KALASHNIKOV IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MEN IN HISTORY, AK NEVER JAMS XAXAXAXAXAXA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX73uXs3xGU
>>1236965
Now lets see him try it with one of the original avtomat kalashnikovs
did y'all delete the thread?
Reminder that Soviet Union hate is a propaganda meme curated by the US and various pro-capitalist forces.
>b-but they executed all of the intelligentsia!
Pol Pot had it worse. If Lenin had executed all or a majority of the intelligentsia as you say, then Russia today would be a cesspool full of drunk and uneducated bydlos that still glorify their victory in WW2 while seeing no difference between nazism and fascism.
>b-but they slaughtered a bunch of people! they made the people submit by dumbing them down through fear and terror!
North Korea has it worse. If Stalin had made the people submit through fear and terror as you say, then modern Russia would be populated by braindead idorts that believe the most blatant of propaganda without a drop of doubt.
>t-the space race engineers were educated in the Russian Empire! Soviet Education can't into space!
If that was true then modern Russia's space program wouldn't have been ahead of America and Japan's.
>planned economy doesn't work! Russia's stability was based on oil export!
If that was true then during the mid to late 80's Russian food shelves would have been empty.
>Communism breeds more evil! See their current government curated by an ex-KGB agent!
Russia is the most democratic of countries in Europe and even in the whole World right now. Compare with the USA which is curated by the same group of families throughought the decades. If you disagree you need to get the GTFO out to >>>/usa/ as asap as possible.
>>1243953
>flawless
I guess that's why it doesn't exist anymore.
>>1243953
Good thread OP. All power to the Soviets.
Get rekt incoming asspained /pol/tards.
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>Russia is the most democratic of countries in Europe and even in the whole World right now.
Post Yeltsin Russia is an oligarchic shithole that's stone-age compared to the USSR.
Byzaboos and Turks can leave, thanks
What do you guys think of Renaissance Venice by Hale? I can't find a PDF or epub of it anywhere on the internet, so I'm thinking of buying one of the original 1973 copies on Amazon
Reminder that the Fourth Crusade was not only provoked directly by the Byzantine's own actions, but was the most righteous crusade out of the lot of them
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>shelling the Parthenon
Fuck the Venetians
You all deserve to burn in hell
>>1236322
If I was a Venetian soldier during the bombing, I would've laughed so hard at the huge Greek butthurt that would result from the event unfolding before my very eyes
>be Catholic
>ignore the first commandment
In all seriousness, how can they consider themselves Christians?
Because they don't think that statue is God like you do
>>1239305
They think the statue is Mary, and they are worshipping her.
>>1239304
On top of that: Catholic believe one needs Mary for salvation as a mediator.
Sculpture thread? Yes I think that would do nicely
Was the interior of southern norway unpopulated during the proto germanic period or were there sami living there or something?
sami were always in the north
aryan/PIE came from the east and mixed with the old stock to make germanics
the entire Norwegian coast was populated around 9 000 BC, faggot
what you see there is just the cultural sphere of the Nordic Bronze Age
the idea that the Samis filled the entire area before being "pushed north" is not supported by evidence
this is not North America and Indians
most likely the Sami migrated from Russia at a later stage
they share genetic and cultural history with similar semi-nomadic tribe people in Asia
middle scandinavia was actually populated rather by baltic finns than sami, although even their population was rather small. sami came hundreds of years later.
Post your favorite mosaics, I love these things.
Include the century they were made too if you'd be so kind. This one's from Pompeii, first century (I think)
4th century
12th century, Norman Sicily
early 5th century
Whats /his/ opinion on his work?
I don't like his depraved philosophy, but he's a very bright thinker and his work is invaluable. I don't know why a lot of people think of him as an obscurantist, he's easily the most lucid postmodern philosopher, he aims to be understood.
>>1244911
i think his work alone has contributed more than the rest of all other post-moderns together
i was born in le wrong generation
>>1244892
The father of gende studies, LGBT propaganda and a truly despicable thinker who embrassed every trendy ideology, left wing or neo-liberal.
Is there a philosophical argument against homosexuality?
>>1241163
its pretty fucking gay desu
>>1241163
No. There are philosophical arguments against valuing homosexuality and putting it on the same level as normal sexuality but not against homosexuality itself.
I would like to know any information about the DDR
google stasi, shit is cash
also google trabant
>>1236613
No bananas.
>>1236613
Pls be more specific.
Are we living in a simulation /his/?
Elon Musk said we are in one.
Which is disheartening because I had a lot of respect for the man.
On the other hand.
Shouldnt we be more content with the possibility of us being no simulation because all life that would have been capable of making one went extinct before as this safes us from the terrible implications of life being a simulation?
Would morals still be somethign to adhere to if we life in an inferiour simulatated world?
>>1233931
I think therefore everything is reality is exactly as I it
What events could have lead up to an Axis victory ?
Full scale war in Northern Ireland, Finnish army actively joining the attack on Leningrad and Sweden and Spain openly supporting Germany. And luck. Lots of it.
>>1229021
Not going against the huge chunk of lands that is the USSR, for one.
>>1229021
>that map
>uk still exists
>sweden occupied by germany
>independent brittany
>independent catalonia
>whatever that thing between greece and bulgaria is
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It's obvious that Christianity is not true so there must be another, ulterior motive for there being people that still identify themselves as Christians in this day and age. What is it?
The survival of Christianity well into the modern, scientific and enlightened age in a way proves Nietzsche right, that truth is not the most important factor shaping people's choices, but another, more powerful motive...
What is it with Christians? Social utility? Fear of Islamization?
Of course I can't expect Christians to tell the truth, but every once in a while there appears an honest man. There was once a physicist from a Slavic country here, who was quite frank about it: we go to church because it's pretty and we like our traditions. We don't give a shit whether any of it is true or not. It makes me wonder how many Christians think like him, but don't admit it?
They are just pussies with low will to power.
>>1243098
It is mainly fear of death.
http://theconversation.com/for-believers-fear-of-atheists-is-fueled-by-fear-of-death-41724
>>1243114
>Canadian undergraduates, who are typically less religious than their US counterparts, rated atheists as more untrustworthy than Muslims – and just as untrustworthy as rapists!
Fear of death is strong in these ones.
The Tiananmen square massacre anniversary is approaching.
Is the tank man video the most famous piece of historical film ever recorded? I get goose bumps every time.
>>1233698
9/11 or Kennedy assassination
>>1233726
or Apollo moon landing, or citizens destroying the Berlin wall at Potzdamer Platz, or the little naked girl running in the street after Napalm bombing in Vietnam. Trying to think of images people internationally would recognize. I don't think the JFK assassination would be it, but 9/11 2001 probably.
The Fall of Communism