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I wish I had a philosophical onee-san

is your sister a qt

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>>1662046
She's pretty great. Only reason I left that shithole of a board /r9k/ and started browsing here.

>>1662059
She's cute but she's also pretty sharp, much sharper than I gave her credit for. I understand her a little better now, which is very nice.

Apologies for the poor focused OP anons. Instead, I'll try and reintroduce the question:

Is there a connection between the mind and the body in a metaphysical sense? Or do the mind and body work separately and against one another?

I was just thinking that, there are times when you want your body to actually do something.

I have been very productive for the last four days, developing some kind of insomnia.

I desire to get some sleep, but perhaps my mind is working against my body.

Maybe there is a way to focus my mind and body so that sleeping will just come more naturally?

He's stuck in traffic

your faith my friend

>>1662023

How much faith is good enough?

>>1661931


I don't. It's a big blob in South America, and directly does not affect me. Whatever indirect effects it has on my life are too attenuated to pay attention to.

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>>1661931
I like Brazil
>>1661934
>blob
From what I've seen, few countries have such strong national identity. They haven't a single major civil war and no part of their country ever tried to secede.

>>1661962
My mistake, they had one brief """war""" in the southern States, but that's it.

>>1661903
clearly never got injured in his life

>>1662189
The man was incredibly lucky, but extremely formidable and an invaluable asset to his men.

>When he was captured, it was due to a mortar shell killing every single man in his squad except for him
>He walked alone back to an occupied town in order to retrieve his sword, which he lost during hand to hand combat with Germans. He encountered a US squad mistakenly walking toward enemy lines. When they refused to turn around, Jack marched on saying "I'm not coming back for a bloody third time"
>His escape from the concentration camp was his second escape, after he and an RAF Officer escaped through a drain pipe from earlier imprisonment. He was captured near Rostock, when he was taken back into captivity
>Lead an army of 1500 Partisans, 43 commando and one troop from 40 commando in Yugoslavia, using them to attack the island of Brac. Jack's Bagpipes signalled the attack
>Eventually retired and became a veteran surfer in Australia while working as in instructer at the land-air warfare school

>>1661903
> luck build

>>1661898
no and no

>>1661898

No to both.

You need to keep in mind that

A) He had no siege equipment, and would have had to build all of his engines from scratch, even if his army had the skills to do something like that, which I'm not too clear on.

B) He was living off the land. He can't afford to have his army stand still all that long before they exhaust the local food supplies.


Hannibal's entire plan hinged on the Roman client states throwing off their yoke once he beat them in the field once or twice. When that didn't happen, he was pretty much doomed.

>>1661912
>>1661909
But surely with wiping out lots of the nobility a march on Rome would have forced surrender

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>>1661737

Knowledge is something we hope to acquire over a lifetime, and by both knowledge and experience we come to the real goal: to attain wisdom. But wisdom and knowledge are fluid. No one, even someone as brilliant as Socrates stops learning, growing and assimilating information. When we come to think ourselves better than another, smarter, or ingrained in a solid belief system, we limit the lives we live. For what is better than knowing each person and new experience, even those that are seemingly perceived as negative can help us to grow? Each term I start a new class I make sure to tell my students they are there to teach me too, and I am open to learn and grow from each of them. The relationship is based on equality, more than an insufferable sense of superiority. I may have studied longer than they, and have loved longer than them, but what makes me wiser? The only thing that makes me wise is knowing I know nothing, and can continue to learn from each new day.

Socrates was considered a dissident in Greece in his time. He was condemned as a heretic for that which he taught his students and sentenced to die by ingesting hemlock. It was the answer that the Oracle at Delphi gave when asked who was the wisest man in Athens at the time. The Oracle replied it was Socrates, although he believed this to be a paradox. Those in Athens who believed themselves to be wise were actually not wise, but Socrates who knew he was not wise was the wisest of all for his admission of his ignorance.

