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>Depressed
>Lonely
>Destitute
>Hideous
>Mere fen-land farmer
End up founding a 17th century republic, becoming the most powerful commoner in British history, one of the most consequential human beings in history generally, genocide the Scots and kill 1/4 Irish.
What do Ye sordid prostitutes make of Oliver?
Not counting Messiahs, what /his/torical figures started from such inauspicious beginnings and rose so high?
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He was a cunt
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>Leave Cromwell to me
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>>3132556
I prefer Fairfax in that he has a lot less controversial baggage surrounding him whilst still being a True Anglo Warrior.
Cromwell's Interregnum served as an ideological inspiration for Revolutions both American and French - that alone is a major contribution to history that is often neglected.
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Post the best presidents of their respective country
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>Not Coolidge
kys
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Just to make it clear to any burgers who happen to find this thread, your glorious republic of peace, freedom and prosperity is NOT the only country in the world with a president, that is, there are other countries which are republics which also have a president.
Surprising I know.
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>>3132538
No one implied that you kike faggot.
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>Go into any museum today and you’ll find a white marble statue or two.But as it turns out, most of the people they were modeled on weren’t actually white - just whitewashed.
>This past spring, Sarah Bond found herself at the center of an unexpected controversy. Bond is a classicist, a profession that doesn’t really attract conflict, especially about race — until she wrote an article about on ancient statues and something called “polychromy,” an academic term that essentially means“lots of paint.”
>Bond’s question was simple - paintings from Ancient Rome and Greece show a wide variety of skin tones that reflected a multi-ethnic society.Julius Caesar, for example, is generally depicted as a white man, when in fact historians believe he probably had a much darker, Mediterranean skin tone.So why are these statues always presented in bare marble?
>“We’re interacting with something that is a fiction.It’s something that was transmitted to us because paint gets rubbed away,” Bond explains. “But at the same time it’s not something that is a reality, it’s a fiction that we really like telling ourselves.”
Vice:
https://news vice com/story/marble-helped-scholars-whitewash-ancient-history
https://archive.is/MeEXw
HBO:
https://youtu be/86PD8o6xe_4
https://hooktube.com/86PD8o6xe_4
Discuss the colored marble theory, that is supported by a lot of chemical analyses of antiques.
Will we abandon the white figures, or keep them as a romanticized version of the past?
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>there's something white people are proud of that us universities haven't fucked up yet
>let's fix that
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>>3132435
But science went there before political activists did.
There are traces of dyes on all the marble sculptures, and you can recreate the color.
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So she's freely admitting that Italians aren't white.
Is she /ourgirl/?
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Was he /ourguy/?
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>>3132325
A little, yeah. Nobody liked him, he enjoyed history, gambling, drinking and women trampled on him.
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>>3132325
A little, yeah. Nobody liked him, he enjoyed history, gambling, drinking and women trampled on him.
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>Merely pretending to be retarded
Yeah he was
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Historically speaking, why do social conservatives always have the shittest policies that everyone hates? Is it some kind of inferiority complex they have against the vibrant freedom and equality that liberalism promotes that causes them to be edgy with their policies?
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>>3132296
if you told a child to clean their room and you'd give them candy vs don't do anything and you'll give them someone else's candy, which do you think they'll prefer?
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>>3132307
But won't the free market supply candy to the kid regardless of what the government does?
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>>3132317
it'll do its best but the government mucking up the candy supply and redistributing it will ruin supply and demand
suddenly we have people who used to rely on trading candy for labor unable to do so, because the government is stealing candy from others, and giving it to those who do no labor
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Does matter proceed consciousness or vise versa?
Give it to me straight, no bullshit.
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>>3132288
yes
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>>3132291
Prove it.
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>>3132306
Delete parts of my brain and my thought is affected. Delete all of my brain and I stop thinking entirely.
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How much do you hate philosophy?
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Science > Philosophy
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define your terms
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>>3132269
Depends on what you're trying to do
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Where did the American accent come from? If our English is descended from British English, shouldn't we all be speaking as the Brits do? I can understand linguistic drift accounting for different word usage, but shouldn't the overall sound still be about the same? I mean just look at Australia and New Zealand, they still sound pretty damn British. Us Americans and Canadians though, we're something else entirely. Why is that? At what point in history did we go from speaking like Brits to speaking like Americans?
