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>slav countries still aren't range banned

>>1801005
>Turks and tripfags still aren't range banned
Fucking join the Axis already you piece of shit

investigate Pearl Harbour!

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>people are following a cheater that literally broke the cosmic rules for balance

>Biblical revelation was a reaction against the pagan cosmic order, where man was a finite being at the mercy of infinitely destructive forces and death was eternal.

So in other words, it's a childish rebellion of feelgood bullshit against a more pessimistic, and ultimately more realistic view of the world? Did you just accept the main problem of Abrahamic doctrine?

>>1800984
Not OP posting here:
>I am speaking (impressionistically, I grant) of something pervasive in the ethos of European antiquity, which I would call a kind of glorious sadness. The great Indo-European mythos, from which Western culture sprang, was chiefly one of sacrifice: it understood the cosmos as a closed system, a finite totality, within which gods and mortals alike occupied places determined by fate. And this totality was, of necessity, an economy, a cycle of creation and destruction, oscillating between order and chaos, form and indeterminacy: a great circle of feeding, preserving life through a system of transactions with death. This is the myth of “cosmos”—of the universe as a precarious equilibrium of contrary forces—which undergirded a sacral practice whose aim was to contain nature’s promiscuous violence within religion’s orderly violence. The terrible dynamism of nature had to be both resisted and controlled by rites at once apotropaic—appeasing chaos and rationalizing it within the stability of cult—and economic—recuperating its sacrificial expenditures in the form of divine favor, a numinous power reinforcing the regime that sacrifice served. And this regime was, naturally, a fixed hierarchy of social power, atop which stood the gods, a little lower kings and nobles, and at the bottom slaves; the order of society, both divine and natural in provenance, was a fixed and yet somehow fragile “hierarchy within totality” that had to be preserved against the forces that surrounded it, while yet drawing on those forces for its spiritual sustenance. >Gods and mortals were bound together by necessity; we fed the gods, who required our sacrifices, and they preserved us from the forces they personified and granted us some measure of their power. There was, surely, an ineradicable nihilism in such an economy: a tragic resignation before fate, followed by a prudential act of cultic salvage, for the sake of social and cosmic stability.

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britain couldnt afford to obliterate a resource rich colony
US just likes bombing shit

>>1800930

Because the British applied a strategy and operational model that actually worked; they attempted to clear and hold areas that the insurgents were unable to operate in, and keep the loyalties of the foreign population they were supposedly protecting.

The U.S. didn't bother trying to actually make sure the South Vietnamese government could actually work, and preferred to hump around the jungle killing as many VC and NVA as they could. Turns out, no matter how many they did in, they couldn't make their ally any less worthless, which made it something of a losing proposition from the start.

They cut the Malaysian communist off from resupply whereas the US failed to sever the Ho Chi Minh trail.

I don't trust an all powerful, fabulously rich depressed cunt who couldn't even raise his own son right to tell me what can and cannot make me happy.

>>1800894
Diogenes is your answer then.

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>>1800878
Pussy & money

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yeah, they should have nuked the krauts instead of the japs instead of giving them time to birth another hellspawn

Noted historian Adolf Hitler places the blame on the Jewish people.

>Is USA to blame for WWII?
>what is the appeasement policy?

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>thinking people that cant poo in loo would worship a guy that looks like mr.clean

>>1800818
>>>/pol/

As a Westerner I believe it's because Ramanuja's system entails an actual religion you have to commit to whereas with Shankara you can excuse yourself from any commitment because muh mysticism. Allan Watts is probably the most famous Western convert to advaita and he somehow reached the conclusion that consuming meat, alcohol, and generally living a dandy luxurious lifestyle was totally okay because everything is maya anyway so why bother?

It's a fantasy world and the games cover several centuries. There's no "equivalent", it ranges from Antiquity to Renaissance.

>>1800368
TES is fantasy and a plethora of everything from Nordic Feudal Systems to Vedic metaphysics. There isn't really a historical equivalent.

>>1800368
>fantasy universe with steampunk elves that became the skin of a giant robot god of fedoras.
>what is it's historical equivalent.

The Hwangook empire.

They weren't geared towards expansionist imperialism. Besides, the Australian continent served nothing for them, even the Dutch didn't want it. Britain only used it as a dumping ground for criminals.

>>1800306
Australia is a shithole.

>>1800306
Literally Emu's

Modern industrialised Australian military couldn't defeat them in battle with modern automatic machine guns, how would you expect South East Asian spearmen and bowmen to take such monstrous creatures on?

>We also must insist that an all-powerful ghost with human-like thought patterns created the entire universe a few thousand years ago through magic and made it so that the earth is at the center of everything, he also planted humans the exact way they are now; also he knows literally everything that happens, once wiped out most of humanity by making a flood appear through sheer will. Even though he is all-powerful no intervention of his has yet been irrefutably proven that can not be explained by modern science, but don't you doubt the existance of the space ghost, otherwise your consciousness will not cease to be, but be teleported into another dimension where monsters fuck you in the ass for literal eternity. If you disagree you're a fedora-tipping neckbeard, that's my argument.

I don't even believe in Christianity, or theism, but you put in no effort to understand their position.

Go read John Dun Scotus, or Aquinas at the very least.

>>1800106
>all Christians are YECs

What's it to you if they do?

Why does it have to be a picture? I'm pissed that Mexico city filled in the canals of the Aztecs and made it all 3rd world shit.

>>1799956
I always wondered, when did the fascination with Babylon start? Was it the Bible when the Jews got exiled there and spent 60 years butthurting and bitching about everything Babylonian? Because comparatively it's pretty irrelevant to Sumer or Akkad.

>>1799973
>Aztecs not 3rd world to begin with

Please

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the aztec capital, Tenochtitlan

>>1799691
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank#History

>>1799691

So what you're basically asking is "how does war work?"

And the answer to that is:

>Kill more of the enemy soldiers per day then the enemy is killing your soldiers per day.

>>1799691
>What was their primary objective?
For tanks, break through defensive lines and destroy any enemy vehicles.

They like the idea of a global consumer base that wants to buy their shit. National borders and cultural/ideological/political differences make making money harder.

It's really not about anything except money.

>>1799208
Fpbp, as always.

>>1799208
Then how does this view appeal to people who don't have any money

“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’"

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>>1798798

"The line between good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being" -A.I.Solzhenitsyn

Please I'm at an impass

many of the shit attributed to him is most likely written because later italian butthurt

>>1798719
I agree
I want a discussion
Isn't that the point of this board

>>1798656

>>1798656

>posting oldfag memes
fuck off back to somethingawful 4chan is a plebbit site now