What does /his/ think of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
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>>402429
My mom and grandma were Mormons until my Grandma got a divorce. The church kicked both her and my mom out and I was eventually raised a Lutheran. Both of them lost their faith over the ordeal however.
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>>402429
What about them?
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Pretty fucking stupid, do people really want polygamous sex that badly?
https://youtu.be/46PXaJxzuDE
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Orthodox/Catholic Brotherhood Thread 2015-12-13 04:48:47 Post No.402174
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Why must we argue bitterly about our differences? That's what caused this all to begin with! What about what we have in common? Could we reunite as it was before the Schism?
Is it just the issue of the Primacy of the Pope holding us back from reunity?
Discuss differences civilly ITT. We want to foster brotherhood for reunification.
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Primacy actually isn't a problem at all, just supremacy.
I think the Catholics do a very good of worshiping God with their reason.
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>>402174
>Why must we argue bitterly about our differences?
because bread with azymes is bad
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Why was the Orthodox church so ball-less when it came to Communism? When you think the Pope, you think of a man who does either great or terrible things, but with Orthodoxy the priests do jack shit.
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Can objective truth exist without God?
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It doesn't matter. This question is pointless.
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>>402002
Why do you care about objective truths, anon?
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>>402002
Why would it exist even if God did?
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Jerusalem Council 2015-12-13 02:43:06 Post No.401624
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Thank you for coming /his/, it's about time we came together to discuss some of the recent discussions we've had regarding our faith. I want to thank James, the brother of our Lord, for offering his church here in Jerusalem to host this council. I also want to thank our brother Luke for adding this to his upcoming documentary — Acts.
Now, as per Peter's request, Barnabas and I would like to clarify some things. I know the Pharisees who follow our way claim we are letting these Gentiles have orgies in our churches, worship pagan gods and disrespect the law of Moses. Let me tell you, none of this is true. All we are trying to say is, it's okay for the gentiles to eat pork and keep their foreskin intact.
This does not at all mean we approve of buttfucking little boys, incest, exploiting the poor or whatever else the pagans at /b/ and /pol/ do. Jesus would obviously not approve of any of these, but the superficial stuff doesn't matter. And I should know, I was a Pharisee.
I will now open the floor for questions.
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>>401624
MOVED: That the speakers report be rejected for lacking a recommendation.
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Here's a question for you: read Genesis 17 lately?
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>>401663
I am well versed in the patriarchs. But circumcision came after the promise to Abraham and therefore the promise does not depend on it.
>Is this blessedness only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised?We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness.Under what circumstances was it credited? Was it after he was circumcised, or before? It was not after, but before!And he received circumcision as a sign, a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised.So then, he is the fatherof all who believebut have not been circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.And he is then also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised but who also follow in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.
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Who made them? The houses made have been made of mud, but Africans did not usually know how to make houses like this.
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>>401457
Ayyliens
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>>401457
Aryans traveling down from Europe to build them and then returning. After all, as you said, Africans can't build houses.
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>>401457
Natural formations of the wind eroding away the landscape
think about it...
It's the 78 anniversary of the rape of Nanking.
What do /his/ think about the controversies of it?
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It's a petty numbers game
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>not gif
Remake the fucking thread, shitter.
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China's destiny in war is to get assraped.
I'm from Balkans, and I'm interested in Lebanese Civil War for obvious reasons. It appears to be similar to conflicts we had here.
Can you tell me more? Why did it last so long, for start?
What was Israeli role in it?
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Download and watch Al Jazeera's "The War Of Lebanon" documentary
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>Al Jazeera
How objective are they, honestly?
We have Al Jazeera Balkans here, and they are far from objective. They have some cool shows though.
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I love when someone has slightly faulty English and you can read their accent in their typing.
It's not a putdown, Yugobro, and I'm sorry I have nothing to say on the topic. Here's a bump to get someone else who does.
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I've been looking into this and it's legit.
The advances in science and type of culture that was growing was like the Renaissance but 500 years earlier.
What ultimatly ended it though as religious fundamentalism. The Mu'tazilites and people like Avicenna were already discovering Empiricism. They were putting rationalism and investigation above faith. Avicenna for instance denied that miracles can happen because they are not consistent with a naturalistic universe.
The conservative religious folk starting feeling threatened and sought to remove this new philosophy in favor of the Quaran being the final say on everything. We starting getting philosophy like al-Ghazālī that denied causality even existed and that every event in the universe is just Allah using his magic to make things happen (ie gravity isn't a natural force, it's just God pushing things down and it's just as conceivable God could push things up and have us fly)
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>>401119
it seems like Islamic golden age is a misnomer
and then it was an Arabic golden age considering like you said above the religious officials put down those kinds of ideas and set the Islamic world back who knows how long
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>>401119
Islamic fundamentalists hate Ash'arism and oppose al-Ghazali's teachings.
They follow Ibn Taymiyya, not al-Ghazali.
Also, Ash'arism is not anti-science. Science in the modern sense didn't exist at the time of al-Ghazali. It's anachronistic and foolish to conflate the non-empirical and mostly incorrect Aristotelian "natural philosophy" that al-Ghazali opposed with the scientific method.
Al-Ghazali barely even spoke on anything we would call science.
Islamic Golden Age dies with the Mongol conquests and the destruction of Baghdad, the cultural and intellectual capital of the world at that time.
Ash'arism was the dominant theological position among Muslims for well over a century before Imam al-Ghazali. Ash'arism also has no appreciable "anti-scientific" component. Ibn an-Nafis (who studied pulmonary circulation) was an Ash'ari.
The "Islamic Golden Age" was largely that due to material prosperity. It's a little harder for emirs to spend lavishly on intellectual projects when the Mongols are slaughtering everyone and the Islamic world is in constant internecine war.
