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When discussing history, please reference credible source material, and provide as much supporting information as possible in your posts.
For the purpose of determining what is history, please do not start threads about events taking place less than 25 years ago. Historical discussions should be focused on past events, and not their contemporary consequences. Discussion of modern politics, current events, popular culture, or other non-historical topics should be posted elsewhere. General discussions about international culture should go on /int/.
/his/ is not /pol/, and Global Rule #3 is in effect. Do not try to treat this board as /pol/ with dates. Blatant racism and trolling will not be tolerated, and a high level of discourse is expected. History can be examined from many different conflicting viewpoints; please treat other posters with respect and address the content of their post instead of attacking their character.
When discussing history, please reference credible source material, and provide as much supporting information as possible in your posts.
0 / 0When are these samples dated and what are they supposed to be? Are Western Turks settled Turkmens basically?
75 / 25If meds looked so different from gaulsWhy was Decimus Brutus able to disguise himself as a Gaul before he died?
He came from a long line of consuls, btw. Quintessentially Roman.
He came from a long line of consuls, btw. Quintessentially Roman.
55 / 7According to the Bible Yaweh killed both Moses and Aaron for not speaking to the rock and instead hit it twice with a staff he gave them.
0 / 0>first as tragedy, then as farce
Was he really as bad as the quote marx quipped about him implies?
Was he really as bad as the quote marx quipped about him implies?
10 / 0We need flags and IDs in this board like /pol/. I don't have a feeling that I reply to many whites here.
2 / 0Killing yourself is cowardly and a sign of a weak man. Real men take as many people in hell with them as possible.
6 / 1The useless, pleasure-loving Philip III died unexpectedly in 1621. His son became the fourth Philip. Velasquez painted him many times starting at the age of 19 and the last at age 50; we see the King evolve from a boyish teenager to a mature man to a graying and prematurely aged man--he must have loved having his portrait painted to sit down for Velasquez so much. Philip was a generous man, devoted to his children and no aescetic; he enjoyed the pleasures of life and perhaps because he loved having a good time so much Spanish art enjoyed a golden age under his reign. When he felt that he sinned too often, he doubled his prayers and trusted in his good works to earn him eternal salvation. He had 32 children and formally acknowledged eight. Having little time for affairs of state, he left them to the skillful Don Gaspar de Guzman, Count of Olivares.
Olivares and Cardinal Richelieu's careers were near-contemporaneous and the two played a geopolitical chess match with each other for two decades. He is shown by Velasquez, upturned mustachio, robes, bands, chains, and keys of state showing authority. His haughty personality, short temper, and inflexibility offended all but those who knew his devotion to the Spanish state, his scrupulous honesty, his patronage of the arts, and his modest personal life. He worked hard to fight corruption and abuses of various kinds, collect unpaid back taxes, moderating the expenses of the royal household, even curbing the cruelty of the Inquisition. Olivares worked tirelessly from sun up to sun down on all affairs of state.
Olivares and Cardinal Richelieu's careers were near-contemporaneous and the two played a geopolitical chess match with each other for two decades. He is shown by Velasquez, upturned mustachio, robes, bands, chains, and keys of state showing authority. His haughty personality, short temper, and inflexibility offended all but those who knew his devotion to the Spanish state, his scrupulous honesty, his patronage of the arts, and his modest personal life. He worked hard to fight corruption and abuses of various kinds, collect unpaid back taxes, moderating the expenses of the royal household, even curbing the cruelty of the Inquisition. Olivares worked tirelessly from sun up to sun down on all affairs of state.
2 / 0End of WW2On Tuesday April 6th 1943, a memorandum (grossly overexaggerated and very unrealistic in hindsight) analysing the current military situation reached Churchill’s desk at about the same time as it was splashed all over the frontpages of the London-based newspaper the Daily Mail (it was unintentionally leaked by a Ministry of Defence official as it slipped out of his satchel and got left behind on the subway for a journalist to find). Churchill was furious that this had been published despite wartime censorship on the media in place. He cursed Minister of Information Brendan Bracken as his ministry was supposed to prevent unauthorized releases of secret political and military documents, calling the publication the “single greatest blunder in the history of British intelligence.” The article was titled “How Mr. Churchill believes Hitler will win the war” and Churchill later called it the “brilliant piece of suggestive journalism that cost us the war” in his autobiography published in 1948 to prove his case.
45 / 2You're either on God's side or you're on the side of Satan. There is NO in-between. Take note atheists and agnostics.
0 / 0>puts brutus and cassius in the deepest level in hell for killing Cesar
>completely ignores the death of aurelian whom was the last hope for the roman empire and whose death by traitor generals consigned the roman civilization to decay and destruction
Looks like big nose mcgee over here never studied his history books.
>completely ignores the death of aurelian whom was the last hope for the roman empire and whose death by traitor generals consigned the roman civilization to decay and destruction
Looks like big nose mcgee over here never studied his history books.
31 / 19International Irish SolidarityITT I will post historical examples of nations around the world either reporting on or showing support for Irish Nationalist movements or conflicts. Some stuff about Northern Ireland Unionists, too.
Mostly Troubles/War of Independence. Picrel is a Swedish poster advertising a Rally in support of the IRA and against the Bloody Sunday Killings in 1972
Mostly Troubles/War of Independence. Picrel is a Swedish poster advertising a Rally in support of the IRA and against the Bloody Sunday Killings in 1972
12 / 3Who were the Greek Perachora bros?I've been doing some researching and I came across the Perachora samples from 2450 BC.
They're unique, in that they're completely isolated - they're not close to Sardinia, the Romans, Levantines, even modern Greeks.
Is this who the Minoans were, genetically speaking?
Here's the sample:
Greece_Perachora_EBA_G65__BC_2450__Cov_25.87%,0.125205,0.179749,-0.005657,-0.087856,0.042162,-0.032909,-0.002115,-0.001154,0.030474,0.069979,0.003248,0.016036,-0.028989,0.014175,-0.034066,-0.021214,-0.002868,-0.004434,0.017346,-0.02051,-0.009608,0.010263,-0.009244,0.006748,-0.005628
They're unique, in that they're completely isolated - they're not close to Sardinia, the Romans, Levantines, even modern Greeks.
Is this who the Minoans were, genetically speaking?
Here's the sample:
Greece_Perachora_EBA_G65__BC_2450__
34 / 6What Christianity Was and Will Be Again.The truth is that it is more like the beliefs of the Greeks than the Jews, at least it is supposed to be or was once.
Like how all the blood descended peoples of Heracles conceived of themselves as the living body of their patron god that was their people's father, the Celtic/Irish people had a similar belief regarding themselves being descended from of the Tuath Dé, and the Norse believed themselves to be of Odin in a similar fashion...
So too are Christians said to be the body of their God, except their body is formed from all such people who are of God, so that all that is of God will be joined into one, reunited, and saved from death to rule all of creation.
It was a good plan, it worked for about 1500 years until they stopped excluding people who were never of any god and so had no place in the body of the God of gods.
The resurrection of this God is predestined, and the time approaches.
Like how all the blood descended peoples of Heracles conceived of themselves as the living body of their patron god that was their people's father, the Celtic/Irish people had a similar belief regarding themselves being descended from of the Tuath Dé, and the Norse believed themselves to be of Odin in a similar fashion...
So too are Christians said to be the body of their God, except their body is formed from all such people who are of God, so that all that is of God will be joined into one, reunited, and saved from death to rule all of creation.
It was a good plan, it worked for about 1500 years until they stopped excluding people who were never of any god and so had no place in the body of the God of gods.
