"WE WUZ FOUNDING FATHERS AND SHEEIT" aside, what do you guys think of the hottest musical on Broadway and also parts of mainstream media?
>>1066523
I don't.
>>1066561
You don't what?
>what do you guys think of the hottest musical on Broadway
Ew.
I was curious about religious extremism and found lots of examples in Western media about fairly obvious things - the Crusades, 9/11, etc, essentially all violent acts against others done in the name of religion.
This got me interested (since I just finished a course on Eastern Religions this semester) as to how extremism fits in an Eastern notion. I'm curious if you guys have any information/thoughts about groups such as Buddhists or Daoists (relatively thought of as peaceful) that use their religion as justification for violent acts.
Building off of this, I'm also kind of curious if using this (http://www.global-briefing.org/2012/01/the-mind-of-the-religious-extremist/) definition of extremists as "people who – for reasons they themselves deem religious – commit, promote or support purposely hurtful, violent or destructive acts against others." is really satisfactory. I would be inclined to think of groups such as the Peoples Temple as a group holding extreme views, shouldn't that be enough to be labeled extremists? This led me to Eastern religions, where many groups perform extreme actions, such as the marathon monks of mount Hiei (pictured) perform hundreds of marathons over the course of 12 years around this mountain in Japan, even though many of them will die. This is just one example of a what I think a reasonable person would consider an example of an extreme practice. Even the action of seppuku is a fairly extreme one, no?
tl;dr: Do you guys think that religious extremism is only religious violence on another group, or do you think that extreme actions can also be inflicted upon the self? Furthermore, can you guys think of any examples of religious extremism in Eastern religions such as Buddhism?
>>1087958
>do you think that extreme actions can also be inflicted upon the self?
Burning yourself alive as an act of protest is pretty extreme
IMO Western religion is usually just a social force that binds societies together, occasionally giving rise to bouts of violence based on theological disagreements or the dominance of one denomination over another politically. Eastern religion, on the other hand, is almost always extreme behavior. Confucianism motivated millions of chinks to die for le ebin dynasty. Buddhism has motivated millions of chinks to sit on their asses for years at a time in search of nothing. Taoism has motivated millions of chinks to try alchemy. Hinduism convinced Indians that the caste system was and is good. Maybe there aren't "crusades" in East Asia but there's definitely extreme religious behavior, probably more than there is in the West.
>>1087958
In Japan, monasteries and Shinto shrines were often autonomous landowners with their own bushi retainers and militia. The Buddhist temple milita were often referred to as akuso (evil monks) even though only a minority of them had taken tonsure.
the monks would also lead religious parades and make demands of the imperial court.
The shugendo sect was known for its martial practices, including a violent form of sumo. they also practiced long treks in the mountains, fasting, abstaining from water and other extreme rites. many died on theee entries into the mountains. At the same time these yamabushi were considered to hold magic powers and were often skilled marital artists
600 pages of proof the big guy never existed.
http://www.amazon.com/Historicity-Jesus-Might-Reason-Doubt/dp/1909697494
So 600 pages of garbage, then. The historicity of Jesus isn't disputed but by erich von daniken tier historians that wear the fedora.
>>1081940
When will godless people tire of paying people who pander to their disbelief? I'll check it out, but I really can't imagine anyone spending good money on something like this.
Why do atheists hate Christianity but love Islam?
Who was right?
Both were right about some things and wrong about some things.
Burr
inb4 retarded Broadway fans with political agendas
Glorious Celts>Stupid Romans
>>1087275
Type that in your own alphabet you forest cuck.
>>1087277
>romans invented the phoenician alphabet
>>1087275
>amazing warriors
>lost to the Romans
>somehow still better warriors?
Who were Rome's greatest enemies?
>>1081812
The Eternal Hibernian
Carthaginians, Persians, Arabs, Turks, Germans, Huns, but most of the time it was just other Romans.
The Eternal Aryan.
What was the most interesting disaster to take place in human history?
Suicide. Every minute of every day someone somewhere reasons that somehow removing themselves from existence will solve their problems. It's interesting because it also weeds the mentally deficient from the gene pool. Let's be honest- if you think killing yourself is a good idea under any likely circumstances, you're a plain idiot.
>>1089616
How does removing ones self from the living world not solve your problems? Not a great way to solve them, but a way nonetheless.
And not everybody who killed themselves was in mental distress. Did every samurai who committed seppuku have depression?
>>1089624
It replaces all their problems with a permanent existential one with no conceivable resolution- you can't say the same about any mortal problem I can think of. Now I doubt everyone who committed seppuku was depressed, but I reckon most of them had trouble thinking things through.
Who were the actual "Aryans"? Was there an actual ethnic group of people who identified as Aryans?
>>1089158
>Was there an actual ethnic group of people who identified as Aryans?
Germans between 1917 and 1945.
I'm not saying they were hyperboreans...but they were hyperboreans.
>>1089158
Nomadic ethnic group that settled in India
Hitler wasn't a learned man
Btw
Rotha Lintorn-Orman
>worlds first girlscout
>decorated veteran
>head of the British Red Cross Motor School
>dominant, competent, confident, vigorous, sexually liberated, and immensely cocky
...and creator, designer and leader Britain's first fascist party and the second fascist party in the world only a a week after the creation the the Italian fascist blackshirts
>>1084834
Looks like she has good tits.
She'd be a cute twink.
"Rotha Lintorn-Orman, twice decorated for gallantry and known as the female Lawrence of Arabia"
wew lad
>26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
What did he mean by this?
>Then Gos Said, "Puritanism was a fucking mistake, and you should never read the Bible literally."
>>1078177
(((checked)))
You shouldn't read into this one so much
>>1078177
We created a god that gives humans special privileges because humans have a preference for ourselves.
In one quote, what did you learn from history?
Nothing
>>1071508
Never trust a history book
"Pretty shitty idea in hindsight"
t.Anon
What's your favorite historical /his/? For me it's the zweihandler. Intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor.
>inb4 katana
>>1064343
Call me a weeaboo but Katanas really are the most aesthetic swords
For me it's the Chassepot. Intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor.
Show me what war looks like
+1 for color photos
+2 for webms
>>1063065
>>1063070
Epic.
The colorized bikini atoll films are amazing too
Were these the best borders in modern European history?
>Austra-Hungary
>Finland
>Cyprus
>Ireland
>Åland
>Russia in general
>>1059657
why would you think that?
not arguing just asking
>>1059657
If you like civil wars, yes
Did Hitler ever kill anybody? I'm not talking about 6 million jews or whatever, but I mean personally. We all know he was a soldier, but as far as I've understood he was a courier, bringing messages to the frontlines. Could he have killed someone then? Or maybe during his rise to power or during the war? What do you think?
>Did Hitler ever kill anybody?
Yes, himself.
>>1076399
/Thread.
His Job in WW1 was to run around no mans land, it had a life expectancy of 2 weeks apparently. Hitlers life was spared by a British soldier.
>The story is set on 28 September 1918, while Tandey was serving with the 5th Duke of Wellington's Regiment, and relates that a weary German soldier wandered into Tandey's line of fire. The enemy soldier was wounded and did not even attempt to raise his own rifle. Tandey chose not to shoot. The German soldier saw him lower his rifle and nodded his thanks before wandering off. That soldier is purported to have been Adolf Hitler