Economic decline is where the age declines. Not religious "fervor", if it could even be described as such.
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>>401119
>al-Ghazālī
You realize he was basically Hume, right?
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Lets talk about Colonial Africa
What happened culturally, technological, and politically during this period and how did the local populous react? How did people in the colonial cities fair? Did the European migrants take interest in African culture? Ignoring Belgian Congo, how were they treated?
Pls no Rhodesia posting.
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Africa, a Voyage of Discovery, episode 6
https://youtu.be/ytgacA-R8N4
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>Pls no Rhodesia posting.
I'd appreciate some insight into pre-UDI (Southern) Rhodesia
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>>401100
Ok, thats fine, but I hate how most threads about Africa are Pro-colonialist whining about how "the dirty revolutionary peasants" revolted against "the happy peaceful advanced ruling class" in Rhodesia
We get it, Something bad happened. What more is there to discuss?
What was combat like after the line volleys of the early colonial age, but before WWI? Such as the Crimiean and the Franco-Prussian Wars, did they experience the grusomeness of the First World War? don't imagine it would be all too fast, but not nearly as slow paced as the regimented firing line.
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>>400953
Good question. The general answer is that many armies were having their fighting formations change to a loose skirmisher type, where the attackers would advance with a primitive form of fire and movement, where a section would have one half lay down covering fire while prone while the other half rushed forward towards the enemy entrenchments. Once the entire group was close enough to make a rush to the enemy's position, they would complete the covered movement with a bayonet assault.
Of course, the details different from different armies but that was the general idea.
Another thing to note that this was still done with command and control as primitive as the Napoleonic era. In skirmish formations infantry still had to remain relatively close together, in long ranks with subsequent ranks following one after the other, rather than small groupings of squads which characterize modern warfare and the “assault” infantry of the late World War I period.
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While (arguably) armies did sort out how to fight on battlefields dominated by black powder breechloaders, by the 1900s the emergence of smokeless powder presented a new challenge for tacticians right through the Great War, as shown in this graphic (1):
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Did the one-handed flail ever exist?
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Sure it did, theres one right there in your picture, OP
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I've only seen flails like this, as well as spike-ball flails used in two hands rather than one.
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>>400970
Not the first guy, but one handed flails were usually a cavalry weapon, not an infantry one.
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How great was Ayuttaya Empire? 2015-12-12 23:00:18 Post No.400689
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How great was Ayuttaya Empire?
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How powerful would Thailand be today if Ayuttaya was not destroyed in the Burmese invasion?
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chinese refugees defined thailand and burma not ayuttaya
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>>402670
What.
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>>402701
I think he's referring to the Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia that essentially was and still remains the de facto ruling class. Heck even today Thailand's Monarchy is descended from the Chinese.
Was Ivan the Terrible a real person?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible
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>wikipedia
trashed
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why did ivan chimp out on his son
Morals and ethics are an illusion of Satan to lead man astray. They foster doubt in the validity and supreme authority of the word of the Lord and His laws. Many philosophers have attempted to use morals and ethics to disprove the Lord's benevolence. Like with science, Satan has enabled this by giving man the illusion he can understand ultimate truth, know more than the Omniscient. But the basis of science and morals and ethics is not knowledge, it is doubt, proving they are the work of Satan. Make no mistake, morals and ethics are humanistic in nature, an imperfect human tainted by sin can not begin to comprehend the thinking of the Creator. To attempt to apply them to the workings of the Divine is folly, morals and ethics do not apply to God. It is hubris to treat God as but a simple man. There is no God but God, concepts of relative fairness do not apply to God, for God has no equals. The only morals and ethics that apply to God are how he he judges all of mankind as the ultimate judge. The concept of morals and ethics are ultimately paradoxical. Man in his imperfection can not determine the ultimate truth and judge between right and wrong. Man putting his own finite thoughts ahead of the thoughts of infinite knowledge is beyond pointless. It is man saying he is superior to God. People enter conflict because of differing morals and ethics, a Satanic plot to divide and plant the seeds of doubt. Philosophers are Satanically inspired, they think because they doubt, not because they know. Only He who is perfect and omniscient can knows truth in its entirety, and the only being capable of judging what is good and evil. You can not judge God by the standards of man, you can not judge the word of God or the law of God, to do so is to presume dominion over God, the Creator of all. You, as man, need only know the absolute Truth of God, you, the imperfect being, can not comprehend nor understand God, the perfect being, you can only know God. God is the Truth.
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>>400505
Not to get too /pol/
But Anton LeVay is Anton Levi FYI
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>>400505
That was a lot of words you just used to hide that you don't have a coherent response to the problem of induction, yet show you want to impose some random ontology (in this case religious) on others.
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Historical Events near your home town noone really talks about 2015-12-12 22:28:34 Post No.400494
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I live about 5 miles from Benfleet in Essex, UK where in 893CE Alfred the Great's army defeated a large viking fleet of around 200 ships.
Yet I never heard about this at all. Not in school, not from other locals. Never. Until I read about it in a Bernard Cornwall book and looked into it.
https://sites.google.com/a/theappletonschool.org/history-of-south-east-essex/home/the-battle-of-benfleet
What historical events happened near you that never seem to be brought up or taught?
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Henry Tudor stayed here on the way to Bosworth and probably met Stanley to discuss switching sides somewhere nearby as well.
One of the most important events in British history? Nah, tell them more about earthenware instead...
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>>400494
Local farmers killed the German Anti-king/Holy Roman emperor to be. Didn't realize who they killed at first but when they realized he was an important guy they quickly hid the corpse.
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>>400494
I live a village along from Naseby