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>Lucius Septimius Bassianus (April 4, 188 – April 8, 217), commonly known as Caracalla, was a Black Roman Emperor who ruled from 211 to 217. Caracalla was the eldest son of Septimius Severus, the first black African-born Emperor of Rome
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>Black
>Roman
>Emperor
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>>2770418
>african
>black
Why cant black people tell the difference?
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>everyone in Africa was black
Human stupidity has no end.
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Do people consent to being born? 2017-05-07 02:58:17 Post No.2770388
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Do people consent to being born?
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>>2770388
Is it still consent if you regret it afterwards, like your parents did?
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>>2770388
No, but it doesn't really matter.
Much like how an unconscious person doesn't consent to paramedics reviving him, but we don't consider it assault for them to do so.
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>>2770388
In a way yes in a way no. People are born because they're ignorant and under illusion, and thus take on birth in the material realm when their true nature is spiritual. Being born is sort of like going off on a long mental tangent with your thoughts. You're blindly making a free will decision at the moment to Carr on the tangent or to take birth, even though after the fact you may wonder why you went off on that tangent or took birth
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Does anybody outside of polfags, SJWs going blame Whitey/The West, Weebs, and Super Jap Nationalists still say the nukings weren't the best option back then?
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Japan had already surrendered before the droppings of the atomic bombs. The nukes were an experiment.
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>>2770091
A few people who think that the Starvation option was, well, an option, but they're a pretty fringe group.
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>>2770104
Also a statement on American prowess and a "we can't leave this up to fate we need to be decisive" so yeah I'd say that it served it's purpose.
I'm looking for free lectures on history. I've been following Tim Richey, Gregory Sadler and "Academy of Ideas". Aside from these, The Teaching Company courses are where I derive the bulk of my "education". What other channels would you recommend that are college level?
Preferably a qt3.14 teacher who doesn't flash her tits around for "views".
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Tee bee aytch, I'd be down for history strippers as long as it was good history and good tits.
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>>2770028
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROBF-F4H0GA
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>>2770035
Thanks
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Has patriotism been good or bad?
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Yes.
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>>2769794
/thread
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Humanities was a mistake
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>>2769741
I don't get this one.
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>>2770117
they're holding a "golden tablet"
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>Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
>Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.
>Unite humanity with a living new language.
>Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason.
>Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
>Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
>Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
>Balance personal rights with social duties.
>Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.
>Be not a cancer on the earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.
Rate the virtue of the Georgia Guidestones as a constitution of government.
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I dunno man can't really argue against any of that shit can you. The rich will probably start culling us all within our lifetime to achieve it.
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9/10
I didn't even know this thing existed, but 9/10.
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>>2769124
They better get on it.
The poor are awakening. Really awakening. The internet changed the whole fucking game.
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Are workaholics hedonists?
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We all hedonists, some are just less honest about it.
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>>2768816
No? Workaholics are usually unhappy in another area of their lives, if they were true hedonists they wouldn't care about anything other than work.
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If it means they are addicted to work, yes, since addiction is getting pleasure in a "do-it-again" way
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Whenever you suffer pain, have ready to hand the thought that pain is not a moral evil and does not harm your governing intelligence: pain can do no damage either to its rational or to its social nature.
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why, thank you marky
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>>2768779
Be like the rocky headland upon which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and the seething waters are laid to rest.
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Say to yourself first thing in the morning,; today o shall meet people who are meddling, treacherous, ungrateful, aggressive, malicious, unsocial. All this has afflicted them through their ignorance of true good and evil. But I have seen the nature of good is what is right, and the nature of evil what is wrong; and I have reflected that the nature of the offender is akin to my own - not a kinship of blood or seed, but a sharing in the same mind, the same fragment of divinity. Therefore I cannot be harmed by any of them, as none will infect me with their wrong. Nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him. We were born for cooperation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of upper and lower teeth. So to work in opposition to one another is against nature: and anger or rejection is opposition.
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>Leave Mexico to me!
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>>2768523
Leave France to me
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For a second there, l thoight that was Maximilian of Mexico and wrote a whole paragraph about how Mexicans are shit-eaters.
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>>2768568
Would he have paid for the wall?
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What was the greatest dream in the history of mankind?
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>>2768522
For my money, global literacy.
So critical. Yes symbolism is rapidly outpacing literature but social viruses and advanced memetics require abstract concepts to be nailed down in language as well.
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I always wanted global language.
Linguistic barriers are cancer.
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It was all a dream
I used to read Word Up magazine
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Historically speaking, why do people fuck each other up the ass? What makes someone go "Hmm, that's the disgusting hole where he or she shoves those foul-smelling turds out of, I better stick my dick up it?" Even without germ theory, people knew that shit spread diseases, possibly well before the advent of recorded history. That's to say nothing of the possibility of siring a deformed mutant retard assbaby, which would be a colossal threat to the mother's health, as well as the emotional trauma involved when it inevitably died. Yet as long as there have been people, there seems to have been buggery, both from men fucking men in the butt, and men fucking women in the butt. How the hell can our species simultaneously be so self-destructive yet at the same time still around?
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>>2768448
good thread
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>>2768448
Have you ever had sex?
Things just sort of happen. And sometimes you're left crying in the shower afterwards but you still go back for more
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>>2768448
every hole's a goal
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Beginner's guide(s) to western philosophy general I guess...?? More specific question relating to my situation below.
Is Plato the best starting point for a comprehensive study of western philisophical thought?
Or should the beginner start with Plato's influences like Pythagoras & (others...? Who tf are the others)?
If Plato is the best starting point, what are some writings - preferably short ones - that give an account of his historical, socio, etc. context?
Is a grasp of greek philosophy even necessary to understand later writings?
I'm eager to hear opinions & questions.
I'm sure this board has some intowesternphilosophy pictures. Post em if you've got em.
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>>2768305
Presocratics dud
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>>2768468
So do you think I should start all the way back at the Milesian school and work chronologically?
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>>2768305
>Plato
>western
Hold on anon
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Is tom holland a good historian?
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le bump
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He's alright. He writes popular history which is aimed at relative plebs. He's a good gateway drug, but he's not exactly a particularly eminent scholar. If you're a newfag he'd be a decent entry point but otherwise I would move on to greats like A.H.M Jones or Osborne.
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>>2767687
this
>>2767892
>He's alright. He writes popular history which is aimed at relative plebs.
as no one really cares about deep history, so I'd say Tom maximizes and minimizes his history books, that is; he writes serious books then writes popular books to make money.
>>2767687
In the Shadow of the Sword, is a more serious look into history that doesn't really appeal to the normie, that was a great book, whereas Dynasty was just regurgitated crap aimed at the type of person who watched the Tudors or similar sexed up bullshit.
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hey /his/, what's a good book to understand Martin Luther and the whole split he started inside Christianism? I don't mind reading about the specific details, but I really want to understand the broader implications of the schism and how it affected Europe in general.
thx
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Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet by Lyndal Roper is an excellent basic account of Luther.
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>>2767534
Try reading your textbooks from when you were 14
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For the whole era, Diarmaid Macculloch, The Reformation.
His Christianity, the First 3,000 years is excellent as well, but considering the scope, Ancient Greece and Israel to 2000s everything gets short shrift, even at 2,000 pages.
He is from a long line of Presbyterian preachers, although he says he's a lapsed Anglican himself. He gets real into the theology and art, music, and architecture of the era. It's a much more religious history than often gets told. I feel many liberals want to reduce the Crusades and Reformation to economics and politics, but he gets real into the ideas and faith too.
I think he's Oxford chair of the History of the Church.