http://religionnews.com/2015/08/26/vatican-backs-plan-name-rome-square-martin-luther/
Reminder if you disagree with the holy Vatican (peace be upon them) you are a protestant
Yeah oddly enough the relationship between Lutherans and Catholics has improved quite a bit. If I remember right they're the only protestant sect who can receive communion in Catholic churches.
It's pretty funny trying to heal a schism in such a minor way after centuries of it existing
almost an insult
I'm not religious but the Pope and Catholicism has clearly lost all of its backbone and has become totally left wing liberal pathetic.
Thats even worse than the Pope loving Islam, he just agreed to name a square in his holy city after the man who split his faith and in his view damned them to hell
Why do people deny the Armenian Genocide?
>implying t*rks are people
>>1188708
Westerners really love muslim penis
When the peoples of yesteryear(before....1800) ingested psychedelic substances, what would they do?
When I used to do acid/dxm/mushrooms I used to listen to music, watch robot chicken , play grand theft auto, talk to some other worldy beings and walk in the woods. Since they didn't have as much shit back then what did they do for fun?
Orgies bruh.
Just big fuck piles.
>>1188596
Why does that sound....smelly?
Good point op woods weren't invented until the great wood initiation of 1801
Ok /his/ you wake up as emperor of rome in 250 a.d. What do you do? How do you save rome
>>1188405
make Hellenism the state religion again
Step 1. Don't go to Dacia to get killed by Goths.
>>1188405
>mfw livy was right all along
Hey /his, I was hoping some knowledgeable individuals could help me out.
I'm looking for an instance in history where a large colonial empire was caught red-handed in some sort of scandal regarding something that happened in a small foreign colony under their supervision, preferably having to relate with exploiting the local indigenous people in some way.
I'm looking for specific incidents and specific locations. I know this had to have happened at some point in history, so can anyone place my scenario?
pic unrelated.
>>1188339
Reddit. Fuck off back there.
>>1188358
lol i dont even have a reddit account
>>1188430
>/his
Why is it that some people form their own ideas through reading but others just rotelearn and regurgitate?
What causes this difference?
>>1188156
Effort and motivation
>>1188156
It's the same kind of difference that drives some into studying theology and others into only following ritual and public expression when it comes to religion I guess.
I think there's a major mental divide that happens in people. Basically there are 2 types of brains, slaves and masters. Slaves look at the world and see its complexity and political intrigue, and reach a point where they just decide "enough is enough", they adopt some form of religion or stance, and just go with it. For example they trust in a religion, in a political party, in a particular newspaper, in a particular leader, in money, or something else, and just decide to stick with that for the rest of their lifes. Instead of considering and thinking about the complexity of the world, they take an easy way out, because they regard their material wellbeing as more important than the search for the truth and the personal striving for something higher. Then you have the master type. This person never reaches the before-mentioned point. He instead goes on the search for truth, never relents, and strives for something higher, self-improvement, some kind of higher principle. He never sets his mind in stone like "this is how it is", but he swears an oath of pragmatism, to always improve and to seek perfection until his last breath. The world is mostly full of slaves, because that's just the easier way to live, eat and pass on your genes to the next generation, but there are a lot of masters as well, because inherently, being a master has massive advantages.
Presuppose the actual existence of infinite parallel universes.
Let's imagine they are 'generated' at a rate of X per Planck-second per number of extant universes, where X is the number of possible outcomes of any given quantum-level event (or whatever). The point being that they are literally infinite in number and range.
Imagine a machine which allows you to travel between these alternate universes. But not simply one to the other and back again. Imagine a wearable device which, once powered on, simply and seamlessly transports you to the nearest suitable parallel universe where whatever condition you're seeking to satisfy happens to obtain.
By this I mean: You want to fugg Emma Watson. But you can't simply be transported to a universe where you're nailing Emma Watson. There are specific things you have in mind (or don't have in mind) and you must have or avoid them. So the device transports you from new universe to new universe with every action you take, narrowing down the possibilities until the exact moment you turn the device off, at which point you are occupying the only universe in all of existence which satisfies the particular conditions you've created.
Are you morally responsible for your actions while wearing the device? Why or why not?
>>1188154
I've found life is more enjoyable when you don't spend all day contemplating pointless moral quandaries.
People do things they shouldn't regardless of whether or not they'd be responsible for their actions all the time. Here's my recommendation for solving your problem:
>Get a job NEET
>>1188399
The internet: where not caring isn't enough, you have to tell everyone you don't care.
>>1188154
Yes
Has anything good come from German unification or was it one of the greatest mistakes in history?
>>1188119
It all depends. If Haber is still able to develop the Haber–Bosch process, German unification wouldn't matter in the grand scheme of things. If however our dear Fritz for some reason (internal struggles, fragmentation of power, lack of funding, etc) wasn't able to single handedly save humanity from starving, then German unification is the best thing that happened, ever.
>>1188119
Germany needs to be destroyed and returned to their rightful master, France, Poland, Austria and Italy.
>>1188173
>to single handedly save humanity from starving
>implying this was a good thing
Let's list some people who were genuinely good /his/. They didn't have a bad bone in their body.
