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Why did God choose a time when there were no video cameras or the Internet to announce himself?
>>18012697Nigga was so proud of his one-liner he had to give us a v2 lmaoWhat is it, brother? Are you offended that I skipped a video or that I challenge you need to have one at all? Tell me and we can sort it out. Or keep your mind on me getting laid, I don't mind lol
>>18012705NTA, this is OP, I'm still waiting for you to post one (1) miracle that proves YHWH is real and the creator.
>>18012710Why would I post something that I don't think can exist? Lmao
>>18012712So why should I believe in him then? What reason does he give me to?
>>18012723If you want to discuss something, let me know about >>18012669, I definitely don't feel like answering massive questions when even the most basic ones from my side get ignored while you "wait" for me to do things for you for somer reason.
The term "God given rights" doesn't make sense. Humans didn't have rights in the Bible, God was okay with owning people as property. Human rights were invented in the enlightenment.
>>18010517Sure, but no one wants to say nation-states given rights
>>18010517"God given rights" does not refer to the God of the Christian bible.
>>18011937>nation-states given rightsDo you think nation-states existed before life did and brought life into existence?
>>18011697"The right to not die in a natural disaster" is not a natural right as far as I'm aware of.
>>18010517It doesnt make sense because you are following a latter day reinvention of the term.Originially it just meant that before society mankind was naturally free (god given) and that by entering society they are giving up some freedom in exchange for safety. However, if the society impedes on certain essential freedoms, then man has the right to resist or rebel.This is just a long winded argument to say that rebels during the 18th century had the right to rebel against the sovereign they felt was mistreating them.Its only later that it was reinterpreted as "human rights".
>hacks you to pieces with broadswordsheh, nothing personal slave owner
>>18012248They could have been shipped back to Africa but d*xoids refused to give up their black mistresses and fought a war to keep them instead
>>18010696Brown never killed a single slave owner. He killed poors whites and even a black freeman but never an actual slave owner.
>>18012427>north invades south and frees millions of blacks>millions of blacks migrate north and take over every northern city>dis is dixies fault!Yankeecope
>lincoln begging russia for help during the civil war which is the only reason england didn't get involved >they give us alaska for some reason>commie yids flee russia and come to the US>start agitating for conflict with russia
>>18012700>doesnt know that the south wanted to expand their nigger harems into the western territoriesYou third world shitskins are so easy to spot when you LARP as Americans just for a chance to babble about your nigger obsession.
Have you ever succeeded in proving to a chistian that he is a brainwashed retard? What is the best argument in your experience?
you worship a jew
>>18012618No, I always say "not interested"
>>18012620You mean Hebrew? There were no talmudic jews in 1st century Jerusalem. It's like saying the apostles were mormon.
>>18012724Jews are defined by the old testament not the talmud.
The war against the USSR was the only justifiable decision that Nazi Germany made. Say what you will about it being a lost cause from the get go, but the prospect of eliminating communism for good was worth a shot. We still have to deal with Marxists today thanks to the Soviet’s long-term influence.
>>18012623If only the Heer and the SS didn't treat Soviet citizens like diseased animals. With enough hearts and minds, I believe the Germans could have occupied most of the western states with reasonable effeciency. Fanatacism against communism was a holy duty surely, but reliance on a loophole economy motivated the Germans to be vicious strategically, not just rhetorically, just to stay productive.The partizan influence in the east was substantial to the success of the Soviet effort. For whatever reason people only remember the Fr*nch Partizans who were absolute incompetents....
>>18012623The victory of pan-Slavic Bolshevism is inevitable. Cry about it
>>18012709You’re killing each other in Ukraine.
>>18012709Tankie cope is always worth the read.The Fascist Reich and The Starving Soviets live on as novelty banners sold by Chinese merchants to ignorant youmg men.Your ideology is a cute, shrinkwrapped commodity in a global network between thriving capitalist nations.Go eat a toddler with a side of sawdust, retard.
Why do people act like Free Trade was always a thing and ignore the fact the US had a lot of tariffs and protectionism in the periods we typically associate with high quality of life in the US, IE the late post civil war 1800s until the great depression and the 1940s until the late 1960s. we really only saw a boom under free trade during the 1980s and 1990s
>>18012606Neoliberal post-war propaganda
>>18012606>we typically associate with high quality of life in the US, IE the late post civil war 1800s until the great depressionYou mean the gilded age, when children worked in sweatshops and the infant mortality rate was 10%-15%?
>>18012717It saw American industry become a powerhouse and dethrone yurop and lead to the roaring 20s. If life was so bad, why were yuros fucking pouring in?
It takes more blind faith to believe the atheist creation myth than the Christian one. And it's not even close.
