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why are cats perfect for memeing?

Because they were our proxy states/buffers/etc. against the reds. Germany kept the USSR from yurop and Japan stopped the commies from establishing a real foothold in the Pacific.

>>2294511
you can't get better trade terms than from someone you just beat the shit out of.

where do you suppose American wealth after the war came from?

>>2294519
This
Also the war proved being vindictive to defeated enemies leads to bad shit happening again

literally retarded

Were you supposed to post this in another thread?

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yes I agree 100%

And?

>>2294464
>now you're going back to the same black state you were before
no, "you're" not.

you can't experience that state. So as far as you're concerned it will never happen, just as it never happened 'before' you existed. There is no before or after for you. There is only life.

>>2294469
That's why the ultimate red pill is that "you" are basically immortal.

How did the ottomans ever get as far as vienna anyway?

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>>2294425
)))))))))))))))

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>>2294425
*blocks your path*

A lot of people turned on their leaders after the shitshow that was WW1

Having a huge war which kills a lot of your people and bankrupts your economy tends to piss off the locals

>>2294422
Because WW1 is the first major war where the majority of the soldiers who fought in were conscripts and not professional soldiers. They were young men who were drafted into service in a conflict that was mainly caused because monarchs couldn't stop dick-fencing all the time and sent to death by oldfag generals who got their knowledge from Napoleon's diaries.

>>2294422
Have you heard of the Russian revolution?

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Orpheus Ὀρφεύς

Legendary Musician, Poet, and Prophet

Founder and prophet of the "Orphic" mysteries

Onomaklyton Orphēn

Father was the god Apollo, mother was the muse Calliope

Birthplace and place of residence was in Pimpleia, Olympus

Living with his mother and her eight beautiful sisters in Parnassus, he met Apollo, who was courting the laughing muse Thalia. Apollo, as the god of music, gave Orpheus a golden lyre and taught him to play it. Orpheus' mother taught him to make verses for singing

He is said to have studied in Egypt

Major stories about him are centered on his ability to charm all living things and even stones

Credited with the composition of the Orphic Hymns, a collection of which only two have survived. Shrines containing purported relics of Orpheus were regarded as oracles

Greeks of the Classical age venerated Orpheus as the greatest of all poets and musicians; it was said that while Hermes had invented the lyre, Orpheus had perfected it

Orpheus was one of the handful of Greek heroes to visit the Underworld and return; his music and song even had power over Hades

The Orphics were an ascetic sect; wine, to them, was only a symbol. The intoxication that they sought was that of "enthusiasm," of union. They believed themselves, in this way, to acquire mystic knowledge not obtainable by ordinary means

This mystical element entered into Greek philosophy with Pythagoras, who was a reformer of Orphism as Orpheus was a reformer of the religion of Dionysus. From Pythagoras Orphic elements entered into the philosophy of Plato, and from Plato into most later philosophy that was in any degree religious

Orpheus is said to have established the worship of Hecate in Aegina. In Laconia Orpheus is said to have brought the worship of Demeter Chthonia and that of the Kores Sōteiras (Greek,Κόρες Σωτείρας) savior maid. In Taygetus a wooden image of Orpheus was said to have been kept by Pelasgians in the sanctuary of the Eleusinian Demeter

Wasn't Hermes Trismegistus given power by Dionysos

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Hermes Ἑρμῆς

A god of transitions and boundaries

Friendliest to Human

A son of Zeus and the Pleiad Maia, the second youngest of the Olympian god

He is described as quick and cunning, moving freely between the worlds of the mortal and divine. He is also portrayed as an emissary and messenger of the gods; an intercessor between mortals and the divine, and conductor of souls

His main symbol is the Greek kerykeion or Latin caduceus

He wears the gifts from his father, the Petasus and Talaria

In the sanctuary of Hermes Promakhos in Tanagra is a strawberry tree under which it was believed he had created

Symbols of Hermes were the palm tree, turtle, rooster, goat, the number four, several kinds of fish, incense

A deity with shamanic attributes linked to divination, reconciliation, magic, and initiation and contact with other planes of existence, a role of mediator between the worlds of the visible and invisible

A communication between Petosiris (a priest) to King Nechopso, probably written in Alexandria c. 150 BC, states Hermes is the teacher of all secret wisdoms available to knowing by the experience of religious ecstasy

Zeus sent Hermes as a teacher to humanity to teach them knowledge

Aeschylus wrote he was the god of searches, and those who seek things lost or stolen

The Hymn to Hermes[20] invokes him as the one of many shifts (polytropos), who was soon to show forth wonderful deeds among the deathless gods

One of the Orphic Hymns Khthonios is dedicated to Hermes, indicating that he was also a god of the underworld

For Carl Jung Hermes's role as messenger between realms and as guide to the underworld, made him the god of the unconscious, the mediator between the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind, and the guide for inner journeys

Oneiropompus conductor of dreams

Hermes is seen as relevant to study of the phenomenon of synchronicity

He is identified by some with the archetype of healer, as the ancient Greeks ascribed healing magic to him

Why would it? The hubris of Western politicians of the early 20th century is half the reason for all the shit going on now.

