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>god is perfectly good>god has free will>god existed before evil>therefore, free will without evil is possibleChristcucks cannot refute this.
>>18636857>>18637839For you to have a system of meaning, you need differentiation of states, and not only do you need differentiation of states, you need volumes/levels of differentiation within those states. How can you know what is good if you do not know what is evil? How can you know something is more good or more evil than the other without different volumes or levels? Everything in the world exists for a reason: to have a system of meaning and growth.
>>18637846>how can you know what being alive is without knowing what being dead is?This is how retarded you sound
>>18637849Never actually addressed what I said and thus proving my point.
>>18637853I perfectly addressed what you said. You seem under the impression that you need evil to exist to be good because being good without evil is a) either impossible or b) you need the existence of itself for good to make sense as a concept (which most christcucks would disagree btw, see "evil is absence of good cope)For both of these arguments you are also denying the omnipotence of god and haven't addressed OPs statement in general, unless you wanna go the full heresy route and claim evil is as old as god
>>18637849>how can you know what being alive is without knowing what being dead is?I mean yeah, that’s the point. Life and death are too sides of the same coin, death is a sacred thing
>Christian Zionism>Liberalism>Pentecostal/Charismatic MovementAgree or Disagree with this?
Sounds like an American problem.
>>18637848Agree but it's not just Christian Zionism; it's dispensationalism as a whole.
What was the purpose of exercising naked in Greek gymnasiums?
>>18636747bait that not one single baldi fell for
>>18636269Christcuckery
>>18636269Generally exercise clothes don't chafe you, compression clothing is actually designed to prevent chaffing and wick sweat.
>>18636241Do you even believe what you are saying? Do you really think there were no fat fucks in Greece? Especially amongst the ultra-wealthy ruling class? I suppose if your only interaction with the culture was observing/reading the incredibly small amount of surviving artistic/literary depictions you might get this impression, after all Achilles probably was ripped, but these depictions are scant and idealized by nature. Even in modern American art the portrayal of a genuine fat fuck is a rare occurrence, especially as a main character or someone who is cast in an aspirational light. The ancient Greeks might have praised physical beauty and valued physical health, but that doesn't mean it was a universal characteristic.
>>18637826The ultra wealthy ruling class were expected to be soldiers leading from the front.
I always found the atheistic interpretation of dying to be the most unexplainable of all the other ones. They just say, plainly, that after you die it's "lights out" and "eternal pitch black darkness". Now I would love if this were real but I don't think it is. It sounds way too good to be true. Here's the thing about this: even if this were to occur, the matter is still there, and it's going to be recycled. Who can say it stops there? Who can say the molecular arrangement that made up us will disintegrate forever and not simply form back up elsewhere? Trapping you again, thus, in this corporeal reality? Who can really say that this "nothingness" is the final destination? You're already here.. You're always going to be here in one form or another. Even if your particular molecular arrangement is gone, these atoms are still being recycled. It is impossible for you to have known nothing, being you. Since unfortunately, you are something, and always were and will be, a something. To even postulate anything else is incredibly absurd and preposterous, to even think that the Universe would simply do away with you is unthinkable.Oh no no no, it OWNS your ass. Now and forever. What, you think you're gonna go poof like some fucking fairy, atheists, I don't think so. Wishful thinking on your part. It seems like you just want everything to disappear, out of convenience, huh?
OP is talking about this:https://youtu.be/xULSj4hyYrY?si=CiIMT_5kd9t62R-uIts the consequence of a universe that is finitely bounded spatially but temporally eternal. There are only so many ways to "shuffle the deck," meaning you will eventually find yourself reconstituted, over and over, forever.Now the universe may be spatially infinite or temporally finite or... plenty of unknown unknowns.I will say I am agnostic to the question of what happens after death due to considerations of this sort.I would prefer nothing, but truth generally cares little for my preferences.
>>18636290I am not my twin brother.
>>18637825Yeah because twins aren't actually perfect identical copies of each other. And even if you were, you also did not experience the exact same things, meaning your neural pathways aren't the same.
>>18636862The "book" as a concept ceased to be when it was reduced to ashes. It wasn't annihilated from existence, only transformed into another, non-"book" formIn a way, the "book" reincarnated as "ashes", which themselves can reincarnate into something else
>>18637847Nta. A person isn't a perfectly identical copy of themselves when they were a little kid, but there's still a deep sense in which they *were* that little kid. And it isn't fully captured by their memories. They could lose all their memories from when they were that age and it would still be the case that at one time they were that little kid.
What makes brown/black people more attracted to Abrahamic religions?
>>18637759Another ethnicity they like to use are North Caucasians. They aren't specifically European, but light features are common.
