I dabbled in religion as a kid, but fell into apostasy and eventually atheism as a teen when my local religious authority decided to just lash out at me when I got curious and started asking questions about my faith. (Protestants: Never again).
I've been wondering about the nature of consciousness and somewhat constructing my own faith system as of late, but it is dependent on "us" as human minds being monistically linked to our atoms and not some emergent metaphysical property.
>Universe is infinite within its own domain (conservationally cannot be annihilated, only transformed)
>We are all under the illusion that we are an independent spectator of the universe and not a part of it experiencing itself.
>There is thus no birth or death in the sense of one's personal creation or annihilation, we transform in and out of structures capable of introspection.
Is there a faith that follows along those lines somewhat?
>emergent gobbledygook-nomenom
Half-assed materialism is still materialism.
>>3130598
Idiots who just discovered psychedelic drugs? Seriously, your ideas are shit, read more.
In what war did Colonel Sanders serve in? I can't seem to find any information on it. Was he black ops or something? Did he fight in WW1 or WW2 and under what battalion. Did he kill any krauts or land any major victories?
Finally how did he go from being a military brat to being a chicken king?
>>3130592
Oh and is he buried in Arlington National Cemetary? If so, can someone point it out to me on a map? I searched and searched for well over an hour for his grave but could not locate it.
>>3130592
In the slim chance you aren't a stupid troll, I will tell you that Sanders was not an actual military colonel. He was a Kentucky Colonel, which is a honorable order the state gives out, kind of like a life peerage.
>>3130592
Nice bait
random farmer culture
>great civilization look how people were already living like us thousands years ago, they were so great and built our modern society
random hunter-gatherer culture
>oh look how people used to have simple lives... even if we think of them as a little primitive, they still had comfy pictures in caves, and all...
random nomad civilization
>HURR DURR BARBARIC AND UNCIVILIZED NOMADS WHY DIDN'T THEY ACHIEVE ANYTHING??? LOLOLOLOL WHAT THE SAVAGES, JUST FUCKING HORSES AND EATING FRESH MEAT BECAUSE THEY ARE SO LOW-CULTURED DURR
>>3130452
damn Genghis, did you get up ass-first today or something?
hello steppenigger
>>3130459
>tfw actually steppe nommads were the ones who achieved the most
Just compare Indo-Europeans and Altaics to those "le civilized semites", who got BTFO by Steppeniggers.
We discuss the greatest empire in South America here, and a sad reminder of what might've been.
Republicanism was a mistake, restore monarchy now kthx.
Why was it an Empire and not a Kingdom?
uma delĂcia
>>3130710
Kingdoms are generally ethnarchies. I think the notion of empire better describes (betrays) the notion that Brazil is not a real nation, but a patchwork of different regions and peoples, only kept united by sheer state force.
SOLA
>>3130375
look at that smug motherfucker
that's the "Imma gonna destroy Europe and no one can stop me face" right there
>>3130381
>Popery
>Europe
>>3130381
He was one of the two only good Germans in existence
one of the criticisms i hear of Zizek is that he tends to focus too much on Europe
many Maoists think Marxists should abandon Europe and focus on the true revolutionaries of the 3rd world
they view first world workers in America/Europe as part of the "Bourgeois"
plus Zizek has talked about wanting to preserve European culture against Refugees/Islam
Eurocentrism is itself a concept originating in the western tradtion
>>3130385
this
it seems to strive from self hatred among whites, a sort of reverse White Man's Burden (Zizek uses that term)
>>3130373
He´s not diverse enough. Put a black transgender in his place and ghostwrite/maker him/her read from a teleprompter like Obama/Neil de Grasse Tyson.
Why didn't people maintain their national icons?
Why did they let wonders go to shit?
You try keeping shit around for four thousand years.
>>3130345
No money.
>>3130345
Need mo money fo dem restoration
All muh history countries are poor af
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterraneanism
How does it stack up to Nordicism and Afrocentrism? Will we see a revival within our lifetime?
>How does it stack up to Nordicism and Afrocentrism?
Its as shit as the rest of them.
>Will we see a revival within our lifetime?
Hopefully not.
>>3130261
>How does it stack up to Nordicism and Afrocentrism?
Its easily the best of a bad bunch.
>Will we see a revival within our lifetime?
Hopefully, pic related.