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>>1661742

Not wanting to change who he was, Socrates remained true to his beliefs and willingly drank the hemlock that killed him at the end. His death makes him a martyr for his beliefs and opens the door for his student, Plato to write of his thoughts and philosophical discussions that were compilations of possible discussions in his lifetime. When he was on trial for corrupting the minds of the youth of Athens, he used his insights to demonstrate to the jurors that their moral values are not aligned. He reminds them that the material concerns of life should be balanced with concern for ones soul.And it is this soul that is sorely missing from the way people interact in society today as well.

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>>1661749

But having ego itself does not make you a bad person, to be human is to be flawed and I think even Socrates, the wisest of men was a bit egotistic at times. There is nothing wrong with ego if it is in balance with all other areas of ones life. It is when the ego overtakes our lives completely that we can become arrogant, judgmental and self centered. As in all things we must seek to balance our lives with beauty, humbleness and generosity, compassion and love for our fellow man, and remember that there is much to learn, and even if we lived another 200 years, there is no way we could learn it all.

>>1661703
The ottomans where a part of the central powers.

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>>1661703
>central powers
>going against the Ottomans

>>1661703
>>1661707
>>1661710
b8

>>1661661
Infantry armor in the ottoman empire disappeared due to the sheer numbers they put in the field.

So basically they were pretty much a preview for tiny European states of the time of a future when they too will have bigass armies and begin to prioritize weapons over protection.

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>>1661661
>was armor still used in the 16th century?
It definitely was. And I know this primarily because I played Mount and Blade: With Fire and Sword. Literally every faction was a 16th century Eastern European power except for Sweden in there and Sweden being the most advanced out of all of them had sword swinging infantry units that wore heavy armor and even their reiters with guns had heavy armor (or cuirassiers in French).

Also the other factions like Poland, Muscovy, Cossack Hetmanate, Crimean Khanate, also had armaments still and who else... I guess that's all, been awhile since I played it.

>>1661661
16th century was the end of armor>weaponry period that lasted with increased degrees of certainty for 10000 years up to that point, the age of alchemy was enered, offence>defence
and its been like that forever since

also ended steppe dominance of the world which is interesting

castles finally paid off

>>1661603
Beige is utterly retarded in basically everything that isn't being a) autistic b) LARPing or c) nitpicking.

Considering those 3 are to varying degrees synonyms of retarded, I wouldn't say he's right.

dunno they got the french to fuck off in algeria

>>1661608
>nitpicking
That leaf is wrong.

>>1661570
Based, he fought the krauts till the end.

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>>1661570
Lol no, dying for one's country is a spook. I'd rather flee to a deserted island then actually fight in a war.

Not risking my life just to save a meaningless idea to me. Sorry.

>>1661585
>Everything I don't like is a spook
>Everything I like isn't a spook because... b-because reasons okay!
Stirner summed up

Anyone?

>>1661471
Never read it. Seems like it's pretty solid. Creation of the world, fall of the world, redemption of the world.

That's the story that's in the bible.

>>1661471
>biblical worldview
>earth is round

>>1661437

Because they aren't pokemon and thus nobody cares.

>we didn't do nuthin
>we wuz good boys went to chuch errday

because white people in a nutshell

>Colonists dindu nuffin, they were just spreading civilization to savages

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>>1661333
Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biblical_figures_identified_in_extra-biblical_sources

>>1661333
Infallible.

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>>1661333
We have yet to see this big jewish empire the old testament talked about.

So far Egyptians and other contemporaries see the area as a mess of tiny states and petty kingdosm.

Depends on the religion

>>1661302
>Do you think religion has cultivated and perpetuated a fear of death?
Literally the opposite.

>>1661302

Are you presenting your argument in a way that can be deemed as mutually exclusive? To me it looks like you need to develop how you present your argument here, but then again that could just be my own occasional pretentiousness.

Please clarify.