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>>1527640
I appreciate what Watts did for Zen in the west, but his writings seem part of a counter-orientalist movement on the part of Japan. Zen can not be severed from its historical, doctrinal, and cultural context without being mangled into a completely different religious philosophy (see: the other Zen thread up right now). I agree that his writings are accessible for westerners, but keep in mind they're introductory.

>>1527640
>It's a "dumbing down foreign religions for exoticist Westerners who don't really want to challenge their worldview" episode

De wettering

Good thread

Recommended on my blog

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>>1527347
>be papa Caesar
>fighting the uncultured Gauls because why not
>maybe if you conquer them and let them learn from a superior Latin government for like 2 millennia they would learn
>probably not though
>faggots don't even know how to build walls
>so you walled them in yourself
>your officers thought you were joking
>lol who cares
>tfw faggots got reinforcements
>they outnumber you too much
>wat do
>idk, build another wall
>you love walls

The original wall builder please don't steal

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>>1527380
Here's another

>tell pirates that abducted you you'll crucify their asses when you get back
>they think you just frontin and you have epic bants and play games with them
>these niggas love your ass
>force them to raise your ransom because you know you're worth more
>keep telling them "oh you niggers you, i'll crucify you when i get free!"
>heartykeks.jpg
>bros finally pay your ransom
>raise a small fleet, go back and find the pirates
>crucify them and take back your money

SAUVAGE

Bring back the mandate desu

>>1526782
Ever spoken to a syrian?
They would never accept it being partitioned

>>1526802
Did not have a chance. But what exactly is "Syrian"?
Also, the Kurds want to secede in the east, right?

There is no difference

>>1526700
most sources do hold up that he was a Christian in his later life.

but the decision to decriminalize Christianity was mostly because the religion was by that time too big to stamp out, if they continued to forbid Christian practices, they would be alienating 20-25% of their entire empire, which probably would've led to civil war and collapse much faster.

He died an Arian. But that takes away from Christfags glory, so they create the noble lie of "Christian Saintlike Emperor". His son was openly Arian and he himself was baptized by an arian, go figure.

>>1526489
Yea by polluting our water am I right?

>>1526489
..In countries where a population explosion is vital to keep the economy going..

We talking bout phytoestrogens right?

>>1526307
Yes, Commonwealth was a mistake.

>>1526307
No, the problems started even earlier, with szlachta getting benefits every time they wanted, and members of Duchal families using their wealth to mostly benefit themselves.

Even during Swedish Deluge, Grand Duchy of Lithuania was mostly left alone.

>>1526307
Lithuania was like a fucking khaganate, the large area didn't mean anything, because it wasn't developed nor administered.

>>1526275
Kek. Let it go. The answer is simple. Unless of course you are a Buddhist.

>>1526275
let it go lmao

>>1526275
Wait and see if the other guy pulls the lever, if not don't pull either.

so far it's worked out pretty good

>>1526191
They've worked well as a deterrent so far, but then again people thought the same thing about machine guns prior to WW1.

>>1526191
Yes and yes but you could argue their development was inevitable as the threat of only one power having them was too great
>>1526375
>They've worked well as a deterrent so far
As a deterrent for what? Themselves? Hurray. For war? Haha no. They just stop major powers from duking it out in big, bloody, conclusive wars. Instead we just get an endless series of proxy wars, yay thanks nukes

>>1526120
Thing is you didn't try hard enough. The french army was intact when the capitulation was ordered.

>>1526120
AND GOT SO FAR

>>1526170
The photo is the reaction of a man who fought in the first war when he discovered war was once again declared
The war has destroyed France and nobody wanted another, hence the rapid end

>>1526243
>1940
>Just discovered they had been at war for, at the very least, 3 months
Yeah, nah. It's from the fall of Paris.

>>1526061
Accept Jesus as your savior and repent
In other words, get saved

>>1526074

And then 4 months down the road I'll think about the humans who lived before Abrahamic monotheism and I'll be back at square one

It's always the same quote that makes me leave Christianity

>Let’s say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years. In order to be a Christian, you have to believe that for 98,000 years, our species suffered and died, most of its children dying in childbirth, most other people having a life expectancy of about 25 years, dying of their teeth. Famine, struggle, bitterness, war, suffering, misery, all of that for 98,000 years. Heaven watches this with complete indifference. And then 2000 years ago, God thinks 'That’s enough of that. It’s time to intervene,' and the best way to do this would be by condemning someone to a human sacrifice somewhere in the less literate parts of the Middle East. Don’t let us appeal to the Chinese, for example, where people can read and study evidence and have a civilization. Let’s go to the desert and have another revelation there. This is nonsense. It can’t be believed by a thinking person."