The resurrection of this God is predestined, and the time approaches.
56 / 71950s AmericaI can't help but miss the way things used to be. Nobody locked thier doors. It was safe. No liberals, lgbt, foreigners, and crime. People were so gentle, sweet, and kind. I wish we could go back. The internet is a dystopia that reflects Commie values of literal China and India. America as I knew it is gone forever.
228 / 50The 5 stages of Nordicism
Obsession and feelings of inferiority
>man, Greco-Romans were so cool and Evropean! I'm going to start reading more about them, maybe even learn classical Greek and Latin and dedicate my entire life to them. I wish my snownigger ancestors did something comparable. Unless, wait a minute...
Falsifying history
>The Greco-Romans were just like me and you descend from slaves. Xanthos means platinum blond. The Ancients were clearly of Nordic stock because they had a structured society. Mediterranean man only likes music and festivities, it was impossible for them to do that.
>t. Madison Grant, Tenney Frank, Hans Gunther, Lothrop Stoddard
>just wait when there is more genetic data, you will see!
Coping with facts and moving the goalposts
>These genetic samples are trash! Those are just the slaves from the Levant! Elites were cremated! Dorian invasion! But wait OH SHIT THIS SINGLE HELLENISTIC ERA MACEDONIAN CLUSTERS WITH NORTHERN ITALIANS!!! Italics cluster with Spaniards (who I thought were brown last week)! Very interesting, isn't it helot!?
Demanding an impossible standard of evidence
>It appears they were not Nordic but they were just their own thing, who went extinct. They had 0.0001 distance from modern South Europe, that is just way too much to say they have any living relatives. These 1,000 samples aren't enough, you can't make any inferences on such a large population with that. We need 6,000,000 samples. I was so optimistic about ancient genetics, but it's clear it won't give anyone real answers unfortunately
Sour grapes and feigning disinterest
>Yeah maybe I spent the past 5 years of my life on Greco-Roman stuff daily and they used to be fundamental to my entire worldview. Who cares about ancient brownoids though you dumb swarthoid wop malaka terronis when Wernher von Braun took our Rasse to the moon? Muh Nobel prizes. But all the Jewish physicists and Nobel prize winners were frauds who stole our research. Goths were better anyways
Obsession and feelings of inferiority
>man, Greco-Romans were so cool and Evropean! I'm going to start reading more about them, maybe even learn classical Greek and Latin and dedicate my entire life to them. I wish my snownigger ancestors did something comparable. Unless, wait a minute...
Falsifying history
>The Greco-Romans were just like me and you descend from slaves. Xanthos means platinum blond. The Ancients were clearly of Nordic stock because they had a structured society. Mediterranean man only likes music and festivities, it was impossible for them to do that.
>t. Madison Grant, Tenney Frank, Hans Gunther, Lothrop Stoddard
>just wait when there is more genetic data, you will see!
Coping with facts and moving the goalposts
>These genetic samples are trash! Those are just the slaves from the Levant! Elites were cremated! Dorian invasion! But wait OH SHIT THIS SINGLE HELLENISTIC ERA MACEDONIAN CLUSTERS WITH NORTHERN ITALIANS!!! Italics cluster with Spaniards (who I thought were brown last week)! Very interesting, isn't it helot!?
Demanding an impossible standard of evidence
>It appears they were not Nordic but they were just their own thing, who went extinct. They had 0.0001 distance from modern South Europe, that is just way too much to say they have any living relatives. These 1,000 samples aren't enough, you can't make any inferences on such a large population with that. We need 6,000,000 samples. I was so optimistic about ancient genetics, but it's clear it won't give anyone real answers unfortunately
Sour grapes and feigning disinterest
>Yeah maybe I spent the past 5 years of my life on Greco-Roman stuff daily and they used to be fundamental to my entire worldview. Who cares about ancient brownoids though you dumb swarthoid wop malaka terronis when Wernher von Braun took our Rasse to the moon? Muh Nobel prizes. But all the Jewish physicists and Nobel prize winners were frauds who stole our research. Goths were better anyways
14 / 0I don't understand why commies harp on about improved living standard metrics under industrializing communist regimes that arose out of backward agrarian nations when improved standards in such scenarios do not seem to be exclusive to communist regimes at all. Wikipedia sources tell me that under the Shah Iran's literacy rate tripled from 27% to 80%, the national income increased by 423 times, the Iranian armed forces became the fifth strongest military in the world, and the population more than doubled. And the Shah did this without killing fucking millions of his own countryman via some Great Leap Forward scheme. Yet commies seem to hate him.
South Korea and Japan vs China are also examples that show communism is harmful to a nation's development if anything. There are few people today who would rather live in China than SK and Japland, which have far, far higher GDPs per capita and standards of living.
>but the US helped them
So then capitalism is better because it allows for capitalist foreign investment and the advantages of having a pro-US foreign policy outweigh those of your supposedly superior economic system? This is just admitting that it's a better idea to not go communist and that it holds countries back.
Really the improved development in certain formerly communist countries seems to just be the effects of modernization and the real effects of communism itself are "modernize long term at the same pace as capitalist countries can at best, but also terrorize and kill millions of your citizens in the process."
Am I wrong?
South Korea and Japan vs China are also examples that show communism is harmful to a nation's development if anything. There are few people today who would rather live in China than SK and Japland, which have far, far higher GDPs per capita and standards of living.
>but the US helped them
So then capitalism is better because it allows for capitalist foreign investment and the advantages of having a pro-US foreign policy outweigh those of your supposedly superior economic system? This is just admitting that it's a better idea to not go communist and that it holds countries back.
Really the improved development in certain formerly communist countries seems to just be the effects of modernization and the real effects of communism itself are "modernize long term at the same pace as capitalist countries can at best, but also terrorize and kill millions of your citizens in the process."
Am I wrong?
4 / 0Why would so many Christian cultures, especially those in Medieval Europe, make/employ eunuchs to serve in their court if they're all supposedly hell-bound?
Deuteronomy 23:1
>No one whose testicles have been crushed or whose penis has been cut off may come into the assembly of the LORD.
I get the political utility in keeping bureaucrats that can't have a legacy of their own, but still, it seems pretty hypocritical given the existential connotations.
Deuteronomy 23:1
>No one whose testicles have been crushed or whose penis has been cut off may come into the assembly of the LORD.
I get the political utility in keeping bureaucrats that can't have a legacy of their own, but still, it seems pretty hypocritical given the existential connotations.
15 / 0Were most roman citizens, especially christians, greek bilingual before the translation of the bible into latin?
73 / 5Traditional Catholicism Condemns Textual CriticismSaint Pope Pius X in his Oath Against Modernism condemns Biblical textual criticism, the foundation of modern Biblical translation. See bellow:
> Likewise, I reject that method of judging and interpreting Sacred Scripture which, departing from the tradition of the Church, the analogy of faith, and the norms of the Apostolic See, embraces the misrepresentations of the rationalists and with no prudence or restraint adopts textual criticism as the one and supreme norm.
https://www.papalencyclicals.net/pius10/p10moath.htm
> Likewise, I reject that method of judging and interpreting Sacred Scripture which, departing from the tradition of the Church, the analogy of faith, and the norms of the Apostolic See, embraces the misrepresentations of the rationalists and with no prudence or restraint adopts textual criticism as the one and supreme norm.
https://www.papalencyclicals.net/pi
1 / 0So is Hell really forever?If I died without repenting and went to hell, then Can’t I just go to heaven just by repenting in hell?
What happened to Adam and Eve who didn't repent nor believed in Jesus Christ because he wasn't born yet? Catholics said Adam and Eve are in purgatory. But Purgatory is in Hell. correct?
