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>>9922512
the treaty of kiel in 1814 is always important, how the declaration was signed at Eidsvoll and Norway-Denmarks fighting on Napoleons side under the napoleonic wars and being Norway being seceded to Sweden after the end of the war then to gain full independence in 1905
Also a Coup de´at by Vidkun Quisling in 1940 allying Norway with the Nazsis.

Those are some key points,

>>9922484
why'd u write the shit in ballpoint

>>9922402
by finding out how it is, through suicide

>>9922402
Pussy

>>9922323
twitter and facebook

Try Peter Turchin. He has developed a model about societal decline. "Secular Cycles" is the most dry one. "War, Peace and War" is a popsci version of that book. And "Ages of Discord" is specifically about the model and the state of American society now.
I suggest, if you are interested, to take a look at his blog. He covers some of what is said in his books there. He could of course turn out to be wrong but he presents a testable model, unlike other certain historians for example.

>>9922362
Those books suck.

>>9930290
Nomos of the Earth - Schmitt
Concept of the Political - Schmitt
World Order - Kissinger
Diplomacy - Kissinger
War by Other Means - Blackwill, Harris
Homo Sacer - Agamben
State of Exception - Agamben
Prison Notebooks - Gramsci
Main Currents of Marxism - Kolakowski
Seeing Like a State - Scott
Tragedy of Great Power Politics - Mearsheimer

>2 Chomskys
>literally baiting
>please don't post more bait on my thread

blowback - chalmers johnson

>>9922321
The epistemic a-priori and posteriori distinction can be separated into a metaphysical component constituting necessity and contingency. Something like water is H2O is one example of a-posteriori necessity. Descriptivism about proper nouns is wrong, definitions actually pick out the objects they refer to because they are rigid designator across all possible worlds ergo, essentialism is true and philosophy is actually more than just an analysis of language, but can actually reveal substantive truths about the constitution of reality

>>9922719
>definitions actually pick out the objects they refer to because they are rigid designator across all possible worlds
>rigid designator

Brainlet here. Can you unpack that phrase? Or provide an example somehow? I want to understand essentialism.

>>9922719
>philosophy is actually more than just an analysis of language, but can actually reveal substantive truths about the constitution of reality

like what though? Philosophy never produces "Truths", just questions and techniques for not quite answering them

>>9922254
what fucking books have you been reading?

>>9922260
Books and posts with throwaway comments about heaven and church billboards and all kinds of paintings going back hundreds of years.

>>9922273
I have never come across this. Name one [a book, not a billboard etc.].

teach him to masturbate

>>9922246
honestly just kick his ass

>>9922290
I won't be asking for a whole book if that was that simple...

>>9922223
your to stupid to read this book. dont worry about it

>>9922227
> Still doesn't give any reason why he liked the book

>>9922233
>he

Rate mine too

I think he's obsessed with me. Ive seen him hanging around a few more times this week. Always with that creepy stare. I thought he was cute when we first met, I should've never engaged him. But how was I supposed to know? How was I supposed to be prepared? To find out that my stalker was a goddamn platypus.

>>9922219
You're a functional analphabet, desu

Aggressively shitty. Stilted language, pseudo-philosophical unironically, failure to use the semicolon correctly... reads like a dumb person trying really hard to be smart.

It's fine to move on from things if you don't want to make your life philosophy.

Virtually everything has diminishing returns.

>>9922203
Reading Being and Time now. It's literally nothing. I could be learning about history or cooking or meeting people and I'm busy with "the being-with itself has its own being, which is the full expression of being of Dasein in its being-itself-ness" He doesn't even argue anything or try to demonstrate anything. It's literally meaningless. There's no value to be gleaned from these pages, there's no way this changes how anybody thinks or sees the world.

Frankly the fact that you've moved on from acaedmia into the corporate world shows that you don't give two shits about philosophy. You need it now more than ever.

I've never read Tolkien, actually, but my days off playing Angband have made me a lot more interested in the Silmarillion than LotR.

I liked the part where Morgoth accidentally made clouds and snowflakes.

>>9929939
why is it called the the silmarils

>>9929796
Tell us more. Any idea what you'd want your dissertation to be on?

>>9929796
Worth it? Not even slightly. There is no future, no security. If you pay off my loans, you're welcome to my doctorate. You'll never get a tenure-track job. I teach part-time at two colleges now, and both are slashing number of courses and quadrupling class sizes to stay afloat. I could rant for days about the absurdity of the system, how much work you do for free, etc., but you'll please yourself.

>>9930116
did you go to a good school

>>9922176
Fahrenheit 451. Might as well complete the trilogy.

"The catcher in the rye"

V or Fahrenheit 451 if you're looking for similar stuff, or try the /lit/ entry starter kit, someone might post it here

>>9922162
>Bill Shakes
>implying I've read your literally who D-list playwright

oh I've got the shakes alright

>>9922162
As You Like It