why does this make me angry
>>2528726
Because Persia was a cool and richly cultured empire prior to islamisation, after that the Islamists destroyed vast amounts of information, architecture, technology and just generally acted as a scourge on civilisation
It's incorrect.
Persia was majority Zoroastrian for about five centuries after they were conquered by Muslims.
>>2528738
Khorasan flourished like never before after the Islamic invasion.
Everything changed when KHAN'D.
How the FUCK do you manage an Empire of this size ?
>>2528695
You don't die at the age of 33 but live another 20 years to have an adult heir.
That alone would pretty much solve the problem entirely.
>>2528705
this
>>2528695
> going to the ammon-oracle
what did he mean by this?
How did MENA pick up so many prohibitions?
>Egyptians ban pigs
>Judaism bans women's hair, shellfish, and drawing pictures of God
>Islam bans alcohol, women's anything, and drawing pictures of just about anyone
>Berbers put veils on the men instead of the women to shake things up
>>2528621
Alcohol is particularly intriguing. Was Muhammad just SJWing? It seems he genuinely believed in prohibition, and slowly introduced it to his followers.
Still, there has to be a socioeconomic reason for the been.
Weird rules make religions seem more legit. No, really. Not even fedora. Liberal churches lose a lot of members to more conservative ones because the believe and do anything you want attitude includes not believing anything at all.
I read somewhere that alcohol is supposed to be a tier below "100% forbidden" and more along the lines of "discouraged" in traditional Islamic orthodoxy and that hardcore prohibition against it in muslim societies only started in the last 100 years. I dunno how true that is.
Daily reminder that states borders have no rhyme or reason to them and the only reason one plot of land is sovereign and another isn't is the conscious agents of history.
>>2528600
Fuck off, cultural marxist.
>>2528600
>no rhyme or reason
>decided by conscious agents for reasons
Dude what
Are you still in your "I just realised that the human world is not a mathematical object" phase
>>2528651
Leave OP alone, he still has 2 more years of highschool. It's a big thought "for him"
how can you like any other period of paintings more than baroque?
1. Romanticism
2. Baroque
It's a close second though
>muh nature
When will Hollywood make a movie about Otto Skorzeny starring Thomas Kretschmann
Oberst Kurt Steiner from The Eagle Has Landed is loosely based on his character.
>>2528446
that has got to be one of the worst mustaches i have ever seen for a historical figure
That dude has got to be one of the most bad ass dudes in the history of the world.
Also, anyone else annoyed that on the last Sabaton record, 'the last stand'. The last song is about the last battle of WWII when the SS went to get the french political prisoners and Sabton sang from the point of view of the Americans?
WTF. The SS were literally fighting for a lost cause because they believed in it and making a literal last stand. Meanwhile the US and some traitor German soldiers had infiinite resources and numbers and somehow they are the heros making a last stand?
What a joke.
Why don't more left-wing philosophers take a page from Ayn Rand's playbook, and insist that collective economics is in everyone's best interest? Too often I see left-wingers justify socialism by saying how it's the moral thing to do. But we are not motivated by what is moral, we are motivated by self-interest, so they should argue how socialism is in all of our self interest.
Yes they should argue that putting the collective societies' interest above the individual is indeed in the best interest of the individual, not just whoever is in control of whatever monolithic unchallengeable monstrosity of a government could pull off making that seem normal.
Collectivist logic as circular and obtuse as ever. When the numerous examples of history cant be used as proof of the failure of a poor concept, resort to base pandering to the exact instincts that cause said poor concept to fail every single time.
>>2528403
Is she actually a good author?
Or do people only care about her social/political views?
I'm asking because I have a copy of atlas shrugged and was only able to get about half-way through it a few years ago. If anyone can tell me it gets more interesting later on I might give it another try.
>>2528449
She's a retarded version of Nietzsche.
What are you supposed to do when you've become bored of the material world?
Go the welfare office and embrace a life of minimalism and asceticism.
>>2528404
I don't care about those things honestly
Go innawoods for a while. Like wait for winter then go out into alaska and try to survive.
>dude life would be better if we got rid of ideas like family, friends, law, disease, etiquette because they don't physically exist so they can't be useful
What do people see in this guy? If we was in charge the world would fall apart in a day.
His philosophy is basically what every 14 year old teenage male develops completely independently on their own but abandons before their 18th birthday.
Read Stirner's Critics. It should clear up a lot of your misunderstandings.
>>2528363
Those 14 year olds only come up with it because of ideas in the mainstream put there by Nietzsche and grow out of it because the misunderstood what he was trying to say.
Was he always the smartest guy in the room?
no. He was able to propel the German superiority complex to new and encompassing heights. That's all
I hate krauts who disagree with me, but I hate other countries even more.
>>2528345
He was playing 17 dimensional chess his whole life.
Violence is the most sacred form of spirituality. It is the most essential differentiator between the material world and the spiritual world; to cut off a human life from access to the material world is the most spiritual act one is capable of.
>>2528245
so, kill yourself OP
>>2528245
Guarantee you're a limp wristed skinny cuckold who couldnt box eggs
dont make me flatten ya boy
>>2528250
No, I'd rather kill you you backtalking little autist that's probably never felt a thrill in his life
Today was the day the first man walked on space.
This is the man, Yuri Gagarin
Uh, pretty sure that's Neil Armstrong. And why did you post a picture of Rick Astley with a helmet?
>>2528224
T. historically-illiterate
Armstrong was first man to walk the moon, Gagarin was first man in space.
>>2528151
Low earth orbit doesn't fucking count, it's not even that cold at that altitude. Go to the moon or fuck off.
Who was his successor ?
Napoleon
Napoleon
Napoleon
what happens after you die?
Heaven or Hell
>>2528123
Death is a word for the point when there stops being a "you." So you can't really ask what happens to you after that point because there's no you after that point for which anything could happen. It'd be like asking what's north of the North Pole.
>>2528123
You slip out of existence. As the Mongols say, you are a bird flying from darkness into a brief window of light before plunging back into the eternal night.
When did Russia reach it's peak?
before oleg unified them
1945? Perhaps Khruschev era? Definitely before 1989
>>2528094
> When did Russia reach it's peak?
When they put the first satellite and first man in space.