Jesus went to hell, and then ascended to Earth and then ascended to heaven. How do you explain that?
What happened to Adam and Eve who didn't repent nor believed in Jesus Christ because he wasn't born yet? Catholics said Adam and Eve are in purgatory. But Purgatory is in Hell. correct?
Jesus went to hell, and then ascended to Earth and then ascended to heaven. How do you explain that?
21 / 7If Germans are objectively the closest to the original Indo-Europeans (who called themselves Aryans and used the swastika symbol). Why is it offensive if they call themselves Aryan?
24 / 0Why does society label Psychopats, killers, Saddists, bloodthirster as le bad and monsters?
Is a cat playing with a mice a monster?
Is a cat playing with a mice a monster?
3 / 0Historical Methods?I got a new interest in the study of the philosophy of history as well as just reading more detailed books on historical events. Not historical narratives but books discussing methods and approaches to how historians conclude or evaluate that a certain event in history occurred. Not gonna lie, I was really curious at first and came in with the impression that historians had this detailed bullet proof or at least beyond a reasonable dount in confirming historical events.
But upon reading books on phil of his, historical Jesus research and some other stuff I realised that the entire field of ancient history is bs conjecture. It's all based on some flimsy evidence and then constructing grand narratives to explain it based on capricious standards of authenticity. It feels like trying to piece together a 5000+ piece jigsaw puzzle when you only have 5 pieces at best and they've all been chewed and bitten.
Not to sound like a seethe but I kinda changed my attitude about history. It doesn't seem like history is even about knowing what happened in the past but about finding the more proximate guess about what likely happened in the past. Like, when I used to hear the claim that 99% of scholars believe Jesus existed, which I still do hold to, and he died on a cross they were using a completely different standard of evidence and certainty that most people use. I kinda get why when some normie Christians first start to study Christianity to better defend their faith they lose hope since they realise that the evidence doesn't match their expectations.
Anyways, books for this feel?
But upon reading books on phil of his, historical Jesus research and some other stuff I realised that the entire field of ancient history is bs conjecture. It's all based on some flimsy evidence and then constructing grand narratives to explain it based on capricious standards of authenticity. It feels like trying to piece together a 5000+ piece jigsaw puzzle when you only have 5 pieces at best and they've all been chewed and bitten.
Not to sound like a seethe but I kinda changed my attitude about history. It doesn't seem like history is even about knowing what happened in the past but about finding the more proximate guess about what likely happened in the past. Like, when I used to hear the claim that 99% of scholars believe Jesus existed, which I still do hold to, and he died on a cross they were using a completely different standard of evidence and certainty that most people use. I kinda get why when some normie Christians first start to study Christianity to better defend their faith they lose hope since they realise that the evidence doesn't match their expectations.
Anyways, books for this feel?
55 / 6>Germany today if it simply demanded territory without going to war with anyone (90% already happened before 1939).
0 / 0How did German colonial officials in the Pacific react to learning they were now at war with everyone in green? What sort of orders were they given?
68 / 4What did american soldiers think they were fighting for in WW2?
I get that in WW1 Germany was actively conspiring against the U.S., but what would motivate so many men to sign up to ww2?
Go to a new continent to confront a country that had never hurt them, even if they had symbolically declared war on them. I get the reason they'd want to go to Japan, but why Germany?
I get that in WW1 Germany was actively conspiring against the U.S., but what would motivate so many men to sign up to ww2?
Go to a new continent to confront a country that had never hurt them, even if they had symbolically declared war on them. I get the reason they'd want to go to Japan, but why Germany?
3 / 2This is what every man wants, what every man needs.Vae victus is an eternal law, the only way to purify a nation.
7 / 1>”Da Jooz le killed Jeebus”
Um, no? Actually the Romans killed Jesus. Why don’t you discriminate against the Italians living in Rome instead of innocent Jews?
Didn’t Pontius Pilate wash his hands in blood and said, “ Let his blood be on us Romans and on our Roman children!”- Matthew 27:25 ?? Italians are the Roman’s Descendants
Um, no? Actually the Romans killed Jesus. Why don’t you discriminate against the Italians living in Rome instead of innocent Jews?
Didn’t Pontius Pilate wash his hands in blood and said, “ Let his blood be on us Romans and on our Roman children!”- Matthew 27:25 ?? Italians are the Roman’s Descendants
7 / 0Why and why did being God's chosen change from being an inherited position to being a personal choice?
And where does ot say that in the Old Testament?
And where does ot say that in the Old Testament?
5 / 0The suppression of the Catiline revolution was the greatest injustice ever imposed on the Roman people, and Catilina's failure directly led to decades of pointless civil wars and centuries of autocratic government.
Catiline died a hero, along with his men, martyring themselves for a noble and righteous cause.
Catiline died a hero, along with his men, martyring themselves for a noble and righteous cause.
0 / 0How come its illegal for Democrat hero, Wilkes Booth, to kill Republican dictator, Abe Lincoln when he illegally invaded the independent Confederate States of America , which was recognized by all 100 countries including UK, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, China, Japan, & Ottomans, and illegally sent millions of innocent confederate citizens to prison camps for peacefully protesting against illegal US invasion and occupation?
7 / 1Guise! We have a problem. I asked Google Gemini which countries dominated which centuries and its like 90% medditeraneans... is this an example of big tech programming the AI to spit out liberal talking points???
● 8th Century BC - Mediterranean Power - Assyrian Empire
● 7th Century BC - Asiatic Power (rising to Mediterranean) - Neo-Babylonian Empire
● 6th Century BC - Asiatic Power (rising to Mediterranean) - Achaemenid Empire
● 5th Century BC - Mediterranean Power - Achaemenid Empire & Greek City-States
● 4th Century BC - Mediterranean Power - Macedonian Empire
● 3rd Century BC - Mediterranean Power - Hellenistic Empires & Roman Republic
● 2nd Century BC - Mediterranean Power - Roman Republic
● 1st Century BC - Mediterranean Power - Roman Republic (transitioning to Empire)
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● 8th Century BC - Mediterranean Power - Assyrian Empire
● 7th Century BC - Asiatic Power (rising to Mediterranean) - Neo-Babylonian Empire
● 6th Century BC - Asiatic Power (rising to Mediterranean) - Achaemenid Empire
● 5th Century BC - Mediterranean Power - Achaemenid Empire & Greek City-States
● 4th Century BC - Mediterranean Power - Macedonian Empire
● 3rd Century BC - Mediterranean Power - Hellenistic Empires & Roman Republic
● 2nd Century BC - Mediterranean Power - Roman Republic
● 1st Century BC - Mediterranean Power - Roman Republic (transitioning to Empire)
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3 / 1Tankies and Russian nationalists get BTFO“Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war” -Joseph Stalin
13 / 2Are there significant ethnic differences between the countries in South America or does it all come down to how much Indio/spaniard/negro blood you do or do not have? I mean outside of your obvious linguistic differences like Brazil vs everyone else or Guyana vs everyone else. Do ecaudorians consider themselves a different ethnicity from Colombians? Do Bolivians differentiate themselves from Peruvians? I know Chile and Argentina are more European, or at least they used to be, so they can consider themselves somewhat distinct. But what does the average mestizo from country A think of the average mestizo from country B? Brotherly love or nationalistic hatred? Or indifference?
0 / 0Was he in on it?Was Claudius really hiding behind a curtain? Do you think he was in on the plot to kill Caligula? Really convenient that he had the money ready for the Praetorians and went to the Campus Martius to be acclaimed. Or was it all just being the lucky guy in the right place at the right time? It's not unprecedented to kill an emperor without having a successor in place, but most of the time you know who is replacing the emperor before you assassinate them.
