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How accurate is this?
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>>2116668
More accurate than the meme map it was created to mock.
Still pure ideology.
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Pretty accurate.
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>>2116668
As with nearly everything in history, its not black and white
If communism can't work, why capitalists were so scared of it? Makes no sense to me.
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because it is doomed to fail???
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because it'd fuck everything up for everyone?
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op did you read your post before posting it?
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Does it strike anyone as odd that everyone supports the American colonists (owned slaves) yet daemonise the confederate soldiers in the American Civil War? Isn't that a wee bit hypocritical, Americans?
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There's almost a century between those two wars.
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>>2116641
Sure, but other civilised nations had done away with slavery earlier than the American Revolution.
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>>2116648
Not British Empire though.
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why did we only have Poland gain territory from Germany? Why not also give clay to France and Austria?
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>>2116594
The Soviets wanted Polish land and in order to justify their annexation of Eastern Poland, they gave the Eastern German territories to Poland. Plus the Germans kinda did mass exterminate Slavs and eastern Europeans
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>>2116594
better map
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Find a refutation. Protip: you can't
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>>2116554
If another religion is true then believing in the christian god could land you in eternal torture as well.
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>>2116554
Bizarro Christianity
It sends Atheists to heaven and Christians to hell
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>>2116554
There are more religions than christianity, effectivelly reducing your chances of "eternal joy" to laughably small one.
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The consensus is that this is boring as hell, right? I'm 200 pages in and can't stand it.
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>>2116514
Just read an econ textbook.
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Boo-hoo, can't read 200 fucking pages. If you're just interested in the ideas, and you're not going to follow the trail from this guy to Marx and beyond, just find some fucking summary.
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>>2116514
Maybe economics isn't for you. Some of his and ricardo's ideas are still defend up to this date in various shapes and forms
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How did they do it, /his/?
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>>2116480
Those Mongols are pretty persistent, I'll give em that
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What do the colours mean?
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>>2116617
Indo-European Language groups.
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What factors led to the growth of the British Empire during the 18th & 19th centuries?
The aquisition of new wealthy colonies? the Royal Navy? stability in their government? technology?
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>>2116411
They did their own research.
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>>2116411
victory over France while everyone else was recovering
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>>2116449
So like the US after the world wars?
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>can't openly criticize Islam without being called an Islamaphobe
>can't openly criticize Christianity or advocate for anything secular without being called an edgy fedora
where will it end?
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Man, you really have a tough life, Anon. My condolences.
Mods, do your thankless, payless jobs you disgusting fatbodies.
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>>2116408
>want to criticise islam
>don't want to get called an islamaphobe
Why?
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>>2116429
It seems like any position in favor of religion gets more lenience socially than those against it. It's fascinating.
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Is the biggest redpill of all that the illusion of free will is necessary for the existence of our civilization?
In a civilization where our deterministic nature is acknowledged on a societal level, a chaos would most surely ensue because that's a big variable change. Not to mention that whole organs of our governments operate under the assumption of free will, and inevitably collapse if it's taken away (criminal justice).
Think about it, both sides (theists/atheists) have struggled with the argument of free will to a point where it's almost an impossible argument to make, and yet most of us believe in free will, isn't it the biggest cognitive bias of all?
And since religion is the only thing that managed to convince people in such a retarded concept as free will, I guess it was necessary if not inevitable if we wanted to progress as far as we have.
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& Humanities was a mistake
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>>2116355
i like this meme
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Yes, theoretically, the concepts of objective morality and free will are impossible without God.
Practically however most people won't stop to comprehend whether or not they have free will - people intuitively believe in it.
Objective morality is a bigger problem. Most people in Western nations are living in the afterglow of Christianity. They might not even believe in God, but many of their moral principles derive from Christian teaching. As secularism continues to march forward it's difficult to say exactly what will happen - but it won't be good.
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What do you think of Mormons, /his/?
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>>2116271
Mormons, more like morons haha.
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>>2116285
rude
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The only religious group that I quite honestly hate.
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What do you know about the Amish, /his/?
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>>2116181
high-level advanced LARPing
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>>2116192
how is it larping?
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>>2116248
how is it not larping?
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Any recommendations for biographies of this guy? It's for a book.
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>>2116085
hitler's hangman
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HHhH, basically the assassination of him
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Short bio: Heydrich was constantly called a Jew growing up, so he took out his boyhood suffering on actual Jews. He killed a bunch of people, got mortally wounded by Czech partisans, and died like a bitch. Now thousands of internet sperglords worship him. The end.
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The philosophy of Star Wars 2016-12-20 06:29:06 Post No.2115933
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The philosophy of Star Wars
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It's interesting to look at the inspiration behind the beliefs, morality and codes of this piece of popular fiction.
It draws on the age-old device of good vs evil, through the establishment of the Light Side and the Dark Side, the Jedi and the Sith.
It has themes such as destiny and choosing to accept it or reject it, confronting the sins of the father, and the conflict within yourself.
It seems as if the main ideas of the Jedi are borrowed off the teachings of Judeo-Christianity, Buddhism and Liberal Humanism.
The radical ideas of the Sith seemed to be based off of the idealism, nihilism and egoism of 19th century German philosophers such as Nietzsche and Stirner.
What do these influences convey about our understanding of good and evil? What are Star Wars' messages on philosophy and ethics?
There's a lot of articles and interviews, and even books, about George Lucas's view on morality and philosophy and its inclusion in the Star Wars saga if you're interested in doing some digging.
Feel free to have your own discussion on the subject.
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>>2115933
Well the EU began to explore concepts of Jedi and Sith ethos that wasnt divided along lines of morality but iirc lucas had an autism fit and declared it non canon.
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>>2115933
It's all about dealing with emotions. The OT is pretty on the nose, Vader and the Emperor are assholes who just do what they feel like because they can and let themselves be ruled by the worst parts of their nature while Luke and friends learn to exercise restraint and discretion and overcome the same parts of themselves that destroyed Vader.
>>2115943
>EU wasn't allowed to go into DEEP philosophy
no anon you are autistic, Lucas' vision was always the sane one. The idea of 'balancing' the force by any means other than completely rejecting and attempting to eradicate the Sith is retarded. They are an disbalancing force in the universe because they are unbalanced people. It's not complicated. Just because the Yin-Yang is a thing that exists that doesn't mean that rapists and murderers have a place in the world.
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Perhaps the (old) Jedi Order and the Sith were both causing an imbalance in the Force?
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What country has the most boring history?
My vote is my own country, Canada
minus the Hudson Bay Company and a couple skirmishes in Quebec nothing of interest has EVER happened here.
>shit on natives for centuries. Who doesnt shit on natives?
>win a war against the united states when they were baby teir
>draw a straight line for a border with zero conflict
>decent soldiers in both world wars. guess that's something
>Quiet revolution in quebec. That's the all time highlight
>Gain reputation for being polite and making sure things don't get out of hand internationally
>Become USA's gay little bro.
>American travellers imposter us cause no one gives a shit about us
Am I missing something?
Oh, the Avro Arrow is cool. NVM here come John Diefenbaker to shut that shit down.
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New Zealand
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Hard mode: European states