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I'm sorry if this sounds a bit /pol/, but I'm asking the question purely a legal one, not an ideological one: when banning gay marriage was made unconstitutional in the U.S., why wasn't it done by an Amendment to the Constitution instead of saying "The Constitution already says it!" Since slavery was banned through an Amendment, and women were given suffrage through an Amendment, wouldn't it be proper to follow the same procedure with gay marriage?
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>>734881
>Read those verses
>Every claim in pic related is bullshit
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>>734881
But it was banned through an amendment. Under the 14th amendment. There was no new amendment needed because the amendment ending the ban on gay marriage already existed.
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The Bill of Rights is not an exhaustive list of rights, and it's not terribly uncommon for "new" rights to be affirmed through the courts. Privacy, for one example.
Also the post-Civil War Amendments are somewhat of an anomaly, and were expressly pressed through as a big "fuck you" to the South while they couldn't do anything about it.
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Well, /his/?
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>>734223
>since we cannot presume that there is a God
I do that though. What now Calvin?
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Create our own morals and values.
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quit being an edgelord calvin
Why do Christians pretend they have the True™ exegesis of the Bible, when Truth™ in their terms is nonexistent?
Nobody actually knows what much of the ancient Hebrew is supposed to mean. The word we translate to "prophet", we actually don't understand the meaning of. If Christians seriously assert "prophet" is the True™ translation, then they're doing so on appeal to cultural momentum: we've always translated the word that way, therefore it MUST mean prophet.
Except it might not. You could use the word "intellectual" and the Old Testament would make just as much cultural sense.
Feuerbach is right. Christianity is best understood as anthropology. The entire Christian metaphysic is interpretation turned into Fact™.
It should not be a serious belief system anymore.
>inb4 tips fedora
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Check it out
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rWAEY2fi7TU
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>>733729
Holy shit, it STARTS with numerology.
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>>733747
Yeah, what's your point?
This one's pretty interesting too
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NaXHvM0CR_0
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>Socialist feminists reject radical feminism’s main claim that patriarchy is the only or primary source of oppression of women.
Rather, socialist feminists assert that women are unable to be free due to their financial dependence on males in society. Women are subjects to the male rulers in capitalism due to an uneven balance in wealth. They see economic dependence as the driving force of women’s subjugation to men.
>Socialist feminism draws upon many concepts found in Marxism; such as a historical materialist point of view, which means that they relate their ideas to the material and historical conditions of people’s lives. Socialist feminists thus consider how the sexism and gendered division of labor of each historical era is determined by the economic system of the time. Those conditions are largely expressed through capitalist and patriarchal relations. Socialist feminists, thus reject the Marxist notion that class and class struggle are the only defining aspects of history and economic development. Marx asserted that when class oppression was overcome, gender oppression would vanish as well. According to socialist feminists, this view of gender oppression as a sub-class of class oppression is naive and much of the work of socialist feminists has gone towards specifying how gender and class work together to create distinct forms of oppression and privilege for women and men of each class. For example, they observe that women’s class status is generally derivative of her husband’s class or occupational status,.e.g., a secretary that marries her boss assumes his class status.
I'm personally interested in the idea that sexist and racial oppression can manifest itself in other forms not related too production, the view that sexist and racist discrimination is can form within the superstructure itself that is mentioned here.
I assume this is born from Gramsci and other marxist thinkers that focused on how Superstructure functions and reproduces itself?
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This is absurd armchair speculation designed by an educated but not particularly intelligent or talented individual.
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>>732588
Just like most feminism and socialism
I guess the antithesis failed to adquately overcome the thesis
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>>732581
All feminism is garbage, especially even worse more leftist garbage.
There is no morality and no reason to even attempt to seek equality. Feminists should be put to death.
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What is so "wrong" about Sharia Law?
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What is so "wrong" about predestination?
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Its ethics simply do not live up to the standard of contemporary western ethics.
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It's okay at a societal level. It's suicide at a state level.
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>Stalin killed more people than Hitler did.
When will people stop forcing this meme?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge#Number_of_people_executed
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_the_Soviet_Union
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>>731042
>Stalin dindu nuffin
>he was a good boy
Okay Ivan
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when it stops being true
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I don't understand why this war started.
Please explain?
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>>729313
Serbia sent a diplomatic insult(death of ferdinand) and then AH decleared war.
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>>729321
But from what I understand no one knew whether or not Princip had any affiliation with the Serb kingdom?
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people in the Balkans are seriously retarded
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Did America even need French help winning the Revolutionary War?
>The war has turned. General Cornwallis took flight with his army and moved north. We continued to engage the British and in the following months, Cornwallis entrenched himself at Yorktown, Virginia. Washington escaped from the north and surrounded Cornwallis, who could not retreat to the seas.
>It was blocked off by our long-lost friends... who had finally arrived.
Seems like France arrived at the tail-end and just kept the British from retreating.
Americans did all the heavy lifting and probably could've gone on to invade the British Isles if they really wanted.