It's time for the real challenge! How many sub-divisions of Holy Roman Empire can you name from memory? Add as right labels to map and show Voltaire who is the boss here.
>>3130251
Lol, that map is not even close, HRE had literally hundreds of sub divisions.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Territorien_im_Heiligen_R%C3%B6mischen_Reich
pic related is why people today no so few about the HRE
>>3130305
What was the most important town of the empire around that time? And why is flanders not within the borders of France on this map?
How come normies hate history so much? You often hear shit like '' Why would i have to le know what Hitlers bathtubs name was? Xd Xd'' And why are most normies also so bad at history and especcially source criticism?
>>3130176
To be fair, normies hate all academic fields that aren't their own.
>>3130176
because to become a real history buff you either genuinely have to be a huge fucking nerd or someone who took a liking to a certain period and decided to leanr more about it and found out it linked to something equally interesting and it snowballed and snowballed until you are where you are now
and a "normie" doesn't have either, he lives for the moment, wants to make money and fuck bitches and doesn't give a fuck what color where Roman legionary tunics.
>>3130176
Because they'd rather be out doing normie shit. Fucking normies.
>70 million people die in six years
>it's impossible for six million people to die in four years!
>>3130027
But 12 million people died during the Holocaust. Also like half of those 70 million dead are Chinese who don't count.
>>3130040
>source
>>3130044
You are aware that the Jews weren't the only people in the camps.
There were about 3 million Soviet POWs that seemed to stop breathing while in the care of these German resorts.
So is the Rohonc Codex real or is it just a hoax?
>>3129980
Real in what sense? It's untranslated so anyone who claims to know what it contains is simply a liar.
>>3130006
Real as in, is it a forgery or not? Is the text inside actually genuinely logical and not actually gibberish? Is it a true book?
>>3129980
It's either gibberish or possibly a "lost" language that died in Europe between the 16th and 19th centuries.
>Scientists were allowed to conduct tests in 1978 and delivered a verdict: the Shroud was manufactured in the Middle Ages. However, the scientific method was rather unscientific and it did not settle the question at all.
>Personally, i suspect that the Shroud is indeed real: it dates from Jesus' time and it might well be that the corpse wrapped in it was the corpse of Jesus. It is just implausible that someone (someone with an amazing knowledge of chemistry) would create such a perfect fake that would last for centuries and fool everybody for centuries. There is no other artifact from the Middle Ages that even remotely belongs to the same category. There is no document of anyone having discovered a technique to manufacture this kind of images. It is simply implausible that someone would achieve this feat but no record would remain of it, and that person would never take credit for such an amazing creation, and nobody else would ever learn that craft and continue it.
Is he right, /his/?
>>3129931
>However, the scientific method was rather unscientific
>>3129931
Scaruffi is full of lies. He claims to be some top notch pop music scholar including fabricated awards and outrageous claims (he owns some demos from Boards Of Canada which are owned by their good friends and near relatives). He is a liar
My favorite album is Scarufficore so in the interest of loyalty I'll say that he's correct
Is romantic love a sufficient enough raison d'etre?
>>3129876
>raison d'etre
Why do people feel the need to use french where English is completely sufficient? Is it to seem sophisticated?
>>3129876
No.
Romantic love is a drug
http://www.webmd.com/pain-management/news/20101013/romantic-love-affects-your-brain-like-a-drug#1
It also lasts about one or two years
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4478040.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/opinion/sunday/new-love-a-short-shelf-life.html?mcubz=0
Hollywood really messed up people by making them believe that romantic love is so important.
Live a life of virtue and you will be happier than by being a thrill seeker.
>>3130323
Yes
Anyone else noticed the rise of aftrocentrism? Almost every african-american seem to be one. Theyre flock videos on youtube and facebook comments. How do we stop it from becoming more popular?
>>3129837
Afrocentrism is stupid, but denying the Out of Africa theory at this point is daft
>>3129898
agreed
Africa has a severe case of crab bucketism and trying to deny the biggest piece of evidence of why this is a shit situation is horridly counterproductive.
>>3129898
I was under the impression that it was very recently debunked.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/05/22/europe-birthplace-mankind-not-africa-scientists-find/
http://nypost.com/2017/05/23/this-fossilized-tooth-might-prove-humans-came-from-europe-not-africa/