>>18011486>he means you can't explain why there is something rather than nothing or why the universe existsNTA but fundamentally nobody can, atheists are just honest enough to admit we'll never truly know instead of making up stories. We do however know that the universe was in a smaller and hotter/more dense state roughly 14 billion years ago because we can see the universe expanding and we can see the cosmic microwave background as remnant heat from this hotter and more dense state so we do have plenty of physical evidence for the big bang
>>18011467>Macro evolution has been observedNo it hasn't lmao.>They also found life fossils on Mars like a week agoThey find a trace of minerals that are classified as a potential biosignature that need years of research and pseuds the world over call it a fossil. LMAO>I don't know what you mean by universal clusters but quantum fluctuations aren't copes. No sign of electrons being generated from quantum fields has ever been observed or replicated. Try reading papers and not only titles. >Human consciousness is entirely explained by the brain.It's not. Some brains function without cerebellum. Some function after being cut in half in surgery and none of them can be mapped out or even be expected to react the same to psychotropic drugs because they all work differently. Also you can't detect psychopathy or any other mental disorder no matter how much you scan the brain. Whoever told you that is either retarded or you didn't understand them but there are hundreds of emergent features of consciousness that can't be traced on the brain.
>>18011494>so we do have plenty of physical evidence for the big bangThat just means the bible was right this whole time. And of course no one can know; but one can know that One knows.
>>18011494Foundationalism is correct
How does God explain all of this?
Why don't more people talk about what a piece of shit Bush 1 was? He caused a recession, created the H1B system and negotiated NAFTA and the only reason he didn't personally sign NAFTA was because he lost the 1992 election
>>18012583he was a janitor that had to clean up reagan's steaming pile of shit
>>18012688what did reagan do that was bad, tranny?>>18012673buck stops here, faggot
>>18012583He helped keep Social Security afloat so I am happy with him.
>>18012691>what did reagan do that was bad, tranny?Start with allowing 1 million Americans to die of AIDS.
>>18012708faggots aren't American and aids should never have been cured
Proverbs are retarded and they fall apart to scrutiny. Even worse is using them as arguments. For example, "pot calling the kettle black" is an ad hominem and merely a deflection.
>>18012711Ad hominem is a type of fallacious argument. Proverbs aren't arguments.
>>18012718People still use proverbs as arguments.
What do you think of the British Empire? Was that term even used during its heyday, or is it post-World War II?
>>18012477>Has a deranged meltdown>Accuses anyone who notices of having a meltdown insteadThe cognitive dissonance is strong with this one
>>18012479uh oh melty
>>18012482
>>18011637the greatest empire on earth
>>18011654they UNIFIED your country, those monsters.
it's 2025 and we STILL don't know who they were or what they were doing
>>18010502Recent analysis showed the altar stone came from north eastern Scotland, even further away.
>>18010502>>18011294Not to take anything away from the ancient engineering involved, but once able to move it on and off a seaworthy vessel, the distance wouldn't matter as much 10 miles or 150. Right? If they dragged them over land I'm fucking done.
>>18011326Heavy stone concentrated in one place is very different from evenly distributed cargo. A few waves could flip you. That’s why most scholars think specially modified barges were used for short, calm stretches, not open sea voyages.
>>18011275It's a burial site. Whether the bones turned to dust or not, or if something is still there, I don't know. There are weak signals that it is a burial site. It has been excavated many times so who knows who took what without saying.The circle stones are tombs of very important people.
>>18012582maybe it was never finished and the bones were never buried. The king who built it could've been overthrown by people who neither finished it nor tore it down.
What do we think of Nick Land and accelerationism?
>>18012039That got a slight smile out of me
>>18012039Couldn't he call it Nick Land?
>>18012027>>18012188Give me one reason why I shouldn't reduce accelerationism down to serving the most powerful entity you can find. It seems to me all new-age right wing philosophy is comped and astroturfed because it's pro authority, not influential on its own merit. To me, all these guys are political cargo cultists. They use all the words and concepts from nationalist or socialist politics, and they represent real people, but they're not a political movement in the sense of trying to achieve something politically. They just use the vocabulary to make centrism and submission sound exciting. Land is probably at the highest tier of this 'movement,' this renunciation of rights.
Accelerationism is less a political program than a lens: it frames history, tech, and society as forces to be accelerated.
A "mirror held up to reality" you might say. Very erudite.
But was he a good general?
>>18011305maybe if napoleon's subordinates were so sick of his shit they sold him off to the other side before the siege of toulon started
>>18011257I believe it was the French that called him this way.>>18011296West here is meant as the Western Hemisphere.
Isn't Bolivar the South American Napoleon? Wasn't Santa Anna famously dogshit?
>>18012111This, I remembered the nickname being attributed to Bolivar, but it seems I was wrong.
>>18011703Absolutely seething lmao
In retrospect, was the USSR really that bad?
The Red Army is a forged swordThe rights of the workers must be guarded
Yes, it was that bad, though it had some technological achievements. For me, the human suffering outweighs the accomplishments, but from a purely developmental lens, it was not a failure.
>>18012431As shocking and disgusting as it is to someone from the civilized world to see all the famines, genocides and totalitarian oppression the USSR imposed on its people, this is just how slavs and other savages govern themselves so the USSR wasn't as bad as people claim it was. At least Soviet brutality, unlike tsarist brutality, turned the slav in to a race that could pass as human and made them industrious and spacefaring.
>>18012614Hello Saar
>>18012614Trvke
