European here. Can anyone explain the fascination people have with the Confederacy? What did they do?
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>>1196870
Rebellious underdogs.
Cool aesthetic.
Neat flag.
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>>1196870
They have a real culture that Europeans can identify with, unlike the soulless non-country that is the North.
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Out 35k witch executions 30k took place in the >H>R>E.
Were they politically motivated?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt#Execution_statistics
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>>1193550
Witches aren't real, so it's protestant related fuckery.
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>>1193550
>Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Lorraine, Austria including Czech lands - Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia
Might be due to size alone.
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>>1193579
But the belief in witches WAS real.
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which us state was most important to its history?
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>>1183604
Virginia
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>>1183651
Came here to post this.
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Massachusetts
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You're going to convert. Based on the knowledge you got about eastern orthodoxy and roman catholicism which one do you choose and why?
I now it's hard but try to not be a straight up cunt about it. Some memes are however welcome.
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>>1198608
Catholicism is more loosey goosey on rules and more numerous so I can network and social leveraging more.
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>>1198608
I kill myself before I cuck myself to the local desert death cult.
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>>1198608
I'm sorry OP, both are literal meme Churches. Go to your local church,as long as you believe in God, that Jesus died for you and live knowing that it doesn't matter what Church you go to.
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>Thus when monogamous marriage first makes its appearance in history, it is not as the reconciliation of man and woman, still less as the highest form of such a reconciliation. Quite the contrary. Monogamous marriage comes on the scene as the subjugation of the one sex by the other; it announces a struggle between the sexes unknown throughout the whole previous prehistoric period. In an old unpublished manuscript, written by Marx and myself in 1846, I find the words: “The first division of labor is that between man and woman for the propagation of children.” And today I can add: The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.
-Engels, The Origin of the Family
What did he mean by this?
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Monogamous marriage is a cornerstone of human society and there is literally nothing wrong with a patriarchy, in fact it is desirable.
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>>1195183
Virgin detected.
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>>1195188
Cuck detected.
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Is postmodernism an accurate worldview?
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what a meaningless question
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>>1204060
are you afraid of words you don't understand kid
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>>1204059
Read Hume on whether empirical knowledge can be accurate.
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In your opinion, what's the future of bioethics?
How will the grey areas, such as in vitro fertilization, designer babies and cloning evolve in the coming years?
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>>1203992
Maybe you're really fucking dumb, but you're asking a normative question about social behaviour: ie: a political question. Imagine which board you should go to to ask such questions?
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No idea, but I was conceived by in vitro fertilisation (infertile father, blonde hair, blue eyes anglo donor sperm).
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IVF is already accepted.
Cloning whole humans is useless, won't happen.
Designer babies will. China will go ahead with it, and America and Europe will have to follow some time later.
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How people decided to start civilization instead of being in primitive tribes? Why change what was a way of life for thousands years.
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>>1203923
Sedentary tending of horticulture and later agriculture encouraged city formation.
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They grouped around places of worship, like Gobekli Tepe
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>>1203936
Wow, you'll even try to attribute religion for the very start of civilization. You really are a one-track motherfucker.
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>pretty much every war in history has been fought over religious morals... It's all religious extremism
- some dude in a pub
Do people seriously think this? Or is this just a meme response to get into girls pants?
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>>1203491
does saying you that get you into a girl's pants? if so, i have tons of pseudo intellectual shit to say about civilization or humanity
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>>1203491
>Do people seriously think this
Yes, they also believe that we would be colonizing Andromeda right now if religion didn't exist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ulkFhAmE6M
I am a Manchu Qing of Tokarian descent living in the US. I have green eyes like my Qing father. My Qing grandfather had hazel eyes and brown reddish hair. Tokarians mixed with Proto-Turks migrated to Manchuria and further mixed with Tungusic tribes to create the Qing people. My ancestral clan is Proto-Turkic of the Tabgach Qing tribe and I am in no way Chinese racially, I am a Manchu Proto-Turk. Us Qing steppe peoples have always been different from the Chinese. I know clearly we Qings are not Asiatic Han Chinese and my Caucasoid Indo-European blood/DNA that flows through my veins is a testament to that.
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WE WUZ QINGZ N SHIT
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>>1203194
Post your eyes then andnnot some potato picture of an outlier
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>15:22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
>15:23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
>15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
>15:25 Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.
>15:26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.
Christfags WILL defend this
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What's there to defend?
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>>1203056
Israel = the Church
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>>1203056
Post the whole thing you phag.
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Is this interpretation of race correct? 2016-05-28 02:38:57 Post No.1202968
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Is this interpretation of race correct?
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A friend of mine posted the following on social media. Negating his autism, what is your opinion of this?
