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lmao what?

Dumb frogposter

Atheism is pessimism, hedonism, and selfishness.

a lot of NDEs "confirm" this is the case, as well as the tibetan book of the dead. if you're able to let go the instant the barrier between your mind and the Mind break down, and not instinctively grasp for corporeality, you will be liberated from death and rebirth.

idk man, I'd like to but I don't think I'd be able to

I don't believe anyone could honestly answer this question.

I don't think I'd be comfortable with that just yet. So if the hindus are right I'm not ready for Moksha and would get reincarnated.

>>394374
communism

currently? communism
before that? influence of imperial russia
in the middle ages? religion, and what one would call "west" reached far beyond its present day boundaries to "central" or eastern european countries today (i.e. bohemia, poland...)

>>394378
>>394395
So does that mean Greece is Western Europe or Eastern Europe?

>>393999
It was more martially orientated than Jainism and Buddhism

I was just wondering, are there are any Hindu (or any other religion, really) deities who have four arms and are able to transform at will? I had an incredibly vivid dream where I met someone like this and they claimed they were a god and that I could come to them if I was ever in danger. I would love to know if there are any actual deities who fit this description.

>>394588
You are referring to Vishnu. This reminds me of a quote by Dr. Oppenheimer when the first Nuke was dropped.

https://youtu.be/lb13ynu3Iac

Vishnu takes him Multi-armed form and says, "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds"

Too much land

>>393220

People underestimate how massive the land is and how massive the population of said land is. Also fuckhueg mountains everywhere leading to a random desert in the middle of the continent

>>393476
The Mongols seemed to fare pretty well.

What does "great people" mean?

>>392578
more great than me for sure

>>391736
Science and faith are not in conflict—unless you want them to be. If someone places faith before truth, then they are stepping out of bounds. But if faith is what one has because something is true, and not the other way around, science becomes the One True Faith. This is another counter-intuitive feature of science: it is thoroughly empirical, built on observation and evidence, yet “empiricism” is not observation and evidence alone, but a view of things that is constructed from observed facts, and the whole enterprise of science requires at least the provisional belief that those constructions are true. On the one hand science requires faith, a faith that certain principles and models and bodies of knowledge are true. On the other hand, this faith is not blind, but based on evidence. It is justified faith.

Scientists build up faith in science’s concepts, principles, and conclusions through repeated practice or testing, and when this faith is challenged, they return again to examine the facts, to see if their faith is justified by them. This is what makes science an empirical enterprise, the fact that it ultimately grounds and justifies its faith by appeal to observable evidence.

The idea of an empirically-based faith is hard for many people to grasp, especially if they are used to thinking that “faith” is only a reason for believing something when you don’t have evidence. The term “faith” does have both connotations, meaning “belief” in some cases, but also “reason to believe” in others. Science has no use for that second kind of faith. But it is not true that a scientist “has no faith” in science: he has faith in it, but a faith that is grounded in empirical evidence and reasoning. By confusing the two notions of faith, common sense creates a false dichotomy between faith and empirical justification. Science unites them.

>>391736
Read Kuhn, then Lakatos, then Feyerabend.

>>391736
Religion is based around politics and identity.

>When the infant physical affectional variable was combined with permitted pre-marital sexuality my prediction of peaceful or violent cultures rose to 100% of the 49 cultures where this information was available. Further, these cultures were matrilineal where 78% of the nine cultures that also had information on extramarital sexuality also permitted extramarital sexuality.
>The ultimate human spiritual-sexual state, however, can only be realized when the human female (whose brain is uniquely designed for the spiritual-sexual state) is completely free to express her sexual love according to her own terms which means multiple sexual relationships without fear of male reproach, control or violence. For this to occur the developing brain of the infant/child must be encoded and programmed with pleasure (affectional bonding) for the neural circuits to develop to make possible the spiritual-sexual state later in life. Unfortunately, just the opposite is happening in most human cultures of today where infant/day care centers, e.g., provide little or no affectional bonding with anyone.

http://www.violence.de/prescott/bulletin/article.html

People should feel shame & guilt about wanting to engage in behaviors that spread disease, ruin their sexual organs, and reduce their capacity for pair-bonding

>>391678
>ruin their sexual organs
>>>/r9k/

Certainly better than in modern day Zimbabwe, that's for sure.

>>397017
Grandfather was around during Rhodesia, said it was shit if you weren't white and Mugabe was just a fuck up.

>>397025
>Certainly better than in modern day Zimbabwe, that's for sure.

Bullshit. Bullshit thinking. Bullshit evidence. Bullshit argument. Supply your moral or political perspective which says what "better" is for a person or people, and then supply evidence to support your claim.

Be bold, be right, actually make a fucking argument you horrible cunt.

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>>397030
He was a party animal who loved French babes, and he was also quite intelligent and politically as well as socially aware.

Not even Murrifat by the way.

>>397030
>Trusting the depiction of Asscreed, a game by Frog faggots which has misrepresented every period since the first game

>>397030
What games are you playing?

>>397000
Because Americans refuse to do research.

If they did, they would find he:
>gave weapons to Iran
>armed literal terrorists in South America
>armed literal terrorists in Afghanistan
>legalized abortion as governor of California
>signed the automatic weapons ban bill into acton
Quite anti-American of him.

>>397016
This desu
the Eternal Californian strikes again.

>>397000
Because we're engineered to be actually retarded.

>>396947
>What went wrong?

Designated drinking streets

Also Celtic kuck blood

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Look at Germany ;_;

>>396952
What does that mean?

So wheres my reparations Italy?

>>396881
>emperor

based Caesar still delivering after thousands of years

Kierkegaard

>>396392

Al Sharpton.

Cicero

>>396108
He's a monster who persecuted political enemies as harshly as Stalin or Mao, but on a much smaller scale so it's not one of history's "great atrocities"

People call him a hero because he bloodied America's nose, but during the time between the Vietnam War and the division between North and South Vietnam, free travel was permitted between the two states and millions fled North Vietnam for good fucking reason.

>>396127
Go back to gangbanging in Southern California, Nguyen.

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>>396137
I actually live in Arizona topkek