What's the role of the West on the rise of theocracies on the Middle East?
Leaving.
Tehran and Kabul, both progressive cities for their time to not represent the country as a whole. If anything, the more conservative rural values were imposed on the city folks, which is usually something that happens the other way around and more peacefully.
>>2419817
In the case of Iran it was a dude named Kermit Roosevelt, Jr.
post 'em
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhhDbaah9DQ
Ra2 hellmarch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji_jP-OcUAo
>>2419810
wtf is that? doom metal?
STOP HAVING SEX
>>2419658
ONLY THE NOBLE ONES SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO REPRODUCE; NOBLE PERSONS ARE NECESSARY TO COMBAT THE IGNOBLE ONES WHOM NEVER STOP REPRODUCING.
BEFORE ESCAPING THE WORLD, ONE MUST IMPROVE IT, TAKING IT TO ITS ULTIMACY, AND DEFEAT THE FORCES OF "EVIL", OBLITERATING THEM; IT IS THE NOBLE ONE'S DUTY TO ERADICATE "EVIL" BEFORE ASCENDING; TO ESCAPE THE WORLD, LEAVING IT IN DARKNESS, WOULD BE DISGRACEFUL AND DISHONOURABLE; ONE SHOULD NOT AVOID STRUGGLE, BUT TRANSCEND IT.
>>2419805
>... THE IGNOBLE ONES [WHO] NEVER STOP REPRODUCING.
>>2419658
How about you just kill yourself instead of spreading your death ideology you fucking cultist
Back in the 80s me and my terminally ill son wrote a letter to Carl Sagan asking how long humans will live. We expected a simple letter but unbelievably enough he recorded a casette tape and sent it to us in the mail, I've been listening to it for a long time but I was afraid the quality would get worse over time so I decided to digitize it.
So please enjoy this never before heard audio of Mr. Sagan.
http://picosong.com/GS6c/
>>2419423
Neato
was the music overlay necessary?
>>2419423
Music is too loud
Did any prominent philosophers discuss music at length? looking for names to look up and read
Some existentialists use it as a metaphor, but that's all I know of. Sartre loved Jazz.
>>2419422
neat, thanks
Weber, Adorno, Nietzsche
So is this a goddess
>>2419114
She's a Sumerian vampire who later survived and gave birth to a child who grew up to be a rebel that kickstarted the downfall of the Roman Empire.
Define "goddess" as Jesus himself said that we are all gods.
>>2419114
mary a shit
lakshmi is where it's at
Why is lust a sin?
Because people are not sexual objects.
>>2418999
But they are.
>>2418975
STOP
HAVING
SEX
Was China for US or for the Soviet Union in the cold war?
PRC pro-Soviet, ROC pro-Imperialist
>>2418826
>PRC pro-Soviet
China ain't a real country for one
Hey /his/ what country is the true third Rome?
>>2418671
Ottomans
>>2418671
Bosnia is both the heir to the Caliphate, and the heir of Rome
>>2418671
Romania
God-tier:
Venezia
Riga
Firenze
Thrash-tier:
Milano
Roma
Danzig
Irrelevant-tier:
Everything else
>>2418181
>not including Genoa
It's like you want to be wrong
>>2418185
>Irrelevant-tier:
>Everything else
>>2418181
>lubek, bremen, siena, ferrara, padua, mantua not included
and what about some of the swiss city-states
Anyone here a fan of alternate history? I'm really wasn't until my history teacher told us about this writer and bunch of crazy alternate history books he wrote. White Supremacist going back in time and giving General Lee AK-47's, Aliens invading earth in the middle of WW2, the South gaining independence leading to a American-German alliance during WW1 and trench warfare in Kentucky. It's not high art but it can be fun.
>>2417615
For stories more grounded, try Peter G. Tsouras's Dixie Victorious. It contains 10 essays from 10 different historians on how the South could have won the war. My favourite is when Lee supports Cleburne's proposal to arm the slaves in exchange for their freedom.
>>2417615
I have some issues with his writing, but I find it fun to think about the scenarios he presents myself, do my own research, and come to my own conclusion. It's a fun exercise, and can lead you to finding out new things.
>>2417628
The thing that annoys me about so much of alternate history is that it usually involves some kind of ridiculous nonsense. This is exactly what I want; down to Earth scenarios which are actually plausible.
"on the jews and their lies"
what did he mean by this???
he was a religious fanatic who didn't like that jews rejected his religion
>>2417642
>t. didn't read the book
>>2417590
Ah, Luther. Such an anti semite that he chose jewish council authority over church one.
What is the closest example of an anarchist society?
>>2417519
Anarchist Catalonia, it lasted for about a year iirc. From the rose-tinted classes of people recounting it, it sounded like a paradise. People would arrive at work, decide what quotas they needed to reach, agree on working conditions, and get paid in scrips issued by their factory union. Each scrip represented one hour worked, and they could be traded for the value of one hour of goods or services elsewhere.
I can't speak to the practical problems of that, because no one narrated on any of them, but on the political side, justice was usually mob rule and very touch and go, international diplomacy was impossible since there was no central authority on the matter, and organizing an effective army, particularly in the middle of a civil war, was nearly impossible since no one wanted to swear loyalty to any sort of command structure because it violated their ideals. Eventually the Anarchists were overcome by Russian backed Communists who were far more ordered than they.
>>2417519
modern day Somalia
>>2417519
>anarchist
>society
How does Latin America view these two countries now? Is there tension, or do the countries just not give a shit anymore?
we're usually
a)too busy pretending we wuz natives n shiet to look into our Spaniard roots
b)too busy blaming all our ailments on more relevant countries
c)too busy to think of anything but ourselves
I can only somewhat say based on my conversations with Mexicans about traveling to other places and their thoughts on Spain.
Most seem to think it's a neat place, but unlike most white people in the US that talk about their immigrant grandparents or somesuch from different places of Europe, Latin Americans don't always seem to have that same line of thinking, at least not to the same degree. I would assume this is because they're racially distinct from their European ancestry compared to others who might've only been here a generation or two and were brought up by parents who were both the same race, but this seems to apply to "blancos" as well (Latin Americans with almost no native American admixture).
This is from talking with naturalized Mexican Americans though who didn't retain a lot of customs from their parents, nor can most even speak Spanish, so sentiments might be different actually within them.
they are too irrelevant desu
we make fun of their accents tho
Was there a bigger edgelord than this guy, Shang Yang?
"The six parasites are: rites and music, odes and history, moral culture and virtue, filial piety and brotherly love, sincerity and faith, chastity and integrity, benevolence and righteousness, criticism of the army and being ashamed of fighting."
gotta be edgy if you want to win a total war against more powerful states
>>2417379
*Collapse*
>>2417370
the chink machiavelli
good thing confucius is more relevant