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It really isn't. Otherwise you'd be proving instead of praying

Unless it's Allah, I am totally fine with it

>>1506109
>being exists
>the divine is the principle of being

There.

When I become a centrist who feared to hold a coherent political position.

>>1502545
Its close enough that its relevant. I wouldn't say its a fact.

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> not question mark theory

No it's just that everyone used to be violent and merciless but then the west collectively decided to go full secular humanist but most Muslims didn't get the memo.

We're the odd ones out not them.

It's a reaction to that, but also a reaction of the total failure of Arab governments to adapt to the modern world.

You may note that it started getting really big in the 70s when it became clear that Soviet styled secular nationalism wasn't going to work.

This is also why Turkey held out longer than any other kebabed country, because they were the closest to having a functional government.

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>>1494627
>the total failure of Arab governments to adapt to the modern world.

france, japan, russia, the german region (hre, prussia, germany, etc)

Ecuador
Cuba

Germany, France, UK, China, Japan, Spain, Turkey, Russia

>>1505166
They were ahead in a few areas likes jets and rocketry and behind in others like electronics

I remember watching a ton of those History Channel Nazi superweapons/ufo technology documentaries when I was a kid

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>>1505166

Dude, they actually made this thing fly with jet engine.

>>1501681
So you want a phenomenah that is almost as old as history and covers many different forms to be simplified into a tiny rundown. You have to be way way way more specific.

>>1501681
Does indentured servitude count as white slavery?

>>1501681
Are you genuinely interested, or is this going to be some sort of alt-right "SEE? We were enslaved too and we're not complaining!" deal?

why do these always have shit from vendel period all the way to norman conquest in same pic? it's fucking 500 years time span.

>>1500630
all of their art is generally inaccurate tbqh

>>1500600
>If not, is there any way thay they could have won against the Normans and remained the dominant culture in England?
All they had to do was stay on the damn hill

The fear of homosexuality destroying "legitimate" marriage is ultimately a fear of old forms of social control, and therefore social cohesiveness, losing power. Thus, "society" in general is feared to be losing authority, with the inevitable result being either anarchy or conquer by a more cohesive society.

>>1494393
>homosexuals enter society
>homosexuals prove themselves to be normal, perhaps even kind or intelligent human beings
>christian base of the western world experiences a tidal wave of cognitive dissonance as they're torn between centuries of fag-burning and a command to love they neighbor
>fundamental christians start doing weird shit like sending their gay kids to conversion camps, protesting anything LGBT-friendly with huge rainbow signs that say shit like "GOD HATES FAGS"
>bigotry-fueled rhetoric from the far christian right elects dangerous reactionary politicians
>dangerous reactionary politicians destroy world

Gays ruining everything, as usual.

>>1494416
You're probably the first person I see on 4chan that really gets it.
But you didn't mention the worst part, what comes after the destruction: Islam.

Russia

Ireland and Ukraine are up there.

Poland. Hungary. Romania. Ethiopia.

>>1498920
We got 300,000 before they conquered us.

You lost. We won.

>>1498920
>lol only took X of you to get me!

I call dibs on Delaware

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You faggot larpers better leave my state alone or else

>>1501077
He died an absolutely brutal death at the hands of his Soviet captors at age 21.

On the other hand, it sounds like he had things relatively easy throughout his life.

>"One of the lads had a car. They tore through Magdeburg without a license. The police stopped them and he showed his ID "Heinz Hitler" [and] the police just saluted and let them drive on (laughs)."

>>1501110
Did the Soviets know who he was or it was random torture?

>>1501225
It doesn't matter to those animals.

It certainly hasn't done anything for me.

But I also think it has to do with the introspection that comes with meditating. Using your brain in general to basically think has a number of benefits to it.

>>1496956


(Part One)

In a couple of ways mainly.

1. For whatever reason, as we grow up, we begin to identify strongly with the thoughts that we have. The thoughts about the world, about ourselves. This quickly becomes problematic as nothing in life encourages you away from this sort of thinking/living, nor even generally toward having "good" thoughts. Funnily enough, hold this thought real quick

2. It is generally thought that 4-5 is the highest number of any group of something we can maintain in perception before it becomes one general group thing again. That is, you see Zebra on a field. One Zebra looks like one zebra. Two zebra look like two zebra. Three zebra looks like three zebra. Now, four looks like four zebra, but it may be a bit more difficult to place them. By the time you get to five zebra, you start to stop counting them and it just starts being "a herd of zebra." By six zebra, its almost assuredly "a group." This fault in perception is the same reason that prisoners in cartoon jails write off their days that way. Four little lines, and then crossing off for five. Super easier to count this way.

3. Now back to 1., meditation lets you do the equivalent of crossing off your thoughts with that fifth line, making them easier to count. In most variations of meditation, something to the effect of "the most important thing is the way you sit" or even "the most important thing is to keep this particular thought in mind." That is to say, in doing meditation, you're usually tasked with actually doing about 4-5 (maybe more) things at once.
- Back perfectly straight
- Crown of head reaching toward the universe
- Proper diaphragm breathing
- Hands in a delicate yet firm position, sometimes the cosmic mudra, sometimes what Don in pic related is doing
- Shoulders relaxed
- Eyes neither open and focused, nor closed totally (by the latter I mean just not closing your eyes so hard that thats what you're focusing on)

>>1496956

(Part Two)


This in effect means that if you're maintaining a "true" meditative posture, then you're attempting to mentally balance more things than you can keep in mind. This means you will lead to failure, but it also means that while you're making the attempt, you can't think about anything else.

4. Thoughts being what they are (all thoughts are of the involuntary sort), you will inevitably think of something else. This is where the magic begins. In a lot of traditions that use meditation the metaphor of the clouds and sky comes in. Something about having the thoughts you think to be you just sort of "leak into you" or what you're trying to do really casts a new light for you. According to the metaphor, we're all in life as though we're lying on a grassy field looking at the sky. The thoughts that we think we are, are like clouds rolling by, we think "oh! I'm that cloud" or "oh! I want that cloud" and even as its in front of us its changing and morphing. But soon on enough, that cloud rolls away, and a new one takes its place and you repeat the process. Thats ego. Your 15 and your sure that life is whatever /pol has told you about, or your 25 and your sure that "you want to get married, just because" Meditation, by propping you apart allows you to realize how involuntary ALL thoughts are.

*Nazi concentration camps

>>1494559
Yes, there were cases of mass rapes on both sides. Germans invading Russia and Russians invading Germany.
Depends on who was where, the gulags were essentially opening the window of any form of abuse the guards saw fit.

>>1494559
Wehraboos and neo-nazis love to make a big deal out of Soviets raping German women is East Prussia, and while that was certainly horrible, the Germans committed far more rapes on a far larger scale when they were occupying Russian soil. Don't know anything about rape in concentration camps but I'm sure it happened.

Rape is an unfortunate reality of war, and when you get a racially motivated war like you had on the Eastern Front it really exacerbates the problem. If you've been brainwashed into believing your enemy is genetically inferior or subhuman, it's a lot easier to commit horrible acts like raping and murdering civilians and to justify those crimes to yourself.

>>1500526
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>>1500526

sweet desert