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ITT: overrated thinkers
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HIs work in linguistics is pretty important, even if you don't agree with it.
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What does /his/ think about the Black Dahlia murder? Who do you think did it?
Also, can you imagine living in the house with the lawn her body was dumped on?
https://www.google.com/maps/place/34%C2%B000'59.0%22N+118%C2%B019'58.8%22W/@34.016554,-118.332968,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1s118587756!2e1!3e10!6s%2F%2Flh6.googleusercontent.com%2Fproxy%2FoDpfIBuw-s9rQdxy6ovE3CZgW25qc7jU1Q4nUc2gxFa55jxbPFtrCYoyDvwtmWKfV5V8nBToqj1jhiZbqwaSYqkUftR3XU4%3Dw203-h150!7i875!8i649!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0?hl=en
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Nobody? Should this go on /x/?
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This is much spookier imo
>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinterkaifeck_murders
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>>521186
is she alright??
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Jesus Wrong About Second Coming
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Numerous passages in the Bible portray Jesus clearly stating that the Second Coming would occur within the lifetime of his disciples.
>"Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled."
— Matthew 24:34
"This generation" refers to a span of 30-40 years, thus placing the date of the second coming before the deaths of the disciples. C.S. Lewis called this "the most embarrassing verse in the Bible" in The World’s Last Night and Other Essays.
Three more verses explicitly state that some of the people listening to Jesus as he preached would not die before he returned.
>"Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom."
— Matthew 16:28
>"And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power."
— Mark 9:1
>"But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God."
— Luke 9:27
Jesus also told people that "the time is short and they should not get married, not mourn, not be happy, not buy things, and not live "in the world". This again indicates that Jesus himself believed his return to be extremely imminent. (1 Corinthians 7:29-31, 1 Peter 4:7)
Later on, followers began to make up ad-hoc excuses for why it hasn't happened yet. Trying to interpret what Jesus said, that his return was "imminent" and "at hand", as "thousands of years from now". (2 Peter 3)
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He came back in 70 CE
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>not being a preterist
It's like you're actually retarded
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>>520390
Why does the bible have excuses in it if it already happened then?
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How to be a modern day Diogenes?
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>>520220
get put on a sex offender list
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>>520220
A modern day Diogenes would probably be sent to a mental institution.
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>>520220
What exactly would be stopping you?
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Saxon Huscarls are criminally underrated. Why?
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>>519065
Norman propaganda.
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>>519065
because they never became a normie meme like Spartans, Vikings, and Samurai.
dfw no one will ever know how Mamluks rekt the Mongols
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>>519065
because noone gives a fuck about your fag heritage.
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Why did they never build these, /his/? We could be colonizing the solar system by now.
Where were the absolute madmen when we needed them?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)
https://youtu.be/xYoLcJuBtOw
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>>518524
Too expensive for their times. Nowadays it´s all "muh enviroment" and "muh bad atoms", so it today it falls out of question, too.
Orion was only feasible with a "fuck it, we´re going to space" attitude.
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>>518524
Cost and fear of nuclear holocaust, those are pretty much the only 2 answers. The muh environment argument is ludicrous because 0% of the radiation from those would reach earth, we have something called a magnetic field that blocks fucktons of radiation every single day.
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>>519001
Or the department of defense took it over so they could carry on nuclear testing
Heck half the reason fusion is shot atm is cos yanks went down the route of lots of mini explosions instead of the toroidal plasma
In fact the dofd has pushed the idea of toroidal as dangerous so much that comic book movies piss on it cf iron man
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When will the US pay war crime reparations to Japan for the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
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>>516461
It already did by fixing Nip Economy after the war.
When will Japan admit to any of its war crimes?
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Considering the absolute horrors Japan did, not dropping more nukes are crime reparations enough.
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when will the nips pay China for Nanking?
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Who was the first/most relevant philosopher to call bullshit on Plato's shitty arguments about the immortality of the soul and all his Form nonsense (mostly in Phaedo)?
Also, why did Plato lost all of his cool on these topics? He was much better when he was asking people what is shit.
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bump?
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>>515687
I recall Aristotle saying something about it in the first book of his Nichomachean Ethics.
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>>515687
Aristotle did criticize the dichotomic method and his metaphysic
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Can we have a thread about post-colonial Africa? It's both fascinating and often looked over apart from the big events like Rwanda '94 and Apartheid (even then, the end of it is often glossed over).
