For centuries, the Catholic and Orthodox churches engaged in hypocrisy by officially proclaiming the obligation to observe God's commandments, while in reality condoning such depraved and utterly immoral monarchs as Peter I, Louis XV, Louis XIV, Catherine II, and many others. How can one place trust in churches that are so openly hypocritical?
>>18589261The fact that they blessed depraved and utterly immoral rulers like Peter I, who organized orgies where religion was openly mocked.
>>18589230Hypocrisy is how you win. Why do you think jews rule over you?
>>18589230but they didn't, they were forced to support absolutism (mainly France) because the alternative was loosing an important catholic bastion. The Church opposed the divine mandate of monarchs, during the renaissance and the rediscovering of Roman Law the church adhered to the notion of the power resting in the people (the republic) by that logic only the Church could claim Divine Rule, not the kings which were mortal rulers, and by Roman Law representatives of the People. That's how the spanish empire function, for example, before Bourbon absolutism, the king was restricted by the law of the spanish people
>>18589230Luther supported the Monarchy, not your political freedom. Divine Mandate ordains that secular leaders are ordained to protect the good and punish the wicked, and resisting politically is tantamount to stepping on God's will.So the American Revolution can be posited as a sin because your doing something that is not in God's will. Evading the King's lawful taxes is bad. The King is only ever in wrong when he instructs you by law to commit blasphemy.>>18589263Just like your tax free, AIPAC, Judeo Christian, charismatic, yacht owning, megachurch embezzlement scheme business that presents tithes to child diddling politicians in the Caribbean?
>>18589311People genuinely do not know that absolute monarchism is the result of the decline in the temporal power of the Catholic church.It's a modern phenomenon, absolute monarchy would have been seen as an aberration in the medieval period and the church time and again had to struggle against secular powers encroaching on their sphere. They still do, even if they're mostly asleep at the wheel or willingly looking the other way when it comes to China in particular.Incidental examples, like Richelieu, are the exception which prove the rule.
>Church of the Holy Sepulchreis this really the place where Jesus was buried?
>>18589782yes, if by burial you mean deep down the ditch covered by dead jews dumped there after multiple sacks plus the steady stream of subsersives and petty criminals
>>18589801>This is your mind on capitalismMaybe.>>18589801>Does it help anyone to have american and Chinese scientists working on the same shit with a different polish?I feel like it does. I used to be big into engineering projects in high school and was amazed at the stuff other teams from other schools would come up with that I never would have thought of. If the state has only one group working on a particular thing then they are "putting all of their eggs into one basket" as to say and missing out on potentially better options.
>>18589806>I used to be big into engineering projects in high school and was amazed at the stuff other teams from other schools would come up with that I never would have thought of.That is different. Experimentation is a natural part of science. My question is: should science be financially motivated? Should scientific discovery/progress kept secret because of economic benefit? Theres nothing wrong with working on your own personal project, theres a problem when the only reason you can do a project is because a third party is paying for it and gets to tell you what is relevant and what is not.Right now you have german engkneers trying to find the best way to have contaminating cars that can pass a revision and thats it... no real work being made on making better engines or something like that. >>18589806>If the state has only one group working on a particular thing then they are "putting all of their eggs into one basket" as to say and missing out on potentially better options.Again, you have a capitalist vision of the world... competitions and such are good in our society because it allows for the socialization of knowledge... in a marxist world you wouldn't have differentiated education so there would be no such thing as you having knowledge that others didnt have access to. Its way deeper than just changing x for a y. The way the system is structured changes, thus things cant remain the same. They must adapt yo serve their new putpose.
>>18589548>Socialism doesnt really have a problem with the economy running (different options of products) as long as the means of production arent privately heldNot accurate, the means of production can still be privately held in a socialist system, it's not the same as fullblown Marxism
>>18589822>the means of production can still be privately held in a socialist systemJust because anarcho-capitalism has the word anarcho on it doesn't mean it is anarchism as devised by bakunin or propotkin, you see
>>18589534>when exactly does a Capitalist state become SocialistMarx didn't think that a capitalist state would become socialist. What he thought was that workers would seize political power for a short while and impose a dictatorship of their class. From then on, they would initiate a movement of communization that would socialize the means of production and abolish commodity production.>>18589622No because that would be silly pedantic nonsense. Communism for Marx isn't something you flip with a switch, it's the broad movement of the proletariat (i.e. those who have no capital and must sell their labor to sustain themselves) to change society for themselves. >>18589627>Wouldn't the proletariat who own the economy after the state has withered away just become a new bourgeoisie?Who would be the other classes ? The proletariat represents 90% of the population. The only other classes that exists are the petite-bourgeoisie and the labor aristocracy, and they would likely see little change in their situation.
