Anyone who says “paganism was already on the decline long before Christianity" has no clue how non-Abrahamic religions actually work.The cult of Sol Invictus was not monotheistic nor exclusive, Aurelian still worshiped traditional Roman gods alongside Sol Invictus (and Sol Invictus himself is just a syncretization of the Roman sun god Sol with the Syrian sun god Elagabal), he never sought to displace traditional Roman religious practices like Christianity did. The various mystery cults like Mithraism also heavily syncretized with Greco-Roman paganism as people still worshiped traditional gods alongside the gods of their mystery cult (and oftentimes equated traditional gods with theirs. For example, Mithras was equated with Sol). Historically, religious syncretism was the norm and outside of the Abrahamic religions, it is still arguably the norm. Look at modern Japan for example, according to several surveys Japan is both 70% Buddhist and 70% Shinto at the same time because historically Buddhism tended to syncretize with local religions and nobody ever saw any contradictions in that. Similarly in India, many other religions such as Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism heavily syncretize with Hindu traditions. Besides, “Paganism” itself is just a broad term for all non-Abrahamic religions, so by that definition, religions such as Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, Taoism, Shinto, etc are also all technically “pagan.”The Abrahamic religions with their insistence on “orthodoxy” and “heresy” are actually a historic anomaly. The idea that people can only belong to one religious tradition is an Abrahamic invention that never would have existed otherwise.
>>18248021>it would not deny the existence or divinity of beings such as Zeus, Aphrodite, or Apollo. But your intellect is far too low to understand that.In Christian world view these are no necessarily false, I believe many of them were real entities, but they are simply demonic beings not gods to be worshipped>All polytheists worship the same godsWithin pagan system that's false, but within the Christian system that's actually true. They're all the same demons manifesting with different names all over. That's why you can draw parallels between modern day abortion and ancient child sacrifice ritual, pretty similar
>>18248033They are not “demons,” they are personifications of natural forces. Anyone who says that they are “demons” is a delusional idiot with a poor understanding of metaphysics.If they truly were “demons,” your “one true god” would not have tolerated it for thousands of years. If they truly were “demons,” they wouldn’t have taught people virtue and wisdom.They are not “dead” either, death cannot come near them and if they did somehow “die,” then the whole of reality would have collapsed and we wouldn’t be here discussing this. Oh, and I’ve had all of my prayers to them answered, that alone is enough proof they’re still here.A rhetorical tool used by early Christians has no basis in reality, and is also hypocritical considering Judaism originated from Canaanite paganism.
>>18247945>ElagabalI bet you're the same kind of person that also calls Aten a "Sun" god.Oh, what a coincidence you using a picture of Atena as an OP!
>>18248024It's a secret, but don't worry, you're going to the good place.
>>18247945None of this has anything to do with the reasons people say paganism was on the decline long before Christianity, it's to do with losing its moral authority. Things like accounts of temples being neglected, people not performing rituals as they would have before, and collapsing public morality. I don't know enough about the period to say whether or not that's actually true but this seems like a strawman.
Is post-revolutionary France freemasonic?
Revolution birthed the first Masonic State. The real doctrine, the Supreme Being was an esoteric framework for Masonic hierarchy and natural law. Napoleon was its Grand Master, codifying the initiatory structure into the Napoleonic Code and the Legion of Honour. The career open to talent was a system of profane master grades in the new civil religion. We've been living in the Masonic dystopia ever since.....
>>18245933Yes, with Continental Freemasonry. Not to be confused with Anglo Freemasonry, which is rather different and which the US encapsulates.
>>18247362>Marx (Prussia)Forgot this Sardinian terrorist.
>>18247362Will it ever get better? I'm getting quite tired.
>>18247362unintelligible niggerbabble
THE PATHETIC EMPIRE First it was a War on Drugs remix. Then it turned into regime change. Now it's Pirates of the Caribbean. The Mighty Empire of Chaos has been shrunk to the role of Oil Thief - stealing from a Latin American nation tanker by tanker.
>>18247858>>18247959>REJECT MODERNITY>EMBRACE LOOTING LATIN AMERICA
>>18247959Geopolitical blunders are a proud American tradition!
>>18247858Why seethe on /his/ thirdie?
>>18247966Bring back letters of marque, I deserve the right to privateer
>>18247858Ia this a man?
was Tropico better or worse before or after El Presidente?
