Would it be false to assume that most """"""""""""""Christians"""""""""""""" in Europe had all these weird fucking ways of torture because they were simply sadistic assholes who enjoyed it? I know that all of it wasn't necessarily invented by Christians, but just the fact that they had all those weird "trials by ordeal", flaying etc. still in use is fucked up.
>This heretic has committed a crime, we should behead him to kill him quickly.
>Nah, how about we get him to the church, force a funnel into his throat and fill his ass up while some random dude stands next to me reading bible passages.
Discuss
heretic detected
Well, isn't suffering a very important part of Christian ideology? The martyrdom of Christ, suffering makes you holy, etc. etc. That's why there are Christian people who self-flagellate as well.
>>470907
Yes, op. Pagan Europeans chucking people in metal bulls to bake alive or nailing them up in sticks or trees was the fault of Christians
Had Islam ever been tolerant or peaceful ?
>>470819
Define "peaceful" and "tolerant",
>>470850
The ideology adopted by early christians and the current Western world (aka "you're trying to kill me but I still love you lol")
no, they get triggered very easily to be muslim is to submit to discord.
How come Dali was so cool and chill all the time but Picasso was so depressed looking and bored?
Didnt know if to post in /IC/ but decided to come here because that place is full of weaboos
because Dali was a cuck and a hack
>>470790
Dali was rich from a rich family. He didn't have to worry about a single shit that weren't his acid trip dreams, his paintings and wanking while thinking about his waifu. He didn't give a shit about the rest of the world.
Picasso was more involved with reality.
Picasso banged a lot of girls I think
any fellow archaeologists here?
>>470608
Yes, I do a bit of metal detecting and digging myself.
>>470637
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZDxo6ZHR0M
>>470637
lol in my country thats a crime
What is consciousness?
I'm sure a thread on a Taiwanese Basket Weaving forum will finally solve this question.
>>470520
Aware! Miraculously Aware!
>>470525
its as good as any.
What was life like for a steppe nomad I know that they kept herds of sheep as their largest income source but what more did they generally do ?
Rode the across the plains with their hair in the wind
Invade urban civilizations when they felt like it.
killed civilized people. if not available, each other.
I've read about modal ontological arguments for the existence of God, and it seems some atheists think that the same sort of argument can be used to argue the non-existence of God:
1. If God exists, God is necessary.
2. It is possibly the case that God doesn't exist.
3. Therefore God is not necessary.
4. Therefore God doesn't exist (modus tollens, from 1)
So /lit/, what's wrong with this argument?
>>470001
fug, not >/lit/, but /his/ Copypasted this from there, but they said I should post it here.
>>470001
Define God, and list all its attributes, and we can maybe quantify the possibility of its existence.
>modal logic
Complete trash. Next
if it weren't for the USA, people everyone in the world would be speaking German now.
discuss
>>469861
English is a west Germanic language
>>469861
>implying there is a problem with speaking German
In WWI, the British and French did most of the work.
In WWII, the Soviets were the prime downfall of every Axis state except Italy and Vichy France.
Plus, if you're an American, there is a high chance you have either German ancestry, or something similar like Anglo-Saxon or French backgrounds, which if you go back to Roman times, they were considered the same.
Couldn't agree more
>wake up
>go to beach
>see this
what do?
trade manhattan for a mirror
>>469730
Guerilla warfare burning all boats and structures.
>>469732
Given they're from Eora, that's a pretty good deal.
Can someone summarize the migrations, conquests and displacements in Europe before the Bronze age? Who, what, when, where? What did they speak? What impact did they have on the way of life?
Who were the European hunter-gatherers? Is it just a generic term for a diverse set of peoples who inhabited Europe or was there a common origin and such?
Are the Early European Farmers just some colonists from the middle east who brought farming?
Were the Indo-Europeans violent subjugators?
>>469420
bump
>What did they speak?
how the fuck could we know? it was before the written tongue and they've all been dead for thousands of years.
>>469694
Conjecture is that they spoke a langue similar to basque given the theory that basque is an isolated population of what might have been a larger language area.
Why do Muslims (I see it in Turkish news all the time) appropriate the explicitly Christian term "martyr", which absolutely excludes people who die in combat, and apply it to people who die in combat? I'm not trying to shit on Islam or anything, but this really rustles my jimmies. You can't be a martyr if you die in the act of killing people, full stop.
Martyr is just the English translation, it's called Shaheed in arabic
>>469292
In Arabic, a martyr is termed Shahid. Shahid appears in the Quran in a variety of contexts, including witnessing to righteousness, witnessing a financial transaction and being killed, even in an accident as long as it doesn't happen with the intention to commit a sin, when they are believed to remain alive making them witnesses over worldly events without taking part in them anymore (Quran 3:140). The word also appears with these various meanings in the hadith, the sayings of Muhammad. The Greek origin of the word also means 'witness.'
>>469321
This. If you don't know Arabic, you need English translations. If you use English translations, you're gonna get some overlap of terminology.
Is South Asia geographically prone to being invaded by people from the west or was there some other reason they were historically conquered by foreigners so often?
Europe has always been invaded from the east, Africa from the north, China from the west, and Bharat from the northwest
>>469130
>China from the west
Mongols are from the north
>>469162
The Mongols weren't the only invaders, or even the most relevant for most of history
Did anything ever happen in Belfast except for almost constant rioting?
>>468734
My grandfather got on a boat and got the fuck out,.
they built boats so that people could leave
they built the titanic
How did Chinese and Indian civilization managed to exist to this day? They are two of the oldest entities that didn't collapsed.
>>468731
>They are two of the oldest entities that didn't collapsed.
>they never collapsed
Thanks for the chuckle
You beat me to it.
>>468744
>>468731
Ancient Oriential Wisdom, surely:
VI-iv-14: He who wishes that his son should be born fair, study one Veda and attain a full term of life, should have rice cooked in milk, and he and his wife should eat it with clarified butter. Then they would be able to produce such a son.
VI-iv-15: He who wishes that his son should be born tawny or brown, study two Vedas and attain a full term of life, should have rice cooked in curd, and he and his wife should eat it with clarified butter. Then they would be able to produce such a son.
VI-iv-16: He who wishes that his son should be born dark with red eyes, study three Vedas and attain a full term of life, should have rice cooked in water and he and his wife should eat with clarified butter. Then they would be able to produce such a son.
VI-iv-17: He who wishes that a daughter should be born to him who would be a scholar and attain a full term of life, should have rice cooked with sesame, and he and his wife should eat it with clarified butter. Then they would be able to produce such a daughter.
ITT: Historical characters that are literally you
For me,, is him
>Dark
>Cynical
>Tired of people's stupidity
>Dark sense of humor
>>468506
>schizophrenic
>a cute girl
>has done some cheerleading in the past
Honestly, I think I'm a re-incarnation. Also, [spoiler]McFucking kill yourself, edgelord, holy fucking jesus.[/spoiler]
>>468506
>>468548
[Spoiler] learn to niggertext plebeian [spoiler]