what was the aztec religion actually like from an unbiased POV?
>>18412939Impossible to know.
>>18412943Lizardmen are a different faction you shouldn't confuse them with Chaos Warriors retardhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IYumKcoJOU
>>18412965Nobody cares dumbfuck
Mesoamerica history anon here.You're asking us to sum up an incredibly broad topic: "Religion" includes different deities, holidays, rites, beliefs, myths, etc.Ask some more specific questions and it's easier to give an answer.
>>18412939The closest thing to Aztec religion on Earth today is Vedic and Chinese traditional religionIt's decentralized but gods follow some archetypes, every city has their own version of the gods. Festivals/ritual calendars are very important for the populace. Also Aztecs had their own zodiac calendar which was separate from the agricultural calendar. The big difference is obviously people aren't openly human sacrificed in those religions now but apart from that they're very similar
The Book of Job is about love.Change my mind.
>>18412940I didn't say it was a gnostic work, though I guess my using the word "demiurge" instead of "creator" might've given that impression. And I said it was my new headcanon, not that I thought it was what the author(s) of Job genuinely believed.>The Gnostics wanted to see a complete break of Christianity from Hebrew tradition, and discarded the old testament entirely.Nope, that's only the Marcionites, and technically only allegedly since we only have the word of their opponents, not their own books.https://ogdoas.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/gnostics-and-the-old-testament/>The Gnostics did not view the Old Testament as flawed and contradictory as many skeptics did (including Marcion). What the Gnostics did was discard the doctrine of monotheism, and they proceeded with the notion that different theological principles were speaking in the diverse texts.
https://youtu.be/UmfORYNqAhM?si=NTjr08yHpV3voZsv
>>18413029oh you're right, I did mix up Marcion and the Gnostics in my head there. But I just went back and checked my notes and found one particular tract from the Gnostic "Second Discourse of the Great Seth" that stuck out to me, where Jesus says:>Adam was a joke. . .Abraham was a joke, as were Isaac and Jacob. . .David was a joke. . .Solomon was a joke. . .The twelve prophets were a joke. . .Moses was a joke. . .He did not know me, and none of those before him, from Adam to Moses and John the Baptizer knew me or my siblings. They had instruction from [Yaldabaoth’s] angels to observe food laws and submit to bitter slavery. They never knew truth and they never will, because their souls are enslaved and they can never find a mind with freedom to know, until they come to know [the immaterial Christ]. . .[Yahweh] was a joke, for he said ‘I am God, and no one is greater than I. I alone am Father and Lord, and there is no other beside me. I am a jealous god, and I bring the sins of the fathers upon the children for three and four generations’ – as though he had become stronger than I and my siblings. . .He was a joke, with his judgment and false prophecy. (483-4)As you can see there, that text is ready to toss the Jewish roots of Christianity into the waste bin, to dismiss the entire Old Testament as a misguided and illusory fable.
>>18413084>to dismiss the entire Old Testament as a misguided and illusory fableIt's very derisive toward the significant figures of the Old Testament, but from the whole passage it doesn't look like it's throwing the characters and the lore itself out as entirely fictional.http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/2seth.htmlTranslates "joke" as "laughingstock" which doesn't include the possible connotation of nonexistence.There were Gnostics like the Simonians who leaned heavily enough into interpreting the Old Testament allegorically that they might be accused of considering much of it to be fictional, but then they found a lot of value in how they interpreted it, so I wouldn't call that entirely dismissing it either.
>>18409522>The Book of Job is about love."For Yahweh so loved Man, that he allowed his family to be brutally butchered to death, and for him to be strucked with every torture and disease, just to win a bet he made against Satan"- The Bible or some shit ig
> (1) the concentration of production and capital has developed to such a high stage that it has created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life; (2) the merging of bank capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this “finance capital,” of a financial oligarchy; (3) the export of capital as distinguished from the export of commodities acquires exceptional importance; (4) the formation of international monopolist capitalist associations which share the world among themselves and (5) the territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers is completed. Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capital is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.WWIII is beginning with the criminal assault on Iran because the current world power, the American Empire, is decaying. The American oligarchy is trying to open markets in the Middle East and pivot against China and Russia. It is historically determined by the material conditions. But the gravediggers of the capitalist system, the working class, can create an anti-war movement.
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>>18411884It's not as simple as that. Lenin's imperialism simplified is more that the powerful countries use resources from the poorest colonial countries to keep their own first world working class happy so that they don't get the idea to overthrow them. This evolved into the 'labor aristocrat' theory of Maoists.
very cool, now do this one
>>18411884You say that but the ruling classes always hide their crimes by dressing them up some empty platitudes like “fighting for freedom” or “fighting for democracy” and uneducated proles eat that right up. Speaking the truth is always necessary.