When did you realize that England, America and Russia were the true heroes of the White race, fighting to save White European Christian civilisation from hordes of yellow-skinned pagan japs, brown italian monkeys, and child-torturing german nazi pedophiles?
>>18588310the last champion of white race
>>18588310I hate cracker subhumans.
Crackers, niggers, chinks, mudslimes, spics all these races need to be exterminated and replaced with the high ANF high CHG race.
>>18588310I really wish Truman didn't fumble the post-war order
>>18588310As an American, I will always admire the bravery of the Red Army more than anything else
Is there actually any sensible explanation for why the neanderthals went extinct other than that they were wiped out in a race war like many groups in known history?
>>18583820It's the opposite, there is 0 evidence of violence between Sapiens and Neanderthal. The closest thing archeologists found was some Neanderthal bones with cut marks, broken skulls etc. Which could have been done by other Neanderthals, and may not even have been a result of violence, just ritual defleshing or starving people cannibalizing the dead.The Neanderthal genocide narrative is just modern people self-flagillating about muh sinful human nature.
sapiens sapiens outfucked them and neandercels depended on big game and as climate changed the species they depended on went extinct.
>>18585417True, but they couldn't throw well due to low center of mass. Throwing spears were really what made Sapiens the dominant specieses.Neanderthals also probably didn't figure out sewing so they couldn't make as warm clothes as Sapiens.
>>18588769They literally did, Denisovans prove this.Denisovans had literal drills ffs.Needles are really fucking archaic actually.
>>18584222Subsahran Africans have no neanderthal admixture yet have shorter gestation periods than non subsaharan modern humans with neanderthal admixture.
Did North American natives use copper before Europeans? I know Serbia used it about 7,000 years ago but I was hoping someone could give me more information about this early metallurgy.
>>18588128>The real mystery is why they stopped using copper tools.>Something to do with a disruption in their cross continental riverine trade network probably.I don't have any 'intimate' knowledge on the situation, but it could have been a simple situation of economics. The readily available 'easy' surface deposits were probably eventually exhausted and the time, energy, and resource/infrastructure, necessary to gather deeper deposits of ore would have made flint & bone tools that much more appealing and easier to use.
>>18588465There are 30 meter deep mining pits dotting the Great Lakes, specifically concentrated around the Isle Royale and Keweenaw Peninsula.These represent some of the oldest metal mining operations known to mankind.They pulled an absolutely enormous amount of copper out of the ground and there is still an astronomic fuckton of it to this day.So much that estimates vary, but all of them are very high. Like, 1.5 billion pounds high. We really have no idea though.This area, IIRC, is the single largest known deposit of pure copper anywhere on earth. To this day it is still an important resource.I don't think they just "ran out". I think a complex wide spanning trade network that drove this economy was disrupted somehow.And it's not a coincidence that around this same time you start seeing substantial defensive fortifications being developed around settlements in the archaeological record.
>>18588465>flintCopper is one of the best materials to use in flint knapping.
>>18588530Michigan’s Upper Peninsula has probably the best copper deposits on earth, veins of pure copper right at the surface. The natives cold worked a lot of copper but never advanced to smelting.
>>18589017>>18589017What people still don't really grasp is that the copper boom in the 19th and 20th centuries basically erased most of the evidence for native copper mining.A *very* recurring theme in this area of study.The fact that what remains is still as substantial and impressive as it is should speak volumes about what the true scale of this activity really looked like over millenia.They were exporting fuck tons of raw copper and finished goods all over the Continent. As far south as literally Florida.A lot of people recently seem to think this habit of utilitarian copper tooling stopped long before it actually did.It, and importantly the trade lanes it propagated along, really did last up until the late woodland period when the use of bow and arrow began to really spread widely and rapidly from the south northwards.They aren't ready to reckon with the fact that a lot of the evidence is just gone now because of both intensive development and grave robbing. Happens to this very day in fact.As for smelting, I suspect you're mostly right.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>be taoist alchemists>try to find elixir of life>create powder of deathwhat did they meant by this
How can anyone believe in evolution in 2026? It's just incredibly retarded.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x_wu5bdaFtM
>>18588508>In particular, there are features of your own design which cannot be denied to have intent without absurdity, e.g. your eyes which you must most absurdly deny to have a purpose of seeing. This function must be pure random coincidence under evolutionism, which demands mockery rather than considerationYou can chart the evolution of eyes in extant species that maintain the primitive conditions.
