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Is it better to believe in a comforting lie or to know a painful truth? I've been thinking about this for a while, but I can't come to any conclusion. Pic obviously related.
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In my experience, most "painful truths" are not particularly true at all, but rather are just rationalizations to wallow in self pity and/or feel superior.
Anyway, "painful" is subjective. What's better is to start by seeking truth, then adjusting your point of view in it if you find it painful.
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If muslims believed that semen is produced in the backbone, why did they castrate black slaves by cutting their balls off?
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they didn't believe semen is produced in the backbone, read again
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>>3050159
there are multiple theories about this and these words in arabic can mean a lot more than just that
one theory is that al sulb( the hard) and al taraab (basically the soft) refer to the sexual organs of a man and a woman
another theory was "gushing fluid poured forth" refers to the aorta which according to a book cited by him(Jamal Badawi), Clinical Anatomy, supplies the testes and ovaries with the necessary nutrients and this is what the Quran refers to
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>bought this book maybe 5 to 6 years ago, when I was much more of a pleb (only started reading books not handed out to me from 2009)
>thought it was boring as fuck
>thought it was so boring I stopped reading it and threw the book in the trash
>look at the contents of it now on Amazon, as a much wiser person
>realise that the book is a boring collection of mental masturbation by "intellectuals" that consists of puffed up, purple prosed ramblings or embarrassingly bad attempts to theorise about topics that could never be figured out a priori; or philosophising that consisted of vague or outright wrong assertions
My brain honestly fucking rejects this type of nonsense. To give the Greeks credit (and to try to get you guys to agree with me and not engage in mandatory anti-OP edginess), at least they only aspired to "stoners in the park" tier speculations. This book's verbose and pseudo-profound (and utterly commercialised, as much as people try to ignore it) style is SO fucking boring. SO uninsightful. Filled with SO many half assed false assertions. Works of this style have SO many pseudo intellectuals claiming their profundity and insight and genius.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Oxford-Essays-Books-Prose-Verse/dp/0199556555
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thanks for your useless inside-dopester criticisms
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fuck off retard. This is a history board, go to /lit/ for book shit. & Humanities is the biggest mistake in the history of mistakes.
The war feeds itself
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bellum se ipsum alet
The war feeds itself
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What on earth caused Inperiam Japan and The Nazis to think bellum se ipsum alet ( the war feeds itself) would work in the industrial war age?
Hurdur our own projections show we need 200,500 gl of oil and 50,000 of iron every two years to substatian the navy and replace our loses if war breaks out. Let's expand our frontier, so we can afford to expand our frontier. Keep in mind rationing was already going on at home, and it was hard to get meat or even rice BEFORE the war expansion.
nazis: we need to seizes Russia resources
By 1941 Germans were already feeling hardships at home, which led to tighter and tighter bleeding of the occupied countries, this wasn't a inexsucusable resoruce.
Keep in mind in both cases thier own studies showed they didn't have the materials nerrascy to win the war.
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It was the damn Yanks.
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>>3049702
Keep in mind in 1939-40 fiscal year Japan got over 90% of it's oil from the US before the embargo for occupying southern indochina .
Pic:charcoal burning car converted, common in Japan when oil was rationed to the military
Bellum se ipsum alet worked ok in early medieval times because the population was still recovering from The Fall so there were lots of animals around to kill in occupied areas and trees to cut for timber,
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Today I will remind /his/.
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>You will never be a member of the Praetorian Guard, and watch with barely constrained rage as your twink emperor turns the imperial palace into a harlot's brothel, and on one occasion sidles up to you, playfully grabbing at your manhood.
>You will never have to force the tears back, blood welling in your mouth as you bite your tongue in shame, feeling yourself swell in this smug fuccboi's grip, as it takes every ounce of will to not pull out your blade and ram it down his throat.
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tiberius really was a shit
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Was he really a pedophile?
I remember reading about his "little fishies" once, but to my knowledge, that seemed to only come from one source? (Suetonius, iirc, so not the most reputable of sources)
Can't really seem to find much info on this
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Any good books on this? Basically Slavs went from not existing to dominating entire Eastern Europe.
I've read Florin Curta "The Making of Slavs", and it was good, but he's an archeolog, he shows what might be concluded from evidences, doesn't give out theor(ies)y.
Also, what are accepted theories on Slavic migrations?
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This thread will be mostly Polish ultranationalist revisionism.
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>>3049419
I'm tired of franks, germanics and roman threads.
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Genocided the Finnic peoples, reparations when?
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Is the Abrahamic concept of God "the" God, or just a tribal god elevated to omnipotence?
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>Is the Abrahamic concept of God "the" God, or just a tribal god elevated to omnipotence?
No, it's the original anarchist's cookbook. Nobodies pretending to be somebody. I don't believe for a second the author's intent was piety. "Yahweh" as described by Moses and the Prophets in no way resembles nearly any pagan god.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0mScGJtnB4
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>>3049336
>Is the Abrahamic concept of God "the" God, or just a tribal god elevated to omnipotence?
what does this sentence even mean??
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>>3049336
>Is the Abrahamic concept of God "the" God, or just a tribal god elevated to omnipotence?
