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They are like a band of Poles after a good party?

Feral wrote:

They are like a band of Poles after a good party?

Those are more like Slaneeshi

Dragatus wrote:

I don't see what's Polish about the Khorne berserkers.

Listen to the noise they make in the link. Does that not sound Polish?

Not to me.

Your ears are wrong.

Not enough kurwa.

There is a merit to this suggestion...

Very good, well researched piece.

I still consider the project unrealistic due to local political instability, state and on-state in origin (Boko Haram, GIS).

Besides, that would have been the end of Amazon forest, as it is almost entaierly dependent on phosphorus supply from the Chad basin.

I gotta catch up on watching.

Tat was honestly painful...

I actually did 9 of the 10. The only one I haven't is #10 on the list, the Ebony Warrior. I only got to level 80 on one of my Skyrim characters and that was so I could get the legendary dragons to spawn and kill one for the achievement. After that I stopped and started a new character.

Wow, you did bettr than me. I missed the Hircine quest (Shame, I know), Mages Guild Reinstatement (as a Telvanni through and trough I do not like them that much, but do not brake the ruls stil. German blood, you know?), and Nord burial. I did the Ebony Warrirr, though.

My memory is rusty, but I think I got kicked out of the Mages Guild after I hit some by accident when shooting destruction spells at the targets in the arcane university. It's either that or I was caught feeding on a fellow guild member as a vampire.

"It was either a simple mistake, or cannibalism."
Well done.

Yo Feral, check these out

Well, a good find.

Strict religions that demand societal participation were generally sucessful troghout history.
The Strict Church Theory explains this well. I feel an elephant was overlooked in the room, though: Islam. It is both a religion, code of law and a form of organizing the society all in one, and with high cost of leaving coupled with high investement/ high sharing. No surprise it is so successful. Compare and contrast with low investement, lax, internally disintegrating Catholic Church, that expelled all strictures and liberalized according to the worst Protestant template. No wonder churches are converted into mosques, not vice versa.
I could speak from personal experience too: the thing is too lax even for a notorious sinner like myself. Yet I too value the moral framework a religion gives, even if you do not believe in it. It gives social order through transcendentently based values, in contrast to values given/agreed to by men. We agreed to it? We could topple it! And chaos creeps in. As Dostoyevsky put it, if there is no God, you could koll yor father. With the assumption of not getting caught, of course.

Well... Gnosis is not new. From what I know it was written in third century, so long after the four Gospels. The sources of the authors remain unveryfied. Still earlier that other noncanonical, apocryphic gospels.
The idea of secret hidden knowlege is antithesis of Christianity. Compare the Sermon on the Mountain.
Seems like a cult leader tried to rise to the top of the hierarhy by toppling existing leaders through undercutting their authority steaming apostolic succesion.

Feral wrote:

It gives social order through transcendentently based values, in contrast to values given/agreed to by men. We agreed to it? We could topple it! And chaos creeps in.

I see no difference between values agreed by men and values that men agreed are transcendent. Indeed, you could say the successful values obtain the "transcendent" garb after they've been successful.

Feral wrote:

As Dostoyevsky put it, if there is no God, you could koll yor father. With the assumption of not getting caught, of course..

This was and still is a shitty argument. One cannot seriously look into the bible, quran or talmud and honestly believe that the chronicles of the tribal squalor of iron-age illiterates gives a transcendental blueprint of values, and that without them society would crumble. How did civilization arose, from Mesopotamia to China to Egypt to Greece, if none of these civilizations had access to "the transcendental values" of christianity or judaism? Did Moses and his lot, when leaving egypt and before receveing the commandments, could have thought that murdering your neighbour to take his wife is okay?

ThePhilosopher wrote:

This was and still is a shitty argument. One cannot seriously look into the bible, quran or talmud and honestly believe that the chronicles of the tribal squalor of iron-age illiterates gives a transcendental blueprint of values, and that without them society would crumble. How did civilization arose, from Mesopotamia to China to Egypt to Greece, if none of these civilizations had access to "the transcendental values" of christianity or judaism?

They had their own sets of such values, some simmillar, some not so to the judeochristian set. Some of those civilisations survived, some vanished. Analyzing why and which of them vanished provides certain insights. Egypt is no more, but China whith its transcendent Confucian ideology thrives.

ThePhilosopher wrote:

Did Moses and his lot, when leaving egypt and before receveing the commandments, could have thought that murdering your neighbour to take his wife is okay?

There are still societies that think like that... Not only in Africa or Oceania.

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aLjqEpP_460svvp9.webm

At your own risk.

Feral wrote:

They had their own sets of such values, some simmillar, some not so to the judeochristian set. Some of those civilisations survived, some vanished. Analyzing why and which of them vanished provides certain insights. Egypt is no more, but China whith its transcendent Confucian ideology thrives.

So how would you know which values are "transcendent" and which are not? Simply look at the nation that is currently thriving? Accept whatever the closest man in robe tells ya? Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world right now, does that mean that it follows more "transcendent" values than christianity?


@Draggaterino: hasn't lindy been ranting about this topic for like, 8 years now?

Yes, but this time he teamed up with Matt Easton and they got a bunch of people to fight.