The Phoenicians (particularly the Carthaginians) are described as a mercantile society where social mobility was achieved through successful commerce, in stark contrast to the military ethos of the Romans and Greeks. Is it a coincidence that their closest levantine neighbors went into the same profession despite biblical sources giving the impression of a warrior society and pre-diaspora Israel and Judah not interacting with foreign countries very much?
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If I recall there are very early rabbinical laws detailing the proper ways to trade with foreigners
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>land merchants living right next to sea merchants
How terrifying, they had all the bases covered.
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>>2503757
>go to buy eggs
>end up with a loan at 14.5% interest you didn't need
>a lend lease option on 2 chickens
>and 5 sacks of foreign flour
>tfw you're the miller
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>go to Scottish Wikipedia
>bring something back
https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
From today's featured article on the United States:
>Efter World War II the Unitit States an the Soviet Union jockeyed for pouer during whit acame kent as the Cauld War, driven bi an ideological divide atween caipitalism an communism an, accordin tae the schuil o geopolitics, a divide atween the maritime Atlantic an the continental Eurasian camps. >American truips focht communist Cheenese an North Korean forces in the Korean War o 1950–53.
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From the article about scotch whiskey
>Oi it is weeth much sawdness and gweef thot wee ocknowlodge thot de foookin oirish make bettah lovahs o women am bettah whiskey[1][10]
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>>2503254
>Irish make better whiskey than the Scottish
That's a fucking lie, Irish whiskey is pretty good but a great scotch blows any of it out of the water.
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>>2503265
The article is sourced desu
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Dear /his/,
Though we sometimes have our problems with &humanities, there is no denying that we sometimes have prosperous debates about ontology, philosophy of the mind etc.
This is why today will be a good day. It's time for the ultimate philosophical debate. Today we're gonna prove our worth. We're gonna try to answer the one big philosophical question that dominates every single other question:
What is the endgame of life?
There is to this debate just 1 rule and I encourage everyone to ignore everyone who breaks this simple rule to not led us be lead astray. The rule is simple:
We presume that there is an endgame to life.
In practice: any argument containing "life is useless" or any form of this argumentation is, in this debate, automatically rejected.
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Its whatever you want it to be
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Life is just a game. The goal is survival. Not just eeking by with basic neccesities, but expanding and flourishing.
Also, all humans were put here by aliens and you have malevolent ghosts inhabiting your body desu
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Read the Bible.
It explains the origins, purpose and endgame of mankind.
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*destroys eastern civilization*
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>>2502714
Please elaborate.
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>>2502739
This, I'm interested.
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>>2502739
Instead of fusing West with East to make a new Japan, they just became a boring Western copy, and by might of arms, forced the rest of Asia to do the same
Now look at them, I can find more traditional Chinese culture in Vancouver then China. Sad!
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Why be moral?
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>>2502577
Because if you run about kicking children the other humans will throw stones at you until you die.
Stupid.
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>>2502577
Because morality is mutually beneficial, if people fuck with you, the group of people you're with will fuck that dude up, ensure he doesn't fuck people up again, and give you some ass cream for the fucking you received, in return for these benefits, you agree not to fuck people, morality is a uncodified, uneforceable set of laws, the morality and moral stances of a group are dependant of situation, laws exist to formalize the process which allow people to be 100% on what is and is not fucking people.
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>Nietzsche
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What do your thoughts on Hitler's ultimate goal of creating the Greater Teutonic Reich of the German Nation? He wanted to Lebensraum the German people all the way to the Urals.
What about the plans for Welthauptstadt Germania?
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>anon I can't wait until this nasty war is over so we can move to the reichskommisariat Ukraine and have 12 Aryan children
; ;
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Oh look another Hitler thread how interesting
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>>2502528
>finalnd
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Why do people believe in imaginary things?
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>>2502404
>implying my main man isn't real
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Helps cope with death, and the fact that much of life is beyond our control.
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>>2502404
All things people believe in are by definition imaginary. It is just that some things have a higher correspondence to some theoretical external reality, and therefore a utility in navigating it, than others.
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Why were/are war brides taken?