>>18588176Why would a species evolve to have disordered cognition?
>>18587709Because I learned about Kimuras neutral theory
buddhism and specifically meditation has convinced me that consciousness does not exist. Thoughts are like weather that just comes and goes. Nietzsche said something similar about thoughts coming when they want and not when we want them to
>>18589924>consciousnessYou may recognize the ego as a mask for the self but that does not make it unreal, buddy. Consciousness is part of being human.
What the fuck was his problem?
>>18589807Elaborate, what did he do
>>18589825The Albigensian Crusade for one. Also wrote De miseria humane conditionis which is a pretty unhinged book.
>>18589807German.
>>18589807The Waldensians, Fraticelli, Apostolici, Dulcinians, Cathars, Hussites, Lollards, Savonarola, Luther, Calvin, Socinianism etc. etc. I thought the Pope was supposed to simplify things and prevent heresies from popping up every 5 minutes?
>>18589890Pope can't stop a heresy all he can do is tell the heretics they're retards.
He's right you know
>>18589640To steelman their argument a bit, they meant the early Christians wouldn't have died for something they deliberately made up for personal gain.
>>18589668Plenty of people die for their beliefs for no personal gain. Doesn't mean those beliefs true or just.
>>18589668Not for personal gain, but still a lie it was.
>>18589668>they meant the early Christians wouldn't have died for something they deliberately made up for personal gainIf the early Christians did their utmost to live according to Christ's message, they would have attained gnosis. When gnosis is achieved, the "person" disappears, since you realize the larger picture, in which the "person" is revealed to be a posture and a figment of imagination. At the end, the truth is universal, not personal.
>>18589758Examples? Things they know are lies and are a part of like the disciples. >>18589759https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23UNLLbOS3w
what do you think of the beatnik subculture that came before the hippies?
>>18588708https://youtu.be/sCWbVl4IKpU?si=xR7lJJJT4fyivf8yIn contrast to the drunken Kerouac interview, it’s fun to see Buckley (Harvard) and Ginsburg (Columbia) in full Ivy League snob mode.
>>18588674Kerouac had serious mommy issues, living with her on and off throughout his adult life and dying drunk in their house in Florida. He had some normal relationships with women but still had massive insecurity thanks to his control freak mom.
>>18588990iow exactly like Bob Dylan who also found hippies disgusting and loved that whole Americana bullshit
>>18589002Correction: Buckley went to Yale. Even Kerouac started as an Ivy Leaguer, recruited to play football at Columbia back when they were a major power. William Burroughs went to Harvard and Gregory Corso took some classes there. Whatever you think of the Beats, their founding fathers weren’t uneducated lunkheads. Ginsberg could recite reams of classical verse from memory.
>>18588534At least the hippies had some of that nature worship to them. The beats were just cynical druggie degens that hated themselves even more than they hated society and thought having gay sex was the peak of transgression.
Why does this term cause so much insecurity? It's true and has nothing to do with enlightenment Why does this term cause so much insecurity? Its true and has nothing to do with prejudice from the "Enlightenment."The ancient Roman Empire came to control much of Europe, and all this greatness went beyond territorial control and military capacity; they were global leaders in the intellectual and cultural domains. When Rome fell, a vacuum formed on the European continent and stupidity took hold, all Roman trade networks disintegrated, knowledge was forgotten and dumbed down, and literacy rates plummeted brutally, and high culture died.Denying the decline is confirmation bias! This period in Europe was characterized by a marked economic, cultural, and intellectual decline, when compared to the grandeur of the Roman Empire... damn
>>18586932>Even though the christian population of England wasnt replaced, they just adopted the pagan religion of the next strong men were aroundRetard
>>18588639>The Ostrogoths did not maintain any Romans in their military. Romans, largely senators only existed in the civil serviceThis isn't much of a change from previous decades. Foederati formed the majority of the western army for most of the 5th century
>>18588929Germanics hated Rome anon
>>18588977Germanics WERE Rome, they were 100% of the roman generals, germanics are the only reason why Italy isnt a hunnic province
>>18588639>>18588639They did though.The stationarii fell somewhere between civil servants and the military proper.Insofar as they allowed Romans to administrate, and the stationarii did just that, Romans remained in that role.In retaining the cursus publicus (absolutely crucial to Roman administrative functions) as an institution, they retained those remaining ethic Romans too.That includes the stationarii, as they were a necessary arm of the administration.Think about it like this.Speaking Latin would have been a necessary part of their duties, because they were dealing with a Latin speaking general population.Virtually every Ostrogoth qualified for that position did not speak Latin. So they would have had to cooperate with the Romans in that capacity in particular.It's literally a special case. Anything else would have been totally unworkable.
