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Did Jesus Christ choose his fate?
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No, free will doesn't exist.
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If you're asking from a Christian perspective, Jesus is God the Almighty, so yeah.
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>>1213849
>My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
What do you think?
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>visit Orthodox monastery with friend
>talk to one of the younger monks in his 20's about Marxism, and he is already familiar with it
>apparently very educated
>ask him, "So, are monks lumperproletariat, or bourgeoisie?"
>he says, "Which ever is the most wretched and sinful, I am that."
>mfw
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>>1213602
It sounds like you feel intellectually intimidated
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>>1213602
False modesty is disgusting.
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He may have not been educated from birth or teens in a good school or religious school, the latter of which used to have the best education, i'm not sure anymore. So you can't blame him.
>very educated
is a broad term.
But you have to remember monks like normal people also go through their own spiritual and personal struggles and journey like anyone else. 1 monk isn't a representation of every monk.
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cavaliers or roundheads?
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>>1213269
Cavalier.
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>>1213269
don't know about this. learning time.
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R O U N D H E A D
Fuck your divine right
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Can we talk about Sassanid Empire?
What was their culture like?
What was their system like? Did it have some similarity with feudal Europe?
How influential was it?
Why did Arabs conquer it so easily?
Do modern Iranians see it in a positive light?
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>Why did Arabs conquer it so easily?
It had been at constant war with the Byzantines
That's also why the muslims had so little difficulty with them, too.
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>>1210773
Yeah but most of population of their empire was Zoroastrian. Conquests of Roman land were helped by the fact local population wasn't really on good terms with Constantinople.
Why did Zoroastrians accept Muslim rule so easily? Were there any major revolts?
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Bump.
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What is the objectively best thing that you can do now to become the best of yourself?I think its probably to study philosophy math and art.
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>>1210559
What is the best of yourself? I think I'm meant to be a clown.
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>>1210559
>best of yourself?
What the fuck.
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Whats so hard to get about it?Its obviously that these 3 subjects,actually 4 with science are the most important things that we should focus on as they help us with logic,abstract thinking and creativity.Nothing else matter at least that's my opinion and I doubt someone can even refute it anyway.
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Is this film historically accurate?
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>>1210381
I'm pretty sure we have no idea of Puyi's ghost haunts the forbidden city giving children crickets.
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>>1210392
Naw shiiiiet
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>His name sounds like Pooey
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What if it actually happened?
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It would have been... unthinkable.
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>>1214059
Beat me to it.
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>>1214052
Glorious communism from Gibraltar to Siberia
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Who was the cutest pretty boy that was also historically significant?
Additionally, who are some historically significant people that were surprisingly qt?
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Here's benedict.
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That one Roman Emprors trap who died in Egypt or something
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>>1211089
who??
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ITT: Real life supervillains
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Guy had a goon that he ordered around
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>literally tried to destroy all that was good in the world.
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>>1210855
There's nothing objectively wrong with what he did. People die anyways. In 100 years 99.99% of the people alive today will be rotting corpses. It's just your opinion that it's bad to torture and rape children.
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>some people honestly want to get rid of nukes
Why? Don't they realize it's what prevented WW3 from actually happening?
And that this is what nations try to get to become 'invasion-proof'.
A conventional war is much more likely if the other party doesn't have these types of WMD's.
The world wouldn't be more peaceful without them. Quite the contrary even.
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I think we should get rid of them by dropping them on the most populous cities in the world in order until the arsenals are compltely depleted 2bh
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Lmao you can't be serious
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>>1218394
Because a war now and then is still better than peace for 500 years until some idiot decides to kill off everyone at once.
What are some philosophies that you actually believe in?
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>>1213767
Wholesale? None of them. Most of my philosophy comes from Nietzsche, Stirner, and Buddha.
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Nihilism
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>>1213767
Stoicism, besides the pan-deism.
Shame I also think it's pretty unrealistic.
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How is Austrian economics any different than theology?
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>>1212864
Theology has to be consistent with a known and knowable set of documents.
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Theology doesn't want to turn society into an free-market fundamentalist heaven.
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>>1212864
You don't get to see the big red monster Kane teach it.
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Why cats was sacred? I understand how cow can be important, but cats are useless creatures.
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>>1211689
Because of Toxoplasma Gondii
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>be agricultural society
>90% of the wealth your society generates takes the form of grains in storehouses
>rats and mice want your grain
>cats kill them
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>>1211701
Beat me to it.
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Does it make you cringe?
"Arresting thousands of natives suspected of idolatry, Landa supervised the torture of more than 4,500 people over the course of three months; many were tortured to death.
On July 12, 1562, at the Maní mission, Landa oversaw a huge auto-da-fé, a public spectacle meant to demonstrate the superior moral and political power of the Christian Church. Huge piles of idols were set to the torch and many convicted idolaters were put to the lash.
The inquisitions and tortures continued, as did the destruction of idols. Many of the so-called idols were Maya sacred books. Only three survived the fires. Scholars consider the destruction of these sacred Maya texts among the most tragic losses of accumulated human knowledge in world history.
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>"books"
>without words
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ISIStianity. Enough said.
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Lost mayan texts would have shed a lot of light on their society, but there probably wouldn't have been anything groundbreaking. We can still see a lot of what they left behind, and it's pretty rudimentary.
Now, the Libraries of Alexandria that have burned down? FUCK.
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favorite equestrian statue
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Post your favorite equestrian statues ... perhaps with some informations about who is sitting on that horse and why (xtra bonus for the name of the horse)
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Prague: Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia
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Vienna: Archduke Charles, Duke of Austria-Teschen