>>182472633/4 are peak Tropico, 4 has fun campaign & modern times DLC.I pirated 6 and had fun with it, but it gets tedious. Has no campaign, but a ton of different scenarios. 4 different era with different mechanics/options, and a trade route system that Tropico 5 introduced.>>18247257Me when I max out income with mining & industry, everyone except environmentalists are happy. Still shoot randoms just for fun.
>>182476934 kind of tried to incentivize the player to act more dictatory with the Loyalist faction, but it still wasn't really worth it. They should have implemented some mechanism where higher class people want to loot from the treasury and abuse workers, and if they cannot do that they might coup you.
>>18247257> when the optimal way to to play is just being a normalTropico is one of those games where you basically have to set your own silly goals or do despotic evil things for the fun of it, the game doesn't force you, but it does leave the door open.Also i've seen some builds using edicts and corruption that are pretty OP honestly. There isn't really a right or wrong way to play.
>>18247199After? El Presidente is Eternal you counterrevolutionary swine.
>>18247199Life under El Presidente was great, a literal paradise on earth mi amigo. After the CIA assassinated him and installed Penultimo, things were never the same again.
Why historically do they larp as med?
Southern cone is
>>18248149>we are very white senooor
YOU ARE MENTALLY ILL.
>>18248133You subhuman indian Why dont your filthy family go back to India?
I’m going to post this every day until you remember it
#Texit
Insane this all that was left after the towers fell
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>>18248136Remember the towers, it will end like hne alamo did.
Is the demise of The End of History permanent? Spengler predicted the end of Money as the main power in the world, with Blood overthrowing it, as far as I can see this is a fact, after 2018 it appears every single global event has shown how naive it was to think shared economic interests could keep world peace, we rediscovered for some, no amount of gold can replace some things.
>>18246247Exactly, rather the age of cyberpunk corporations is coming.
>>18246247>Caesar taking over? Nah bro, Pompey has all the money, and anyone can be bought for the right price
>>18247545What was the secret for Caesar's victory?
>>18247934Popularity
Well, if we want to go back being primitive retards with no technology sure, let's abandon money. Leadership is so stupid it's gonna happen
Europeans have made the greatest technological and political/philosophical advancements of all of humanity because they are the most satanic race.
>>18248180Favstian, we shall conquer the stars
brazilian thread
In October 1920, King Alexander of Greece died at age 27 after a bizarre and unexpected monkey attack on the grounds of the royal palace near Athens.Alexander was walking with his dog when a pet Barbary macaque owned by a palace worker attacked the animal. While trying to break up the fight, the king was bitten several times. The wounds became infected, and despite attempts at treatment — including discussions of possible amputation — he died three weeks later.Sudden death triggered a political crisis.
>>18246822Wtf was Brazil's problem
Now that the dust has settled, what the fuck was his problem?
>>18248121>t.
>>18247759He realized that the temple controlled the nation from top to bottom and sought to control the temple>>18248107>>18248110>>18248121>oy vey people know spread the agitating memes
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>>18247759Why did he make up some shitty sun disk deity when the sun-god-king Ra already existed? And people were supposed to worship it and nothing else? Shit headcanon, no wonder it didn't survive past his death.
Tesy
do you consider religion more important or less important than your national identity?Many people subordinate religion to their national identity and are members of a particular branch for historical and cultural reasons rather than how true it is. For instance someone in a culturally protestant part of Europe will be Protestant and someone in a culturally Catholic part of Europe will be Catholic without ever questioning their faith, as for them it is simply part of their cultural and often national identity. What are /his/'s thoughts on that? Do you pick your religion because you think its true or because you think it is the best fit for your particular country/nation/people? Bust of Cicero is unrelated to the topic at hand, I just didn't want to be another frogposter.
>>18247845The religion I'm part of is whatever will benefit me the most at any given moment. The country I'm part of is whatever I'm stuck with.
>>18247851It won't my guy but religious affiliation by its very nature should be more important than the national identity given how most religions dictate the very foundation of reality and morality rather than who you associate with.
>To the distinguished Character of Patriot, it should be our highest Glory to add the more distinguished Character of Christian.A man can only serve his people if he consents to serve Heaven first. Anyone who disagrees is simply an atheistic materialist who doesn't understand this life is only an imperfect reflection of a higher order, which is something everyone believed in the distant past. So there's simply no debate as far as I'm concerned, unless you're willing to stretch the definition of religion to include people who are "culturally" religious. Authentic believers will naturally prioritize the eternal over the temporary.
