Societies don't have to be secular to be modern

Started by citizen k, October 23, 2009, 02:15:53 AM

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Eddie Teach

Which of Napoleon's generals were closet atheists?
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

crazy canuck

Why did God, if he exists, allow this to happen in the first place?

grumbler

Quote from: Alatriste on November 03, 2009, 08:28:11 AM
Grumbler, did you read this theard at the 'Napoleon Series' forum?

http://www.napoleon-series.org/cgi-bin/forum/archive2006_config.pl?md=read;id=70881
haven't in years.  It used to be a great site, but then turned to diatribes and phony "history."  there is no site like the old Napoleon Series, alas.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Viking

Quote from: crazy canuck on November 03, 2009, 02:36:36 PM
Why did God, if he exists, allow this to happen in the first place?

God is a Grognardtard.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

The Brain

Quote from: crazy canuck on November 03, 2009, 02:36:36 PM
Why did God, if he exists, allow this to happen in the first place?

Well in all fairness He just gave Al Gore free will.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.


Razgovory

Quote from: The Brain on November 03, 2009, 12:37:12 PM
Bernadotte's is the only Napoleonic marshal's baton I have seen in the flesh so he gets my vote as the greatest ever marshal.

They made them out of Flesh?  Ewww.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Malthus

Quote from: Razgovory on November 03, 2009, 03:08:10 PM
Quote from: The Brain on November 03, 2009, 12:37:12 PM
Bernadotte's is the only Napoleonic marshal's baton I have seen in the flesh so he gets my vote as the greatest ever marshal.

They made them out of Flesh?  Ewww.

The fact that Nappy only had a tiny baton made him more aggressive.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

CountDeMoney

Quote from: Ed Anger on November 03, 2009, 09:09:47 AM
Isn't this more fun than religion?

It certainly beats the shit out of ACW threads.  I mean, how many ACW hijacks bashing McClellan, praising The Hammer and The Anvil, and goofing on Stonewall's pickets can you have?

Ed Anger

I always have room for laughing at the deaths of Stonewall and Stuart.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Alatriste

Quote from: grumbler on November 03, 2009, 02:37:22 PM
Quote from: Alatriste on November 03, 2009, 08:28:11 AM
Grumbler, did you read this theard at the 'Napoleon Series' forum?

http://www.napoleon-series.org/cgi-bin/forum/archive2006_config.pl?md=read;id=70881
haven't in years.  It used to be a great site, but then turned to diatribes and phony "history."  there is no site like the old Napoleon Series, alas.

You tell me. The 'bricole' war, for example, was unbelievably pathetic.