>>18637769>>18637759The same goes for "Bollywood actors" or North Indians. They use manipulated photos or photos that vaguely resemble Europeans.
>>18637802I just looked it up and apparently some of the most famous actors are just mutts, despite India being homogeneous.https://www.desiblitz.com/content/10-mixed-race-bollywood-actresses-blending-cultures-onscreen
>>18637595>What makes brown/black people more attracted to Abrahamic religions?because christianity (naturally as a product of the jewish mind and genes,) is dysgenic and favors the weak and naturally it appeals to the weak while paganism is aristocratic.look at these verses>Matthew 5:5 (Beatitudes): "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." >Psalm 37:11: "But the meek shall inherit the earth, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.">1 Corinthians 1:27-29: "But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him.">Psalm 82:3-4: "Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.">Matthew 25:35-40 (Sheep and Goats parable): "For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat... Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me."Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>18637595Christianity is open to everyoneThe pagans in your example are endogamous tribes
How come when the British liberated the Chinese in Malaya, they carried massive KMT banners and said Long Live the motherland. But now these same Chinese people hate China?
>>18637637CCP is not KMT, is that simple enough?
>>18637670Why the fuck would they be kmt loyalists?
>>18637675Because the KMT were the actual, legitimate government of China and not communist usurpers led by a bloodthirsty lunatic?
>>18637737Most Chinese didn't see it that way. Qian Xuesen chose to defect to Beijing instead of Taipei.
>>18637737Yeah and Taiwan isnt the motherland, just a random spit of land in the south china sea that defeated ming remnants colonized. Loyalty of the Chinese peoples across the world should be to the homeland and not to a political entity.
when will america acknowledge and apologize for this crime against innocent civilians?
>>18637763Cope. Taro Aso made the imperial family his bitch forcing through his succession law via his pawn Takaichi and the LDP.
Fact: Japan was founded in 1947.
>>18637767are you idiot? next in line is akishinomiya family the new law is to have adoption from emperor lineage family in case there is no heir left
>>18637770japan is founded in 660 BCE idiot
>>18637805Wrong, the Japanese Empire was dissolved in 1945, instead you had to fly pic rel instead of the red button flag.
What are, in your opinion, some of the most dramatic moments in history? For me, it's the end of the battleship Yamato>largest battleship ever built, roughly the size of the Titanic>by the end of WW2 the Jap air force was so decimated they couldn't escort ships anymore>final plan: send the Yamato on a one-way trip to Okinawa>to beach itself and fight as a stationary gun platform until destroyed>given only enough fuel to make it there>base commanders secretly defy orders and give the Yamato as much fuel as they can>without any air escort the Yamato is sunk before it ever reaches its destination>thus ends the largest fucking battleship ever created in human historyJust what it says both about Japanese mentality and their desperate situation is pretty kino.
Was Russia always causing trouble or were they pretty well behaved and got along with everyone before Lenin took over?
The west didn't realize that the Mongols and their successor states were keeping a lid on their shenanigans for centuries. The Russian Problem might've prevented the Renaissance or age of enlightenment if the Russians had been freed from the Mongol yoke earlier. Thank, you Tatars, you held on as long as you could to keep the Russian menace contained beneath your heel.
>>18637446>if by Europe you mean the Ottoman Empire and AsiaAh yes, the Ottoman and/or Asian states of Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland...
>>18637720I'm as anti Russian as they come but this is just a load of bullshit. This is Russia derangement syndrome.
>>18637500Wagner was also Nazi-adjacent and they massacred Bakhmut all the sameThere is no real battle of ideologies in this war
>>18637823Ideologies are window dressing for psychopaths in russia.
Philosophically and religiously speaking, if Neanderthals were alive today would they be given human rights?
>>18636016neanderthals are likely to be members of leadership class. ITs believed they were both physically stronger & more intelligent.
>>18636068IMO liberalism overcorrected. They were coming out of awful authoritarianism so made sweeping statements (feudals were hideous cunts). They hadnt met Indians when they declared 'all men equal'You see it a lot IRL. Person A tells a lie, person B gets so frustrated he swings to the extreme opposite. The truth is found by ignoring them both (which is not the same as middle ground).
>>18637612>They had bigger brains, but that didn't make them smarter.yeah, women say the same thing.
>>18636016We even worship them as our gods, see Israel.
>>18637776>They hadn't met Indians when they declared 'all men equal'Euros had already conquered parts of India by that timeIndeed, the 1770 Bengal famine spooked the heck out of the Americans; both were British colonies with no representation in Parliament, after all.