>>18412061It's crazy how total the victory of communism has been long after 1991. Now you can find Chinese peasants and liberal women in Western urban centers repeating this drivel as if it were a self-evident fact, even though it's just as false now as it was then. It's funny how the desperate attempts to make Marx's failed predictions compatible with the 20th century have more traction now than any of Marx's actual ideas.
What was the worst year to be alive in all of history?
>>18412089Hello yes it is my first day on the Internet and I don’t know how to right click and inspect.
>>18408998Tai Ping Rebellion. Famine leading to cannibalism + widespread plague, in addition to the military deaths.
>>18410568Eh, you’re really not convincing m8. I’d much rather be a nobody in WW2 America than a nobody during the Black Death.
>>18408998I'd say living in Delhi during 1398 would've felt pretty miserable.
Good job to the leftoid faggot crying about politics who got the post explaining why the present is the worst time in history to be alive.Proved every single point in that post correct.
Would anything be meaningfully about our timeline if South Africa had kept its nuclear weapons?
>>18412973No. Who the fuck would they use it as deterrent for? Nukes are costly to keep and maintain and their use as a deterrent alongside the whole "no one would fuck up their own and the global economy for a shitty invasion" reasoning got holes poked into it.
>>18412973considering no one has invaded SA even without a nuclear deterrent, and they have not been threatened with the use of atomic weapons by another country, or been in a position where making threats with atomic weapons would be useful, I'm gonna say no
>>18412973The big reason that they got them in the first place was because they feared a scenario in which Soviet backed communists from Mozambique and Angola would zerg rush S. Africa. They obviously didn't need them for that after 1991. And disclosing that they had them and getting rid of them was a part of their coming clean period and trying not to be a international parish anymore after apartheid.
>Minimum age for marriage in Christianity: 14.>Minimum age for marriage in Judaism: 12.>Minimum age for marriage in Islam: 6.Explain this.
>>18411534That settles it for christian societies, but what about the chinks?
>>18410187>both were never consummated I sleep.
For me, it's John, King of England>Isabella was Queen of England from 1200 to 1216 as the second wife of King John, Countess of Angoulême in her own right from 1202 until her death in 1246>John married Isabella whilst she was relatively young—her exact date of birth is uncertain, and estimates place her between at most 15 and more probably towards nine years old at the time of her marriage>Chroniclers recorded that John had a "mad infatuation" with Isabella, and certainly the King and Queen had conjugal relations between at least 1207 and 1215; they had five children
>>18410561A betrothal is not a marriage, Sanjay
>>18413072cope Aquinas the pedo also talks about those having sex with girls that have not attained puberty
Is it true the serfdom and social arrangement of the Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth was way more brutal and discriminatory compared to the West?
>>18411237I actually think their alphabet is somewhat cucking them. Even their literature is great but the alphabet makes foreigners, including other Slavs like me, shy away. I have no idea why not use a Slovene or Slovak like alphabet.
>>18409979Not really in the old part of the crown, yes in the eastern territories
>>18410000The thing is that peasants who actually were forced to work on folwarks were the one that owned land as you paid tax to your landlord by labour , not coin. They have also acess to common grounds, like forest and pastures. In coin starved economy it offered peasants reliable survival. Richer peasant owned more ''free'' labour to his noble. It lead to peasants sending hired hands to work it out, some peasants even rented land from nobles and have their own hired hands work on it. That in old part of the Crown.There were also plenty poorer nobles who worked their own land by their own hands. Or working together with their own serfs.In the east it was different. With plenty of land grants it lead to sort of colonial economy and dreaded Arenda System.It was leasing land(and peasants) for a fixed sum of money to ''investors'' mostly jewish origin. It worked as well as you can expect.
>>18411131>You could be peasant, merchant or even jew (after conversion) and become Polish nobleI remember reading something about how the nobility would basically test each other by exceptionally strict social convensions and behaviour (including knowledge of Latin) to see whether the other person was truly blue blooded, or just some commoner posing as a noble. There was even a book calling out various people who had claimed to be nobles, but failed to behave appropriately at some point, thus leading the author to believe they were filthy commoners and liars.https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liber_generationis_plebeanorum
These comparisons are always farsical because there was hardly any capable foreign threat in the Americas unlike Slavic lands where the word for security is quite literally combination of two words “without harm” signifying the mentality of the ever present pitched battle or raid looming overhead putting a serious damper on colonies, enterprises and infrastructure let alone cheapness of human life.
And if you believe in the wrong one you’ll experience hell fire forever
I go back and forth on Christianity every dayOn one hand>the only reason people aren't Christian is because they want to jerk off and smoke weed>Jesus makes kikes seetheOn the other>99% of Christians are functionally retarded and most are literally brown>universalist slop>pagans are retarded, orthobros are corrupt retards, catholics are gay and brownWhat's a nigga to do?
