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>>2911749
>nothing happens for 1800 years

Are we talking about Europe or China here?

>>2911775
China of course

Europe is "nothing happens for 1000 years, then America"

>>2911480

For most of history "actress" and "prostitute" and "whore" were considered basically synonymous. Only with the advent of motion picture did this change.

"""roman""""

Prokopius talked serious shit about everyone around him though. Called Belisarius a cuckold and thought Justinian was incompetent.

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>>2911412

> Why then would any American not ask this question? Seems pretty obvious from the perspective of anyone from a liberal western democracy that this is a political system that needs to go, that has failed its people and failed to live up to basic, universal ideas about what rights a government needs to respect and protect. They’ll have heard the argument that China’s leadership has succeeded in other ways: it has allowed China to prosper economically, lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty, creating a substantial and comfortable middle class with expanded personal (if not political) freedom. And the Chinese Communist Party has managed to ensure a relatively long period of political stability, with orderly leadership transitions absent the political violence that had accompanied nearly all others until Deng Xiaoping’s ascent.

> "Yeah, but so what?" asks the American. "Anyone who would trade a little freedom for a little personal safety deserves neither freedom nor safety,” he asserts, quoting Benjamin Franklin. He quotes this as gospel truth, ignoring the irony that many Americans advocated just such a trade in the aftermath of September 11. That aside, why shouldn't he quote it? It’s deeply engrained in his political culture. Political liberty is held up practically above all else in the values pantheon of American political culture.

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>>2911420

> The American myth of founding sees the Puritan pilgrims, seeking a place where their brand of Protestantism might be practiced freely, crossing the Atlantic in the Mayflower, creating en route a quasi-democratic quasi-constitution, the Mayflower Compact, landing at Plymouth Rock in 1620, and over the next 150 years growing into the colony that would lead its 12 sisters into rebellion for freedom from the "tyranny" of King George III. Americans hold the ideas enshrined in their founding documents very dearly, and can't really be blamed for doing so: they are, after all, some very high-minded and frankly very beautiful ideas.

> What he doesn’t quite appreciate is the precariousness of the historical perch on which these ideas—ideas he holds so strongly and believes so ardently to be universal truths—ultimately rest. Americans, like everyone else for that matter, tend not to take much time to understand the historical experiences of other peoples, and can't therefore grasp the utter contingency upon which their own marvellous system rests.

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>>2911422

> And would the Reformation have been possible without the rediscovery of classical learning that was the animating spirit of the Renaissance? Would the Renaissance have been possible without the late medieval thinkers, such as Abelard, who sought out to subject theology to the rigors of Aristotelian logic and reason? Would all this have been possible, if not for the continuous struggles between Emperor and Pope, between Guelph and Ghibelline factions—partisans for the temporal power of the Vatican and Holy Roman Emperor? The fact is that this series of historical movements, eventually carving out politics that was quite separate from—indeed, explicitly separate from—theocratic control, was only really happening in this small, jagged peninsula on the far western end of the great Eurasian landmass. And in the rest of the world—the whole rest of the world—none of this was happening. Political theology remained the rule with rare, rare exceptions.

> What we've now taken as the norm and the correct form for the whole world—liberal, secular, democratic, capitalistic—is truly exceptional, recent, rare, fragile, and quite contingent.

He was a damn commie

He was a damn socialist

he was a damn bolshevik

It's the only religion that makes sense tbqh

>>2911570
why?

>>2911580
Panthiest. Only way of thinking that makes sense.

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>>2911230
all the abrahamic faiths are poison. I much prefer the east. No Dogma, you opt in just by existing. You try to live a selfless and compassionate life and you are accorded an afterlife fitting your karma.

>>2911254
It's funny if you look at Jewish mysticism it's almost a carbon copy of Hinduism.

>>2911260
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_iEPbmpuxk

>>2911189
You have no idea what a bullet, especially one from a semi automatic, does to the body do you? Also by proxy, you will get a bad infection and have lead introduced straight into your body. Also, the ancients didn't have to work about battle fatigue so much as we do(partly because war was glorified but that is another thing). You can't get shell shock from barrage of arrows. Perhaps some form of trauma over all, but not to the same depth.

>>2911189
No one says that industrial war is more painful, it's just widely accepted that it's more gruesome. This is because the technological advancements of modern warfare mean that killing can be conducted in a much more efficient manner than medieval or classical warfare.
To contradict your point, however, who's to say industrial warfare isn't more painful than medieval or classical? Who's to say you'd be blown up instantly by an artillery shell and wouldn't instead have your legs blown off and slowly bleed out? Who's to say you wouldn't be caught in a gas attack and cough your lungs up or be shot through the throat or groin? Unironically believing that industrial warfare isn't as bad or worse than earlier forms of warfare is just wrong and smacks of the old 'lel guns are dishonourable, a true warrior uses a sword xD' arguments.

>>2911189
Who says that? both can be extremely painful. phosphorous and incendiaries that burn flesh are extremely agonizing. I think the idea is that modern warfare is much more likely to kill civilians since now urban centers are targets, as opposed to pillaging and massacring a city after the battle is over or a chance of a merciful conquerer as it was in the pre-industrial age. But now its pretty much a given that non-combatants will die

>>2911185
The kurds are posting their women all over the place. Last year some /k/tards enlisted in the PKK. I wonder if they are dead.

>>2911185
The Soviet Union did, as do the modern Kurdish forces in Syria.

>>2911185

If you put in an Israeli city as a location tag on instagram all you see is goblins though. Not even anti-semitic btw.

There needs to be a philosophy board

>>2910970
>I have had more experiences but I will not tell them.
Go on....

>>2910970
>Wow let's talk about how great is drug, how high they let me, how the liberate, 4:20 bro.

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The Messiah came 2017 years ago and Jews ignored him.

>>2910894
>What is wrong with this picture?
you're taking it literally

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>>2910904
Those who didn't like the cut of his jib did

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>>2910864

If I heard voices in my head telling me random shit and preached on the street I'd be institutionalized

If a maniac 300 years ago hears voices and preaches about it he becomes a holy figure

Yes.

>>2910808
answer me anon.

did it sustain itself.

No, that's why they started invading everyone

>>2910812
this. they were bound to step on the wrong toes, and they did. if it wasn't the US, it would've been someone else.

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>>2910756
How is your relationship with your biological father?

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>pitifully puny self-important human creatures think their purely conventional and utterly puerile moral notions apply to the supreme being
top kek

>>2910769
I think you missed the point.

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>>2910713

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this is an idealization, but probably something like this

like normal fucking boys creep

My anhedonia went away after I stopped taking my antipsychotics. I don't care if I end up in the psych ward for the seventh time in my life, life in the antipsychotic haze is simply not a life worth living.

>>2910677
honestly, the psych ward is pretty comfy

playing rummy all day, having a rigid schedule, no worries about food or laundry. it's almost like a vacation

Schizoid with anhedonia here.

Learn to stop being a retard. Go with your needs. You want to be alone and not socialize that much? Go be alone and don't socialize. Anhedonia works well when you're educated, otherwise I don't know how retards with anhedonia deal with it.

I don't have issues with anhedonia, the symptom covers potential backlash normals think we suffer from.

In the words of some rapper, Just B Ur Self