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Redpill me on Bodhidharma.
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>>3298060
apparently dude was comfy AF
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>>3298060
is that jesus dalai lama christ?
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>>3298060
What do you want to know about him?
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Why were pre-modern people so much more comfortable with death ? 2017-08-27 01:47:27 Post No.3298027
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Why were pre-modern people so much more comfortable with death ?
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One of the most highly funded "private" research movements right now is immortality. People seem to increasingly shy away from dying . Not that people of old were exactly happy to, but they seemed more accepting?
Is it because they had to deal with death personally more than we do now? Is it because they were more religious? Is it because they had better shit to do than worry about dying all day? Is it because they had balls of wrought iron?
I'm not afraid of dying per se, but do wish it were a bit les personal. I mean everybody dies but we can't even just enjoy being dead together (as far as I know, anyway).
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The first emperor of China died swallowing mercury thinking it would make him immortal, and he spend a fortune on research and expeditions in trying to find immortality.
People always where scared of dying and tried to escape it
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Thoughts of death are a great comfort for most people because they lead mediocre existences due to their mediocre genes, wanting immortality makes no sense unless you were born genetically supreme.
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>>3298039
Nigga have you ever heard of Xu Fu and his journey for the elixir of life
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>tfw this guy was right about basically everything
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>>3298008
He was right about islam
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>>3298008
>make an ideology which is against nihilism and about becoming a superman who is strong enough to create his own meaning in life
>literally say that nihilistis are a bunch of subhumans who are too weak to make their own meaning
>today edgy neckbeards cite him to prove how dark and nihilistic they are
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No he was not
Still somewhat thought-provoking
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Technological Revolutions 2017-08-27 01:33:26 Post No.3297994
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>be in Katy, Texas
>Harvey busy molesting Texas
>me chillaxing indoors
>heavy as fuck rain outside
>watch YouTubes, suddenly internet cuts off for 15 seconds
>think to myself "fuckin' hurricane"
But immediately afterwards I thought to myself at how the biggest problem I have with a HURRICANE rampaging itself just 3 hour drive away from me was just my internet connection. Truly the modern age is the best time to be alive.
What is/are the most important technological invention(s)?
For me, my favorite is the internet. Provides an outlet for introverts.
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>>3297994
The integrated circuit, also known as the microchip, is the basis for almost everything we use on a daily basis now.
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>>3297994
so you live in a proper house not one made out of plywood and drywall?
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>>3297994
It makes little sense to name one invention the most important. New technology doesn't appear out of nowhere but is built on older technology. You could argue that the first invention would be the most important then, whatever that was.
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What was Libya like in the 20 years leading up to Gaddafi's coupe?
Was the social structure similar to Saudi Arabia, as I heard someone assert the other day, or is this a dumb comparison?
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>>3297983
If you speak french here is a good video on the subject
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AUjN1-rNkWw
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>>3297983
Gaddafi's Libya was almost secular socialist state to Saudi's oligarchic islamist shitfest.
They both fueled their economies with oil and little else though.
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CK2 has exposed me to the wonders of ultra-autist Christian sectarianism and I can't help but find it genuinely interesting
As a matter of fact, without googling can any Christians here even note the differences between these sects?
>catholicism
>catharism
>fraticellianism
>waldensianism
>lollardism
>orthodoxy
>miaphysitism
>monophysitism
>bogomilism
>monothelitism
>iconoclism
>paulicianism
>nestorianism
>messalianism
Really makes you realise how unsophisticated modern christianity is.
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>>3297943
>>lollardism
LOL
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Yes, for almost all of them.
Partly because I read Christianity the First 3,000 years and the Reformation both by some Oxford chair of religion.
The others because they are in Eco's Name of the Rose.
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Here's is all you need to know about Christian sectarianism.
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So.. Was it justified? Did those poor Hungarians deserve to be sectioned up like the piece of cake it was?
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>>3297935
>likes medieval Hungary for fuck all reason
>doesn't know anything about their history
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Yes, they were as complacent as the Germans in the oppression of minorities.
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>>3297941
>German oppression of minorities
>WWI
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People who had the looks, but were stupid as fuck
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Why is there a dildo in that photo
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I started to think that Hitler had a race-related fetish.
Like, what else would explain his spurg outs about breeding and territories?
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>>3297955
Checked!
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>>3297961
thanks anon
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>>3297955
why is John Green's existence even being acknowledged here?
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How do Jared Diamond fans reconcile with this?
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>>3297837
mosquitoes
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Gee, I wonder, why there's no African civilization in the middle of Sahara based on exploiting uranium or in the middle of the Kongo Jungle based on exploiting diamonds?
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>>3297837
This refutes none of his arguments, which are based on terrain, wildlife and impossibility of agriculture.
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What did exactly Trotsky mean by this?
>We must turn Russia into a desert populated by white negroes upon whom we shall impose a tyranny such as the most terrible Eastern despots never dreamt of. The only difference is that this will be a left-wing tyranny, not a right-wing tyranny. It will be a red tyranny and not a white one.
>We mean the word 'red' literally, because we shall shed such floods of blood as will make all the human losses suffered in the capitalist wars quake and pale by comparison. The biggest bankers across the ocean will work in the closest possible contact with us. If we win the revolution, we shall establish the power of Zionism upon the wreckage of the revolution's funeral, and we shall became a power before which the whole world will sink to its knees. We shall show what real power is. By means of terror and bloodbaths, we shall reduce the Russian intelligentsia to a state of complete stupefaction and idiocy and to an animal existence... At the moment, our young men in their leather jackets, who are the sons of watchmakers from Odessa, Orsha, Gomel and Vinnitsa, know how to hate everything Russian! What pleasure they take in physically destroying the Russian intelligentsia - officers, academics and writers!’
https://archive.org/details/ZionismAndRussia
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>>3297801
Sounds like a fake quote.
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>>3297801
Good fucking riddance
Trotskyists were a fucking plague even without stormfront fanfiction like this and Stalin was entirely justified in wiping them out
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is there still a /his/ discord?
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>>3297792
No, the Freemasons killed it.
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Remember these days, when Britain declared war to China to sell them hardcore drugs ?
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>>3297782
He was a good friend
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>>3297782
This is a simplistic view of the Opium Wars. It wasn't about the opium itself, it was about trade and access to the Chinese market, it was about sovereignty and dominance in East Asia, it was about the finances of the empire and the EIC, it was about imperialism and the control of Chinese territory and markets.
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>>3297847
>it was about trade and access to the Chinese market,
To sell opium
>it was about sovereignty and dominance in East Asia,
To sell opium
>it was about the finances of the empire and the EIC
To sell opium and so that the English could get their tee
>was about imperialism and the control of Chinese territory and markets
To sell opium
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historically speaking, what's so good about france?
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>>3297761
there is nothing good about anything if your sole aim is to shitpost and rile people up about it
leave
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>>3297761
they set a precedent
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>>3297761
Very good soils, plenty of rivers, surrounded by water
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*Rules China*
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>When you're technically emperor but the palace you live in is already a tourist site and you look out your window every morning to see tourists walking around so you close the blind and go back to fucking your last remaining concubine
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>>3297759
Did emperors really have power? Id wager that the eunuchs hold all the power.
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babby Puyi is pure.