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>>3132240
are you retarded or just pretending to be the next king of spain?
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>>3132242
Yes
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>>3132242
answer the fucking question
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Wars, Revolts Linked to Solar Cycles 2017-07-24 06:37:35 Post No.3132219
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Wars, Revolts Linked to Solar Cycles
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>As early as 1915, some scientists were beginning to recognize connections between solar activity and human behavior
>This work began with Russian scientist Alexander Chizhevsky, who observed that mass changes in human behavior correlated to sunspot cycles
>By these comparisons he constructed an “Index of Mass Human Excitability” covering each year from 500 B.C. to 1922 A.D. He investigated the histories of 72 countries in that period, noting signs of human unrest such as wars, revolutions, riots, expeditions and migrations, plus the number of humans involved. Tchijevsky found that fully 80% of the most significant events occurred during the years of maximum sunspot activity
Read more at: http://www.thoughtpursuits.com/flip-suns-magnetic-field-shift-human-behavior-within-weeks-nasa-research/
https://neuroresearchproject.com/2012/09/03/war-linked-to-solar-cycles/
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>>3132219
That's interesting, I want to look into this.
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I can't find any source on this that doesn't sound like pure conjecture or apophenia. It doesn't really make any biological sense either. Some animals have sensitivity to the magnetic poles, but that's generally due to adaptations involving migration patterns. Magnetic variation could cause a detrimental effect in human mood, but blaming solar activity for all violent conflicts wrought by mankind is akin to astrology.
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>>3132219
>1915
>wars are linked to the sun!
>biggest war in history already started a year ago
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Meanwhile, on bizarro /his/...
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pedophilia is wrong
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>>3132191
I agree with this post in its entirety.
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Arthur Harris was a monstrous war criminal who murdered innocents of Germany (a beautiful country with an amazing and laudable history).
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Is it just me, or is there something oddly modern-seeming about Ancient Egypt?
I can't quite put my finger on what it is. Maybe it's just my total misunderstanding of what their civilization was like. But there is something about their society that reminds me of the modern day, a certain vibe that seems relatively egalitarian and cosmopolitan except for all the Pharaoh stuff.
Am I just totally misreading things?
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>egalitarian
This may come as a shock to you but not everyone wuz kangz in ancient Egyptian society.
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>>3132159
Well, they were almost certainly more advanced than us now, so it's not that far of a stretch that they seem to remind you of society today. Despite the fact that they were matriarchal for a long period of time
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Depends what period you're looking at. There were times when it was very feudal and "medieval" in a sense, such as Tutmoses III reign. But late kingdom, when contact with Greece and Rome was at it's height, was very metropolitan. Magic, for instance, was now freely practiced by everyone who had an interest and not just the priestly class. It became more individualistic and fashionable. Likewise, it became easier to move about beyond the Nile valley.
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How do you deal with your existential burden, /his/?
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>>3132134
by being a neet n proud.
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>>3132134
one day at a time
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With 3am panic attacks
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>Jews finally get there own country
>is filled with Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews rather than Ashkenazi and is surrounded by Muslim countries so it turns out to be a shithole
What a tragedy.
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their* own
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Mizrahis and sephardis don't have the phenotype ASHKENAZI women crave.
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>>3132125
Damn straight.
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Is there a philisophical reason for why we should care about other people?
The physiological and evolutionary reasons are easily understood but I don't see why we should care for others besides our brain chemistry ordering us to
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Lack of empathy is a sign of sociopath
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>>3131987
Humans are inherently social creatures that rely on the pooling of our collective talents to achieve things. Division and lack of empathy are counterproductive to this.
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So they care about you when you need it.
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Based on how people mature, what's the optimal age of consent (to both prevent genuine abuse and allow voluntary sexual relationships)? If you argue it should be >16 years, why are you going against historical social concepts of maturity (and biological sexual maturity)?
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>>3131985
18, because I remember being a teenager, and I was fucking dumb.
There should be a clause however that it's not rape if the other partner is under 20, but 16 or older
tl;dr, 16-19 year olds shouldn't be statutory rape, age of true consent/adulthood should be 18. Drinking age should be 18.
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10 or 11
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>>3132006
Reasonable but given when puberty usually starts (and when it really gets going) I'd err on the side of caution. 12-13