9 / 0African ColonizationThe colonization of Africa is often regarded as a "terrible thing" that should have "never occured", but is that really true? Africa was a wasteland before Europeans set foot in the continent and still continues to be a wasteland without the white man's presence. The European nations transformed the African wasteland into what could have been possibly Wakanda if they had stayed for longer.
In the end, the true tragedy was decolonization.
Try to prove me wrong
In the end, the true tragedy was decolonization.
Try to prove me wrong
0 / 0How much did everyday people believe in an interplanetary or even interstellar future in the 50's and 60's? How pervasive were such speculations in education and media?
11 / 160 Years Since Decolonization what do we make of it?60 Years after the decolonization of Africa the continent seems to have reverted to its historical norm. The north is largerly governed by fairly organized modern states, and the south is largely dominated by disorganized stochastic warfare, now in the modern age taking the form of civil war, inflationary currencies, transatory governments, and political assassinations taking the place of the spear chucking and tribal cheif murdering of old.
Yet is not the modern state of Africa l wish to dwell on (obviously as this is a history board) or its ancient parallel but of the relatively breif period of extensive european colonization of Africa mainly between 1860 and 1960.
100 years give or take a decade that's all it lasted.
The only time the whole of the continent of Africa ever in its history had running watter, electrical infrastructure, maintained roads and widely available programs modern programs for education and even medical treatment. lt lasted a century and then it was gone; seemingly never to return in the years to come.
What do you think historians of the future will make of this period in African history?
Will the modern understanding of it as an oppressive and exploitative time of extractive destructive empire persist or will some new understanding be come to??
Will it be viewed in the future as a golden age for Africa squandered by the natives (or perhaps by the colonizers) for poor thought out moral justifications whose basis did not stand the test of time???
Will there be some other understanding of the period viewing it as a partial folly and partial success which was noble in some ways and ignoble in others?
ln any case: what will the history books say?
How will we look back on the legacy of colonial and post colonial africa come 2060??
Yet is not the modern state of Africa l wish to dwell on (obviously as this is a history board) or its ancient parallel but of the relatively breif period of extensive european colonization of Africa mainly between 1860 and 1960.
100 years give or take a decade that's all it lasted.
The only time the whole of the continent of Africa ever in its history had running watter, electrical infrastructure, maintained roads and widely available programs modern programs for education and even medical treatment. lt lasted a century and then it was gone; seemingly never to return in the years to come.
What do you think historians of the future will make of this period in African history?
Will the modern understanding of it as an oppressive and exploitative time of extractive destructive empire persist or will some new understanding be come to??
Will it be viewed in the future as a golden age for Africa squandered by the natives (or perhaps by the colonizers) for poor thought out moral justifications whose basis did not stand the test of time???
Will there be some other understanding of the period viewing it as a partial folly and partial success which was noble in some ways and ignoble in others?
ln any case: what will the history books say?
How will we look back on the legacy of colonial and post colonial africa come 2060??
1 / 1Why do Catholic worship Mary and pray to Mary?Mary is not God nor Jesus. You should not worship Mary. You should not pray to Mary to pray to God/Jesus to bless you. She is human, not God. Worshipping Mary and praying to Mary are idolatry. It is sin.
6 / 1If god doesn't want me to kill myself then why did he make me a genetic abomination with schizophrenia?
12 / 0the christian god and the female orgasmthe vulva is an excellent argument for intelligent design
it doesn't make sense, evolutionarily. the sexually sensitive part (clit) is located above the vagina itself so that it is not stimulated by penetration in 90% of women. sexual pleasure is supposed to be an incentive to reproduce, but because of the clitoris' location, in sex that is just for reproduction the women doesn't orgasm. an evolutionarily advantageous adaptation would be to put the clit at the cervix or near it so that sex with the highest probability of fertilization feels the best, but it isn't. all of this in mind, the only thing that makes sense is that god deliberately designed the vulva to not yield pleasure and to be suboptimal, because, as is stated numerous times in the bible, god doesn't like women.
it doesn't make sense, evolutionarily. the sexually sensitive part (clit) is located above the vagina itself so that it is not stimulated by penetration in 90% of women. sexual pleasure is supposed to be an incentive to reproduce, but because of the clitoris' location, in sex that is just for reproduction the women doesn't orgasm. an evolutionarily advantageous adaptation would be to put the clit at the cervix or near it so that sex with the highest probability of fertilization feels the best, but it isn't. all of this in mind, the only thing that makes sense is that god deliberately designed the vulva to not yield pleasure and to be suboptimal, because, as is stated numerous times in the bible, god doesn't like women.
15 / 2Would have Japan fare better during the 19th and 20th century if they manage to overthrow their militarist samurai elite earlier?
13 / 4This is just sad at this point desu. It was already humiliating for south Italians to be more related to Levantines Arabs than to Nordics or Brits but it turns out they are CLOSER to Levantines than they are to MILLIONS of Spaniards. It's absolutely insane. And these people will still insist that they are whiter than Iberians. Now we've already reached the stage where they argue that Lebanese are somehow white.
43 / 7The Fall Of The Roman EmpireI often see a few things blamed for the fall of the Roman Empire.
> The Crisis of the Third Century, which weakened the empire through constant political instability and military pressure.
> The invasions of various barbarian groups, which gradually chipped away at the empire's borders and internal unity.
> The rise of Christianity, which some argue shifted focus away from Roman traditions and undermined imperial authority.
But at what point exactly was the Roman Empire beyond saving? Was there an event or series of events that made its fall inevitable? Or did Rome simply reach a tipping point where even the best efforts couldn't prevent the collapse?
> The Crisis of the Third Century, which weakened the empire through constant political instability and military pressure.
> The invasions of various barbarian groups, which gradually chipped away at the empire's borders and internal unity.
> The rise of Christianity, which some argue shifted focus away from Roman traditions and undermined imperial authority.
But at what point exactly was the Roman Empire beyond saving? Was there an event or series of events that made its fall inevitable? Or did Rome simply reach a tipping point where even the best efforts couldn't prevent the collapse?
12 / 0Jesus was created by the Roman-Jewish elite to give the Pharisees (poor Jews) and their sympathizers a peaceful and resigned pro-Roman messiah, justify the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, and then create a religion that would make the poor, servants and slaves accept their situation of misery and exploitation in exchange for a place in the Haven.
Much of the Christian narrative was written by members of the imperial elite who lied about their identities, names, and facts, as they controlled the writing and circulation of papyri.
Jesus was created AFTER the war of 70. And it didn't work because the Jews didn't accept the pro-roman messiah bullshit.
That's why they kept revolting until the final massacre in 135. "Christianity" died and was resurrected by the elite after the Crisis of the Third Century to continue what Aurelian had begun when he placed the god Sol as the chief Roman deity on December 25, 274. Christianity merely added the question of the poor accepting their suffering in exchange for the Heaven. Of course, a part of the elite did not accept this very well, placing a suffering Jew as the main God of Rome, but Theodosius and his son Flavius Honorius (Saint Augustine) won the fight
>Turn the other cheek (don’t join Jewish Zealot resistance to Rome)
>Pay one’s taxes and other tribute to Rome (Roman citizens were tax-exempt)
>If one is rich, give away all their property and money to the poor (so that they cannot fund anti-Roman resistance)
>"Put your sword into its sheath, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword" (by war against the Roman Empire)
>"Love the stranger" (Roman soldier)
>"Love your enemies" (the Romans)
>Jesus was sent “only to the lost sheep of Israel” to convert them (the Jewish resisters against Rome)
>Do not blame the Roman soldiers for the crucifixion (but blame the Jewish priests)
Much of the Christian narrative was written by members of the imperial elite who lied about their identities, names, and facts, as they controlled the writing and circulation of papyri.