Theologically speaking.Is this world being a simulation compatible with the bible? It would kinda perfectly explains concepts like trinity and Jesus itself and biblical events in general
>>18636525No, that’s Gnostic heresy
>>18636547explain
>>18636525You all still don't understand:The reason every other belief has things compatible with Jesus is because they all originate from the one and same source, but the difference is that Jesus Christ is the whole truth. Every other belief or ideology has a partial truth, and they treat this partial as the whole. Jesus is the whole, and when you stop trying to fit Jesus into something else and look at everything else through Jesus, you finally understand why the patterns in the world emerge, because everything was created through Him and for Him.
>>18637827You are absolutely right that it feels like a simulation, but the reason it feels like a simulation is not because it is one, but because there are real patterns. Everything happens for a reason, and everything comes from one and the same source. Everything humans come up with is just a tainted reflection of the whole truth. That is why it is said, "Whatever the Father does, the Son also does."Jesus came into the world to reveal the one and only true God. That is why He says, "Now this is eternal life: that they know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent."
>>18636525>Is this world being a simulation compatible with the bible? [SIC]THE WORLD IS NOT A SIMULATION, AND THE IDEA IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE.>It would kinda perfectly explains concepts like trinity and Jesus itself and biblical events in general [SIC]NO.
why didnt evil Hitler send long range bombers over the USSRs crop fields and just bomb them with incendiaries to set fire to their food supply and starve them?
>>18637626one wildfire can burn down many thousands square kilometers worth of crops in days, especially if the fires were donw about now close to harvest time theres no chance of re-planting anything youd have to wait for spring, or try planting winter crops but then you are without food for a long time anyways
>>18637699Cool, assuming that works your enemy will have significantly less food a year from now (assuming they aren't being supported by an agricultural juggernaut on the other side of the world.) Meanwhile your ground troops are begging for air support right now, your enemy's factories are churning out weapons that will reach the front in a few weeks, and you barely have enough fuel to sustain your current military operations and industry. Would you choose a high value target or a low value target?
>>18637187Heavy bombers are extremely expensive to produce. Literally only the western powers could afford it. The Axis and Soviets couldnt even try.The Germans tried to build an aircraft carrier during ww2 but they literally ran out of funds halfway through.Every raid is extremely costly as well because a bomber fleet also needs fighter protection. There is a very high fuel consumption in that, plus ordnance costs, plus attrition from each raid. The British nearly bankrupted themselves early in the war because the bombing raids costed more than they achieved.
how do you burn a turnip
>>18637784It wouldnt take that much to do, russia is big and only the important places are protected, flying on a path with the least dense villages/towns would be really easy and coincidentally the most concentration of grains, plenty of planes could fly around the world even then, 1-4 planes with fuel and a few incendiaries could do it i reckon, flying and dropping them at night over forests and crops or even grasslands would be devastating, with no firefighting abilities it it should've been easy to spread. plenty of armies have burned crops as a tactic
Why did Iberia have the most separatist movements in history?
>>18636316That war was bullshit since Francis had literally zero rights to claim Milan. Hell, he basically had zero claims on Naples, as well. The whole shitshow was dumb, to begin with.
>>18637210The 16th century was France's century of humiliation, similar to how the 19th century was for Spain and China
>>18637270They would have been less humiliated if they didn't meddle in everyone's affairs.
>>18637396A lot of it was self-inflictedWho gets killed in a joust?Henry VIII was bad, but France was on another level
>>18637424>Henry VIII was bad, but France was on another levelHenry VIII was worse than any Valois King, the issue is that the English parliament usually stopped the English Kings from going full retard, while the French Kings basically had no restricitions.
Why is Japanese nationalism rooted in communist anti-colonial anti-White rhetoric and ideology? The whole reason Japan modernized is because of western countries generously trading with it, gifting it technology instead of outright conquering them. Yet the Japanese waged a sacred war against the White man, and against western civilization?
>>18637700>rooted>implying theres a link to the pastthis guy is obviously a run of the mill nuNationalist in the same mold as any other ethnonationalist around the world.you're implying a link to 40s japanese nationalism that isn't there.almost none of those guys surrendered when you look at the pow stats, which is without historical precedent in terms of scale and efficacy of indoctrination, they're dead and gone.a 40s imperial cult nipponese nationalist wouldn't be doing any talking
>>18637790They also totally chimp out if you dare suggest that characters from a European setting, or with blue eyes, a slim nose and a long skull, are white, and that it's totally their standard of beauty that comes from antiquity.
>>18637700>Japanese nationalism rooted in communist (...) ideology It wasn't
>>18637790>the more retarded a retard becomes the more retarded shit he will sayYou dont say.
>>18637786Dolphins and whales arent lifestock, wtf is this chink on about. Theyre full of poisoneous metals either.
