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Why do people use feminine pronouns when referring to countries and ships? When did this start?
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Term of affection/endearment.
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Nouns used to be gendered in English.
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I treat my objects like women.
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Do we know 100% the definitive truth as to what happened to Hitler?
>skull fragments arent his
>Brazil Escape story seems over the top
>everyone in the bunker said they saw him commit suicide, but no corpse.
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>>1431464
He killed enough jews to level up his score and attain enlightenment.
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>>1431491
Cum Heaps In Mouth?
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>>1431400
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>(Quote from author's best known work): The life of (Author)
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>[blank] and philosophy
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How did the germanic tribes evolved into kingdoms?
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"Tribe" isn't really a very useful term when it comes to anthropology. What defines a Kingdom? A lot of those German tribes probably had Kings.
If you mean how did they develop into states then you'll have to look at each tribe individually
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>>1431372
While living on the borders of the Roman Empire, they were influenced by its trade and political power.
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Most tribes had Kings
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How the fuck did the first Mexican Empire lose so much territory, were they fucking asleep or what?
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>>1431259
>Empire
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>>1431259
Probably because the northern territories were unpopulated as fuck and Mexico didn't have manpower or resources to hold onto them.
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>>1431259
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%E2%80%93American_War
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Why did we keep Nazi prisoners in America?
Wasn't it a huge waste of resources to bring them over here?
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Because killing PoW is immoral, something westerners understand (Turks do NOT understand this has been proven this week)
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>>1431155
somebody's gotta do roadwork while the boys are away
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>>1431186
Women?
I was a convinced buddhist until I started reading some of Rudolf Steiner's works which deeply struck me.
I've started actually believing in Christ lately because what Steiner's saying makes perfect sense with me and I feel that christianity and buddhism actually complement eachother greatly and aim towards the same goal.
I'm really not talking about the dogmatic christianity or even dogmatic buddhism here (such as the pure land schools which seem like the creation of unintelligent human beings to me), but about the essence of it.
I don't understand why many christians believe that you basically live once with no explanation for inherent inequality in everybody's life and absolutely no meaning besides heaven and hell, some going as far as saying that non-believers will burn in hell for eternity. Bringing this idea of permanence to such an impermanent existance makes me feel like most christians are a bunch of manchildren looking for comfort.
It started making a lot of sense to me how God is basically our common source and Jesus showed himself to us into a body we can actually see.
What are your thoughts on this?
Do you think I can still call myself a buddhist?
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>>1431148
Are you from California and are you white?
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>>1431159
Europe and yes, I'm white
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You should read Stirner instead of Steiner you massive cunthuffer, religion is nothing more than a spook
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>You will never storm across Central Asia
>You will never make great empires crumble
>You will never bleed for the Great Khan
>You will never live in a yurt
>You will never beat at Europe's door
Fucking kill me senpai
Also please link to some Mongolian throat singing
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>>1431096
https://youtu.be/GpQkYxING4I
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>>1431096
There's no reason you can't live in a yurt.
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> tfw you watch Marco Polo and imagine yourself as a time traveler in Kublai khans court
> tfw you go over how to deliver the information that the mongol empire was a flash in the pan to him in your mind
> tfw it ends poorly every time
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hey guys, I'm in need of your favorite music from history whether it be classical, romantic, baroque or gregorian chant, or historical folk music of any kind. Preferably European in origin, but anywhere is fine,
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Starting off with a personal favorite of mine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZBnsElBlVg
alan stivell is prime
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8tWXHgzvoc
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French royal anthem since the 16th century:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h5M78YVN8M
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Are there any leaders in recent history who expanded their nation's own power and raised standards of living in a faster time than this man?
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Hitler
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>>1431114
Being raped by the Soviets can hardly be called an improvement on the standard of living anon.
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>>1430997
Truman? FDR didn't do dick for our global hegemony. Truman did.
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what's your opinion on crime punishment?
mine is that punishment is there to decrease the incentive for people to do specific things deemed harmful to society. this means I value punishment over rehabilitation. While it would make sense to try and rehabilitate an individual once he's done a crime, not punishing him would mean not preventing another person from doing said crime in the future. Therefore the punishment is not here as a personal gratification for the victim or as a part of the rehabilitation. It is here as a prevention method.
Now I would assume many would agree with me on a principal level but we would come to qualms over which specific crimes should be punished how much. I'm interested in hearing if any of you disagree with me on a principal level.
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>>1430956
You can have both. You can rehabilitate to the point where the criminal is again contributing to society, but worse off than he would have been if he didn't do the crime.
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>>1430956
Your view of punishment and penology sounds very grounded in deterrence; other theories are rehabilitation (which you pointed out), retribution (return the wrong done to the victim), and incapacitation (the person is dangerous and needs to be removed from society until they are no longer dangerous).
One of the issues with deterrence theory is that most criminals don't consider a punishment when committing a crime, as they do not believe they will be caught or do not believe they are committing a crime.
Furthermore, the appropriate length of the sentence, assuming capital punishment is not an option, can be very hard to determine, as the vast majority of people do not want to spend any time in jail. Even if you bitterly hate someone, a 4 or 5 year jail sentence would deter most people, and the ones that it doesn't deter would most likely be equally undeterred by a much longer sentence, as they are thinking in the manner I discussed above.
Ideally, deterrence can be combined with incapacitation and rehabilitation to avoid keeping people imprisoned for very long periods of time. Retribution is highly subjective and thus difficult to justify, as crime victims are seldom satisfied with the punishments their attackers receive, even when they are sentenced for life or executed.
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>>1431044
>* a 4 or 5 year sentence would deter most people from killing someone
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How come all the cradles of civilization are now complete shitholes? What happened?
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The white man plague happened.
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The world is fluid.
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Modern tech means you can grow food almost anywhere.
Modern wealth is in banking, patroliuem, information tech, and minerals.
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Vikings were not only garbage at fighting but even the ''le tall muscular guys'' is a meme as the skeletons found are 170cm with the ''tall'' ones being 176 and Irish described them as scrawny. The same Irish who rekt them.
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>>1430756
>Viking hate thread No. 463
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Who the hell cares?
Did a viking rape your mom?
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>>1430764
Really? I thought that it was Viking hate thread No. 578.
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>"Though they seem to be at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet... The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a God or not. The atheist is a religious person. He believes in athiesm as though it were a new religion. He is an atheist with devoutness and unction."
-Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer"
How true is this?
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>>1430730
>mh horseshoe
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>I only see the part where it insults atheists and not where it belittles my belief as just another "religious fanatics"
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It doesn't matter what you believe, what matters is if you are a good person or not.
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So I've been playing pic related and found that I can reform the Germanic Pagan religion to have a hierarchical central leadership resembling that of the Catholic Church (in order to help with conversion and call Holy Wars)
Why didn't this occur in real life? Why didn't pagans reform their religion to contend with Abrahamic ones?
And if they had have, do you think they would've held their grip on their respective regions into modern times?
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>>1430699
Pagan religion was more like culture.
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>>1430699
Here we go again. That "reform" word.
Because the Pagans didn't have fucking centralized leadership (nor a fucking doctrine to begin with) and worship of the gods is often highly personal.
I swear whenever I hear the word reformation applied on non Western Christian religions...
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>>1430699
Christianity is the only religion which actually reformed in real life, all other religions never have