Jesus was created AFTER the war of 70. And it didn't work because the Jews didn't accept the pro-roman messiah bullshit.
That's why they kept revolting until the final massacre in 135. "Christianity" died and was resurrected by the elite after the Crisis of the Third Century to continue what Aurelian had begun when he placed the god Sol as the chief Roman deity on December 25, 274. Christianity merely added the question of the poor accepting their suffering in exchange for the Heaven. Of course, a part of the elite did not accept this very well, placing a suffering Jew as the main God of Rome, but Theodosius and his son Flavius Honorius (Saint Augustine) won the fight
>Turn the other cheek (don’t join Jewish Zealot resistance to Rome)
>Pay one’s taxes and other tribute to Rome (Roman citizens were tax-exempt)
>If one is rich, give away all their property and money to the poor (so that they cannot fund anti-Roman resistance)
>"Put your sword into its sheath, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword" (by war against the Roman Empire)
>"Love the stranger" (Roman soldier)
>"Love your enemies" (the Romans)
>Jesus was sent “only to the lost sheep of Israel” to convert them (the Jewish resisters against Rome)
>Do not blame the Roman soldiers for the crucifixion (but blame the Jewish priests)
4 / 0Dec. 1944Was there any similar attempt on the eastern front in the closing months of the war?
It seems like a waste to throw some of your best troops and equipment at the advancing Americans and British when they would be more desperately needed in the east.
It seems like a waste to throw some of your best troops and equipment at the advancing Americans and British when they would be more desperately needed in the east.
84 / 10God says "I am the LORD" 154 times in the old testament. It is the way he speaks. A pattern you can recognize in every book of the old testament. God says this every time he speaks. He says something and ends his sentence with I am the LORD.
In every book that is how he speaks. But Jesus does not speak like this. He never says I am the LORD at the end of his sentences. He doesn't even say I am Jesus. He just doesn't speak like this. He does not possess the speech pattern that God exhibits all through the old testament that would indicate that he was God incarnate.
God has a very distinct way of speaking and Jesus does not speak like him. Jesus speaks like a regular person.
In every book that is how he speaks. But Jesus does not speak like this. He never says I am the LORD at the end of his sentences. He doesn't even say I am Jesus. He just doesn't speak like this. He does not possess the speech pattern that God exhibits all through the old testament that would indicate that he was God incarnate.
God has a very distinct way of speaking and Jesus does not speak like him. Jesus speaks like a regular person.
6 / 01st century hadithHow the fuck did all these exist before bukhari? And why aren't they readily available? Does anybody know where I can read them?
14 / 5>In 1918, on the brink of utter defeat, he claims it is the grand international Jewry out to get him, when in fact it is his Imperial German Army that refuses to uphold their oath to him, and his own Imperial German Navy, the Kaiserliche Marine, which he nurtured from the ground up, in open mutiny against him in Kiel.
0 / 0What would Rome have been like if she hadn't died in childbirth? Presumably the civil wars could've been avoided.
9 / 1ALLAAAAHU AKBAR>Kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.
>Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. But all the young girls who have not known man, keep alive for yourselves.
>Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women.
>Women shall eat the fruit of their womb.
>They shall eat the flesh of their sons, and they shall eat the flesh of their daughters.
>When I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and repay those who hate me.
>Blessed is he who takes their little ones and dashes them against rocks.
>I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his neighbor.
>Their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
>Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives shall be raped.
>Break their teeth in their mouths, let them be like a stillborn child.
>Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers.
>Both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys shall meet the edge of the sword.
>The city shall be taken, their houses plundered, and their women raped.
>I will rape your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor.
>Let every man kill his brother and his companion and his neighbor.
>Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. But all the young girls who have not known man, keep alive for yourselves.
>Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women.
>Women shall eat the fruit of their womb.
>They shall eat the flesh of their sons, and they shall eat the flesh of their daughters.
>When I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and repay those who hate me.
>Blessed is he who takes their little ones and dashes them against rocks.
>I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his neighbor.
>Their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
>Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives shall be raped.
>Break their teeth in their mouths, let them be like a stillborn child.
>Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers.
>Both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys shall meet the edge of the sword.
>The city shall be taken, their houses plundered, and their women raped.
>I will rape your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor.
>Let every man kill his brother and his companion and his neighbor.
33 / 2>Be silent generation
>Country has never done anything for you in your life
>Get called up to jump in a miserable trench and charge at machine guns for no good reason
>Do it without hesitation, millions volunteer just for the fun of it
>Be greatest generation
>Live in absolute squalor, eating rats and living with your family in 1 room
>Get called up to fight a global war that has already claimed tens of millions of lives
>Do it with no hesitation, fight in Korea too because you just can't get enough
>Be baby boomer
>Born into a life of luxury that your parents and grandparents could never dream of
>Government calls on you to fight a war that's 1/10th as deadly as the one your parents fought
>"WAAAHHHH!!! HELL NO WE WON'T GO! FUCK YOU LYNDON!!!"
>After you whine and bitch enough, Nixon calls off the war
>Wait until you're too old to be drafted yourself
>Start some fresh new wars and send your children and grandchildren to fight them for you
Why were baby boomers such sniveling bitches? How could the bravest generation in history raise such cowards?
>Country has never done anything for you in your life
>Get called up to jump in a miserable trench and charge at machine guns for no good reason
>Do it without hesitation, millions volunteer just for the fun of it
>Be greatest generation
>Live in absolute squalor, eating rats and living with your family in 1 room
>Get called up to fight a global war that has already claimed tens of millions of lives
>Do it with no hesitation, fight in Korea too because you just can't get enough
>Be baby boomer
>Born into a life of luxury that your parents and grandparents could never dream of
>Government calls on you to fight a war that's 1/10th as deadly as the one your parents fought
>"WAAAHHHH!!! HELL NO WE WON'T GO! FUCK YOU LYNDON!!!"
>After you whine and bitch enough, Nixon calls off the war
>Wait until you're too old to be drafted yourself
>Start some fresh new wars and send your children and grandchildren to fight them for you
Why were baby boomers such sniveling bitches? How could the bravest generation in history raise such cowards?
13 / 2why shouldn't I do buddhism?seems very logical, practices seem very reasonable (meditation) , lots of inner work that actually heals someone
what is the spiritual risk of buddhism?
what is the spiritual risk of buddhism?
43 / 6>turns your country heretic over a woman
>destroys centuries worth of culture by mercilessly destroying all the holy monasteries, ruining not only architectural marvels, but also the culture capital of the English Society
>Executes Cromwell for no serious folly and watches his entire administration ground to halt and ensuring factionalism, strive and moral and intellectual deacy in the court.
>destroys centuries worth of culture by mercilessly destroying all the holy monasteries, ruining not only architectural marvels, but also the culture capital of the English Society
>Executes Cromwell for no serious folly and watches his entire administration ground to halt and ensuring factionalism, strive and moral and intellectual deacy in the court.
