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>>2062253
>tfw want to convert buy it might destroy my relationship with my family

>>2062253
Is la Santa Muerte part of catholicism? I've seen her cult rising here.

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>>2062102
Fare*

>>2062116
whoops

>>2062102

Hard to calculate. A general works through a tool in the form of his troops. There's only so much you can accomplish with rabble, and rabble is what most of them had to work with through most of the Civil War, what with there not being a standing American army, and most troops being fresh conscripts or militias from dozens of different states with all the communication problems that brings.

>>2061972
Think post-apocalyptic decline of civilization scavenging economy. Economy can exist without economic growth.

>>2062019
Yes, but what did he -mean-

>>2062076
He meant that if you were a shipwrecked sailor, maximum ROI would be in trying to salvage preserve what you have, but that would still be on average negative.

>>2061843
oh fuck it's real

>>2061849
>>2061843
Fuck you. It's not.

>>2061843

About fucking time.

>>2061832
>Isnt Portugal lucky to be ruled by an country like Britain?

Britain was the stronger ally, it is only fair that Porugal do favors from time to time.

You cannot objectivally prove your statement, placing it on the same level as theology.

>>2061303
Actually I can.

You matter anon

>>2061041
Why are there no hippos in hippodrome

>>2061056
They decided your mom was a better representative of a big fat waterdwelling animal instead.

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>>2061056

There are still people living a caveman style life in 2016

Go ask them

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>be me
>want to fuck oogette
>Glarg won't let me, say she's his "praw-per-tee" or some bullshit, the tribe's shaman agrees with him
>kill way more mammoths than I'm allowed to eat
>zonk and zoog made fun of me and called me a manlet for drawing bison on cave wall
>jorg still thinks those wolves that are always surrounding our camp at night one day will be friendly if we only allow the nice ones to breed hah doesn't he know traits are determined by the environment they're raised in
>keep hearing stories around the camp fire about these mythical places were people stay put all year and the food just grows from the ground all they have to do is collect it heh what bullshit

>>2060638
>cavemen

That's way before the bronze age m8. In fact afaik the use of bronze came AFTER the invention of writing, so it belongs to history, not prehistory.

>>2060489
They were more adventurous and didn't care about health and safety

Humans have always been daring and adventurous, otherwise we would never have developed and progressed

The only reason we have stifling health and safety now is because of WWII and the Cold War. WWII scared everyone with the level of death that it brought about, and people thought "never again" so they deliberately tried to stop everyone from being adventurous/impulsive and tried to wrap everybody in rules of safety

And of course the Cold War with its threat of nuclear annihilation had the same effect

In a way, the modern era is the biggest human experiment in non-violence. Never before has any animal society been able to maintain such levels of non-violence for so long. I guess it sort of works - I reckon we'll eventually have another world war (might even be in my lifetime - I'm 25), but I think a lot of today's principles of safety, precaution, all that boring shit, is probably here to stay. Why? Because we've become incredibly good and efficient at eliminating certain sorts of problems through the use of precaution and safety, that's why. Injuries, health problems, diseases, etc.

Sorry for the ramble.

In the past, children would go outside and do things.

Now they sit inside and do things in virtual reality.

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>>2060585
Kids these days, am I right?

>>2060270
To express the belief that reality does not exist, a reality must exist. I think if it almost as the good can't exist without evil idea. The thought that there is no reality is a reflection of the absurd nature of reality.

i saw a taco, therefore tacos exist

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>>2060560
I did not say reality does not exist. Neither did I say that reality exists.

I said 'things' (objects with inherent, independent, intrinsic existence that has one essence that can not be divided into smaller parts and does not depend on any previous causes or conditions or reactions for its existence) do not exist, neither do they exist.

If reality can only exist on the fact that reality does not exist. Then those 2 notions arise dependend on each other.
That is possible, but I reject that they have inherent existence or inherent non-existence.

>>2060579
If you base the existence of a taco on your observation, that means that the taco only exists dependend on your observation.
However according to your logic the taco does not have independent existence.

Furthermore the quality of "taconess" also does not exist independetly, but only exists based on your mental projection of what a 'taco' is.

Thus proving my assumption true:
1. The taco does not exist entirely by itself
2. The taco exists in your own mind
3. Your own mind does not exist entirely by itself, because it is dependend on the body
4. thus the thaco neither truely exists nor not truely exists.