>>1526061
powerlift and smoke dope instead who fucking cares

>>1525755
kek, diaspora is silent because besides muh hormazd muh shahanshah muhfucka they don't know jackshit about Persian history

>>1525755
Feudalism

European Feudalism is based off of the Persian system.

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>>1525755
Sassanids were far more autocratic, centralized, and built on various different strata of military and administrative systems to enhance its stability as a major power; they also used the satrap system and the various checks and balances of provincial governors, secretaries, agents answerable only to the King, etc...

As fr their military you had freemen of direct Aryan/Iranian descent who were retained as elite archers and the backbone of the cavlary corps; nobles usually had their own retainers much like a feudal lord or aristocrat in Europe had knights who made up the more higher status and heavier cataphract forces. Other various allied nations or vassal states complimented their military with lighter armed horsemen as scouts, horse archers, and foot soldiers; Dalyamite and Sogdians producing the finest heavy armed infantry for the Sassanids.

>How did the Sassanids manage to overthrow the Parthians?
By Parthians you mean the Arsacid dynasty? They were already declining from various Roman invasions, internal revolts and uprisings, as well as several civil wars. Ardashir, the Sassanid dynasty's founder and son of Papk was a devout and extremely powerful Kavi (local kinglet) himself who came from a highly prestigious family who were already fomenting rebellions against the Arsacids about 40 years earlier since his father's time. After Atrabanus had successfully revolted and compelled his older brother to surrender after a war for the throne, Ardashir launched his rebellion openly, taking several vassal states, having several of Atrabanus supporters switch sides and eventually killed him in their final battle which had all the Great Houses of Parthia swear allegiance.

Or tl ; dr Parthian Empire exhausted itself with over two hundred years of warfare with Rome, multiple civil wars, series of increasingly weak rulers, and anti-Greek/anti-Roman nationalism in Iranian peoples flaring up which the Sassanid Persians took advantage of to get power.

>>1525362
No

>>1525363
Then what is? The Tsarist Empire, pre-Crimea?

>leader in art
Socialist realism is literal trash

>>1525334
I can transfer the responsibility to the "sick fuck" forcing me to choose in full conscience

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>>1525334
I was browsing reddit just now as I do when I'm super fucking board
Guess which meme they stole this time
It's on the front page

>>1525334
for all cases
it depends on the individuals priority of attachments to the individuals in question
which arrises from the knowledge of those individuals

>>1525269
There's records of them across recently abandoned places. In the amazon they've found tons of burials along the rivers suggesting higher populations than estimated. I think 80 million is accurate, I mean the Americas is huge. And some places were pretty densely populated like Mesoamerica, the Andes, the Mississippian and Mound culture areas, the Amazon.

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>>1525269
> 80-100 million Native Americans that died to disease

No, there is no archeological actual evidence for those kinda numbers. With the exception of a few locations in Mesoamerica and S.America, the Western Hemisphere was a howling wilderness from pole to pole with only scattered family groups of stone age hunter-gatherers.

>>1525269
>in a rather short amount of time after European colonization started
It took centuries.

>With populations that large dying off are there any records of Europeans coming across ghost towns or large, fresh burial grounds from all the recent people dying?
This is just from a google search so it's probably not a great source;
>http://www.varsitytutors.com/earlyamerica/early-america-review/volume-11/native-americans-smallpox
>The effects of the smallpox epidemics are preserved in historical and archaeological records. Hernando de Soto, Lewis and Clark, Jedediah Smith, and many others described seeing overgrown, abandoned villages. Archaeological evidence of village abandonment exists for the Southeastern United States. Stylistic sharing of the Pensacola Complex in the Southeast indicates interaction between groups during later periods of European contact that may also have contributed to new infectious pathways. A mass burial at the 16th century King site in Tennessee probably indicates a post-epidemic burial since mass burials are not common for ritual purposes in the Southeast. There are also increases in "multiple burials" (two bodies together) in this area, with ethnohistorical evidence confirming the use of multiple burials during times of epidemic diseases.

dem crazy eyes tho

just what was his fucking problem

Why did God want him to kill President Garfield?