Most Inspiring Moment in History

[Capitolinium]

Within the whole context - Obama 2008 would have to be right up there.

And his hard-earned peace prize?

Seconded.

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This isn't the "Favourite Movie Moment" thread.

What's that supposed to mean? Are you some lunar landing conspiracist?

[The Victorious Dragon]

This is HERESY!

I call out the heretics here, HERETIC (or troll). Stop believing stuff that no one ever believed.

Anyway, back on topic, it has to be the crucifixion. If I have to choose something that's not religious, I'll go for the Rainhill Trials.

[Genivaria]

Within the whole context - Obama 2008 would have to be right up there.

And his hard-earned peace prize?

Seconded.

This isn't the "Favourite Movie Moment" thread.

What's that supposed to mean? Are you some lunar landing conspiracist?[/quote]
Yes he is actually.

[Greater Nilfgaard]

Within the whole context - Obama 2008 would have to be right up there.

And his hard-earned peace prize?

This isn't the "Favourite Movie Moment" thread.

What's that supposed to mean? Are you some lunar landing conspiracist?

Yeah. Thats exactly what he is.

[Priory Academy USSR]

All I can say is God works in mysterious ways. Perhaps he makes the world seem and feel round to help with modern navigation. Or maybe at some point in the past few thousand years the world stopped being flat and he peacefully made it into a sphere.

I don't know. Nobody does. Except God, and those who follow him.

God is dead, foolish man.

Indeed. Being overwhelmed by His Noodly Appendages is an unfortunate way to go.

[Kleomentia]

God is dead, foolish man.

Indeed. Being overwhelmed by His Noodly Appendages is an unfortunate way to go.

HAH, he has proof God exists. Oh no wait...

[Kvatchdom]

To me, it was probably following the Canadian election in 2011. I didn't know much back then, and I was more of a Social Democrat than a Democratic Socialist back then. I was disappointed that Layton didn't win, but I was so happy. Jack Layton's death was a whole other thing. His speeches took me.

However, that's the past. The NDP is still Social Democratic, at least, when the European labour and social democratic parties have all gone to Neoliberal positions. It's killing me. Hopefully NDP won't ruin itself.

[Delanshar]

To me, it was probably following the Canadian election in 2011. I didn't know much back then, and I was more of a Social Democrat than a Democratic Socialist back then. I was disappointed that Layton didn't win, but I was so happy. Jack Layton's death was a whole other thing. His speeches took me.

However, that's the past. The NDP is still Social Democratic, at least, when the European labour and social democratic parties have all gone to Neoliberal positions. It's killing me. Hopefully NDP won't ruin itself.

Damn comprehending Canadian Politics is like trying understand Martian.

[Chinese Regions]

God sucked my dick.

This is HERESY!

No this is Patrick

[Romalae]

The establishment of the Principality of Sealand.

[Britannic Realms]

If the world is flat, then please tell me why this is possible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumnavigation

All I can say is God works in mysterious ways. Perhaps he makes the world seem and feel round to help with modern navigation. Or maybe at some point in the past few thousand years the world stopped being flat and he peacefully made it into a sphere.

I don't know. Nobody does. Except God, and those who follow him.

The Bible isn't meant to be taken literally. Religion and science aren't mutually exclusive.

In answer to the thread, I believe the most 'inspiring' moment in human history should be where freedom triumphs over totalitarianism, or, it should a moment that opens up the door to a new and better world.

Therefore, I choose the Battle of Britain and the result of the 1945 general election.

I wouldn't choose the Battle of Stalingrad, because that was just tyranny triumphing over other tyranny. What made it worse was the fact that both sides were awfully savage and it was in Russia.

[Serrland]

Also, when Dido got to what would become Carthage. The North African king of that region told agreed to give her as much land as could fit within a cow's pelt. Joke on her, right? Not so much! She turned cut the pelt into a really long strip and draped it around a large hill - claiming all of it. Clever as can be, if you ask me.

Nevermind that it never really happened.

[High Nalograd]

All I can say is God works in mysterious ways. Perhaps he makes the world seem and feel round to help with modern navigation. Or maybe at some point in the past few thousand years the world stopped being flat and he peacefully made it into a sphere.

