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How seriously do academic historians take Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals?

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Is circumcision justifiable today?

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After Crete Hitler said he'd never order another airborne operation but the same battle caused the British to model a paratrooper force after the Fallschirmjaegers.

What gives?

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Was the battle of new orleans the most embarrassing defeat of all time? how did a bunch of untrained farmers manage to btfo the British so hard?

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Alright /his/, we know each other well enough and I'm bored so let's have a quiz thread.

I'll ask a question and the first person to get it right earns a (You).

Question 1: Who was the leader of the Nazi Party in Germany for the large majority of its existence?
>a) King Edward VIII
>b) Mr. Nazi (Herr Nazi)
>c) Joseph Stalin
>d) Adolf Hitler

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Why did Kemalism fail in Turkey? Why did the Turks fall for the Gulenist meme?

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>Why must we make effort?

It seems everyone is in a struggle to be the last man standing.

>Why are we so quick to assume someone else is wrong?

It seems people usually respond with "No, because I think this way", and very little do you see someone admit they could even have a chance of being wrong.

>Why do people attack religion with memes?

For people who say their mind is the highest state, why is it so hard to logically perceive any notions of soul being more than the mind?

>Why do the religious, claiming to be saints, actually persecute everyone who is not associated with their groups?

You guys sees that Christians who call each other heretics are their own worst enemy. Christ is branded as a heretic by the Jews, so why do Christians brand each other as heretical.

>Why do people separate the enlightenment of Gautama and Yeshua?

This is not to say "Buddhism has different beliefs than Christians" but rather, the person who is known as Buddha, and the person who is known as the Christ, both having the same dimension of higher being, are both of high wisdom and are distinct from the religions that came after them. They taught the metaphysical law, not any confining belief system.

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What do you think about the idea of writing a diary so your future heirs can read it? I realized that pretty much no one leaves something behind that will allow others to dwell into their minds. Be it at least some demented ramblings others can laugh about.

What would be the best format for this? I want to tap into immortality of digital data but not sure what would be best at having text, pictures, maybe some music and short vids in it.

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Is there any ancient book or text like the Bible which espouses again and again the virtues and concepts of love, faith, humility, charity, empathy, compassion and mercy? Not only in the New Testament but the OT as well?

Other ancient texts from what I've read just focus on gods winning wars, defeating dragons and demons and taking heroic men into the pantheon of the gods or taking beautiful women as their mates.

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Future historians will browse through THIS VERY THREAD in order to get an accurate portrait of per-immortality historical shitposting, whilst we are all dead. What would you like them to know?

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Post your feels

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What was his deal? Did his mommy never bake him enough chicken tendies? Were his GBPs wasted?

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Hey /his/

Why are there no good historical Sengoku-era video games that let you live the samurai life?

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>tfw you don't even read books anymore because you can't bear to give up on Nicholas Nickleby and if you give it up then you'll be considered a definitive pleb
>tfw so much literature is self indulgent UNENJOYABLE no fun allowed bullshit
>tfw pomo trash takes this to another level and the forced lol so randumb sense of humour is excruciating
>tfw mccarthy is genuine trash with only the road being worthwhile
>tfw the academia-media-publishing industrial complex and its lackeys (many of whom browse /lit/) treat literature as not enjoyment but as a medium to tee off their ramblings and to try to gain cultural capital by talking about their tastes
>tfw reading is as much a pointless worthless status symbol as travelling (lit is the pseuds equivalent of instagram whores)
>tfw laughing when watching the dying embers of reverse-fedoras praising religion as profound when Stirner lays it all out for all to see
>tfw stirner doesn't even say anything that a common unpretentious person doesn't know, it's just that lit doesn't listen to any idea unless it has been presented by a published author

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Is this true?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/health/nutrition/yoga-fans-sexual-flames-and-predictably-plenty-of-scandal.html

>Yoga teachers and how-to books seldom mention that the discipline began as a sex cult — an omission that leaves many practitioners open to libidinal surprise.

>Hatha yoga — the parent of the styles now practiced around the globe — began as a branch of Tantra. In medieval India, Tantra devotees sought to fuse the male and female aspects of the cosmos into a blissful state of consciousness.

>The rites of Tantric cults, while often steeped in symbolism, could also include group and individual sex. One text advised devotees to revere the female sex organ and enjoy vigorous intercourse. Candidates for worship included actresses and prostitutes, as well as the sisters of practitioners.

>Hatha originated as a way to speed the Tantric agenda. It used poses, deep breathing and stimulating acts — including intercourse — to hasten rapturous bliss. In time, Tantra and Hatha developed bad reputations. The main charge was that practitioners indulged in sexual debauchery under the pretext of spirituality.

>Early in the 20th century, the founders of modern yoga worked hard to remove the Tantric stain. They devised a sanitized discipline that played down the old eroticism for a new emphasis on health and fitness.