The Words of the Lord provides you great energy.
Listen to the Lord. Obey Him. And you will feel the energy.
My understanding of Vatican II is that it was done to increase church attendency rates among young people. No Latin because the average person doesn't understand it and thinks it's pretentious. No overt conservatism because they thought the average young adult was liberal.This didn't work, obviously. Not only that, but it turns out the people most enthusiastic about catholicism were the trads. Yet they have done everything they can to silence this faction and make it clear they are not welcome and should conform to the more liberal official stance of the church, as seen by the recent excommunications.Yet conservative evangelical churches continue to grow, as the people who cling to christianity seem to be seeking a harsher, more conservative and rigid faith, not a more flexible one. Even in the third world strongholds of catholicism they are bleeding out and losing faithful to evangelical churches at an alarming rate.Yet, they also do nothing about all this. Their tactics are bad and have done nothing but hurt their own attendence rates, but the most baffling thing to me is how they don't care. There has been to reaction at all from the priests, no movement to reclaim and reconvert apostates, nothing. If you walk into a catholic church in 2026 and try to ask for information you will be met by office ladies who are annoyed that they have to do their own job and priests who don't want to talk to you. Can anyone explain this? Are they trying to commit institutional suicide?
>>18589833>but when you get to the higher degrees they don't tolerate trinitarian autismdont they?
>>18589872IIRC 33rd Degree/Scottish Rite Freemasonry rejects the Trinity, which made Catholics seethe enough to run smear campaigns on them and are basically the source of most Freemason conspiracy theories, the Anti-Masonic party etc
>>18589875where is this stated by freemasons or at least corroborated by someone?
>>18588964>My understanding of Vatican II is that it was done to increase church attendency rates among young people.Wrong, it was a deliberate psyop to destroy the potency of the church and there's still an ongoing project to dismantle the power, influence and legitimacy that could safeguard 2 billion people against technocratic tyranny.I'm not a Catholic, but it's obvious.
>>18589878The Catholic Church's stance on Freemasonry is pretty clearhttps://www.catholic.com/qa/what-does-the-church-say-about-freemasonry
Well? When does life begin? At a conveniently arbitrary point point beyond conception?
>>18588862>So if it were legalIt is illegal, because an alternative would be a medieval Icelandic model of blood feuds.Not due to some innate sense of morality, retard. But an emergent system of checks and counterbalances, a-la cold-war nuclear-weapon dick-waving.Because either an entire human network does not want their fellow productive member to get randomly attacked by a random retard, or some Mr Moneybags does not want his peons/wage-slaves to attack each other instead of profitting him.
>>18588881>dodges the question Gangrape is a matter of legality, not ethics. Because gangrape is legal, you can cry about your asshole.
>>18585402Literally just keep your legs closed or use the pill bitch
>>18585329>Well? When does life begin? It doesn't matter because that's not the real argument, the real argument is uncouth, uncomfortable and leaves very little room for compromise while also being entirely subjective and arbitrary in both cases. The argument is actually whether you value the innocence and potential course of life of an unborn, unfulfilled potential child over the established life and known motivations and desires of an (assumed) adult human. There's no easy answer, and choosing one or the other is based on subjective qualitative criteria. Which is why it just makes us mad and want to punch the other side, both think it's obvious. It isn't. I place greater value on the established life btw. >At a conveniently arbitrary point point beyond conception?Yes, as all things in law lines are established arbitrarily based on convenience, convention and spirit the law was written in.
>>18589724>Gangrape is a matter of legality, not ethics.Yes, and?You suddenly start *liking* being gangraped if it gets decriminalized, moron? No.Does *you* not liking it imply that all humans are equal and that any such activity must on principle cease *because* of *your* empathy? Again, no.Does "not-liking it" suddenly make it a question of ethics? Again, no.Any civility in behavior is still a "mutually-assured destruction" thing. A question of whether you are strong enough not to be fucked with. And that's about it.*If* (and that's a big if) you are a *useful*, *valuable*, *productive* group member, your group can put up just enough resistance, that any perpetrator would think twice and will seek an easier, more vulnerable target. The weak/useless/helpless (aka, lacking any safety network), on the other hand, suffer, have suffered and will suffer. Such is life.