Rhodesia tolerated, but I'd really prefer to hear about other places. We always have a Memedesia thread going.
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>>512679
I want to but I don't know jack shit about it
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>>512679
http://exiledonline.com/its-d-day-in-zalambessa/
I've been trying to find more on this but haven't had any success. Like it says in the pic, the west is really uninterested in African politics unless it goes into the "starving African children" narrative.
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OP here, gonna bump with a documentary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZbPTDZAM4o
Not really post-colonial, but it is about a bit of decolonisation that isn't really covered, even in Rhodesia threads, which is the creation and disbanding of the Central African Federation.
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>meanwhile on the History Channel
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>>508926
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjT4JepA-Vc
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From what I know of Medieval combat, that looks accurate.
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Did Hitler's rise to power come from ancient Atlanteans?
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>tfw yahweh was just one of the many caananite gods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaanite_religion#Beliefs
What does /his/ think of this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlnnWbkMlbg
He goes over the history of how the Old Testament was written in relation to how gods were viewed at the time, and why. Basically, from wiki:
>In the oldest biblical literature, Yahweh is a typical ancient Near Eastern "divine warrior" who leads the heavenly army against Israel's enemies;[6] he later became the main god of the Kingdom of Israel (Samaria) and of Judah,[7] and over time the royal court and temple promoted Yahweh as the god of the entire cosmos, possessing all the positive qualities previously attributed to the other gods and goddesses.[8][9] By the end of the Babylonian exile (6th century BCE), the very existence of foreign gods was denied, and Yahweh was proclaimed as the creator of the cosmos and the true god of all the world.[9]
Just learned about all this from pic related, I highly recommend it.
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Read that a couple years ago. It was interesting. Basically showed how Judiasm evolved over time, from polytheism to monotheism, with intermediate steps in between.
I seem to recall it did lend some credence to the idea that at least some influential founders of Israel immigrated into the Levant, since one of the names of the god of Israel (forget which one) was probably picked up on the Red Sea cost of Arabia.
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Old news. We've known for years that Judaism, just like any other religion, was slowly developed over time.
It's essentially Zoroastrianism mixed with Egyptian and Mesopotamian religious themes
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Also, here's another documentary about this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCXlFWBcxBo
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Can we have a proper Holocaust thread where we provide and discuss the primary evidence?
Keep it polite and make serious points please.
Eichmann's confession.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK4nVaFvK10
Original documentary used in the Nuremberg trial.
https://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/Nuremberg-Trial-Film-Nazi-Concentration-Camps
Eyewitness testimony from a German engineer
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-engineer.htm
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Eyewitness testimonies for Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibor.
http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ar/argaschambers.html
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Secondary source rather than primary but this databse of victims has been worked on for decades.
http://db.yadvashem.org/names/search.html?language=en
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Excerpts from Goebbel's diary.
http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/g/goebbels-joseph/goebbels-1948-excerpts-01.html
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Why the hate for the scientific method?
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>>527293
>le pop-sci guy
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>>527293
Go read Feyerabend.
Then come back
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>lessen the suffering of others
Wow what a deep and unique ethical perspective! There's never any moments where you would have to choose between harming someone for the greater benefit of society or protecting a person's individual liberties!
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Has anything like this ever been done before or was it the first time? Is there any analogy in history?
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>>526811
A couple of Confederate officers were hung for the shit that gone down in Confederate Prisoner of War camps
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>>526811
There were a bunch of WWI trials.
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They killed the people they feared with the illusion of justice. A moral victory? Absolutely not. Jewspiracies aside, I only remember reading about one Nazi who's death may have been unwarranted. Almost everyone who was shot was connected to the Holocaust or some of the SS war crimes. I really wish I knew the name of the general who was killed but didn't seem to have any connection to war crimes. I'm sure someone else will know.
Good luck with your /pol/ bait thread of you aren't actually trying to troll.
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>2016
>still being a super pleb by not reading Astrotheology
christian shills dont post ITT
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jesus loves you and he forgives all
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Wow. I thought theology couldn't be any more idiotic and then someone combined it with astrology.
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>tfw sister venerates the Greeks
>tfw she taught herself ancient Greek
>tfw she practices Greek astrology based on ancient Greek calendar
>tfw she literally subscribes to geocentrism
>tfw she literally subscribes to humorism
>tfw can't even tell when she's being serious sometimes because when I asked if she was being ironic she said "everything is ironic"
Just kill me