Who are the greatest female leaders in history?
>>716669
Op Pic related, she removed kebab
Who cares?
Wu "bloody cunnilingus" Zetian
>If you don't consume bread and wine that magically turns into the actual flesh and blood of Jesus Christ, you're a degenerate heretic
Explain yourselves Catholics. Why do you worship graven images and eat your own God? Sounds awfully pagan to me.
Catholics invented the term pagan.
Let's consider Joshua of Nazareth - Jesus - for a moment.
We have here, allegedly, the son of a being who was able to impregnate a woman without ever having sex with her. Nowadays, we'd call that in-vitro fertilization, but what if the real method was even more insidious? What if, for example, the father of Jesus was a spore-based lifeform with the ability to take on genetic aspects of its host, resulting in a human/fungi hybrid?
Suppose this hybrid had some odd qualities. (Odd for a human, at any rate.) What if he (it?) could detach parts of himself to use as anti-bacterial remedies or regenerative bandages on other organic lifeforms? That's curing the sick and wounded, right there. Hell, what if the fungus could inhabit and reanimate a dead body? Lazarus might know a thing or two about that.
Also, if Jesus was a fungal human hybrid, there might have been a bit more truth to his statement about that bread being "his body." What if he intentionally laced the Last Supper with some of his own spores, which attached themselves to the brains of his apostles and resulted in a euphoric feeling that they later referred to as "The Holy Spirit?"
What if those spores survived, staying mostly dormant, but being passed down from generation to generation? When a priest blesses the Holy Communion, what if he (maybe without his knowledge) is allowing the spores he carries to propagate within the bread and wine, only to be consumed by the congregation? Those spores - the lifeform that they are, at least - would very likely have the same survival instinct as anything else, so they'd alter the brain chemistry of their host bodies, creating a desperate urge to convert more followers to the flock. They'd be anti-abortion, since they'd see a terminated zygote as one fewer potential host, and they'd be anti-science, since they wouldn't want to be discovered.
>>716494
That's nice, but they didn't invent paganism.
What's the deal with so many agnostic or inactive young men converting to Orthodox Christianity? No offense intended to our brothers in Christ but it just doesn't make sense..
Roman Catholic Church:
>The Holy See is more powerful than the rest of Italy and arguably more influential that most European countries
>Innumerable contributions to the arts, sciences, and philosophy
>clear, logical theology that just makes sense
>beautiful architecture
The Eastern Churches
>Incapable of defending their holy city from a bunch of uncivilized cavemen
>Putin's bitch
>superstitious and unscientific, made a bunch of frescoes and mosaics in late antiquity and proceeded to create nothing of value for over a thousand years
>ridiculous, desert hermit-tier theology that would be more at home in a WoW fanfic than in the real world
>a bunch of stupid domes and arches
I mean, it just doesn't make sense. Is it because the average anon is just that, an average philistine? But Aquinas said that even simple people have an appreciation of the divine. So what is going on here?
>>716313
>>The Holy See is more powerful than the rest of Italy and arguably more influential that most European countries
lol
>>716313
Protestant anti-Catholicism hardcoded in their minds, along with an ignorance of history
>The Holy See is more powerful than the rest of Italy and arguably more influential that most European countries
It's not 1200 anymore, piss off catholicuck [KAH-tho-lih-KEK]
I'm curious about our community's origins.
http://strawpoll.me/6855025
>>716085
/int/
>>716085
You should've allowed for multiple answers and far more boards.
t. fa/tg/uy
How did we go from this
To this?
You mean from Europe to Murica?
So, it turns out that the A-bombs did not force the Japanese to surrender, and thus were not necessary.
http://apjjf.org/-Tsuyoshi-Hasegawa/2501/article.pdf
In fact, the Soviet threat played a much more crucial role in forcing the Japanese to surrender.
It has been established that the A-bombs were dropped on Hirosima and Nagasaki mainly because:
1. The US had spend millions (that's a fuckload of money for the 1940's) on the Manhattan project that was kept secret from the US citizens (the Soviets knew about it). If the Americans ever found out that Roosevelt and Truman had spend millions on a project that didn't produce any result(s), they would have buttfucked the US political and military leadership to oblivion (BUY OUR BONDS LADIES & GENTS AND WE WILL USE THE MONEY ON A PROJECT THAT WOULDN'T DO SHIT TO SAVE YOUR LOVED ONES THAT ARE FIGHTING THE GOOD WAR!). We are talking about millions of $$$ that could have been spend on conventional weapons, aircraft, armor, ammunition, and other GI gear and military supplies that could have made a huge difference on the battlefield.
