Give me a one good reason why Communism should be tried again.
>>1583580
>again
First (You)
>>1583583
>le no true communism
This literally means commies are so fucking inept they can't get it right a century and a half later
>>1583606
those were not commies
There are numerous case studies from the likes of the late Dr Ian Stevenson and Prof Jim Tucker, of the University of Virginias Department for Perceptual Studies, that point towards reincarnation being more than just a hippie meme.
While case studies alone can never be full proof of a theory, they are at least promising.
Whats the opinion of /his/ on reincarnation. Does it have a degree of merit or is it just hippie bullshit?
Whatever hippies believe I disbelieve.
>>1583520
more likely to be real than any form an eternal afterlife
ITT: people who look so evil you wonder how anybody took them seriously
I'll start with Trofim Lysenko
Easy mode.
Fucking reptilians.
Not necessarily evil, I'm at a loss to understand how anyone was inspired to follow this entity
>B.C.E.
A Fucking Frog
>Julius ZEEZAR
>>1583392
>Christ was born in the year 3 Before Christ
BC is a retarded fucking system.
Is it more important as a Christian to go to church or to read and follow the Bible? Is a Christian who reads the bible but doesn't go to church more or less devout than a Christian who goes to church but doesn't read the bible?
More important to go to church
most laymen didn't even read the bible
>>1582856
>he still unironically believes Christianity is 'real'
Right click, hide
>>1582856
A Christian who reads the bible and doesn't go to church is many times better than a Christian who goes to church and doesn't read the bible.
Why do we revere objectivity? Why do we worship an indifference that has given us all the horrors of the universe?
>>1582484
Why do we revere sophistry? Why do we post incomprehensible threads with big philosophy words mashed together in an attempt to seem smart?
>>1582484
Did you lose an argument on ethics and morality the moment someone ventured to ask, "but why tho?" To your presupposed axiom, and are now all butt bothered?
>>1582484
Because ressentiment.
Why is slavery the only economic system that works?
>>1582457
Slavery is proto-communism. Slaves are doing all the work for the community without any wages :)
From each according to his ability to each according to his need.
Here's your reply.
Hard to dump from phone
Posing has always been interesting. The soldier wants you to think they are a fearless man.
Were earlier wars more brutal than modern ones?
>>1581991
How are you defining "brutality"?
>>1582009
This. You mean in terms of blood and guts spilled everywhere? Or number of soldiers killed vs civilians killed?
"brutal" is such a subjective term senpai
>>1582033
i mean the involvement of civilians, did civilians were targeted more often in earlier times and was the idea of a "civilian" during war even thought of?
why didn't nazis invade switzerland?
if they successfully invaded russia, would they eventually try to invade switzerland?
>>1581614
Because they werenthollywood vilains, murfat
They invaded what they needed to
>>1581614
Yes, read about operation Tannenbaum.
>>1581637
They had plenty of plans to invade all over the world once the USSR was taken care of
Has there even been in history a black majority country run by black people that was successful and prosperous? It seems like even African majority countries outside of Africa, like Haiti, tend to be abysmal.
>>1581327
maybe Biafra if not the eternal anglo fucked them over
>>1581327
Historically, one could talk of the Mali Empire, the Ethiopian Empire and maybe even the Kingdom of Kush.
In the current state, there are developing African countries which haven't gone full war-lord child soldier on us.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/18/business/africa-prosperity-rankings-2014/
So in a sense, they're nothing really GREAT, but they're not shit-tier as some stormfags might have you believe.
>>1581327
South Africa is commonly held as one of the most successful black majority countries in the world, but if we're being perfectly frank, the ANC (the main "black" party) has been a hotbed of corruption and self-destructive policies since Mbeki's presidency, and even during Mandela's reign to a lesser extent.
Why did the allies insist on keeping Hirohito as official head of state and absolving him of prosecution to maintain national unity, but didn't do the same thing for Hitler?