1. THE LATTER; ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS HAVE YHWH/SATAN/JUPITER AS THEIR SUPREME DEITY; YHWH/SATAN/JUPITER IS A DEMON, NOT GOD.
2. ABRAHAMIC: JUDEOCHRISTIANITY, JUDAISM, ISLAMISM, BAHAI.
NOT ABRAHAMIC: CHRISTIANITY, MOHAMMEDANISM.
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>the founding fathers would have never supported a single payer health care sys-
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>in order ... to promote the general welfare
It's a goal of the Constitution, not a power given to the government. You tried at least
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>Ay, ay, ay, ay, canta y no llores
Porque cantando se alegran
Cielito lindo los corazones
>De la sierra, morena
Cielito lindo vienen bajando
Un par de ojitos negros
Cielito lindo de contrabando
>De la sierra, morena
Cielito lindo vienen bajando
Un par de ojitos negros
Cielito lindo de contrabando
>Ay, ay, ay, ay, canta y no llores
Porque cantando se alegran
Cielito lindo los corazones
>Ay, ay, ay, ay, canta y no llores
Porque cantando se alegran
Cielito lindo los corazones
>Ese lunar que tienes, cielito lindo
Junto a la boca, no se lo des a nadie
Cielito lindo que a mi me toca
>Ese lunar que tienes, cielito lindo
Junto a la boca, no se lo des a nadie
Cielito lindo que a mi me toca
>Ay, ay, ay, ay, canta y no llores
Porque cantando se alegran
Cielito lindo los corazones
>Ay, ay, ay, ay, canta y no llores
Porque cantando se alegran
Cielito lindo los corazones
Why is Mexican culture so comfie?
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(Guitar)
(Waltz)
>Harvesting my seas, sowing my land, I love my country more.
>My struggling nation, that broke the chains, of slavery.
>It is the land of the Inca, that the sun illuminates, because God commands it.
>And it is that God to the glory, changed its name, and called it Peru.
>It treasures the shores, the fishing wealth, of my sovereign sea.
>In the brave mountain range, the perpetual snow, is the flag of peace.
>The mountain in its veins, will hold the petroleum, of our tomorrow.
>And the highlands, gives us full hands, the Steel and the Bread.
>And it is called PERU,
>with P of Patria,
>the E of Example,
>the R of Rifle,
>the U of our Union...
>My name is PERU, because my Peruvian race.
>With blood and soul that painted the colors, from my pavilion.
>I am also called PERU!,
>with P of Patria,
>the E of Example,
>the R of Rifle,
>the U of our Union...
>My name is PERU, because my Peruvian race,
>With its blood and the soul, that painted the colors, from my pavilion...
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So, how prevalent were war elephants in the ranks of Hannibal's forces? Sources for the battle of Zama show that there were 80, but is this number accurate, or even feasible? More modern sources paint the War Elephants as drains on Hannibal's resources and moral, as he only crossed the alps with one, Surus, or Cyrus.
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We don't know for sure, but a lot of modern historians agree they were probably not very useful. And probably weren't more than 30 or so. Less so when a bunch of them drowned crossing that one river.
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>>3049279
Many other armies put elephants to good use, such as Maurya India, but I doubt elephants are well suited for European winters.
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The founders of the USA, specifically the Federalists of Washington's and Adams' administration had ambitions for DC as becoming the new Rome, the center of the federally centralized USA, and to make it into the largest city in the western hemisphere. However when Jefferson came into power with the Jeffersonian revolution he not only halted all centralization efforts by the federal government, but also completely halted all development on the capital itself, calling it unnecessary federal expenditure and causing the government to be working out of literally half finished buildings for the next several years.
If the USA had stayed on the federalist course (heavily centralized east coast state with the interior of the continent politically subordinated) could DC have fulfilled their ambitions? With the federalists in power the Louisiana purchase becomes much more unlikely, and without the midwest territory and the canals into the great lakes built by the state governments New York City would be much less likely to take off as much as it did in development. Similarly without New Orleans which was the largest city in the US at the time of its acquisition the Mississippi river delta remains under the control of foreign powers, and even if the USA conquers its way inland in colonial wars it still is hampered by the bottleneck at the delta.
Really I am just fascinated in imagining how the society planned out by the early founders, especially Hamilton, might have taken shape.
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Who was the worst SCOTUS justice in history?
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Taney
>war crimes
>pretending that it is possible to be in a position of objective authority to render judgment on this, or anything else for that matter
>pretending that the above phrase is anything other than a meaningless contradiction in terms
On this area of points, Foucault was absolutely god-damned right.
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>>3049055
you're 100% right about this, but that reddit spacing has earned you a downvote my friend.
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It's the state of exception.
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Why did Europeans go crazy over cocoa from the New World when carob was already native and widely cultivated in the Mediterranean?
Chocolate is a bit tastier and has more kick, sure, but it shouldn't that impressive or worth the effort to get it from the tropics when you can grow carob in your garden.
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The point is not to get it from the tropics, but to use the black man to grow it in the tropics. You can't use the slave in Europe.
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>>3049023
But we're using Africans to cultivate our crops in Europe right now.
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Carob really isn't that good