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>In February 1821, Napoleon's health began to deteriorate rapidly. He reconciled with the Catholic Church. He died on 5 May 1821, after confession, Extreme Unction and Viaticum in the presence of Father Ange Vignali. His last words were, "France, l'armée, tête d'armée, Joséphine" ("France, army, head of the army, Joséphine").[184][185]
Is this some kind of a joke?
This guy rises from nothing to becoming emperor of France and his last word is literally the name of a woman who cucked him?
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He was a goyim.
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>>2084866
>People loved their wives and said nice things about them sometimes
Breaking news
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>>2084908
She wasn't his wife for years at this point and she had cheated on him multiple times with other men.
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Would this fix Europe's problems?
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turn Russia into a lake, then dump all the muslim refugees in the lake
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>>2084616
Go back to your containment board.
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>>2084616
This would result in the Netherlands and Poland having a German majority or close to it, so you'd have to deport the Germans to Madagascar first.
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Canada joins the US, We Decide to Fix Some State Borders 2016-12-13 02:40:41 Post No.2084312
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I've been away for a week, and boy! does it feel good to be back.
My thread from last week died when I expectantly went to the hospital, so let's try again.
Also, what should I do with Manitoba and North Ontario?
And, by the way, our Pacific territories, even the uninhabited ones join Hawaii as "Special Counties," like Alaska would likely be split for the Eskimos.
And our Caribbean territories become one new state.
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>expectantly
*unexpectantly
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>>2084312
bumping my thread
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Here's my take.
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The Kabbalah: History and Methods 2016-12-09 01:15:14 Post No.2063022
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Jewish mysticism is often overlooked in discussions on the origin of certain Gnostic materials or as a backdrop against the revelations of Christ. More often, it's conflated by FUNposters with certain elements of conspiratorial thought. I often see it asserted that Kabbalah is a newer movement, arising from the 12th C., but this is an incredibly facile view that omits about half the history of the movement, if not more, depending on our litmus test. For our purposes, all eras of development of Kabbalah are viewed as Kabbalah (as it's hard to delineate the borders between Merkavah mysticism and the Hekhalot tradition, or the Hekhalot tradition from later Lurianic materials, in terms of theme and content, despite all three being more or less autonomous).
Kabbalah's definition varies according to the tradition and aims of those following it, from its religious origin as an integral part of Judaism, to its later Christian, New Age, and Occultist syncretic adaptations. Kabbalah is a set of esoteric teachings meant to explain the relationship between an unchanging, eternal, and mysterious Ein Sof (Nothingness without end, nothingness upon nothingness) and the mortal and finite universe (God's creation). While it is heavily used by some denominations, it is not a religious denomination in itself. It forms the foundations of mystical religious interpretation. Kabbalah seeks to define the nature of the universe and the human being, the nature and purpose of existence, and various other ontological questions. It also presents methods to aid understanding of the concepts and thereby attain spiritual realisation.
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Contemporary scholarship suggests that various schools of Jewish esotericism arose at different periods of Jewish history, each reflecting not only prior forms of mysticism, but also the intellectual and cultural milieu of that historical period. Answers to questions of transmission, lineage, influence, and innovation vary greatly and cannot be easily summarised.
Originally, Kabbalistic knowledge was believed to be an integral part of the Oral Torah, given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai around the 13th century BCE, although there is a view that Kabbalah began with Adam. That said, I'm going to skip ahead, quite a bit, because some of the earlier bits are tied up in the Talmud and honestly these topics are wild enough without having to drag the tractates into shit.
Mark Verman has distinguished four periods in early Jewish mysticism, developing from Isaiah's and Ezekiel's visions of the Throne/Chariot, to later extant merkabah mysticism texts:
800–500 BCE, mystical elements in Prophetic Judaism such as Ezekiel's chariot
Beginning c. 530s BCE, especially 300–100 BCE, Apocalyptic literature mysticism
Beginning c. 100 BCE, especially 0-130s CE, early Rabbinic merkabah mysticism referred to briefly in exoteric Rabbinic literature such as the Pardes ascent; also related to early Christian mysticism
c. 0–200 CE, continuing till c. 1000 CE, merkabah mystical ascent accounts in the esoteric Merkabah-Hekhalot literature
When the Israelites arrived at their destination and settled in Canaan, for a few centuries the esoteric knowledge was referred to by its aspect practice—meditation Hitbonenut ( התבוננות), Rebbe Nachman of Breslov's Hitbodedut ( התבודדות), translated as "being alone" or "isolating oneself", or by a different term describing the actual, desired goal of the practice—prophecy ( Hebrew: נבואה).
