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>America is a democracy
>the document against which all laws are determined to be either legal or illegal was written by a cabal of unelected aristocratic landowners
??????
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>>1822852
>Freedom in capitalist societies always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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>>1822852
Yeah, we're still working on that egalitarian society thing.
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>>1822852
>democracy means universal suffrage
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If you want to achieve enlightenment, you're gonna have to go through me. 2016-10-14 02:55:26 Post No.1822824
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If you want to achieve enlightenment, you're gonna have to go through me.
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I believe the best way for us to grow as human beings is to free ourselves from the anxieties and attachments of daily life. If we pursue practices and rituals that lead toward a oneness with existence, if we devote ourselves to mindfulness and meditation, then the cultivation of harmony is available to us all. However, if it is true spiritual enlightenment that you seek, you’re gonna have to get past me first.
For those with the patience and the commitment, a path to nirvana awaits, and I—His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet—am standing right in the middle of it, ready to throw down. The only way you’ll ever come to experience the metaphysical unity of mind and soul is by tangoing with yours truly, capiche?
It will be a difficult journey, one upon which you must elevate yourself from excess and learn to derive pleasure from simplicity. There will be many obstacles to overcome, and often it will seem as though your greatest adversary lies within yourself. But in fact, your most determined foe is stronger, fiercer, and coming straight out of Dharamsala packing 600 years of reincarnated spiritual wisdom and a blazing left hook.
You will know that life is suffering after I’m done with you.
I got nowhere else to be, compadre, and I’m ready to impart on you some serious teachings, if you get my drift. Do you have what it takes to relinquish worldly desires? To abandon the idea of self? To surrender to that which you cannot control? To reach a state of utter tranquility? Okay, then. Nut up and take a swing.
It’s you and me, buddy. If you want your enlightenment, come and get it. But I’m warning you, if you seek a state of pure transcendence, then the last thing you’re going to see is a flash of crimson robe as you hit the deck. And when you’re gripping your throbbing head trying to figure out what just happened, you can meditate on this: When your ass gets knocked to the ground and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
Namaste.
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>Vajrayana "dharma"
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what a drama lama
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>tfw too enlightened to be buddhist
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So, were they brave warriors of Christendom, literal medieval fascists a' la Battle On The Ice or something of a grey area?
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>>1822784
>fascists
>medieval
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>>1822793
I'm referring to how they are depicted in the 1937 Soviet film called "Battle On The Ice' you retard.
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>>1822803
>Soviets
>knowing what fascism is
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what is radicalism ?
hear it on the news all the time.
young kids becomig radicalised.
is death the extreme?
i dont get it?
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>>1822750
It's relative. To hold a radical ideology is to have opinions that are unorthodox compared society's norms. Radicals are often but not always violent.
I'm not sure what this thread was trying to achieve, you could have just typed "radical" into google and got all the information you needed.
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>>1823015
ok so im trying to get it in the context of children. how can a child become a radical. especially over the internet.
are we really shaped and become a definition that easily?
crazy crazy times we livin in.
the mentality
the sense of the world
the conciousness
wtf is the normal?
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>>1822750
>if the voice is you who hears it
You and God hear it.
You are simultaneously the speaker and the listener anon.
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Whatever happened to the /his/ language thread?
I thought we were going to learn Latin together?
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>>1822703
I remember that thread starting days after this board was created. I think it and its creators are long gone by now.
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>>1822703
How do I start?
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>>1822806
Sicut hoc.
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Kek these niggas though they were dragon ball z characters
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Writing my Thesis on these mouth breathing retards. The way they snowballed is pretty interesting as were their beliefs. I really wish my School's medievalist didn't die my freshman year.
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>When Empress Dowager Cixi says she likes boxing but you don't know what western boxing is
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>>1822645
>actually thought they could karate chop their way out
lol
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Can machines think?
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>>1822593
define "think"
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>>1822598
to think would mean ponder problems, dilemmas, ideas or their general enviornment
Which machines do not
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>>1822631
Could they though?
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We've had enough "Who was the best US President" threads lately that it is time we take a look across the pond. Who was best PM of the UK?
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>>1822573
I honestly can't name a single PM of the UK
Tony Blair? Was he a PM?
I'll say Tony Blair, he's the only one I can name, I think.
