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One cannot serve two masters. One cannot worship both God and Mammon. The Europeans have made their choice. Enjoy your Muslims.

>>1501234
I have no idea what you're trying to say.

>>1501249
This lol.

>USA, government worshippers, baseball fans

>Europe, government worshippers, football fans, fish and chips

>>1501231
one is a goal

>>1501231

The absurd hero isn't trying to be better than everyone else.

Directionality. Absurdism is like Taoism, resigned, downward going. Reductive. Nietzsche's ethics is "up-building," creating new norms.

In the first few years, yes the USA had some of the most intelligent politicians of their time. As well as visionary.
But along the way the USA become a dump, a shadow of what was originally conceived.
For instances the quote by Thomas Jefferson about how the constitution should be changed from time to time, because the deads shouldn't be the ones in charge. Kek has the constitution of the USA ever changed in it's history?

>>1501099
USA = Roman Empire
Europe = Antique Greece

>>1501099
The founders were completely obsessed with Rome, I'd say it's a pretty decent claim.

>>1501058
Anything about world-dooming curses?

>>1501058
Is there any source talking about this tomb that's more reputable than WND? I don't mind the headline, it's that they are known to make shit up completely or listen to quack archeologists of the "ayyliens built the Bosnian pyramids" variety

>>1501070
Nobody else yet besides some literally copy-pasted ones (possibly branch sites from WND, not sure). It's pretty new, so unless it gets widely reported within the next couple of days I'm sceptical.

>>1500980
You know Freddy dosnt actually want you to be an Ubermench - he wants you to escape the cycle and create values yourself.

I mean he says many favorable things about this hero caste but he also says they are simple - even though weak and confused - he says at least the meek have the complexity to develop new ideas precisely because they are so fraught.

Only inferior being needs to be superior to be happy.

>>1500980
It's called entertainment. And we live in a society full of it in order to keep the slaves happy. Consumerism(fashion, technology), sports, alcohol, religion, media, internet ultra fast everywhere you go.

yes.

Yes, as long as you give each individual the chance to show themselves to you. Like you could think that generally chinese people are rude from experience as long as when you meet a chinese person you dont immediately assume they are going to be rude and determine it after you know them a little.

>>1500957
Yes, to a certain degree.

>>1500895

He's right. He shouldn't have to put up with philosophy stoners and I as a linguist shouldn't have to put up with STEM autists. People need to pursue what they're good at. Breadth? What the fuck was high school for if not breadth?

>>1500901
>What the fuck was high school for if not breadth?
Housing idiots and Blacks so the Democrats can keep the vote plantations running and the Republicans don't have to grow testicles.

>>1500895
And most STEMfags are retarded too.

The main point is that the majority of people currently in college shouldn't be.

>>1500671
>far more important
history doesn't hold those kinds of values

and no, the black death was the advent of modern medicine.

>>1500671
>Was the smallpox outbreaks that killed many in the Americas far more important than the Black Death?
Well it made America the country it became by wiping out the natives, otherwise America would be more like Mexico or South America. So I'd say that's very significant to world history.

>>1500671
Well, the black death didn't lead to the invasion of europe by aztecs, did it?

It significantly decimated the population of europe, but lower, population density is not necessarily a bad thing, and after they recovered times were good economically

>>1500661
>maybe with the backing of the Dutch, what would the success rate have been?


If he didn't decide to invade Korea and China at all, and focused only on the Philippines, then the Philippines would be speaking Japanese by now.

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>>1500661
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1) Spanish Navy.
2) Indoctrinated Catholicized populace that view East Asians with suspicion given that they were mostly pirates at the time.
3) Ming China will help Spain out. For one thing there was an alliance of sorts between Spain and Ming China. For another, 16th Century Spain happens to be China's best customer: they paid in silver. During the Limahong Crisis in the Philippines, when a Chinese pirate lord landed with the intention of creating a Pirate Kingdom in the Philippines, China sent a "General Omoncon (a Spanish translation of a Chinese name)" to the Philippines to help the Spics out.
4) Building on #3, the Chinese navy.
5) Sheer geography. Not only is the Philippines far from Japan, but it is also Jungle as fuck. The Flips and Spics have mastered a sort of loose warfare there unknown to Japan. We're talking small armies of men deployed in loose formations specializing in ambuscades, skirmishes, and scouting. Short swords, muskets, and light armor was applied liberally along with easy to carry light artillery and riverboats. Usually with artillery plopped into riverboats, with said boats carried overland river to river. Such as the case during the Cagayanes pacification.