I don't know. Nobody does. Except God, and those who follow him.

The Bible isn't meant to be taken literally. Religion and science aren't mutually exclusive.

If the Bible is meant to be interpreted however we want, then why bother writing it.
Sure I suppose it's ok to try and interpret it in a modern context (cause obviously in Biblical times they didn't have computers). But we must still follow the word of God as closely as possible.

[Cameroi]

I agree

God is dead.

i don't agree with either. "god" is something no one actually knows anything about. 'jesus' was the 23rd poor bastard it choose to be channeled by. nothing more nor less. nor was his execution directly related to his teachings. but more to the militence, justifiable, granted, of his youth, of which only one example is allowed to remain cited in the 'christian' literature.

[Greater Nilfgaard]

God is dead.

i don't agree with either. "god" is something no one actually knows anything about. 'jesus' was the 23rd poor bastard it choose to be channeled by. nothing more nor less. nor was his execution directly related to his teachings. but more to the militence, justifiable, granted, of his youth, of which only one example is allowed to remain cited in the 'christian' literature.

Militance? Against the Romans?

[Britannic Realms]

The Bible isn't meant to be taken literally. Religion and science aren't mutually exclusive.

If the Bible is meant to be interpreted however we want, then why bother writing it.

Because every biblical story has a moral message that forms the basis for Christianity.

[Farnhamia]

If the Bible is meant to be interpreted however we want, then why bother writing it.

Because every biblical story has a moral message that forms the basis for Christianity.

What's the moral lesson in this story from 2 Chronicles 1?

14 Solomon accumulated chariots and horses; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses,[a] which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem. 15 The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig trees in the foothills. 16 Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and from Kue[b]—the royal merchants purchased them from Kue at the current price. 17 They imported a chariot from Egypt for six hundred shekels[c] of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty.[d] They also exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and of the Arameans.

[Samuraikoku]

What's the moral lesson in this story from 2 Chronicles 1?

14 Solomon accumulated chariots and horses; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses,[a] which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem. 15 The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig trees in the foothills. 16 Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and from Kue[b]—the royal merchants purchased them from Kue at the current price. 17 They imported a chariot from Egypt for six hundred shekels[c] of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty.[d] They also exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and of the Arameans.

Bronyism dates back a long time.

[Ceannairceach]

Although I am an overly zealous fan of the Byzantine Empire, especially Constantine XI Palaiologos, I have to say that the fall of the last vestige of the Roman Empire is something of an inspiring event. It paved the way, in many ways, for the creation of a new civilization, a new world in which an imperial Rome was no longer necessary or even existent.

[Farnhamia]

What's the moral lesson in this story from 2 Chronicles 1?

Bronyism dates back a long time.

[Priory Academy USSR]

Because every biblical story has a moral message that forms the basis for Christianity.

What's the moral lesson in this story from 2 Chronicles 1?

14 Solomon accumulated chariots and horses; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses,[a] which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem. 15 The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig trees in the foothills. 16 Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and from Kue[b]—the royal merchants purchased them from Kue at the current price. 17 They imported a chariot from Egypt for six hundred shekels[c] of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty.[d] They also exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and of the Arameans.

Import-export businesses don't pay off in the long run?

[Farnhamia]

Although I am an overly zealous fan of the Byzantine Empire, especially Constantine XI Palaiologos, I have to say that the fall of the last vestige of the Roman Empire is something of an inspiring event. It paved the way, in many ways, for the creation of a new civilization, a new world in which an imperial Rome was no longer necessary or even existent.

Well, but the "new civilization" was already in flower in the West by 1453 (1460, when the Turks took the last last vestiges). And the Empire had been a vestige for a good century by then, too. The Romans never really recovered from the sack in 1204.

[Greed and Death]

The sacking of Rome. It was the typical story of the principled men overcoming the onerous burdensome tyranny.

[Farnhamia]

The sacking of Rome. It was the typical story of the principled men overcoming the onerous burdensome tyranny.

Which sack of Rome?

[The UK in Exile]