>>18411783Meant to say protestants are retarded. But pagans are too i guess
>>18411783>What's a nigga to do?Think about that you don't know when you're going to die and be judged and that sitting on the fence is still making a choice. Of all the three I would recommend Orthodoxy to you as genuinely the most authentic but recognizing Jesus in any tradition is still infinitely better than not, and as you learn and develop more, you'll pick up on things that will allow you to make a more informed choice in that area anyway.
>>18411675Where's Rome?
Why is anybody still christian after God sent his final prophet (Muhammed)?You think you can just pick and choose prophets? God WAS infallible until he sent Mohammed, and now you can just close your ears to His word?
Alright Christians. Let me get your strange middle eastern deity straight. He:>used to have a tail as a fetus (a tailed deity)>had his foreskin cut (the rotten matter exists in the world to this day)>shat and pissed>had morning erections if he was healthy>was a zombie>is somehow also a ghost (on the level of existense of the unicorns)>used to orchestrate genocides by Jews (as a different person(WTF???))And I thought Hinduism was weird!
>>18411971It seems like Christians believe Jesus had low T levels because he didn't like how women looked
>>18411014>you should worship my god because, uh, he raped himself into a teenage girl and that's based
>>18411974>Lost his divine making properties...No he didn't? That's why he could commune with the Father and Spirit on command, speak with authority of the natural and divine processes at play, forgave sins, and made a new covenant.Jesus was both fully man and fully God. Not 2 halfs, 2 wholes in 1.>Believe he had to...He didn't have to...>Would you worship holy shit?Duh
>>18412479>No he didn't?He lost his omni properties, his immortality, etc. Of course he wasn't a God anymore. Everything else you said other humans did as well.>He didn't have to...Yes because he could have just forgiven sins and no human sacrifice was needed.>Christian confirms he would worship poop if it came from the man he loves mostchecks out you don't believe eating shit is a sin
>>18410806He was gods human form sent to earth so he lived like us
>I was promised dancing boys, abi - where are my dancing boys?1. You're an Ottoman magnate2. How do you escape being executed?
>>18411998blame it on the Kurds
>feministYuck. Probably deserved the execution, not the boys.
Who is the worst President in the history of the United States of America?>The Confederacy does not count.
>>18411967>multiple US city districts got razedGhetto areas predominantly populated by Blacks and corporate business districts, they and their White Leftist supporters know full well not to bring that shit to the suburbs.
>>18410656Wasn't it john tyler who set the stage for the csa? Or am i thinking of another white boy?
>>18412416Anon they rioted at a federal courthouse. They fucking tried to storm the White House to the point where Trump had to be rushed to a bunker, which of course the news cycle covered as Trump being a coward (extremely ironic now after the jan 6 hysteria)
>>18410580>FDR>Wilson>LBJ>Lincoln>TrumanHonorable mention of Eisenhower and a certain orange jewish man
>>18412448Nobody was any danger from these rioters, other than liquor store owners.
>are you telling me the live in caretaker of the 100 percent deaf and blind lady who writes books promoting socialism is also a socialist and whos husband is a socialist literary critic as well? what a crazy coincidence! why were boomers so fucking retarded
>person with socialist convictions hangs out with other socialists instead of with rightoidsis this supposed to be a surprise?capitalism/lack of worker protections made a lot of people blind and deaf in industrial accidents btw
>Almost 500 years after your death>Catholics and women still seethe over youHow was one man this based?
Have you seen the Episcopal/Anglican church lately?
>>18412383Neva would’fe happened if ol’ ‘enry was still ‘round.
>>18412330>The first meeting between the couple was a disaster: Henry tried to surprise Anne by disguising himself as a peasant, believing that she’d fall in love with him instantly as per the traditions of Courtly Love. But he was instead humiliated when the sheltered Anne was shocked, rather than lovestruck with the old, obese, badly dressed stranger who burst in and attempted to kiss her. Though she reacted politely and warmly when he returned in his kingly regalia, the damage to his dignity had been done. Henry claimed that it was Anne who was ugly and that he considered her too ugly to marry, saying “I like her not” and allegedly calling her the "Flanders Mare."What a madlad
>>18412438He then decided she was the sister he never had funnily enough.
>>18412438those clothes are absolutely ridiculous
Why is Nietzsche's sister nearly unanimously considered unreliable by people nowadays, is it only because she held different political views from Nietzsche?
There is no god!
>godless socialist society >engages in mass murder on an industrial scaleim noticing a pattern
>>18413024The god fearing US has engaged in many mass murders through the 20th century to this day. It's part of the human condition it seems.