My Belief of Cultural Differentiation and Superiority: A Letter to Alice
I would initially like to state, very firmly, that I do not believe in the notion of racial supremacy: the belief that comparative races are inferior or superior predicated upon inherent, hereditary dispositions – mental and physical alike – that determine the capability of the races. However, I do believe in the possibility of differentiation in cognitive appliance; just has our physical appearance varies, our mental states may as well. This discrepancy in cognitive appliance would not denote inferiority nor superiority, as all of humanity (regardless of race) has surpassed through the filter of natural selection, thus establishing the capability of us as at least adequate in maintaining our existence. However, quantifying human capability merely upon the ability to exist is no longer applicable in contemporary context. We are established. We must now look beyond this; we must look towards our progression. Progression shall be defined in terms that we now hold intrinsic: economic (what an individual creates; what they consume) and social (how they interact) quantification. But in utilizing this schematic of measurement, I am not negating other variables as pertinent to defining human progression, for in doing so, I would therefore absolutely negate the existence of metaphysical entities and systems to which I can neither personally confirm nor deny. In the sake of succinctness and continuity, I shall only be writing of progress in the social and economic context.
...cont...
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...cont
With the variables of measurement stated, I do believe in the notion of cultural inferiority/superiority. Since all human action beyond that of maintaining existence is arbitrary – dependent upon the subjectivities of individuals, and therefore upon the subjectivities of their interactive commune, and vice-versa – it can be stated, without offense, that certain individuals, and therefore certain communal groups, are more proficient in fulfilling the benchmarks that denote a culture as superior, thus rendering the remaining cultures as inferior. So within the quantification of economic and social terms, a certain culture would be superior. However, in example, if a religious doctrine proves true, and this culture did not abide with its ideology, then this culture would indeed be inferior in that regard. So obviously, the defining of a human as superior/inferior is fully dependent upon the variables of quantification. I realize this is well known theory, but I must articulate this as personal belief so as to not be branded a “racist,” or “bigot” by people such as yourself, Alice. I would appreciate if you’d develop your argument to be beyond that of stupid and shallow name calling for future dialogues between us.
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Every one is equally worthless to me. What is it with your islam like fanaticism towards equality?
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>>1202986
I do not believe in equality. I just posted picrelated because I knew it would make the alt-righters gather their pitchforks
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One of the most based men in history.
>Went around to rich people saying he had a magic rock that would point the way to treasure
>For lots of money
Wait, this isn't good enough
>Write a really detailed and convincing science fiction novel based on a popular religion
>Use personality and well thought-out story to manipulate people into giving you power
>Footnote: allow me to marry all of your daughters
>Accidentally creates one of the largest single organizations on the planet
>Almost accidentally causes a theocracy to develop in the inland western US
Other than getting killed for his bullshit right quick, he accomplished some pretty incredible stuff through sheer charisma and personality. Who stacks up to this?
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>really detailed and convincing
t.Never read a line of the Book of Mormon
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Who stacks up to this?
Muhammad himself
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>>1202806
He is arguably one of the most successful people on the planet, for better or worse famalam.
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What did he mean by this?
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He is part of the war on women.
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He would rather rid the world of a human right rather than a heinous crime.
I.E. autistic
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He means that a "tips fedora" moment is more important than ending rape.
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Why would someone identify as a Nihilist? What would be 'desirable' about believing such (or not believing I guess in this case)? From what I gather Nietzsche proposed the Nihil as something that should be avoided, not sought after.
Sorry if I'm coming across as ignorant but I just want to know what the appeal of Nihilism is.
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>Why would someone identify as a Nihilist?
Who does this? Just because people think morality is subjective or whatever doesn't mean they wear black and tell everyone they meet "by the way i'm a nihilist, why haven't you stopped believing in morals yet?".
>What would be 'desirable' about believing such (or not believing I guess in this case)?
Philosophy isn't religion, what you think is desirable is irrelevant.
>From what I gather Nietzsche proposed the Nihil as something that should be avoided
Not avoided, rather 'overcome'. Nietzsche thought Nihilism was inevitable and there were two possible outcomes to it, the Ubermensch or The Last Man (basically millenials/modern society).
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>>1202684
I apologize for my poor language? Now what I mean by identify as a Nihilist is more in the sense of actually being a Nihilist, so I guess me specifying them identifying with it was pointless, but we all make mistakes.
As for the desirable thing, what I mean is why would people prefer that to say, existentialism or another ideology, and didn't know if the word rational could be applied in this scenario and as such was unable to think of another word to place there. I did not mean to allude to it as if it were a religion.
Also you're about me messing up my Nietzsche.
But this still does not answer my question.
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>>1202709
nihilism is usually used as a kind of bogeyman. you demonstrate that someone's philosophy when taken to the extreme results in nihilism, and you just sort of close the discussion on that point.
nobody's a nihilist and nobody would rationally defend it. i'm not sure what you're trying to ask about here.