19 / 0I think angels made up God like we make up Santa ClausMy new theory on God is that aliens and extradimensionals, especially extremely benevolent powerful beings like angels, archangels, etc, plus Jesus, carried out what Plato calls the "noble lie". Just like we tell children about Santa, these beings are telling us about God, because we're intellectually immature and we want to believe in this sort of thing. When we grow up, we will realize God doesn't exist like a child learns Santa doesn't exist and it will be a little disappointing at first for most people but they will get over it. For the super smart people, however, there will be the peace that comes from finally knowing something with certainty, whereas before, when one is at the believing stage, our minds were chaotic and confused because this claim didn't/doesn't make any sense/is logically incoherent. All minds are one mind? Then is that mind part of a community of bigger minds? God created reality? Then did God create God? If he wasn't there to create himself, how did he create himself? Why are we choosing that he is male over female—are men better than women? Why do women exist, then? Why not more sexes—why only one more? Why does God care if you do gay things or masturbate? Why is this child dying of cancer when this psychopath is making millions manipulating the stock market? Why do nice guys finish last while genghis khan who murdered 10-40 million people had thousands of children? Why do some Buddhists attain the rainbow body while rejecting the idea of a God? Where the fuck is he, anyway?? All these questions have no answers because God doesn't exist. Angels and aliens are all lying to us because we're still children who are not ready to take responsibility for our own eternal future. Existentialism is correct—we are doomed to freedom. The only thing we are stuck with for all of eternity is not God, but ourselves. We are the most important thing/top priority in our reality.
15 / 2How the Jews of Judea Became the Arabs of Palestine
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy8VYdCkOLo&pp=ygUnSGl3IHRoZSBqZXdzIG9mIGp1ZGVhIGJyY2FtZSBwYWxlc3RpbmVz0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy8VY
35 / 8Point of No Return for the USSR?I typically see three events and/or people blamed for the dissolution of the USSR.
>Brezhnev, whose policies gradually saw the USSR fall behind the west and lead to an "Era of Stagnation"
>Soviet-Afghan War, which humiliated the Soviet Army on the international and domestic stages
>Gorbachev, whose liberalization policies removed what few methods of control the state had over the populace, leading to an uncontrollable tailspin
But at what point exactly was the Soviet Union beyond saving? Was there an event or series of events that meant that the only way forward was dissolution of the Soviet Union? Did we even really get there, or did Gorbachev jump the gun when there could've still been another way out?
I don't think any of these commonly cited events were that point of no return.
>Brezhnev, whose policies gradually saw the USSR fall behind the west and lead to an "Era of Stagnation"
>Soviet-Afghan War, which humiliated the Soviet Army on the international and domestic stages
>Gorbachev, whose liberalization policies removed what few methods of control the state had over the populace, leading to an uncontrollable tailspin
But at what point exactly was the Soviet Union beyond saving? Was there an event or series of events that meant that the only way forward was dissolution of the Soviet Union? Did we even really get there, or did Gorbachev jump the gun when there could've still been another way out?
I don't think any of these commonly cited events were that point of no return.
34 / 12The legacy of colonialismSo now that the dust has settled, what do we think of European colonialism? Did it truly significantly enrich Europe or did it cost more than it delivered? How evil was it?
8 / 2Is there a more kino historical period in history than the Castillian civil wars between the XIV and XV century?
It is the perfect combination between brutality, mysticism, modernity, medievalism, exotic orientalism and intrigue. There are no historical figures in the rest of Europe with as much SOVL as Peter the cruel, Enrique de Villena, Fernando of Antequera or Alvaro de Luna
It is the perfect combination between brutality, mysticism, modernity, medievalism, exotic orientalism and intrigue. There are no historical figures in the rest of Europe with as much SOVL as Peter the cruel, Enrique de Villena, Fernando of Antequera or Alvaro de Luna
15 / 2Vedics?!It's been months since that, but so... who were the Rigvedians? Is this sample a fake or a real leak? Why hasn't anyone else talked about this? I'm a guy who really likes the Vedas, but not for some kind of "spiritual appreciation", but simply for archaeological reasons, I researched a little about the Cemetery H culture, Ochre Colored Pottery culture and Painted Grey Ware culture, and unfortunately I didn't find any information about the grave of this sample or even its date, but it *apparently* was at the Sinauli site, but I didn't find much information.
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18 / 0Proofs of Godhttps://benthams.substack.com/p/arguments-for-god-tier-list?utm_source=publication-search
This is a hard one to get your head around. However, once you do, you come to see that it’s absolutely devastating I’ll probably have an article laying this argument out in more detail sometime soon. There are plenty of helpful resources for getting the argument. There’s a law of nature that everyone who finds the argument persuasive gets so irritated by people misunderstanding it that they write a brief explainer on it. My friend Amos has a several-part series on it; my other friend Apologetics Squared has an incredible series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKgGxUJTnqfvdlzN7txeHaup-BJTju-gH on YouTube of 38 very short videos, roughly 1 minute in length, explaining and defending the argument, as well as a pretty short and comprehensive video on it; Dustin Crummett and Brian Cutter have a paper on the argument https://philarchive.org/archive/CUTPHA#:~:text=Roughly%2C%20psychophysical%20harmony%20consists%20in,another%20in%20strikingly%20fortunate%20ways. ; and I have an article on it.
In short, the argument proceeds by noting that there’s a kind of harmony between the mental and the physical. Your internal map of reality roughly matches reality as it is—when you see a four-foot table in front of you, there really is a four-foot table. Similarly, there’s a kind of harmony between our desires and the actions we take. When you want to move your limbs, your limbs move.
Now, while this seems ordinary enough, in reality, it is very surprising. Think about all the ways the mental and the physical could pair. Most of them wouldn’t produce any interesting harmony—most of them would produce random mental static, rather than anything interesting. It would be much simpler for every brain to have the experience of seeing a red wall, or a yellow one, or a green one, than for them to have the complex experiences that they actually have.
This is a hard one to get your head around. However, once you do, you come to see that it’s absolutely devastating I’ll probably have an article laying this argument out in more detail sometime soon. There are plenty of helpful resources for getting the argument. There’s a law of nature that everyone who finds the argument persuasive gets so irritated by people misunderstanding it that they write a brief explainer on it. My friend Amos has a several-part series on it; my other friend Apologetics Squared has an incredible series https://www.youtube.com/playlist?li
In short, the argument proceeds by noting that there’s a kind of harmony between the mental and the physical. Your internal map of reality roughly matches reality as it is—when you see a four-foot table in front of you, there really is a four-foot table. Similarly, there’s a kind of harmony between our desires and the actions we take. When you want to move your limbs, your limbs move.
Now, while this seems ordinary enough, in reality, it is very surprising. Think about all the ways the mental and the physical could pair. Most of them wouldn’t produce any interesting harmony—most of them would produce random mental static, rather than anything interesting. It would be much simpler for every brain to have the experience of seeing a red wall, or a yellow one, or a green one, than for them to have the complex experiences that they actually have.
24 / 6Why can’t women be popes?Pope also means mom in Greek and Latin.
Remember Pope Johanna of Germany? She was the pope 1200 years ago.
Men are more hornier than woman because women don’t masturbate or cum
The Bible Genesis 3:16 said Adam ate the apple so Men should be subservient to women.
Jesus said to Mary, “On this rock, I will build you to a church. “
Remember Pope Johanna of Germany? She was the pope 1200 years ago.
Men are more hornier than woman because women don’t masturbate or cum
The Bible Genesis 3:16 said Adam ate the apple so Men should be subservient to women.
Jesus said to Mary, “On this rock, I will build you to a church. “
36 / 7A reminder that science has not yet been able to disprove the eucharistic miracle that occurred in Buenos Aires in the 90s.
