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>>454061
If it isn't atheists should stop acting like it is.

>The bottom line is this: there is no such thing as a world of "phenomena," of perceptible forms, and behind it, an impenetrable, true reality: the essence. There is only one given reality, which is multidimensional; there is also a hierarchy of possible forms of human and superhuman experiences, in relation to which these various dimensions are progressively disclosed, until one is able to perceive directly the essential reality.

atheists c ucked by their left brain into believing that's all there ever is

>>454121
What makes you think only atheists think this? And how does this answer the question?

Pax deorum

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>>454054
Religion for the Pagans was really a lot different than we would imagine it today.

most modern people have no appreciation what so ever for the pagan-Roman mindset or how they saw the world, they look at a few superficial things and build this asinine idea that the Romans and other pagans were somehow "less religious" when in reality it was just a whole different kind of fervor.

the Romans were incredibly superstitious, in their daily lives they prayed to all sorts of spirits, deities, and other entities for everything from the mundane to the most grand. they had a strong belief in magic and many codified magical formula (I have a copy of a Roman fortune telling manual myself) and they regularly made use of such charms, curses and spells to have their will done or for really anything.
"religion" for them was not some external other, it was intertwined with absolutely everything, even the state was a religious entity and all the trappings of legalism were bound up with mystical ideas and the gods.

if you read the 12 tables of Rome there is extensive mention of magic and witchcraft and what degree of magic is alright.

all in all it was pretty silly when you look back at stories like one farmer throwing a cow fetus at his neighbor all under the watch of magistrates to ensure the curse was legal.

Christianity represented a major shift away from superstition towards more rational thought.

Romans were obsessed with getting their rituals right and "collecting" patron deities so that the empire would be under the protection of all divinity.

Pretty different, I think.

>>453946

>Assyrians prospered instead of Judaism

Jesus christ how horrifying

Probably pretty similar, since environmental determinism is more true than spiritual determinism

Just one of the many people who were inferior to G.J. Caesar.

>>453942

so wait, was he french or basically irish?

wasnt all of france just what Ireland is now, but it all got pushed back?

>>453942
Fought a lost battle. He was alright.

>>452973
guns, germs, and steel :^)

Tribes outside of the Aztec empire helped out.

The natives thought that the Spaniards were angels or messengers of the Gods, so they didn't fight back too much. Also the Spaniards had much more advanced technology and their germs wiped out most of the population there.

>>452969

Your mom didn't find him ugly.

>>452969
Look at his beady eyes

>>452969
The mustache and haircut is horrifying, but at the time it was probably fashionable. It's not like he has an ugly face, it's average.

>>452824
Who is this semen demon?

Don't do STEM
>tfw pure humanities

>>452824

BY STOPPING YOUR FUTILE & ABSURD ATTEMPT AT IDENTIFYING YOURSELF WITH SOCIAL STEREOTYPES AND SUBSEQUENTLY ATTEMPTING TO ENACT THEM.

YOU ARE AN UNSELFAWARE AND UNSELFCONSCIOUS IDIOT.

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I ran out of character space and that was only 1942

I just want to go back lads

Kind of yes.
There's literally nothing of importance happening in this millennium beside the rise of terrorism.

1900s were absolute shit no matter how you look at it.

>collapse of the old world order
>emergence of the USSR
>emergence of Nazi Germany
>two bloodiest conflicts in human history
>generally, tons and tons of genocides and wars everywhere
>feminism, marxism going mainstream
>Middle East fucked beyond recognition
>Eastern Europe fucked beyond recognition

Sure, we made technological progress and now have internet, airplanes and dick pills, but is the rest of it any good?

Danton was a mistake.

Also he cared too much about countering atheism. The main issue of the revolution was not the virtues and lack thereof of the people, or the english and counterrevolutionnary plots, but the generalized corruption of the new and not so new elites.

>>451691
>>452006
This guy is right about Danton also he should have ended the terror after the army began winning

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>>451691
>dfw people save your OC

>>450096
>Manchu
why shouldn't they, americans still identify with the british culture and the english language, bulgarians still identify with the bulgarian turkic people that enslaved them, hungarians aswell. the mentioned do not even stem from the same people or nation. chinese identifying with chinese dynasties is even more plausible.

>>450134
>enslaved

Since when is assimilation an enslavement? People throw away horseshit buzzwords like this around without thinking.

>>450134
>americans still identify with the british culture
but they don't

funny

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>>449840
Meme thread?
We didn't have one in a while...

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>>449875

>>447245
Fugg I forgot to add "according to this, intelligent people are more:" book at the beginning and thanks to Emperor Hirohito I can't delete this thread.

>>447245
No I would say that half are early rising, slightly ascetic, most maintain their sceptical impulse that drew them to heavy thinking and only a few believers of worth.

I guess they have to be "losers" because to shake off all the political influences of the time in order to see the value in the "western canon" is a task that can only be done in isolation with any type of pleasure, since it is so difficult to get on with people who oppose us.

>>447245
no

newton was a hardcore christian

he was also a loser tho so this might have truth to it

desu this is feel-good bullshit

>have the right

Says who?

rights are taken, not granted

>>439698

I plan on doing so for graduate work if they allow me. I think I could create actual life that could interact within society. They will have their own rights.

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But first, a map of the action.

>>454786
>So I was searching to download this book I have in digital copy.
>I can't find it, it's like someone doesn't want it to be read (and it's not obscure at all , you can see it published in physical format).

Oh sweet summer child

>>454853
Could you be any more cryptic faggot?

>>454965
the understanding is not obfuscated