>>18247859>Average Theocracy enjoyer.I hope you find your way to heaven as soon as possible.
>>18247855>It won't my guy but religious affiliation by its very nature should be more important than the national identity given how most religions dictate the very foundation of reality and morality rather than who you associate with.would that mean that, perhaps, the majority of those born into particular faiths are not genuine believers as they only adhere to it for cultural reasons? I am reminded now of how in many places it was once required to adhere to a particular sect to hold political office, and so as a result many members of a religion were only members so far as it allowed them to access political power.
After the American revolution, bongs began arming their brownoid colonial policemen in colonies like egypt, australia, berma and india with these intentionally retarded Martini Henri or SMLE single shot muskets that shot these retarded periptery single ball cartridges that were like 12-24 gauge (it's a weird necked down all brass shot shell) or like a .303 bong cartridge necked up to .410 with a .410 ball.There is some confusion about them because a bunch of bongs took enfields after WWI and WWII and reamed them out to .410 because bongolian loiscencing laws made it easier to own a shotgun than a rifle because the bongaloid aristocracy were worried about a russian style commie revolution and the fact a lot of the indian muskets and greener police guns that got imported to the US got bored out to .410 or .12 gauge so they could take normal ammo. They did that with webly revolvers too. A bunch of American imported Webly revolvers were bored out to .45 acp which is super fucking unsafe
>>18248145I mean, it's a better solution than the Spanish strategy of disallowing anyone but the military from having guns. Which didn't even prevent rebellion lmao.
>>18248145>After the American revolution, bongs began arming their brownoid colonial policemen in colonies like egypt, australia, berma and india with these intentionally retarded Martini Henri or SMLE single shot muskets that shot these retarded periptery single ball cartridges that were like 12-24 gauge (it's a weird necked down all brass shot shell) or like a .303 bong cartridge necked up to .410 with a .410 ball.Why are you using an event almost a century removed from the events you describe as a landmark?Might as well have started with >At some point after the Norman Conquest, bongs began arming their brownoid colonial policemen...
>wins civil war>immediately ethnically replaces themselves >realizes this by the 1910s, freaks out, tries to stop it with 1924 immigration law>its too late, the north is now a slav-kraut-scandi-wop mutt abominationI guess the Confederates got the last laugh.
>>18246688The funny thing about all the illegal immigration to the US is the fuckers have jobs lined up over here often by criminals back in their origin countries. That's how the mob got over into the US, they owned the people coming over. Italians worked under the padrone system which was wholly controlled by the mob. Irish similarly were organized by irish gangs originating in ireland
>>18247827>It's hard to believe now, but the Negroes and the climate were seen as a genuine barrier to promoting immigration at the time.>derf there's a scary black man in town help me /pol/was it that hard to not be racist, guys?
>>182440891910!?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hSEwy8ZORc
he's still mad he lost a war he fought for jews and his states are infested with blacks
KEK it's the kentucky nigger
So these guys built exactly zero institutions on their own. Even the postal service was set up by foreigners.
>>18245798Do they not teach history in turkistan? They famously had a very effective postal service
Institutions are inherently violent and they were the most adept at violencec.f. Blood Meridian
>>18247621Mongols should invade pre-Alaskan people instead Japan, Java or Vietnam
>>18247279>>18247281Chinkspamer, if you used your prodigious research prowess to do anything else but create ridiculously biased copy-pastas against your ethnic enemies (like me, the Iraqi Pedophile living in Sweden) and people that historically humilliated China. You could do some really amazing things.
>>18248163Name a single error in any "copy pasta".
>>18248083>You suffered from your own countrymen the very things they suffered from the Jews, who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men, hindering us from telling the Gentiles how they may be saved
>>18248083I had nothing to do with events of 2000 years ago. Why am I blamed for them?
>>18248099If I considered myself a non-violent Nazi would you consider me a bad person?
>why do you hate Jesus? God? The Bloody Virgin perhaps? Because you touch yourself at night thinking of fat wiccans
>>18248072I'm so glad that I'll never know what it's like to be as low IQ as you. You should get a lobotomy. :D