What Japan has in its favor is the fact that not all of Philippines belonged to Spain at a time. They were plenty of independent tribes still who could offer Japs a way in via alliances n shiet. But doesnt change the fact that Spanish Held Philippines and its Christianized tribal allies held the military power in those Islands. But that is pretty much it.

>>1500661
Zero.

Going by the Korean invasions the Japanese would seize cities with the expectation that the local populace would return to their lands and be content with Daimyo rule.

This obviously didn't happen and the Japanese suffered from attrition as a result.

>>1500533
The French are stupidly stubborn and Anglophobic at times.

>>1500533
ships aren't just like a car that you get in, turn the key, and drive off in

you need to be fully manned to leave quick and be at least somewhat supplied

ships in port at home only have like 25% of the crew nearby at any time and it'd take a long time for that 25% to get everything going/supplied

easier to just send some petty officers around with explosives

>Is it so the Italians couldn't have them?
exactly
>'if we cant have them then no one can'

>>1500533
If you have to leave your ship and don't scuttle it you've just handed your enemy a new ship. Back in the day ships took a really long time to build, now with all the tech in them losing something like an intact air craft carrier would be devestating
So that's why you scuttle it if things look really bad

>>1500488

Any strong idiot can pick up archery in a few days.

depends what you're going to do with him. anyone can learn to shoot within a week, the thing is that if you're trying to shoot an armoured man from 300 yards you're going to need a heavy bow. and you need to get strong to draw that bow.

>>1500488
Depends. IIRC England banned all Sunday sport except archery at one stage so at that time you could just grab a peasant and expect him to be competent. I did a little bit of archery in high school and it took minutes to get the basic concept and hitting a stationery consistently from about 25m took only a day. Sure my grouping was terrible and I only got about a quarter of my shots on target but still. So in other words, not long at all.

Plus, generally your target is gonna be huge - an entire formation of men - so master archers are not a necessity.

In addition to that, if for every 20 levied peasants with bows you have 1 professional archer (and the bows are more or less standardised), he could set the angle and draw and everyone else could just copy him, so all that would be required is knowledge of the basic technique for shooting a bow and the strength to draw it.

>>1500278
Familial connections, courting, growing up together, etc.

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>>1500278
getting a wife is the way for robots and chads to think that they are relevant. those twats even believe that they have to protect their family so that they can feel dutiful.

>>1500282

so you basically were limited to women your family knew or who you grew up with?

It would have been a very small pool of potential wives then

the ussr was all about the world revolution. chicoms came out of the anti-imperialist nationalist movement, with one of their top priorities being to toss out foreigners or capitalists who would collaborate with foreigners, so that they could rebuild china into a powerhouse again

>>1500409
What about "socialism in one country"?

>>1500412
Pragmatism.

The USSR was never supposed to be a 'country' so to speak. Originally the plan was that the revolution would spread outwards from Russia with Moscow as the capital not of a nation but of the international Communist movement and all the world would be a Soviet Republic within years.

In the years immediately following WWI this actually seemed feasible. Of course, when all of the revolutions save that in Russia fizzled out, the Bolsheviks realized that world revolution wasn't going to be happening any time soon, so they decided to concentrate on building up power at home before focusing on the rest of the world.

Beauty exists OP. It is what it is.

I try to appreciate (physical/bodily) beauty without fawning over it or getting blinded by it.

>>1500077
>Should we not, as humans, find all other humans attractive, regardless of appearance?
Why should we?

>>1500086
Don't you believe having individuals being outcast due to something uncontrollable is unhealthy?

Yet we've been heading in the exact opposite trend, with standards of beauty rising exponentially for the past few decades

>>1500082
Beauty can exist, but the bottom line should not be a negative thing.

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>>1499999
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>>1499999

wew lad

>>1500022

Not bad yourself.