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>>3257033
it was a mistake for them to go into the asian mainland in the first place

Regardless of the outcome, such an act was inherently unsustainable

>>3257033
should've invaded australia tbqh

as a personal faith
obviously temporal theocracy has been a complete disaster

>>3256950
operating as a philosophical conduit for the majority of society, but not as a state religion, or, at least only de facto as a state religion. secularism in the renaissance era combined with continued reverence for religious ideology among the population and among intellectuals led to beautiful artwork and advancements in many fields. its a difficult balance to uphold, but important.

>>3256950
Those two go hand-in-hand. The more theocratic a Christian group is, the more likely it is that they'll be persecuted as a threat. And vice versa. For instance, Spain.

Neurology will figure it out and all the Insane Clown Posse types will continue to think it's God or magic.

>>3256938

They're really experiences if that's what you mean. But the key word here is NEAR, these experiences do not tell us anything about what happens after death since the people who have NDE haven't actually died.

>>3256943
>muh STEM degree muhfugga

Genetic testing indicates desert Jews SCHLONGed southern Italian (roman) rosties to create sephardim which mutated in Ashkenazim.

this has already been proven by genetic testing that they are from the Middle East

only racists spout the "le Ashkenazi fake Jew"meme

>>3256912

Probably northern Italian. If it was southern they'd be broke.

2) While I acknowledge that power is not restricted to authoritative/governing/institutional power and that influence/power can
be much more subtle, it also seems quite handy to be able to redefine the motivation you want to blame in such a way that it
is easier to claim this motivation to be the primary force. For example, if I am being unknowingly observed in a professional
setting by a younger employee, and I do an excellent/shitty job in such a way that the younger employee wants to strive for
excellence or adopt my shittyness, I have influenced this person, ie exerted power. How can that be an exertion of power
when I didn't even know I exerted it? This seems to indicate that Foucault does not consider power merely a motivation,
which kind of ruins Petersons argument, does it not?

3) Foucault talks about resisting power when it feels intolerable to the subject. I admit I am not well versed in philosophy,
but if you're defining power as something everyone in society exerts onto you and you're advocating resistance based on subjective
emotions, it seems to me we're getting in to pathological territory where everyone is a potential enemy and you are the only
authority on what is legitimate resistance. He also puts emphasis on breaking with norms and taboos as an essential part of
such resistance, which seems like he presupposes that norms and taboos do not have any value other than mechanisms for exerting
power. Is that correct tl,dr of his stance on this? If so, it seems a bit dishonest as these norms have played an important role
in the survival and proliferation of humanity. How wrong am I about this?

4) Is it valid to point out that when Foucault acted out his resistance, he did so in a manner that ultimately killed him,
and to claim that if living out his philosophy results in death, he essentially BTFO'd himself? (He basically wanted to go
all out with sexual behaviour that went against the norm and eventually died from AIDS.) Or is that a cheap shot?

>>3256791
More than standard italian, yes, but not noticeably so.
Now sicilian on the other hand..

>>3257549
I meant to include Sicilian in the OP. Is it limited to just loanwords, or are there sounds and grammatical structures that also show up in Sicilian and Neapolitan?

>>3257549
Apparently my grandparents would poke fun at each others accents. (Grandfather being from Bari and Grandmother's parents from Sicily).

Now no one in the family speaks any Italian at all.

>>3256743
The problem with eastern meditation is that it even if there are scientific benefits, it inevitably becomes a cringey hippy meme in the west and gets shrouded with eastern mystic imagery despite being a 'secular' approach.

Anapanasati for example is probably the most basic form of buddhist meditation that could have some positive subtle effects on brain activity, but we have Goenka and jewish professors promoting it as a wonder drug for quick rich schemes under the banner of 'mindfulness' which attracts a lot of rich yoga mom's who moreover think they're doing it right.

Frankly I'm a bit skeptical about the claims that meditation advocates propagate. Certain people in the TM movement have fabricated faulty research papers to advance their aims. And now we have new 'research' that supposedly says non-directive meditation is better than concentrative meditation.