>>2060130
Teens are far more unpredictable, the surge of hormones creates instability and the body and mind need many years in order to adjust. The mind's potential increases while emotions fully manifest. At this stage most are in High school. While not considered technically adults, we transition into the perceived adult mentality. To quell anger and lust, embrace happiness and chastity. Humans are born with limits and these shackles slowly release to give us more potential. Promoted is obedience, regardless of entering the most difficult stage in life. The struggle with our very design, an instruction written in DNA we call instinct but we must ignore it and overcome. This is where the most errors occur in the machination. Despite this the plan is the same; finish education then attend your role in society as another gear in the system. Retirement and rest is something only earned much later in life, in order to minimize the wait for vacation of your dream and ideal reality, we pursue the best payment programs for our investment. However competition is immense, so higher education eliminates many candidates narrowing it down to the "best". The reach for zenith, we climb the pyramid for vacant but limited seats. An arduous journey with little respite and incredible sacrifice but we were developed for this moment! After all this is our purpose in society for what else to expect, nothing else was mentioned? The greatest conflict occurs here as those who climb the summit step over the fingers and faces of their competitors and those falls and failures are rarely taken gracefully. A system that demands limited winners but copious losers. This contract was signed at birth, without your consent much as life is awakened to thy self without your permission. A promised purpose for this agreement from regents at the top and security in pursue of it if you follow the rules.

Choice was always an illusion because the alternative never existed. That option must be created by you because not one soul will do it for you. Domestication assumes you will accept because this simulation is apparently the most glorious option, the only option. An arrangement never questioned, and rarely observed by the individual who take part. What is the capability rate or success percentage? Those who cannot synchronize with their roles are the outliers: Losers, failures, rule breakers, the wrong, the poor, the weak, insane, and disabled.
Where do the rejected components go? It is unspoken but understood: death, prison, or decay into death. This is predestination. Our preordained fate is death. That does not conclude life has no meaning like the zero theorem suggests, because we can create our purpose thus find meaning. But we were given purpose, and opportunity to pursue that meaning when conceived? The illusion of choice served to greatly reinforce a perceived purpose, a necessary evil for the highest compatibility rate but by whom? Where did it all originate? It does not matter because those without purpose are simply a testament to Darwinian natural selection in this simulation. But the system is not fair! No living was never promised to be fair; it does not bend to our whim nor perception! We cannot opt out and unplug, the system never allowed this alternative to ensure highest accuracy in the for the organisms assimilation. When we lose our faith in the matrix, what then? This truly free being is powerless, branded an utter irrevocable lost cause with no purpose, a true pariah. The answer is simple: create your own purpose! Take your priceless faith and create! The red pill is ugly, torment, despair. Those plugged in find normalcy: domestication is complete despite this epiphany because the alternative never existed in the first place so the choice is clear, to simply live on.

>>2060136
Those unplugged lose their will to live without that guidance, that absoluteness ironically.
True free will, perhaps not? The cycle of conflict never terminates as life vs death, those who die rot but also fertilize the ground providing nutrients for new life. This is eternal recurrence. The preordained fate is the powerlessness to change our reality of life and death. We are truly the same, but artificially and systematically fragmented. We ignore the collective unconscious which exchanged our thought from one another with impeccable synchronicity; this network that allowed true understanding is lost but never forgotten. Social creatures which lost the universal sense that allowed us balance, true equilibrium with others despite differences and conflict. We seek to fill that void through the network we call the internet, to find those we understand.

>>2060029
absurd question, concept of "honorable warriors" just stinks on an intellectual view

Id say the honorable bond between airmen on both sides of any conflict will never dissapear

>>2060081
whats honorable in the concept of warrior ? such an archaic way to think the concept of honorable

>>2059979
Timur the lame

>>2059979

El Cid

>>2059979
Charles XII of Sweden.
>takes grand alliance of Russia, Poland-Lithuania, Saxony, Denmark (lol), Prussia, the Cossacks, Hanover and Great Britain to beat him once
>gives zero fucks, comes back for round two
>gets wrecked up the GUTS, determination and friendship of the humble Norwegian
>shitty sequel war continues for another four years after his death

Who else could you make the case for among politicians of the 1900s? As far as US presidents go, those three were certainly more adroit politicians than all the rest from this century. Who else would even compare? JFK? Eisenhower who road into office on his military laurels?

>>2059575
Roosevelts yes but why LBJ? Vietnam was such a shitshow that he didn't seek a second term.

>>2059589
>Civil Rights Act
>Voting Rights Act
>Medicare
>Medicaid