2. The US wanted to scare the USSR. Didn't fucking work though. Stalin got most of what he wanted.
3. Another reason the bombs were used was to observe, record, and measure their destructive affects upon real humans and infrastructure. Also, the reason the US dropped TWO bombs wasn't because Japan did not immediately surrender right after Hirosima, but because Little Boy was a uranium gun-type atomic bomb, while Fat Man was a plutonium implosion-type bomb. US scientists wanted to record and compare the destructiveness of these two different types of A-bombs. This is also evident by the decision to bomb two cities that were largely untouched by the constant fire-bombing of major Japanese cities by the US.
I thought nagasaki was bombed because whatever place they wanted to bomb instead was too cloudy
>>715248
Nice brainfart.
>>715233
Fuck. Made a typo on the title.
I meant Hirosima & Nagasaki.
Do words have meaning?
That smirk on her face makes me think she is lying to us
>>714024
Words have meaning but I doubt her and I would agree on the meaning of many words
Words require definition, emotions require feelings. Hence poetry literature etc.
Words only have meaning when those using the words can mutually agree on the meaning, or a power enforces it.
Also, colonization and indigenous people are social constructs.
Why do most modern historians seem to dismiss all forms of honor, selflessness, and nobility of spirit?
Every good deed, or nice word, or service is assumed to have a shrewd political or economic motive, and if it doesn't then it's clearly a sign of lunacy. Is it really so hard to believe that great people in the past actually did some things out of the goodness of their hearts?
>>711789
All of that is subjective
Examples?
>>711789
Don't know what kind of works you read but I come across Historians who recognize such driving forces in people.
>Western Society demonizes suicide
>Eastern Philosophy welcomes death
What the fuck am I supposed to do?
I don't want to be part of a world founded on death, lies and blind competition.
If I kill myself, it means my enemies won, and I'm a pussy.
If I live, it means I give into capitalism, corporatism and years of deceit constructed by more lying assholes.
How do you cope with life?
You stop making vague over generalizing statements about concepts and fields you know nothing about.
life kills you eventually anyway and it does it for free
stop being so impatient wait for a while and you will suicide by natural causes
its not like your time is valuable to you anyway by the sounds of things
Get out of the house, smell some roses, build or fix something with your hands. Realize that the world you're talking about is just another construct in your head you can discard for a few hours and then come back and re-examine with a more sober, critical eye.
What does the average Chinese know about the histories of the Greeks and the Romans?
Do they know pretty much nothing just like the average Westerner knows pretty much nothing about Chinese history?
Well they had legends of Da Qin (Rome), which was seen as a sort of mythical counterpart of China mirrored on the other side of the world. The average peasant would probably know about as much about Rome as medieval peasants would have known about China.
>>710546
*Medieval Roman, I meant
>>710546
I think that reflects the attitude of the time of trying to use China as the yardstick for everything.
This is by no means bad, in any way. It's just interesting. Then again, I might be more sympathetic to China due to my fetish for asian girls.
ITT: We analyse the theological beliefs found in popular media.
I'll start.
>The Legend of Korra is literally Nestorian.
Arslan Senki
>Lusitania uses vaguely christian symbols and a western medieval style of armor and weaponry but its actually basically muslims.
Harry Potter is incredibly gnostic.
>>709055
>but its actually basically muslims.
But it's not. The original story was written by Muslims.
How legit is Myers-Briggs and Jungian Psychology?
I just had mine done for school and it's eerie how similar I am to the stereotype of my mbti. Is there any good reads on how to function as a person with INTJ because I feel like a fucking autist.
>>708415
>Not being superior ENTP
>>708417
I agree, INTJ seems to suck dick. I googled some INTJ forums but everyone seemed like such an insufferable cunt.
>>708415
>How legit is Myers-Briggs and Jungian Psychology?
Not even a little bit. Even when it was fashionable, it was dismissed by academics. Now, 100 years later, only kooks pursue it. A lot of what is commonly called "New Age" mysticism is derived directly from Jung.
Is Hungary the most butthurt country about its territorial loses?
Argentina is butthurt about territory they never even owned.
>>707665
I don't live in Europe and I don't know any Hungarians so it's hard to say, but Mexicans like to complain about the territory they lost to the United States.
Sorta related question. Why is some people saying Versailles was unfair when Austria-Hungary got it alot worse? At least the germans kept most of their land.
Let's settle this shit.
Are they Christian?
>>705791
Yes they are Christian
They believe in Christ, therefore they are Christian.
they are polytheists
here's mine
Aut inveniam viam aut faciam
I shall either find a way or make one
-Hannibal
>>705055
You're one large individual.
- Dr.Bane
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>>705138
MUST