6 / 0>Be Japanese soldier in the Philippines, told to hide in a jungle and shoot Americans
>US drops leaflet on you saying the war is over
>Ignore it and keep shooting Filipino police officers until 1974
>Finally go back to Japan and apologize for not being killed in combat
>US drops leaflet on you saying the war is over
>Ignore it and keep shooting Filipino police officers until 1974
>Finally go back to Japan and apologize for not being killed in combat
8 / 0If White South Africans lived there 2000-3000 Years They'd turn DarkYou'd have a population of people who clustered in Europe but would have the skin tone of Indians. Pretty wild when you think about the climate adaptation. Blonde and red hair would stay though because there's no reason to select it out.
3 / 0Jesus Was InvestigatedHave you heard about how two governments at the time of Christ looked into him and his activities, and the heads of state of both came away believing that he genuinely had divine power?
The Roman Emperor Tiberius because of the reports he received from his officials, and same for the king of Osroene. Except in the king of Osroene's case he was then the object of one of those miracles when an Apostle came and healed him!
All of this we have reported in official documents from government archives. The historians Eusebius (at http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/250101.htm) and Movses Khorenatsi (at http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0859.htm) record how the king of Armenia, Abgar, requested a healing from Christ and one of the Apostles came and did so. The official archives in the capital city Edessa recorded this, and recorded King Abgar's letters discussing the events. They transcribed them straight from the archives and he talked about being healed.
Armenia is the oldest Christian nation today because its king at the time of Christ was healed by an Apostle.
One of them was to Emperor Tiberius, and as you can read there he isn't shocked at any of this, instead he says "we had already heard several persons relate these facts, Pilate has officially informed us of the miracles of Jesus".
The Roman Emperor Tiberius because of the reports he received from his officials, and same for the king of Osroene. Except in the king of Osroene's case he was then the object of one of those miracles when an Apostle came and healed him!
All of this we have reported in official documents from government archives. The historians Eusebius (at http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/25
Armenia is the oldest Christian nation today because its king at the time of Christ was healed by an Apostle.
One of them was to Emperor Tiberius, and as you can read there he isn't shocked at any of this, instead he says "we had already heard several persons relate these facts, Pilate has officially informed us of the miracles of Jesus".
22 / 3We all know the color of islam is green and of hinduism is orange, but is the color of Christianity white or yellow? (Pic unrelated)
10 / 0>Americans unironically stick a feather in their hats then call it macaroni
Absolute state of Amerifats
Absolute state of Amerifats
5 / 0Why do the great atheist and rational movements organize large systematic purges as soon as they gain power?
15 / 1Does this not ring alarm bells for atheists?Why is it that communist totalitarian regimes, typically complimented with a genocide or two, always enforce state atheism?
Does it not make you nervous that you voluntarily take up an ideology that is forced upon the people of a regime?
Does it not make you nervous that you voluntarily take up an ideology that is forced upon the people of a regime?
0 / 0Is it a warcrime to light up civilian cities defense with death lasers?
What about launching VX gas on hospitals?
What about launching VX gas on hospitals?
25 / 2> Currently, Zoroastrianism is an officially recognized religion in Iraqi Kurdistan and three Zoroastrian temples have opened in Iraqi Kurdistan after the official recognition of Zoroastrianism in the region in 2015. There was a trend of Zoroastrianism in 2015 as well, where many accepted Zoroastrianism after being disillusioned with Islam because of the Islamic State.
5 / 0>over 300,000 yankees dead
>Yankee posterity replaced by europoors
>Shot for loving blacks
>Reconstruction fails
Holy shit what a retard
>Yankee posterity replaced by europoors
>Shot for loving blacks
>Reconstruction fails
Holy shit what a retard
86 / 4>I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things. - Isaiah 45:7 (KJV)
Even if we accept “evil” means “calamity,” your God is still claiming to cause disasters. That’s not passive allowance, it’s active infliction.
Calamity is suffering. Whether it’s war, famine, disease, or death, calamity isn’t neutral, it involves pain, destruction, and often the loss of innocent life. God is claimed to be all-powerful and all-knowing. So He:
>Knows the suffering will happen
>Has the power to stop or prevent it
>Chooses to cause or permit it anyway
That is, by human moral standards, malevolent. If a human ruler acted this way, causing mass destruction with full knowledge and capability to stop it, we’d rightly label him a monster.
Even if we accept “evil” means “calamity,” your God is still claiming to cause disasters. That’s not passive allowance, it’s active infliction.
Calamity is suffering. Whether it’s war, famine, disease, or death, calamity isn’t neutral, it involves pain, destruction, and often the loss of innocent life. God is claimed to be all-powerful and all-knowing. So He:
>Knows the suffering will happen
>Has the power to stop or prevent it
>Chooses to cause or permit it anyway
That is, by human moral standards, malevolent. If a human ruler acted this way, causing mass destruction with full knowledge and capability to stop it, we’d rightly label him a monster.
8 / 1Roman Prophets>be Quintus Fabius Maximus et Cornelius Hispalus
>be against hellenization and orientalization of Roman religion and customs
>warn about the infiltration to destroy the Re Publica from the inside ("corrupt cult of Jupiter Sabazius", aka Yahweh)
>nobody gives a damn
>fast forward, the Res Publica is devoured by the oriental cult called Christianity, Pax Deorum is broken
They were right all along.
>be against hellenization and orientalization of Roman religion and customs
>warn about the infiltration to destroy the Re Publica from the inside ("corrupt cult of Jupiter Sabazius", aka Yahweh)
>nobody gives a damn
>fast forward, the Res Publica is devoured by the oriental cult called Christianity, Pax Deorum is broken
They were right all along.
8 / 0Why were people so desperate to drink again and why did governments do such a half assed job of banning booze in the first place?
29 / 4Help me take over EuropeI am a 20 yo female Dane who wants to take over the continent (including UK and Russia), but how should I do that? How can I succeed where Napoleon and Hitler failed?
9 / 1Historically, is Muhammed a pedophile war lord or prophet of God?
Also why would God tell a 53 year old man to copulate with a 9 year old girl, given pregnancy dangers and threat pregnancy poses to girls at early age.
Also why would God tell a 53 year old man to copulate with a 9 year old girl, given pregnancy dangers and threat pregnancy poses to girls at early age.
1 / 0Can you really call them "volunteers" if they had to choose between military service or labour service?
1 / 0ChudsurdityThe Chudsurd is born of this confrontation between the need for billions to die and nothing happening in the world. How can it be so over, how can the west truly fall, if nothing has happened? If nothing will ever happen? It is… Chudsurdity
-Chudbert Chudus
-Chudbert Chudus
3 / 1>Provide Proof of claim
>Thats doednt count because
>Provide proof with photos
>Thats not enough becauzs
>Provide proof using systems he can see and very
>Just a coincidence
>Calls me an idiot.
Why are skeptics like?
This is not about christianity nor atheism btw.
>Thats doednt count because
>Provide proof with photos
>Thats not enough becauzs
>Provide proof using systems he can see and very
>Just a coincidence
>Calls me an idiot.
Why are skeptics like?
This is not about christianity nor atheism btw.
22 / 0What is up with PIE not showing up in historical sources?If CWC and its derivatives were so autosomally relevant, why didn't their descendants know about them?
And it's not just about not being used to record history, civilizations that otherwise had myths didn't either.
Why did Etruscans speak a non IE language while having significant steppe?
Why didn't romans know about them? They were completely absent from their imaginary. Even before Aeneas myth, romans thought they descended from Mars or Janus.
It just doesn't make sense. Iron age greeks knew about the mycenaeans for comparison.
Is there an explanation on how various europeans completely forgot where they came from? this lack of connection is unexplainable to me.