I mean, if Hirohito despite all his massive warcrimes, was allowed to carry on as head of state to maintain Japanese cohesion as a postwar anti-communist ally, why didn't they do the same for Hitler and germany? They could have kept him as a constitutional fuhrer with a pro-western anti-communist government.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it because Hirohito surrendered and didn't kill himself?
Hirohito wasn't Tojo
>>1581250
Hirohito was way more culpable than Tojo you know. He gave direct instructions for many of the warcrimes whereas Tojo tried to circumvent them. After the war, everyone agreed to pin everything on Tojo to save the royal family.
The following could amount to a crucial and timely philosophical breakthrough. It seems to be very close to what Immanuel Kant called the philosophers' stone.
The set of questions
"Do I seem free enough?
If yes, for how long probably?
If so, what could I do that seems best for all?"
could maybe form the root of a new ethics. It gives people a "start for thinking", which accounts for a basic bipolarity: (non-deity-) agents have two high objectives:
-existential/recurring personal liberation, for example from itch or death, and
-moral activity which attempts, what seems to be best for all.
This may seem abstract, but in the time it grew with me, it raised some heavy/influential consequences:
- a bipolarity for the political landscape, that seems scalable from the individual to the whole of humanity, and that at the same time seems much more cooperative, as every human experiences both parties' central objectives in his daily life.Ideally improving democracy's appeal for many.
- some basic root thoughts for an artificial intelligence, that could invoke a reasoned, largely beneficial stance on humanity (in case you mind: see "control problem")
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And it has some important conclusions for the present years' situation:
- Liberation is important only besides "best for all", therefore there has to be a dynamic limit to it: "increasingly voluntary liberations-sum equality" (Binding engagement subtracts from liberation.)
- Liberation, that is ignorant of other agents, risks their antiliberation, pressing them to liberate themselves as well. This possible mutually ignorant subgroup liberation can spiral down. The way out, even for past events, seems to be "increasingly voluntary antiliberation compensation".
The first point would ease inequality tensions and the second would slow downward spirals in politics, economics... from small to big scale.
-If you mind, take these last points to a news page of your flavour and test them.
-Please be careful implementing, I am too poor to compensate damage done.
-I cherish anonymity here, as I seem productive that way and I guess, that with a public position that would change, to long term detriment.
-I learned to prefer gradual evolution over disruptive revolution. This system should help with that.
-The most urgent consequence seems to be, that people keep calm and go on in their doings, now seemingly assured of improvement, to avoid systemic seizure.
Thanks for all good
All good to all
>>1581233
If man was not born to die then your system would work.
This is not the case, thus your system would ultimately fail.
We are not all you and I for one would work to deliberately hinder your pursuits to further my own.
>>1581769
Thanks for your high quality reply.
>If man was not born to die then your system would work.
Certain death is ending soon, so that should as soon be a minor obstacle.
>We are not all you and I for one would work to deliberately hinder your pursuits to further my own.
If my pursuits antiliberate you and you are fucking angry, you could make a justified claim for compensation. There would still be conflict but maybe more vocal and less violent. Resources may seem too scarce for all these compensations, but the world GDP still grows exponentially. Fair competition is maintained. Unfair moves are what qualifies for compensation claims.
>he paid 20,000 francs for each night he spent with a woman
remind me why you fucks worship this manlet loser again
>20,000 francs for each night he spent with a woman
A laughable sum when compared to the cost of a princess or queen consort
t. Joo
>>1581164
because I also am a manlet loser
>>1581164
he went his own way
Were Jews in Medieval Europe exclusively a mercantile class or were there Jewish farming/peasant communities? How about Jewish nobility?
I'm pretty sure there were lots of Jewish farmers in Central Europe up until the Holocaust
>>1581115
There weren't. At least not in Poland.
Jews weren't like a class of merchants, they just had an edge in banking because Christianity forbid usury. Most Jews have never been bourgeois and they had communal structures in Jewish communities where food and shit was shared collectively. This primitive form of localized communism still exists in Israel but it's usually just a dining hall and some other shit. I forget what they're called, they tried reintroducing the system fully today but it didn't work.