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Which of the 7 wonders of the ancient world (besides the Great Pyramid) do you wish was still around today?
Do you think each actually existed?
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I'd most like to have seen the statue of Zeus at Olympia.
And I think they've all been pretty much confirmed to have existed with the exception of the hanging gardens of Babylon.
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>>1549129
Colossus of Rhodes
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Hanging gardens just to see if it actually existed, shit seemed way to crazy to be true. The colossus and statue of zeus are a close second though, highly doubt the colossus was as big as the old historians said.
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This man's lack of evidence based philosophy put into practice literally resulted in the deaths of 10's of millions of people and some of the most despotic regimes that have ever existed yet still garners support to this day.
When did you realize continental philosophy is pure mindless circle jerking that rejects all empirical evidence on the basis of pure semantic nonsense?
(P.S. If time travel was possible, this would be the fucking retard I would have killed)
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I don't know if you know this, but literally everyone feels the same way.
Was it worth a thread?
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>>1549130
Yes because I have only just realized the true dangers of philosophy when it is put into practice.
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>>1549123
You never read anything he wrote. In fact I doubt you ever read anything with more than 60 pages that isn't on your high school reading list.
Pro tip: Marxism was never put into practice . Marxism-Leninism was which is a different thing but you wouldn't know since you never read Lenin.
Also Marx' work are perfectly fine for mid 19th century science. In fact he was way above average and read literally everything he could regarding a topic he was dealing with.
>tfw you will never live in revolutionary catalonia
Was this the pinnacle of human society until the fascists came and destroyed it all?
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>>1549085
>The committee dictated rules that the militias coerced you into accepting but it was totally unhierarchical and voluntary!
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>>1549080
Weren't they raping nuns in the streets and burning churches to the ground? Sounds like typical commie shit to me.
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>visit China
>go to Buddhist temple
>religious festival is going on
>people are offering goods to statues for good fortune
>monks are blessing people so they will gain wealth
wtf do they even read the Buddha?
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>>1549071
Yeah, Chinese religions are heavy on Syncretism.
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>>1549071
>not doing fun superstitious holidays with your loving family and community
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>>1549071
>*air horn*
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>The usual mode of fantasy is to construct a scene, not a scene where I get what I desire but a scene in which I imagine myself as desired by others.
t. Zizek
Is this true? Is the desire to be desired by others the driving force in human history and the construction of civilizations?
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Why won't commies ditch psychoanalysis already?
Psychoanalysis is the new Socialism in One Nation.
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>>1548991
Tbqh Zizek should be gassed. It would be a good thing.
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>>1549003
What's wrong with psychoanalysis? And it's not like only commies use it today, that shit is everywhere.
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That guy thread?
>that guy that gets all of his historical information from manga, movies, and tv shows
>that guy that uses the term sub saharan africa(n) for a black african when discussing african history
>that guy that unironically days 'holohoax'
>that guy that buys into the solutrean hypothesis
>that guy that constantly gets in the way of serious discussion by meme posting about vikings
>that guy that unironicallu believes that rome was the greatest civilization of the ancient world
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>>1548843
Who was the greatest ancient civilization then?
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>>1548866
Great Zimbabwe
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>>1548843
Dumb frogposter
What do I do after I realize that life is not about feeling pleasure?
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>>1548780
Realize you were wrong and pursue pleasure again
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>>1548780
be aware, travel...
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>>1548780
Realize something else
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Saint Maurice (also Moritz, Morris, or Mauritius) was the leader of the legendary Roman Theban Legion in the 3rd century, and one of the favorite and most widely venerated saints of that group. He was the patron saint of several professions, locales, and kingdoms. He is also a highly revered saint in the Coptic Orthodox Church and Oriental Orthodox churches.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Maurice
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I find it to hard to believe that an entire 5600 strong legion would convert to a still-persecuted religion. Why are hagiographies filled with such bullshit and why do Christians believe it?
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>>1548779
>converting to Christianity
Why do black people do this? Christians literally owned their ancestors as slaves. They should send a middle finger to the white man by mass converting to Islam.
