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If you could go back in time to kill one person, who would it be?
pic related is my choice
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>>1950013
Stuck between Hitler and Stalin desu.
But I'll be contrarion and say Francisco Franco
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Probably someone I knew IRL.
>pic related is my choice
I hope you don't think that would prevent communism. Communism already existed and his great collaborator Engels would still be alive to properly codify it.
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>>1950022
Killing stalin probably gets rid of hitler.
>/his/ was right about the cold war all this time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX3EZCVj2XA
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>>1955239
No keem was
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when will dummies stop believing this conspiracy theory?
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>>1955239
He's a CIA cointelpro shill
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do people actually believe the civil war was about states rights or is this just an elaborate ruse?
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>>1954258
States rights to slaves.
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>>1954261
so it was about slaves then?
because the southern states didn't give a shit about states rights when they had their three presidents before lincoln
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>>1954258
More like States right to own slaves
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Why analytic philosophy is so deep and insightful compared to other schools? I really believe that it is as close to the truth as it possible to be for the human being.
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>>1954013
It stems from actual desire to find truth and is therefore relatively obscure and unpopular
>muh ubermensch, muh spooks xddd
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Why are caricatures so deeply liked in "intellectual" circles? New Yorker, etc... love putting caricatures of authors/subjects everywhere.
They look tacky as shit.
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>>1954030
this.
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Ask a Buddhist anything!
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I have no desire. Therefore I have no desire to ask.
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>>1953898
Good answer.
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>>1953909
Seriously, tho. A buddhistfag once predicted some shit to me and it happened. It was specific shit. You guys be scary.
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>he actually, seriously, unironically, willingly dedicated time to studying philosophy
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>>1953448
>Why would scientists ever occupy themselves with the implications behind their findings or the way by which they come to their conclusions?
The scientific theory itself is a form of epistemology which presupposes formal logic (another field of philosophy). Those who deny the usefulness of philosophy, regardless of their field of specialization, eventually find themselves sawing through the branch they're sitting on.
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>>1953465
He's right you know.
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What about the science of philosophy?
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What do you have against him?
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I think his condemnation of peasants and workers and his elation of the noble class was some fucking pathetic pandering.
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>>1950417
This is pretty much all I can think of.
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>>1950295
>I will unite the German peoples under one faith.
>schisms
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How did these guys lose?
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What they don't show you in the movies is this guy FUCKING DROWNING, which caused his essential forces to mourn and return for their homes, inhibiting the crusades forever.
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>>1949133
I can smell the beatiful crusade from here.
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>tfw you were born just in time to see the expulsion of Muslims from Europe
The pendulum is swinging and the right-wing parties are winning across Europe, lads.
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>Catholic aesthetics
No such thing. Catholic aesthetics are just those of the age, there is no "Catholics aesthetic" in the sense of, say, an "Orthodox aesthetic". There are just Catholic motifs.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoM6m-Opgnk
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZkUFjlrD9w
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgomtIc1_yc
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How much veracity is there to true African history sites? Apart from their Egyptian dynasties.
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I couldn't tell you Our resident African history expert Melanin Warrior keeps getting banned by white racist mods.
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>>1946965
If they could see, hear and smell miles away, then how did they get enslaved?
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Has there ever been a decent Christian rebuttal to Bertrand Russell's "Why I am not a Christian"?
>You will find that in the Gospels Christ said, "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of Hell." That was said to people who did not like His preaching. It is not really to my mind quite the best tone, and there are a great many of these things about Hell.
>There are a great many ways in which, at the present moment, the church, by its insistence upon what it chooses to call morality, inflicts upon all sorts of people undeserved and unnecessary suffering. And of course, as we know, it is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy."
>The whole conception of God is a conception derived from the ancient Oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men. When you hear people in church debasing themselves and saying that they are miserable sinners, and all the rest of it, it seems contemptible and not worthy of self-respecting human beings.
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>>1954515
>There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination. Therefore, perhaps, I need not waste any more time upon the argument about the First Cause.
> If you say, as more orthodox theologians do, that in all the laws which God issues he had a reason for giving those laws rather than others -- the reason, of course, being to create the best universe, although you would never think it to look at it -- if there were a reason for the laws which God gave, then God himself was subject to law, and therefore you do not get any advantage by introducing God as an intermediary.
>Do you think that, if you were granted omnipotence and omniscience and millions of years in which to perfect your world, you could produce nothing better than the Ku Klux Klan or the Fascists?
>There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ's moral character, and that is that He believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment. Christ certainly as depicted in the Gospels did believe in everlasting punishment, and one does find repeatedly a vindictive fury against those people who would not listen to His preaching
>There is the instance of the Gadarene swine, where it certainly was not very kind to the pigs to put the devils into them and make them rush down the hill into the sea. You must remember that He was omnipotent, and He could have made the devils simply go away; but He chose to send them into the pigs.
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Nothing Russell says about people, society, culture or behavior is of any value.
Lifelong atheist speaking, but has this guy ever wrestled with a theological argument? Has he ever even attempted a dialogue with a theologian in good faith? Or is he the Dawkins of the early 20th century?
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>>1954519
>There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination. Therefore, perhaps, I need not waste any more time upon the argument about the First Cause.
Lazy af for a philosopher tbqh famalam
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What is the basis of law in the United States? The reason I ask is because we have several laws that are philosophically contradictory, but were passed in the same era.
For example in 1971, Nixon declares the war on drugs. From my understanding the argument was that drugs are harmful to society, and therefor no one should be allowed to use or possess them.
Two years later a decision was reached on Roe v. Wade, and women were given the right to arbortion, with the argument that women should be allowed to do what they please with their own bodies.
So is the basis of American law the good of society, or and individual's rights? Or is there no specified basis for American law, and that it's totally discretionary based on who is in power at the time.
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>>1954331
>cucked.com
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>>1954337
Jesus Christ what the fuck
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>>1954373
Just some reptiles having some fun.
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Is Scots a language? Does it exist in any countries with heavy Scottish colonisation (other than Northern Ireland) today?
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>>1953954
>Is Scots a language
Yes.
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>>1953954
>Is Scots a language
Yes.
So is Jamaican Patois and American English.
t. official polyglot
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>>1954507
Let's call them idioms
Which Roman ruler killed most Romans?
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Selim II
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>>1953938
This buddy.
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>>1953967
I´m sorry.I forgot the pic.
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Post successful revolutionaries with Marxist/communistic beliefs.
"Africa's Che Guevara" is pic related.
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>>1953732
I don't know how successful I would consider Sankara on account of his getting killed while in office. Also because Burkina Faso is like the absolute poorest country in the world now.
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>>1953921
That's now, that "party" that assassinated him gave power to the new "successor" and the country went down the drain.
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pretty pathetic how much /r/socialism puts this guy on a pedestal desu acting like he would been the second coming for Africa