Basically there is nothing more to meditation than meditating, it's not a spook but it won't make you an übermensch.

>>3256743
Buddhism is all NOT there is and not even the best meditation instructions. Every religion comes from the east, we only have what the Native Americans did.

>>3256743
>What is /his/ take on meditation?

Highly beneficial and should be practiced by most people tbqh

>how did this develop historically

It's a simple enough procedure that it has probably arose independently around the world at various times throughout history. We know it has been practiced in India since before the time of the Buddha so at least before the 7th or 6th century BC. Some people suggest that it was practiced by the pre-Aryan Indus Valley cultures.

>Is it a meme or really effective like the (((scientists))) say?

It's not a meme, there have been dozens and dozens of studies published by the top schools in the world, often in combination with neuroimaging equipment which shows that's it's effective and beneficial; that being said most of the benefits come from doing it regularly for a long period of time, there are not huge benefits immediately other than calming you down and helping you focus etc.

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>>3256716
Or you can tell me here, I assume life has been shitty.

Humans have been around for 200,000 years. You're gonna have to be more specific

>>3256733
Someone told me my life (as a 1st worlder) is better than any human to live before me so I wanted to know.

I thought it was some super spoopy advanced computing system until I read a little bit more into it and learned it was simply an elaborate projection system with some switches. Literally cargo cult committing.

>star trek themed telex system
Because it was less efficient than newer and more pragmatic communications and information networks?

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>>3256708
Read this, is like a holy book of the matter (central planning with computers) in leftypol.

http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pdf

Because honesty and decency are foreign to them, so naturally they believe it's also foreign to everyone else.

Gibbon had a pretty similar view of Christianity as imposed onto Europe from the outside a couple centuries before those guys. The antichristian undercurrent of the Enlightenment is probably where it began as a modern school of thought, but you have to remember that it's also just true to an extent. The Roman emperor Julian, who attempted (futilely) to dechristianize the empire, lamented the fact that Christians gained following due to their charitable and open-handed practices.

>>3256656
>to them

Germans?

>>3256626
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORmUUhh6O-8

>>3256626
>ywn have your ship rekt by rogue waves because your dumbass captain didnt give posiden a good offering.
Feels good

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>>3256626
>tfw you will never sail to the infidels territory to loot and butcher a whole christian town, raping and taking their most beautiful woman to be used as sex slaves in the harem
Why live

LARPing faggot

>>3256436
Moron who poisoned his own goals by larping as a Nazi. Faggots in cville tried to copy him rather than learn from his mistakes.

He was a total failure.

You know I really saw him in a different light when he talked about getting drunk with negro soldiers in europe when the war ended and talking about how jovial he felt in their presence.

Beneath every racist is a softie that is ultimately tsundere for darky on some level.

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>#2309

Seems like kind of a cunt.

>Give Me an Answer #2309
muslims are brainwashed to not understand without presupposing Islam into it.

>>3256095
Because goal was to join war. Ships were with night lights.

>>3256095
Same reason why we sold a fuckton of steel to Hitler.

Money.

>>3256095

Because Wilson's neutrality was one-sided. He very clearly favored the Entente over the Central Powers while at the same time. The biggest example of this is the two-faced why that the government dealt with the "freedom of the sea" issue. Germany was condemned for using U-boats, but Britain was not condemned for its blockade.

>>3255965
They feared the northern warrior.

>>3255965
It is mostly because song government are not believing the warriors, as the previous government are destroyed by general's rebellion (Tang dynasty and the one after that). Therefore the first emperor of the song dynasty song tai zu have the general's power taken, for example the one that is controlling the military department is actually lierati. Plus the government's spending on states are actually less, cause fear of the states will rebel, therefore they do not have enough defense against the tribes.

>>3255985
There was shit tons of Chinese defectors though.

>>3256050
Well shit. Did the attitude change during/after the Yuan? Did Song even have a chance of expanding into the North?