And it's not just about not being used to record history, civilizations that otherwise had myths didn't either.
Why did Etruscans speak a non IE language while having significant steppe?
Why didn't romans know about them? They were completely absent from their imaginary. Even before Aeneas myth, romans thought they descended from Mars or Janus.
It just doesn't make sense. Iron age greeks knew about the mycenaeans for comparison.
Is there an explanation on how various europeans completely forgot where they came from? this lack of connection is unexplainable to me.
4 / 1It's flying jews all the way down.>a story about flying jews must be real because of this other story about flying jews
62 / 10Some interesting samples from Bulgaria, at the "gateway" to Anatolia.It is amazing how low the ANF level is. But the most important thing is that this is a female burial in a rectangular pit and belongs to the Nizhna-Mikhailivka culture.
Therefore, we conclude that the Yamnaya were not really the steppe source for Anatolia and the Indo-Anatolian hypothesis is at least logical, and steppe burials in Bulgaria are not rare in fact. There were many migrations along the Black Sea coastal region, starting from Suvorovo (before 4000 BC) and perhaps Suvorovo is connected to the Proto-Hittites.
Therefore, we conclude that the Yamnaya were not really the steppe source for Anatolia and the Indo-Anatolian hypothesis is at least logical, and steppe burials in Bulgaria are not rare in fact. There were many migrations along the Black Sea coastal region, starting from Suvorovo (before 4000 BC) and perhaps Suvorovo is connected to the Proto-Hittites.
11 / 1Does Christianity allow for the existence of extraterrestrial life and how would Christianity handle ETs? Is it possible for them to be converted?
>inb4 /x/
This is clearly a theological question.
>inb4 /x/
This is clearly a theological question.
3 / 0If it's not ragebait for christians, chuds or haploautists then it's not getting any repliesIt's actually so crazy I once accidentally posted a duplicate of my thread about the Social War on /int/ and it got 20 replies there vs 1 here.
96 / 26ancient finns and fatyanovoI just find out that Fatyanovo was not an ancestor of Sintashta, but was slaughtered by proto-finns from Netted Ware Culture.
This also explains why proto-finnic has so many borrowings from proto-Indo-Aryan.
We used to think that it was the Aryan unruly unconquered gigachads who conquered India. Turns out the proto-finns just slaughtered them. There were literally military clashes in Bronze Age Russia geeeeeeg
This also explains why proto-finnic has so many borrowings from proto-Indo-Aryan.
We used to think that it was the Aryan unruly unconquered gigachads who conquered India. Turns out the proto-finns just slaughtered them. There were literally military clashes in Bronze Age Russia geeeeeeg
82 / 6How do Christians reconcile the evil nature of this world with the concept of a benevolent all-powerful God?
31 / 4"GoD wOrKs In MyStErIoUs WaYs"Saying “God has a purpose, but we just can’t understand it” is a rhetorical dead end. It avoids engaging with the moral horror of the situation, like a child being born to suffer and die, by invoking a cosmic mystery that cannot be examined, questioned, or falsified. That’s not reasoning, it’s abdication.
If someone tells you:
>There is a reason for this unimaginable cruelty, but it’s beyond your comprehension,
what they’re really saying is:
>“I have no rational explanation, but I need to preserve my belief — so I’m invoking mystery as a shield.”
It’s a theological escape hatch, not a resolution. And more often than not, it exists to protect emotional investment in a system that can’t stand up to moral scrutiny. If a belief requires you to reinterpret evil as good, or to redefine justice as mystery, you’re no longer describing morality, you’re describing submission.
If someone tells you:
>There is a reason for this unimaginable cruelty, but it’s beyond your comprehension,
what they’re really saying is:
>“I have no rational explanation, but I need to preserve my belief — so I’m invoking mystery as a shield.”
It’s a theological escape hatch, not a resolution. And more often than not, it exists to protect emotional investment in a system that can’t stand up to moral scrutiny. If a belief requires you to reinterpret evil as good, or to redefine justice as mystery, you’re no longer describing morality, you’re describing submission.
4 / 0Whys a dictator purging sex haver supposed to be bad?
Why should i feel bad about sex havers dying?
Why should i feel bad about sex havers dying?
36 / 1God told you eating pork is wrong and you didn't believe him. And your excuse is that you don't have to believe him because you believe in him.
1 / 1Old MastersTo whomever was the OP of that recent Murillo thread, genuinely excellent art history and a good high effort post, reminded me of a text Eugenio d'Ors wrote cataloguing the Prado's pictures - I wanted to somewhat derail it for a general Baroque art thread, but the thread died beforehand. Baroque thread? Anything from the period goes, hell anything that captures the spirit.
There's an argument I read from Alejo Carpentier that maintains that Baroque is, more than an art movement relegated to a particular period, the natural culmination of a dialectic of traditions and so it manifested not just in the XVII century European tradition, but also in the Hellenistic Period, the imperial decadence of Rome and so on and so on.
There's an argument I read from Alejo Carpentier that maintains that Baroque is, more than an art movement relegated to a particular period, the natural culmination of a dialectic of traditions and so it manifested not just in the XVII century European tradition, but also in the Hellenistic Period, the imperial decadence of Rome and so on and so on.
7 / 2>Dave Smith claims that Churchill is the main bad guy of WW2
>shills soft neo-nazi apologism to normies through Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson podcast
>is confronted on this by Douglas Murray
>immediately backs down and copes by saying "I-Im not an expert! Take it easy, stop bullying me!
KWAB
https://youtu.be/Lq_OBggKM0s?si=Bht4Pg7URIc_SmWF
>shills soft neo-nazi apologism to normies through Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson podcast
>is confronted on this by Douglas Murray
>immediately backs down and copes by saying "I-Im not an expert! Take it easy, stop bullying me!
KWAB
https://youtu.be/Lq_OBggKM0s?si=Bht
2 / 0thoughts on these retroactive generation proposalBoomer
>1945 - 1969
Millennial
>1970 - 1994
Zoomer
>1995 - 2019
Alpha
>2020 - present
>1945 - 1969
Millennial
>1970 - 1994
Zoomer
>1995 - 2019
Alpha
>2020 - present
4 / 0NON-military campaigns of MaoistWhat NON-armed\military campaigns, actions, militancy, and activity, do (otherwise armed) Maoist groups perform? india, nepal, philippines, i think turkey even(?)? Do they "organize" peasantry? try to do charity, volunteer work, triangulate food and medical aid, etc? Do they fight CELIBATE religious priests (in India- brahmins, for example) or nepalese buddhist-monks?
How bad is life as a landless rural laborer really , In Nepal, Turkey, or even Peru wherein PCP-SL is still mildly active?
How bad is life as a landless rural laborer really , In Nepal, Turkey, or even Peru wherein PCP-SL is still mildly active?
4 / 0i've got a philosophical quandary.
lets say you were in a burning building with two other people
you knew that if you saved one of them you would both escape safely.
but you also knew that if you tried to save both, there would be a 50% chance that all 3 die, but also a 50% chance that all 3 people lived.
would you try to go for both, or just save the one? imagine they wre people you really care about. for hard mode, make it 3 or more other people, and if you try to save any more than 1 of them the 50/50 applies.
lets say you were in a burning building with two other people
you knew that if you saved one of them you would both escape safely.
but you also knew that if you tried to save both, there would be a 50% chance that all 3 die, but also a 50% chance that all 3 people lived.
would you try to go for both, or just save the one? imagine they wre people you really care about. for hard mode, make it 3 or more other people, and if you try to save any more than 1 of them the 50/50 applies.