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>>1548779
>WE WUZ SAINTS N SHIET
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Why didn't the Germans use nerve gas at the battle of Berlin? I've read that Hitler had Sarin gas distributed to some of his soldier's at the battle with the instruction to only use it under a direct order from the Fuhrer. Everything written about him at the time seems to shoe that he wanted to bring down all of Germany with him if they were going to lose the war, so I doubt he had any moral qualms with it. After all he ordered a scorched earth policy within his own country during the retreat, called up the home guard and the Hitler youth into arms.
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>>1548332
I just watched "Unsere Vaeter, Unsere Muetter". Based on this alone, I would be inclined to think that #notallNazis were fanatic enough, especially by the end of the war, to kill their own population. But maybe this is just revisionism.
Anyways, if they did use the gas, what then? They win? Surely not. I think Hitler was fighting an ideological war - his, or the 3rd Reich's physical destruction was not the end of Nazism.
Scorched earth can be healed.
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Is this Hwan Empire thread?
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>>1548544
The issue is that most of the nazi high command was fanatical enough to pull a move like this at the end of the war. Many of Hitler's generals were urging him to use it, and Hitler himself would write and talk about bringing Germany down with him. Yet no order was given out to use the gas which he supplued some SS units with. If Hitler had given an order and it has been ignored then it would have been heard about.
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What is the point of making this question?
Everytime i hear someone making this question, i wonder what is the purpose or reason for making this question.
This question always ends in chaos with Theists and Atheists screaming at each other.
If the answer was "yes" or "no", what difference would it make? Woudn't we keep living our lifes the same way? Do people bring this question only to see the world burn?
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The true purpose of asking any question or indeed any communication or art whatsoever is an attempt to relate to a fellow human being, to express one's thoughts and feeling in the hope that another will at least listen. The answer or reply is appreciated but ultimately not required.
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>>1548285
>Woudn't we keep living our lifes the same way?
Obviously fucking not. A huge amount of people would change their lives depending on the answer.
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>>1548285
It makes sense to me, imagining it from the perspective of either a believer, someone who's resently lost faith or someone being uncertain in his faith, wanting to bounce his ideas and thoughts on other people as well as listen to theirs.
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Where were ancient Roman statues kept during the Middle Ages, that they made it to modern times almost intact while architecture just fell apart?
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>>1547831
Underground.
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Church probably just looted them wherever possible, and added it to the art collection. When I was in Rome I heard from some guy that the only reason why Marcus Aurelius' statue survived in public was because the medieval Italians thought it was Constantine. So I can't blame the church for protecting ancient artwork from their followers.
Then again the guy I heard it from was some Algerian selling selfie sticks, so take it with a grain of salt.
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>>1547846
Those mother fuckers selling selfie sticks in Rome. Everywhere.
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Which pre-modern civilization mastered the skill of archery?
Basically, which civilization produced the best archers and have the best rangers in their army?
Crossbows don't count.
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>>1547798
>pre modern
so before agri cult revo 12000 bp
glaciars and shit raping nth euro
so can take the boar hunters of the euro plains out
au nagz all off sea crafting and land stripping through fire stick tech
china too busy being resettled by every man and his dingo dog
probably africa, game in full flourish, its warm, hot, comfy.
going with africa.
maybe meso/mid east like asyria through achkmenind civ area but ud be hunting birds in the mountains with sling and stone more likely.
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>>1547928
Modern Era starts with the French Revolution m8.
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>>1547936
>H
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What was he again ?
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HE WAS A PREFECT OF ROME
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HE WUZ A CONSULATE OF ROMEO
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HE WAS A FRIEND OF CAESAR
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How can one man be so based?
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>>1547476
In before someone posts that moronic copypasta propaganda about how great everything was
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>>1547476
>How can one man be so based?
lel gaddhafi was stupid as hell
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He was a despot of extravagant style, but the best despot these people had since a long time.
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Is religion the only reason for the separation of India and Pakistan in 1947?
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Probably, and it didn't even work because they started a war anyway.
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>>1547441
Pretty much. Indian civilization was born in todays Pakistan or Alexander the Greats campaign in India and fight against indian warlords were completely in present day Pakistan.
There are of course large historical and cultural differences between the regions, but that is true also for India today or even todays Pakistan (with say Sindh or Baluchistan or Pashtunistan even having their own language and very little in common besides being muslim).
Besides religion, India and Pakistan and Bangladesh are all the same and what was considered as 'india' throughout most of history.
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>>1547441
Slimy Anglos wanted a puppet to continue the great game.