>>2294378
No one gives a shit about Howard and Iraq tho.

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>>2294378
I don't think so, no. Their blatant lies are well documented, the sudden shift in the Iraq war's focus from finding WMDs to creating a "strong stable democracy at the heart of the middle east" was clearly damage control. Iraqi democracy failed and led to the rise of ISIS, and the Iraqi army that billions were spent building was almost unimaginably impotent against them.

So much money and lives spent for less than nothing.

Because most people probably don't know anything about celts and other peoples of the time.

Ironically both vikings and celts seem to have actually preferred mustaches

>>2294328
Probably both were heavily bearded, but the vikings (guys from Scandinavia) had thicker and longer beards because of the climate they lived on. Beards, aside from aesthetics, are cold protection. I'm not saying that Celts didn't have beards, they did (a lot) but probably not as extensively as the nords because their climate, while still cold, wasn't as cold as way up north. So in some cases (like Gauls in south France or Turkey) they didn't need them that much.

>>2294292
Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men's behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!

>>2294292
Defecator, may everything turn out okay so that you can leave this place.

>>2294293
>>2294299

I don't care about the shitposts of some cretins from pompeii

beyond life's obvious meaning (to create more life), its only goal should also be more life.
the extension of the human life solves all of the worlds problems because everyday we lose great minds.

Can an illusion be declared unreal if the subject experiencing said illusion is understanding the illusion as reality? What we define as reality may be based on what some see as an illusion (free will), but if it is all we can grasp then I would argue no illusion is possible, since it is the reality created within the confines of "illusion".

TL;DR: There is no illusion, because our definition of free will exists within it.

>>2294277
>Given that it is a closed system, the following big bang will produce exactly the same universe down to your current brain chemistry

This overlooks the random element of quantum processes which would play a role in such an event as a new big bang.

But if true, it doesn't really affect me any. The fact that my will follows a predetermined course doesn't change the fact that it is indeed my will, whether it's spontaneous or not really has no bearing to me.

>>2294260
What do you want to know about him?

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Literally an autist, even more so than Hitler.

>>2294260
hero

>>2294248
doasding in an ebig bred :DDD

Edgy.

>Innocents deserve to die :DDD

>>2294238
I think there needs to be some balance, because for its flaws I like our current system and all that it has given us. If everyone were to suddenly stop paying and start resisiting everything the system would change and I don't know if it would be for the better. That being said when those in power become too greedy and forget that the people below are still humans they do to meet resistance to show that actively fucking over the majority of the population is only gonna end badly for everyone.

>Freemen believe that since they exist in a common law jurisdiction where equality is paramount and mandatory, the people in the government and courts are not above the law, and that government and court personnel therefore must obtain the consent of the governed. Freemen believe that those government employees who do not obtain consent of the governed have abandoned the rule of law. They believe this consent is routinely secured by way of people submitting applications and through acts of registration. They believe the public servants have deceived the population into abandoning their status as Freemen in exchange for the status of a 'child of the province' or 'ward of the state' allowing those children to collect benefits such as welfare, unemployment insurance, and pension plans or old age security. Freemen believe that the government has to establish "joinder" to link oneself and one's legal person. If one is asked whether one is “John Smith” and one says that is so, one has established joinder and connected the physical and human persons. The next step is to obtain consent. Statutes are merely invitations to enter a contract, and are only legally enforceable if one enters into the contract consensually. Otherwise, statute laws are not applicable. Freemen believe that the government is constantly trying to trick people into entering into a contract with them, so they often return bills, notices, summons and so on with the message "No contract—return to sender".

There were many factions at work during the period of the three related English civil wars. They included the Royalists who supported King Charles I; the Parliamentary forces led by Sir Thomas Fairfax who would later emerge under the name of the New Model Army; the Fifth Monarchy Men, who believed in the establishment of a heavenly theocracy on earth to be led by a returning Jesus as king of kings and lord of lords; the Agitators for political egalitarian reform of government, who were branded "Levellers" by their foes and who were led by John Lilburne; and the True Levellers, who were branded "Diggers" because of their actions. The latter were led by Gerrard Winstanley. Whereas Lilburne sought to level the laws and maintain the right to the ownership of real property, Winstanley sought to level the ownership of real property

Winstanley took as his basic texts the Biblical sacred history, with its affirmation that all men were descended from a common stock, and with its scepticism about the rulership of kings, voiced in the Books of Samuel; and the New Testament's affirmations that God was no respecter of persons, that there were no masters or slaves under the New Covenant. From these and similar texts, he interpreted Christian teaching as calling for the abolition of property [in land] and aristocracy.

Suicide is destruction of government property.

>>2294216
Throw in a biomass processing plant or something at the bottom.

>>2294216
*tips ushanka*