>>106389951
u wat

>>511352029
I didn't know who the fuck that is, but I can tell his piss is the color of a Werther's Original just by looking at that ugly motherfucker

>>511217248
What are you even yapping about?

>>76407006
i chuckled lol

>>510837803
>choose: shit-covered garbage or shit-covered garbage with sparkles on it
>if you don't you're a nigger

>>212268940
Bait or genuinely retarded?

>>936561434
>5'9"

>>714289814
>illegals spics are detained for doing illegal shit
>big deal

>Seems like they were doing OK
By what standard? Great civilizations ≠ destined long-term success. Many Mesoamerican societies were deeply unstable, engaged in brutal warfare, human sacrifice, and political fragmentation long before Castile ever set foot on the continent.

>Big civilizations and they had armies and court systems
Your question implies that these disappeared overnight. Castile Spain introduced written legal systems, urban planning, the university, printing press, and Christianity. The very foundation of Latin America is built on the 'mestizaje' and blending they initiated. I'll ask this: is there any proof that these civilizations would have thrived without European contact?

Japan wasn’t Switzerland, retard. "Sitting back" wasn't an option in the resource-starved, encircled geopolitical death spiral Japan faced post-WWI and especially post-1930s. Japan had to expand or die. The Stimson Doctrine, US oil embargo, and British-Dutch containment policies guaranteed an escalation. Also, Chiang Kai-shek’s regime was corrupt and brittle to the bone, and Tokyo expected a quick puppet regime like Manchukuo. It wasn’t insane at the start.

>>935791555
masochists have it so easy don't they

The Eastern Orthodox distinction between God’s essence and energies is, at best, a convoluted philosophical workaround, and at worst, a theological error that undermines divine simplicity and ultimately fractures God into metaphysical compartments.

The Palamite framework came out of a context of defending hesychastic mysticism, not from consistent theological development rooted in the Fathers. You don’t find this neat two-tiered God in the early Church. You find simplicity. God is one, not divided into unknowable essence and knowable “energies” that somehow aren’t created, yet aren’t God in essence, either.

If grace is “uncreated” but not identical to God's being, what is it? Some kind of divine radiation? A halfway-God? And how is this not reintroducing a kind of Neoplatonic emanationism that Christianity was supposed to leave behind?

God’s operations are God. They aren’t ontologically distinct from His nature. Yes, we experience God differently than we comprehend Him in Himself, but that doesn’t require inventing new metaphysical categories to bridge the gap.

Is this distinction really a legitimate development of patristic theology, or is it a philosophical patch job to justify experiential mysticism? And if it’s not heretical, is it at least redundant?

These threads would be more interesting if the top 9 was about favorite things they'd actually sit down and want to play now, not nostalgia picks from early entries or more obscure ones they haven't played since they were kids for e-cred mixed in with games they'd actually play.

Who the fuck plays Age of empires 1 or Splinter cell 1 over AoE 2 or Chaos theory. Just dishonest.

Big yawn.