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>>1822573
Tbh UK PMs have been so irrelevant I doubt anyone on this board outside of Britons would even be able to give you an answer
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>>1822573
Lord Palmerston
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Was Diogenes actually influential?
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is shitposting influential?
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Have you ever used or heard the word 'cynical' used? If so, then you know the answer to your question.
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He was influential enough that people were still writing down wacky stories about his life centuries later.
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>Who is Napoleon
>Who is Ambrosio Spinola
>Who is Andre Massena
>Who is Antoine Jomini
>Who is Raimondo Montecuccoli
>Who is Eugene of Savoy
>Who is Guglielmo Embriaco
>Who is Ilic Ali
>Who is Giulio Douhet
>Who is Amedeo Giulet
>Who is Ottavio Piccolomini
>Who is Alexander Farnese
>Who is Joseph Gallieni
>Who is Garibaldi
>Who is Benvenuto Cellini
>Who is Luigi Palma di Cesnola
>Who is John Basilone
>Who is Luigi Rizzo
>Who is Vittorio Cuniberti
>Who is Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy
>Who is Alessandro dal Borro
>Who is Aeneas de Caprara
>Who is Carlo Zeno
And the list goes on.
I don't know what your guys' obsession is with feeling like people with Italian blood are somehow biologically incapable of war, when they have clearly produced some of the finest military men in history.
What I have noticed is that Italians seem to perform extremely well when not fighting around or commanding other Italians. Perhaps they are a bad influence on each other.
But its simply ludicrous to say that Italian people sucked at war when very few groups have people have made such amazing and staggering impacts on war in history, perhaps rivaled only by the French
and finally
>Who are the Romans
"WE WUZ" memes aside, there is very little if any at all genetic differences between the Roman peoples of old and modern day Italians. If you are an R1b male, more particularly an R1b U152 from Italy, you in all likelihood descend from the founding tribe of Rome. If the modern Greeks get to keep the ancient Greeks with pride. So do modern Italians.
Lets celebrate and talk about the glory of Italian military history rather than memes here.
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>>1822439
>Napoleon
>Italian
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This!
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>>1822439
>Almost none of them fought for Italy
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It's time for an Iron Curtain image dump primarily featuring the People's Republic of Poland from 1970 to 1989, all context is in the file name of each image. I apologise in advance about the small resolution but they are the biggest available
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Why did Plato call his main character Socrates? If he simply wished to have a character to describe logic why didn't he use himself? How is he honoring his dead friend by giving him views he never had?
Also where do i go next with Plato and philosophy in general after I finish pic related? I'v e been told to move onto Descartes
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>>1822433
>How is he honoring his dead friend by giving him views he never had?
Maybe because that wasn't his real goal?
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>>1822433
Read Hobbes and Locke, then Rawls and Nozick for some standard cannon stuff. Hit up Cohen's "Rescuing Justice and Equality", Dworkin's "Sovereign Virtue", and Otsuka's "Libertarianism without Inequality"... for some further reading into egalitarianism and left libertarianism.
- that was most of the reading for a grad seminar I took.
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>>1822433
Plato wasn't the first to write dialogues with Socrates as a main character, and was situating himself in a particular literary genre, that of the logoi sokratikoi.
Basically, start Plato over, begin with the Alcibiades, then move forward through his early dialogs, until you reach the Meno. Pause there, read Vlastos' "Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher", and then enter the realm of the mature thought of Plato. Exit his works with the Timaeus/Laws.
Move on to Plotinus, then Porphyry, Iamblichus, and exit with Proclus.
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What is the most immoral (worst) thing a person can do?
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Support progressivism.
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>>1822379
Support regressivism.
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>>1822379
Be an anti-semitic racist bigot from /pol/
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Dr. Goebbels, I'm NSDAP.
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Get em onboard, I'll call it in
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Furst von Totawk gets to stay on my airplane.
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TELL ME ABOUT THE JEWS WHY DO THEY WEAR THE STAR
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How old were you when you realized that Washington was just Hamilton's puppet?
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>>1822366
If Washington was Hamilton's puppet then why didn't he become king?
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>>1822377
Who's the real king, the king or the guy who tells the king what to do behind a curtain
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>>1823172
Probably the king, since, you know, that's what his title is.