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Why was Socrates so interested in the intellectual growth of Athenian youth, but was never there for his own kids?
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>>2313213
Because they were ugly like him, meanwhile dem Athenian boys were fuckable.
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>>2313213
He had a bitch wife, he wasn't safe at home.
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>>2313213
Philosophers are shitty dads
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Why has Islam historically been such a garbage religion 2017-02-03 07:30:34 Post No.2313169
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Why has Islam historically been such a garbage religion
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but....but >muh islamic golden age
Islam is like Terminator 3, the unneeded sequel,
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Because it's built around never being able to reform. Any attempts are punishable by death. Lots of people have tried and died.
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Why not just attack the race and skip all the posturing?
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>garbage religion
relative to what exactly
it could easily be argued that all religions are garbage
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What does /his/ think of self-immolation like pic related? is it justified as terrorism?
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killing yourself isn't terrorism, killing other people is
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>>2313124
Killing yourself isn't terrorism if other people don't die
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Killing yourself in protest without harming others is infinitely more admirable than pushing your will and values onto others to make a statement.
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Has anyone on /his/ ever gone to a Speaker's Corner on the weekend to make a speech or start an argument or watch other people doing so?
Thinking of going to the one in London this sunday to discuss some religion and politics.
any thoughts or experiences or stories to tell /his/?
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I'm gonna try and have a discussion/argument with one of these people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAmLismnukQ
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>>2313075
God, multiculturalism is disgusting. I can almost halfway understand why leftists can argue that this should be permissible in North America or Australia, but why on earth should these Saracens be allowed to proselytize in the UK and Europe? Those are Christian countries. Muslims should not be allowed to try and convert people in them.
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>>2313603
Hey, the Anglosphere is just an extension of Great Britain.
We don't want these guys.
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itt historical figures you want for civilization vii (or civ vi dlc) and why
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>>2312951
For New Zealand
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Ireland
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Make Germany Great Again!
Unique Unit: Waffen SS Deals triple damage first three turns after a declaration of war.
Unique Building: Reich culture chamber: double bonus of art from your own civilization and half the bonus of foreign art. +1 generation of art/music/literature great person
UA: Prussian Officer Corps: Units near a great general gain 2 extra movement.
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>Soviet Union existed.
>Capitalism thrives.
>Soviet Union dissolves
>Capitalism goes to shit
Why?
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>what was the Great Depression?
Smh
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>>2312934
Because capitalists delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of man's heart... shadow and flame.
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Anyone know how much my picture of Marilyn Monroe my grandpa took in Korea during the Korean war would be worth?
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What kind of drugs are you addicted to that you'd want to sell something like this?
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>>2312927
Slightly more expensive than toilet paper.
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>>2312941
I'm "curious". Chances of actually selling it are slim to none.
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Taoist discussion: the way of water 2017-02-03 06:06:10 Post No.2312874
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Taoist discussion: the way of water
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Ursula K leGuin on the way of the warrior vs the the way of water:
http://bookviewcafe.com/blog/2016/11/21/the-election-lao-tzu-a-cup-of-water/
Read her thoughts before discussion.
Please do not discuss specific politics in this thread: this thread is about the idea of the way of water.
I myself am drawn to this, not as passivity, but as flowing action.
I also like the contrast: the way of the warrior has never felt like my path.
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>I myself am drawn to this
>I also like the contrast
>never felt like my path
Who cares what you think? Congratulations on being interested in an idea.
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>>2312907
Congratulations on being a smug fuck.
Are you here to discuss?
What do you think of these ideas?
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>>2312917
What do YOU think of them? You started the thread. All you said was that you like it and it makes you feel nice.
Where can i read about the holocaut/genocide that happened in Soviet and gulags etc? Any book recommenddations?
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Do you mean the Holdover, the Chechen genocide or something else entirely?
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>>2312862
It's called the Holodmor, not Holocaust. And I'm sure you can find plenty of books on Amazon.
Also, the Gulag Archipelago is pretty good.
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>>2312862
for the gulags, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and the Gulag Archipelago are really the only widely published accounts of life there outside of reading actual state documents.
The Holodomor is a lot trickier due to no real documentation of it being released by the Russian state, and I personally don't know many books on the subject that are fully reliable information.
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What went right?
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>>2312823
Cheese, dykes, Friesland and the East
>tfw Randstad born and still living
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>>2312823
The shameless seajewing mostly
Did you know that even during the eighty years war, dutch merchants still sold arms and ammunition to the spanish army?