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>>2502222
Ficki ficki
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>>2502222
pagan tribes often had a shortage of woman due to polygamy and female infanticide
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>>2502306
>pagan tribes often had a shortage of woman due to polygamy and female infanticide
Not true at all
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Stop being Jewish
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Vali Murad V Pasha bin Blaberidae (ID: !OSMAN4FitI)
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But I like getting free money and land to abuse arabs on.
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Get plastic surgery
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Why were Hitler's hands so much darker than the skin that was covered by his shirt sleeves? Someone please explain!!!
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How did Caesar communicate with british diplomats when he first landed, as I'd think these people spoke a completely alien language, and they never got in contact with latin speakers before?
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>>2508447
Everyone understands the sword.
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>>2508447
He would grunt, gesticulate wildly, and then point at his dick, much like how savage people today "communicate".
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Leave the British to me.
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Name one reason why the American treason was justified.
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>leave the romans to me
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>>2507665
Taxation without representation. I can name more. Monarchies are bad. The British didn't give us sufficient rights. Their soldiers occupied our homes. They taxed us too heavily. They were imperialistic cunts.
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"Thus the Apostle Paul has revealed the time when Antichrist will come and when the day of judgment will appear. "But there is one entreaty we would make of you ... as you look forward to the time when our Lord Jesus Christ will come," he writes in the letter to the Thessalonians, and explains the problem when he says "the apostasy must come first; the champion of wickedness must appear first, destined to inherit perdition." For we know, since after the Greek Empire and the Persian Empire, each one of which in its own time thrived in great glory and flourished in greatest power, finally, after the other empires, the Empire of the Romans began, which was the strongest of all earlier kingdoms and had all earthly kingdoms under its dominion, and all nations of peoples lived under the Romans and paid tribute to them. Therefore, the Apostle Paul says that Antichrist will not come into the world unless the apostasy comes first, that is, unless first all the kingdoms which long ago were subject to the Roman Empire secede from it. This time, however, is not yet come, because, even though we see that the Empire of the Romans is for the most part destroyed, nevertheless, as long as the kings of the Franks, who possess the Roman Empire by right, survive, the dignity of the Roman Empire will not perish altogether, because it will endure in the French kings."
- Adso Dervensis
Holy shit... Isn't it weird that modernity really got going after the HRE was officially gone? Is modernity the reign of the Antichrist?
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>Holy shit... Isn't it weird that modernity really got going after the HRE was officially gone?
Shifts in culture and politics are pretty common when the balance of power changes, especially when it is a big player like the HRE was.
Also, unless you are defining modernity differently, modernity started 400 years prior.
Also, Adso of Montier-en-Der was a frog so he has all the reason to say
>the dignity of the Roman Empire will not perish altogether, because it will endure in the French kings.
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>>2506041
>Frenchman claiming WE WUZ ROMANZ and we holding back the apocalypse and where it
Gee, OP, I dunno.
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>>2506297
>pontifex maximus crowns you Roman Empire
>We wuz
kys
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Dresden. Why?
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>>2505358
Germany would have dominated Europe sooner or later and would ultimately threaten the British dominance over the old continent, therefore it had to be destroyed. Or at least that's what motivated Churchill.
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>>2505358
Play with fire, you get burnt.
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>>2505397
You must have a very fragile sense of identity and pride if you have to justify crimes against cultural heritage and civilians.
Even the Nazis managed to apologize for the destruction they caused in the Netherlands and Spain, recognising the signififance of the cultural heritage destroyed.
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Why was merchant being treated as the lowest class in many cultures?
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because they had social mobility, nothing was demanded of them, and they lived lavish lifestyles with none of the obligations of other classes
pretenders
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maybe because they didn't actually produce or provide anything like farmers soldiers craftsmen etc
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>>2504304
CITE AT LEAST THREE INSTANCES OF THAT.
MERCHANTS HAVE BEEN PART OF THE "MIDDLE CLASS" IN MOST COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD, FOR VIRTUALLY ALL OF HISTORY; IT IS THE NOTION OF THE MERCHANT THAT IS STIGMATIZING, DUE TO THE INTRINSIC QUALITY OF THEIR OCCUPATION, WHICH ALLOWS FOR EASY PROFIT VIA DECEPTION, WHICH IS WHY JEWS NATURALLY TEND TOWARD MERCANTILE OCCUPATIONS.
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How did we go from this.
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to THIS
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>>2501544
About seventy years passed
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>>2501548
not an excuse