>no memes
>>1188050
>>1188050
American Revolution thread:
The war head everything. Winter fighting. Guerrilla warfare. Big set piece battles. Sieges. Urban street fighting.
> April 1775, Massachusetts militia pwn British regulars in the first battles. Solid k/d ratio.
> May 10, 1775, Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain boys take Ft. Ticondaroga in upstate New York. Knox drags the artillery all the way to Boston and uses it to force the British to abandon the siege.
> November 1775, General Montgomery leads mostly New York men into Canada. Patriots take Montreal. The Siege of Quebec City falters in late December due to bad weather and Montgomery taking a bullet to the neck.
>Urban street fighting during the Battle of New York. The British shell Manhattan. Alexander Hamilton uses cannons stolen from the Battery to fire back. He goes from 100 men to 19 over the next months and mounts amazing rear guard actions halting advancing troops.
> Battle of Trenton, Christmas 1776. Washington crosses the frozen Delaware and picks apart German mercenaries. Hamilton had been lying ill for days before this but got up to lead the artillery. Caught a whole bunch of Hessians running out into the street who surrendered en mass.
> 1777, September and October, battles in Saratoga. Brit cucks lose 440 to 90 killed and 6,500 men surrender.
>1778, John Paul Jones, who was bros with Ben Franklin, takes it to the British and raids shipping in the Irish Sea.
> 1781, greatest year of my life. Brits pwned at Yorktown. Lafayette and Hamilton lead the charge on the fortifications. Hamilton has the men unload their guns first to avoid giving away their attack. Americans bayonet Brits to decisive defeat.
Is this the best war ever? Has this much freedom ever been packed into a single war?
Forgot, during the Battle of New York Washington goes into full rage mode screaming "are these the men with which I am to defend America?" and then unleashing an uncharacteristic profanity laced rant that gets the men to reform the lines and retreat in order.
At Monmouth the Patriot lines broke early and he charged ahead like Napoleon before Napoleon existed and got them to rally behind him. He had multiple horses shot out from under him that day.
>>1187894
I wonder if less Americans would make white flag "jokes" if they realized it was an army under a white flag that gave them their freedom.
>>1187963
France was based until 1939.
We would have won anyhow though.
Also, despite being bad ass under Napoleon, Toussaint L'Ouverture wrecked his armies.
What the fuck was his problem?
>>1187639
he was a turkroach
>>1187639
other than appearing in scary movie and those snoop dogg MTV shows, his carreer degenerated to midget boxing and gizmo porn.
>>1187639
his face was too ape-like
What can /his/ tell me about the ancient Israelites, from sources OTHER than the Bible?
Also, can anyone recommend any non-biblical books on the subject?
>>1187637
Why don't you just make up whatever you want?
>ancient Israelites
>from sources OTHER than the Bible
lol
Israel Finkelstein: Bible unearthed
You'd find out that Judea was a backwater and Jerusalem was an irrelevant craphole and not a holy city and everything of importance was concentrated in the northern kingdom. The reason we think otherwise is because Judeans got to write the post-Torah books and flat out make shit up.
Why wasn't this movie about the mongols invading china?
Because it's a Disney princess movie, faggot.
Because the mongols won you fucking idiot
>>1187505
Mongols weren't around yet.
What would China be like today if the ROC kept its authority stable during the Civil War through magic and terrific fortune and the Communists were wiped out?
The same shithole, but with a different banner.
>>1187483
>through magic and terrific fortune
The KMT had two opportunities to win: If Chang Kai Shek hadn't been kidnapped and held at gunpoint by his own officers to force him to make peace with the Gommies during the Japanese invasion, and if he hadn't invaded the Gommie held Manchuria after the war, which turned into a disasterus reversal.
As to what it would be like, probably much more like India, tho also probably a fair bit wealtghier than it is now.
>>1187554
>Oh no, a perfectly good Communist division, among the first to wildly submit to my inept unified command.
>I know how I'll make a good example of them to draw more Communist units under the unified command.
>I'll kill them all, except the women, who will be kept as pack mules and rape slaves until they suicide or die of exhaustion.
>I'll be sure their cages are in especially full view of any Communist scouts.
>Oi vey! My top fighting generals have revolted!
>Oi vey! The Americans are trying to assassinate me!
>Whatever did I do wrong?
Anyway, CKS was just a puppet. Now let us ruminate on the identifies of his puppet masters.
Up until the 18th century, Europe had normal relations with nonwhite nations. Brown and black people were regularly hired as sailors or soldiers and essentially treated as equals, especially if they became Christian.
But sometime around the mid-18th century, European states began seeing the governments of Asia and the Middle East as just potential subjects to be conquered.
What changed?
bourgeois middle-class mentality prevailed so everything which was not just like them had to be extinguished
>>1187347
The ability to go to such places, fight them, and win.
Europe cant do that shit between the 1500's-1700's (well, provided you aren'y a native american or some tribal people). Remember how the Ottomans alone were giving them a hard time? Now imagine starting shit with Ming/Qing China from, I dunno, one of your SEAsian colonies.
Social Darwinism