I can't shake the dread from monist materialism and see so many happy people in my personal life that think it'll be okay and death isn't the end of a pointless existence.
Why would you want to believe in religion?
>>3239229
Start by praying on a daily basis. Contemplate on the idea of God and the strangeness of existence. Read Kierkegaard.
>>3239229
You have to lower your IQ
Try heavy drinking or cut your oxigen supply for a couple of minutes
Would the Nazis have taken power if Strasser was in charge? What's the difference between Strasserism and Hitler's brand of National Socialism?
>>3228670
Strasser became less anti-semitic in his later years and his Strasserism is virtually the same as the Socialism in One Country that Stalin and Ceacescu did.
>>3228670
See by yourself
Why do people view Nationalism as something natural, when in reality it's a 19th century meme?
>>3256173
Invented by the so loathed libruls, no less.
People are slaves to ideology in the quest for self satisfaction and a sense of belonging.
No one views nationalism as "natural". Not even nationalists. I have never met anyone who claims nationalism is natural.
But you don't care about that. You want this thread to be a leftypol circlejerk. Fuck off. You're worse than /pol/
Why is there a fascist symbol in the American Congress?
>>3255382
It's a Roman thing
>>3255382
it's a roman symbol
the founding fathers of america revered the roman republic
>>3255382
The fasces is a symbol of authority dating from Roman times.
Is morality a social construct?
>>3255116
what else even could it be
>>3255120
The commands of God.
>>3255116
It's what separates humans from beasts.
A lizard would eats its young and wouldn't give a shit if the next door neighbor watched.
>literally believed that history that history is guided by an imaginary railroad and is destined to end a certain way
How do people believe this autism? Especially today when communist nations are rapidly becoming capitalist thus BTFOing his autistic railroaded simplified history.
>literally believed that history is guided by an imaginary arc and is destined to end in more justice
How do people believe this autism? Especially today when capitalist nations are rapidly becoming more feudalist and nationalist thus BTFOing his autistic arced simplified history.
>>3254976
To these people it isn't "history" as much as it is scripture. It's become more a secular religion than a secular academic pursuit and as such there are fundamentalist fanatics.
>>3254983
Wrong! Capitalist nations are rapidly becoming more globalistic and interconnected. You just got BTFO son.
Why has sub-saharan Africa never developed and culture or civilization of great value?
Don't worry, they will become first-world any day now. We're really helping them.
>>3253836
What are you talking about they were kings of egypt
Trotsky gains power in 1924 over Stalin after the death of Lenin
what happens /his/?
The same thing. Trostky's keys to power are the same as Stalin and he had to make almost indenticsl decisions to preserve his regime.
>>3253431
Dunno. Notjin really
>>3253449
but would he make those same decisions?
Prior to the Civil Rights movement, would you *ever* see black and white Americans getting along or living together? I'd imagine it was quite uncommon, but was it 100% completely unheard of?
My grandmother never had a problem with them and she came from rural pennsylvania.
>>3253000
The short answer is "yes." White people did not typically freak out and go into kill mode just because a black person entered within 100 yards of them, at least, not until Jim Crow laws were introduced specifically to justify such behavior. "A People's History of the United States" goes out of its way to listen several examples of southern blacks and whites organizing for higher wages together, including whites who'd fought in the confederate army.
Yes, it depended a lot on where you lived though
men in history that people revere but who were actually evil people
Thomas jefferson was a worse person than all these confederates that liberals whine about it. He fucked his slave sally hemings when she was 14 multiple times. in fact, he inherited sally hemings from a slave master who raped sally hemings's mother(whom sally hemings is a product of)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Hemings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Hemings
>>3252722
>He fucked his slave
Raped. He raped his slave(s).
Caesar comes to mind.
Hemings went with him to France where slavery was illegal and could have simply walked away from him and been a free woman yet chose to stay with him and act as his wife in all but name.
Also, people revere him because of his writings and his contributions to the formation of the United States. None of those are diminished because of his personal failings.
>>3252722
>Implying that Jefferson-Hemings isn't the greatest love story ever told
I'll start with the patrician connoisseur choice: the Jiroft civilization, it developed in Eastern Iran and Afghanistan around 2500 bc, it's one of the oldest civilizations in the world and it's contemporary to Sumerians, the Indus valley civilization and Egypt, it seems to have had contacts with both the IVC and Sumerians
Weird symbols, writing?
We do not know
They also had a huge step pyramids bigger than all contemporary Sumerian ziqqurats
What are your opinions on the theories of their being a somewhat technologically advanced civilization(s?) before the current interglacial period
>inb4 Atlantis was purely alagorical
do you mean like sorceror kings
>>3252276
The evidence is hidden underneath of the antarctic wall.
>inb4 the world is round
>>3252297
The world is clearly donut shaped, you heretic
Itt: we trigger Byzaboos.
Roman Empire ceased to exist in 476 AD.
>>3251957
Delete this thread right this instant
>>3251957
you mean ROMEboos you ηλίθιος
Why was he so perfect?
Because He is the Son of God
>>3251952
Because he was written that way. He's a Mary Sue.
>>3251952
Because we projected all kinds of goodness to him and merged him with all kinds of cool lads.
Was the civil war fought over slaves?
>>3251763
no, the slave thing was just the final drop for the Southern states
Yes, all the other socio-economic reasons that are blamed revolve around slavery.