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The first echoes of what is recognizable as Kabbalah come from the book of the prophet Ezekiel, exiled in Babylon, during the 22 years 593-571 BCE, although it is the product of a long and complex history and does not necessarily preserve the very words of the prophet. C.C. Torrey (1863–1956) and Morton Smith place it variously in the 3rd century BCE and in the 8th/7th. The pendulum swung back in the post-war period, with an increasing acceptance of the book's essential unity and historical placement in the Exile. The most influential modern scholarly work on Ezekiel, Walther Zimmerli's two-volume commentary, appeared in German in 1969 and in English in 1979 and 1983. Zimmerli traces the process by which Ezekiel's oracles were delivered orally and transformed into a written text by the prophet and his followers through a process of ongoing re-writing and re-interpretation. He isolates the oracles and speeches behind the present text, and traces Ezekiel's interaction with a mass of mythological, legendary and literary material as he developed his insights into Yahweh's purposes during the period of destruction and exile.
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Kabbalah relates the Merkabah vision of Ezekiel and the Throne vision of Isaiah (Isaiah 6:1–8) describing the seraph angels, to its comprehensive Four spiritual realms. The highest World, Atziluth ("Emanation"-Divine wisdom), is the realm of absolute Divine manifestation without self-awareness, metaphorically described in the vision as the likeness of a Man on the throne. The throne of sapphire is an etymological root in Kabbalah for the Sephirot divine powers. The second World, Beriah ("Creation"-Divine understanding), is the first independent root creation, the realm of the Throne,[20] denoting God descending into Creation, as a king limits his true greatness and revealed posture when seated. The World of Beriah is the realm of the higher angels, the Seraphim ("burning" in ascent and descent as their understanding of God motivates self-annihilation). The third World, Yetzirah ("Formation"-Divine emotions), is the realm of archetypal existence, the abode of the main Hayyot angels ("alive" with divine emotion). They are described with faces of a lion, ox and eagle, as their emotional nature is instinctive like animals, and they are the archetypal origins of creatures in this World. The lowest World, Assiah ("Action"-Divine rulership), is the realm guided by the lower channels of the Ophanim (humble "ways" in realised creation).
The Kabbalistic account explains this difference in terms of the Four Worlds. All prophecy emanates from the divine chokhmah (wisdom) realm of Atziluth. However, in order to be perceived it descends to be enclothed in vessels of lower Worlds. Isaiah's prophecy saw the Merkabah in the World of Beriah divine understanding, restraining his explanation by realising the inadequacy of description. Ezekiel saw the Merkabah in the lower World of Yetzirah divine emotions, causing him to describe the vision in rapturous detail.
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Any thoughts on this guy's ideas? I started watching some of his lectures on youtube and being the fedora that I am I find his theories about behavioural truth that appear in stories and myths as well as his arguments about alternate truths depending on your pre suppositions to be very interesting.
This is a very long one but I find this a good "summary" of his views: https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis
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>>2099728
I got nothin to do. I'll watch it till my vidya ravaged attention span fizzles out.
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This dude is weird to me in the sense that with practically everything he says -except on the topic on religion- I find him to be completely on point, but he likes to put things in sort of apocalyptic language and it's hard to not think of his views as unnecessarily hyperbolic to some degree.
>SJWs LITERALLY WANT TO DESTROY EVERYTHING WE VALUE
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>>2099827
Well things never go from bad to worse without periods in between.
Do you think people just go from being nice one day to genocidal the next?
They don't. They are ideologized into it throughout a long period of time.
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>It is well-known that brutal mass rapes were committed against German women; both before and after world war II. Over 100,000 women were raped in Berlin alone.
>The phrase "from eight to 80" was used to describe potential victims of Soviet mass-rape. "Red Army soldiers don't believe in 'individual liaisons' with German women," wrote the playwright Zakhar Agranenko in his diary when serving as an officer of marine infantry in East Prussia. "Nine, ten, twelve men at a time – they rape them on a collective basis."[44] Rape was regarded by men in the Soviet army as a well-deserved form of punishment, whether the civilians had anything to do with the war or not. In total, historians estimate that over 2,000,000 German women were raped.
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Rape is a spook
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>ibn4 1/64 German Americans chimping out over "muh oma"
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its a shame, but this is the price of war
germany wanted one and they got one
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Haven't seen a historiography thread in /his/ before. So which argument does /his/ find most convincing?
The Marxist argument (That it was a bourgeois revolution), the revisionist argument (That it was a political revolution) or the post-revisionist (That the French culture was the ultimate cause)?
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I'm using your thread anon. What's the best place to start with the french revolution? I've read about the oxford history of the french revolution by william doyle, liberty or death by peter mcphee and citizens by simon schama, although I heard the last is biased and extremely negative.
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>The Marxist argument (That it was a bourgeois revolution)
This isn't even a Marxist argument, it existed years before Marx.
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>>2097728
Well, I've only read a couple of books myself and wanted to use this thread to exchange opinions.
From your picks I'd say the only thing you're missing is the Marxist viewpoint. Eric Hobsbawm would probably be your best bet.
You'd probably cover more ground if you didn't read Citizens because it's about 800 pages long though I can't really comment on how useful it is because I honestly saw it as a chore to read.
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Was Goebels right? Or was he just compensating for being a manlet?