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>>727553
Siege of Gibraltar
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A million Livres (say $750 million today) provided a lot of powder, shot and bribes. Without that financial and material support, it is quite possible that Washington's Army would have just faded away.
And the British forces were either barely competent or acting only half-heartedly in the period 1775-1777, Gage had an American wife and Howe was embarrassingly pro-Colonist.
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>>727553
the americans only won because the british were too busy fighting the french to keep the homeland supplied with sugar... america matters less than sugar!... Also, 250k french soldiers mate, don't fall for that meme propaganda film...
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The Stoics believed the fetus to be plantlike in nature, and not an animal until the moment of birth, when it finally breathed air. They therefore found abortion morally acceptable.
Aristotle wrote that, "The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive." Before that point was reached, Aristotle did not regard abortion as the killing of something human.
Why do you want to force the belief that abortion is morally unacceptable even when the glob of cells is basically a potato even at the expense of the mother's life and quality of life?
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>>727362
I just want to force abortion.
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>>727362
Addendum, at the expense of the child's life as well, since there's no maternal bond with something that is hated.
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As much as I love ye olden Greek philosophers, I don't get my science from them.
If they had ultrasonography back in the day, for example, they would have seen a fetus moving and reacting to stimuli for themselves, so they wouldn't have described it as a plant or otherwise so far away from a human being.
How many verifiable instances are there of Jews betraying a city/castle/whatever and opening the gates for the enemy?
I come across these accusations quite a bit but it seems like a lot of them are medieval or WN propaganda.
I know for sure the Jews opened the gates for the invading Muslim armies in Toledo
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>>727192
No idea
But I dunno what Germany's problem was, Jews were desperately wanting to be german and were one of the best professional officers of WWI.
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Well, I don't know about that. I do know they got an Ecumenical Patriarch killed by telling the Sultan he baptized a Muslim (he baptized a Jewish convert, in fact, but they wanted him dead). They also dragged around a mutilated another one after the Turks gave it to them for a toy--the body was retrieved by Greek fishermen, and funeral was held in Greece, during which the Jews refused to close their shops out of spite: this lead to massive violence from the enraged Greeks, and the news of this spread to Russia, which is what started the pogroms there.
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>>727237
source?
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How did it spead so rapidly?
It's quite horrifying how some desert dwelling Arabs conquered the Sassanids, took Byzantine Leveant and North Africa, took Iberia,
Sindh, Multan... Etc
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islam was the perfect storm to unite the region for conquest both culturally and militarily
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>>726105
Persia, the Levant and North Africa were conquered before the Umayyads though I'm pretty sure...
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>>726105
heres some stuff I heard about Arab raiders who were pretty independent went forward and conquered territory then the caliph gave it sanction then sent people to go help run things
Discuss everyday transcendence of slave morality
I used to masturbate as little as possible because I thought it was a bad habit, immoral even. Now I do it about a dozen times a day.
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I used to think that i should get a job in order to "serve society". But now i kek a little at the idea. I just want a job in order to get money, i really wanna work as little as possible for someone else...
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>>725089
Haha. Too true. I remember Nietzsche said something like if you work more than a couple of hours a day, you're a slave.
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>>725073
>implying addiction to pornography is aristocratic
A true übermensch lives unchained to any external factor, be it drugs, money, or masturbation. Spending all day on an anime messageboard and only living for your next nut is a lifestyle that Nietzsche would've spat upon. To take control of your fate, you must first take control of yourself.
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Why does the democratic form of government in Athens get such a bad rap? Is it basically just because Plato was butthurt that his idol Socrates was put to death by the Athenian government? Does any contemporary writer aside from Plato even complain about Athenian democracy and its supposed failings?
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If you know your history you'll know that the supposed democracy was extremely open for populism, tyrannical leaders and corruption. The most competent leaders were put in exile as the three factions of athenian democracy kept fighting for power.
However if you are to believe Plutarch they produced some god-tier leaders.
"Ancient Greek critics of the democracy include Thucydides the general and historian, Aristophanes the playwright, Plato the pupil of Socrates, Aristotle the pupil of Plato, and a writer known as the Old Oligarch."
- Wikipedia
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OP, what do you have against philosopher kings?
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Read Plato's The Republic: Socrates says there are five governments: Aristocracy(Rule of the Wise), Timocracy(Rule of the Honorable), Plutocracy(Rule of Money), Democracy(Rule of the Masses), Tyranny(he defines it as the Rule of a Crazy Man). You can see democracy is the fourth and close to Tyranny. He predicts the concept of equality to the absurd, that a man is equal to a horse, and that all ideas are good. From this he concludes, Democracy will be pleasurable, short termed, unfair system. And he doesn't like what is Unfair the most, and predicts that Tyranny and doom is near.
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Were the Byzantines Roman?
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>>724613
they were eastern roman
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>>724613
Yes.
Next!
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Yes until Justinian died.
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Does anyone here know why the fuck these three took this photo together?
In case you don't know from left to right they're Paul Rée, Lou Salome and Friedrich Nietzsche
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>>724272
I just told you. For personal use you pervert.
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I am the only one with a penis size comparison fetish?
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mods pls.