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weed an hookers XD
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Is he pretty much right about Islam and the West 2017-02-03 05:47:56 Post No.2312798
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Is he pretty much right about Islam and the West
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but everyone is afraid to admit it
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No.
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maybe?
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can you repeat the question?
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What's the history of Young Earth Creationism?
How did it become such a widespread belief in America?
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>>2312797
Same reason the US is so religious. YEC is just a justification to stick to their literal beliefs.
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>>2312825
>US is so religious
This is a lie, everyone's either atheist, "spiritual but not religious", or just uses church as a way to socialize/be in touch with their cultural roots
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>>2312825
>sticking to literal beliefs is the reason that US is religious
Thanks for saying nothing.
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"Render unto Caesar..." over "Thou Shall Not Kill"? 2017-02-03 05:28:18 Post No.2312723
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"Render unto Caesar..." over "Thou Shall Not Kill"?
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I just watched 'Sgt York', as I was told it espouses Christian pacifism; if you don't want this 76 year old movie spoiled, since /his/ doesn't have spoilers, stop reading.
>Drunkard farmer from Tennessee in 1915
>Wants to buy good farmland to impress girl, rival farmer buys it to spite him
>On his way to drunkenly kill his rival, lightning strikes his gun, he goes to church and finds "that old time religion"
>Forgives his 'trespassers' (old rich man who screwed him on the land deal and his rival)
>World War I draft comes, he refuses to sign up, as war is obviously against "Thou shall not kill"; his pastor tells him to register -- he can just conscientiously object.
>Doesn't work, gets drafted
>Good marksman, gets promoted
Now here's the part I don't get
>Told by his commanding officers that if he doesn't want to be in the army, he doesn't have to, but take a 10 day furlough and think about it
>Sits on a hill in TN thinking about 'God vs. Country', which the movie makes clear
>Wind blows page of the Bible to "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, unto God what is God's" and he seems to have an epiphany.
>Goes back to the army, tells him he'll fight
>Kills Germans, captures a lot of them, is a war hero, gets his land in the end because of his war efforts
How the hell did he abandon his pacifism from that passage?
(Side note: any examples of actual Tolstoylian Christianity in media?)
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Well, I haven't seen the movie myself, so I'm only hazarding some weak guesses here.
The usual interpretation of "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's" is that temporal states do in fact have legitimate authority, usually as reflections of some sort of God's will, and that you should generally obey them. His country is probably depicted as a good thing, if it's an American movie from the 40s, and he probably has some kind of guilt over not doing his utmost for it.
That being said, "Thou Shalt Not Kill" as expressed as an absolute is an idiotic mistranslation. The OT itself endorses capital punishment and warring, which is why the Hebrew says לא תרצח and not לא תהרג
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>>2312752
Good points; although the important part comes after "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's": "Render unto God what is God's". Money is Caesar's (it had his profile on it, even), but Caesar--ie the state--does not own a man's conscience, his life, or the lives of his enemies.
"Thou Shalt Not Kill" was one of his stated passages for conscientious objection: another was "blessed are the peacemakers", and "he who lives by the sword shall perish by the sword". Along with the whole "love your enemies, turn the other cheek", I still cannot see how war could ever be justified by the New Testament.
Here's the relevant scene, in case anyone cares to watch it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W87k64HU9gE
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>>2312752
Thanks anon the message is clearly in the Hebrew which I can very easily read
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>roman empire ends
>Europe permanently fragments
>Chinese state fragments
>china inevitably reunited after however many years
Why the two different outcomes? How come no one has been able to reunite Europe?
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>>2312714
Eternal german, destroyer of europa
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The power of a Chinese and roman emperor is very different. A roman emperor has to work with managing a huge centralized state, while a Chinese emperor need only be able to raise enough troops to resist Mongols every now and again. The empire, for the most part, runs itself without imperial administration.
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>ifunny
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This is probably a really dumb question but I have to ask.
Humans arrived in the Philippines 50,000 years ago. How the hell did they such a large distance back then in their boats? What food did they bring with them? Why were they motivated to cross a sea to which they had no idea what was beyond?
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Because they got there through Malaysia. That's not a bad distance at all.
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So how did they reach places like hawaii and fiji?
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During the glacial periods, ocean drops around Taiwan and Malaysia allowed ancient austronesians to cross lands that are today submerged under 400 ft of water.