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Success breeds jealousy.
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He had a wife's son.
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absolutely redpilled
dark enlightenment
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Most bat-shit insane cults in history.
>muh LSD fueled super-nerds
>muh Russian attack helicopter to rain Sarin on tokyo
>muh death-ray to cut Tokyo PD HQ in half
>my nuclear weapon
>muh sparking of WWIII stemming from resentment of USA
>muh germination in sci-fi pulp mags
Anyone have Aum Shinrikyo beat for abosolute madman levels?
Also cult general
inb4 25 year rule
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Islam is pretty crazy
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>>2096199
that fucking group
they actually released fucking sarin, the absolute madmen
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>>2096205
I'm thinking smaller groups, and you knew that kiddo
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Behold. It is I, Caliph Friedrich ibn Neetshah, first Caliph of the Ubermensch paradise of Hyperborea. The First of the rightly guided Caliphs. I, Friedrich ibn Neetshah (aesthetics be upon him), am the final messenger of Western philosophy.
There will be no philosopher after me.
I implore the faithful to follow the Five Pillars of Self-Overcoming. For these are mandatory to be offered entrance into Nietzschean Jannah.
1. Shahada - your declaration of faith and trust in pan-European fascism as an intermediary to Ubermensch Jannah. Public profession that I am the true and final Western philosopher.
2. Zakat - Daily viewing and reading of the Prophet available for free at your favourite torrents site.
3. Sala - mandatory charity of at most zero dollars
4. Nahi Anil Munkar - Forbidding that what is bad (alcohol, egalitarianism, resentment, and especially religion)
5. Tabarra - Expressing your disassociation and hatred towards badness (slave morality)
To you followers of Egoists, Antiquarians and Social Darwinists, I grant 'People of the Book' status. You can still enter Ubermensch Jannah. However, to live in our Ummah you must pay jizya.
As to you infidels: The Christians, the nationalists, the people that refute my message... The declaration of Jihad is yet to come.
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how about you wait till you're old enough to understand him before you start meming on by boy Fritz.
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>>2096163
You have to admit, Nietzsche is just a bit Islamic.
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>>2096153
It is said that the hallucinogenic quality of the fungus that was found in Friedrich's mostauche once caused him to believe he was Jesus Christ
This fact has never been confirmed apparently.
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How did the relatively insignificant and easily conquered Canaanites/Israelites have such an impact on world religions as compared with the much more powerful empires of Babylon, Hittites,Greeks, etc ?
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>>2096024
Because Jews are master-memers and managed to prank the Roman Empire into converting to the most memetastic sect of their religion.
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What is it about the Abrahamic faiths that made it so salient vs. the religious customs of more significant civilizations.
Sure, Zoroastrianism, Atenism, Roman polytheism, and Sumerian myths may have influenced monotheism, but in the end of the day the three big religions undeniably originate from the Hebrews and their belief in yahweh.
bonus question: so its pretty much confirmed that the Hebrew were just an offshoot of Canaanites and Judaism just formed from cult worship of one deity in the Canaanite pantheon?
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Why should I entrust my immortal soul to this man?
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Because he is son of Jesus.
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>>2095454
Blasphemy
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>>2095465
Not in literal way. Pope is his spiritual successor.
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Racial equality is a spook.
Gender equality is a spook.
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Going around declaring only certain ideologies a spook is a spook
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>>2095167
Racial inequality is a spook.
Gender inequality is a spook.
Spooks are a spook.
>tfw spooks all the way down
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>>2095169
Those are concepts, not full blown ideologies.
Why was it only Europe that ever experienced a true Dark Age?
Why didn't China, for example, ever experience a Dark Age
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>>2094788
You should look up what happened in China after the Han collapsed. If that isn't a dark age, I don't know what is.
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Wars of the three kingdoms were like the grimmest shit that has ever happened on this planet.
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>>2094788
Greece went through a dark age senpai
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Japan-Russia territorial issue "Northern Territories" 2016-12-15 09:23:56 Post No.2093976
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Japan-Russia territorial issue "Northern Territories"
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The Northern Territories are land where the Soviet Union unilaterally abandoned the Japanese Soviet Union Agreement and invaded after the end of World War II. Actually, Japan does not demand the return of all the lost territory. The land that Japan is requesting is only a part of the land taken away.
Current Japan is in the wrong negotiation. Japan should have demanded all of the territory deprived of Russia. And Japan should have strongly insisted to receive apologies and compensation from Russia. Of course, Russia will not accept Japan's request. But that's fine. Japan's argument is because it is a sophistry for bringing out Russian compromise. The aim of Japan is to recapture the Northern Territories only.
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Spoils of war and all that. You don't see Germany asking for Kaliningrad
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>>2093976
>for bringing out Russian compromise
>give me this land
>no
>give me a little less land
>no
>...
What makes you think that Russia is desperate for some sort of agreement?
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Putin literally give up some land to China for free like two years ago.