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What country?

>I'm worried about my future job prospects

If you're smart you can easily get a decent job (but maybe not in archaeology)

You could always major in the most profitable field you can get, and then minor in something you love.

It's the classic cover-your-ass move.

>>1404464
Let's just say some east Asian country
>>1404477
No such in our system, one or nothing

>>1404377
Pearl Harbour t.b.h.

>>1404377
Okinawa or Iwo Jima, take your pick.

Midway

>>1404329
Don't know much about military places to visit but you can look at of the aqueducts that are still standing.

>>1404329

Romans used to think that armies should stay in the borders.

There should be some nice museums about them anyway. But we should wait till some Italian arrives.

>>1404329
Weren't legions forbid from entering Italy (except to defend it) for most of Roman history?

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am I crazy?
I have HPPD which makes it seem like i'm on magic mushrooms 24/7
I have the symptoms of PTSD
I get mood swings
I've heard voices before
sometimes I argue with myself in my own mind
I have no empathy and bad impulse control
I'm turned on by violence and the thought of being a serial killer/rapist excites me
I spent 6 years high 24/7
I can't feel the emotion called love
almost all the time i'm pissed off and ready to start picking fights and breaking things
I frequently find my self going double the speed limit even in rain.
and i'm a paedophile

despite this I have a full time job, a 2009 ford ranger that is paid off, 1200$ in the bank, a credit card and no debt to my name. Am I crazy?

>>1404321
Shut up and get a blog. This isn't about your own edgy story.

>>1404354
I was proving a point, i'm a prime candidate to be labled crazy and yet I have more money and a nicer car than half of 4chan with no debt.

if his next book was 1492 would it be a prequel or a sequel

>>1404227
I liked 1491, a bit entry level but a good introduction to people who havent studied the subject.

I especially liked how his portrayal of pre-columbian america effectively destroys the whole "noble savage" bullshit, both the positives and negatives associated with the idea.

When europeans arrived, they encountered societies that had advanced culture and political systems, civil wars, genocides, and corruption. I hate the image that everyone on the continent was a peaceful nomad living with a small band in the forest, coexisting with nature. American natives were just as shitty of humans as the conquistadors that came to subjugate them.

Just bought it
What am I in for?

Because it wasn't/isn't really communist? If it weren't for Deng China would still probably be an unstable shithole. It also helps that coming out of several years of civil war and internal strife + Tiananmen Square nobody wants to try any sort of popular uprising.

>>1404172
Capitalism.

>>1404172
>quick version
It's not communist.

>long version
Chinese people+US support+Mao+Jews+existential threat of Japan+isolation+hated by lots of other countries

Well in western europe we still celebrate various local rites, but they are done because they always have been done that way and serve an entertainig purpose for the particioners.

I agree OP

>>1404053
>Do you ever find yourself wishing that people would still participated in weird spooky rituals and ceremonies to achieve some task?

Why would you bother doing a ritual to accomplish a task if it had no practical effect on completing the task?

Look, if dressing in a smock, covering yourself in the ashes of a burnt chicken and howling at the new moon actually cured your cancer then people would do it. It's precisely because it doesn't work that people don't do it anymore. (This excludes the occasional moral boost that people sometimes get from rituals)

probably used to stop people from using the bathroom

>>1403905
Its Krishtnayaja Patel.

>>1403911
Search reveals nothing meaningful... explain?

>>1403855
States create the legal framework upon which corporations rests.

Also corporations do not have that magical power that states possess: taxation.

In addition, corporations cannot fund military forces of their own. You could talk of PMCs all day but in the end these are just upjumped security guards.

>>1403855
Well, I'll start off with, Corporations don't hold territory and don't have the military apparatus to hold territory if they did. The Nation State tells the Corporation, "Play by our rules or you can't play inside our territory."

>>1403855
>How did corporations become subordinate to nation states?

Since always, they have never not been. If anything the rise of globalism has weakened the state's control over corporations to an unprecedented degree.

>Why aren't there any corporations that are independent of governments?

How would they do business?

>Why don't we have megacorps?

Give it time, they are coming.

>>1403738
Disagreement over the Greek Civil war

Hold on, but Tito was a Russian right?

>>1403774
Gtfo pls

>Someone find me one, I don't care how insignificant.
Well seeing as a 'battle' is a pretty arbitrary term and you asked for any insignificant one, there definitely was some random bullshit like 1 Platoon of A Company losing 20 guys against the 5 losses of the 31st Shinkansen of 55th Animu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Makin
There ya go senpai

Iwo Jima had more American cassualties.

>>1403526
Is that suppose to be simple and short?
I wouldnt bet my money on any real ethnic connection with the Bohemians from 9-10th century, and todays czech people.

>>1403526
yes, and they are the same, like for example bavarians and franks

>>1403526
Bohemian and Czech are literally the same word in Czech senpai

T H E K I N G F I S H

>>1403496
gas the syndies, civil war now

The Hitler comparisons are pretty silly considering he was one of the less racist politicians in the South.

Personally I think he'd have expanded the executive branch even more than FDR and would've tried to force through a bunch of socialist bullshit that would hold us back.

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>>1403330
to restate the argument:
>The world is filled with so many seemingly pointless or unnecessary evils that it seems doubtful that God could have any sort of morally sufficient reason for permitting them.
"pointless" ex. an african child getting malaria and dying before age 3, "unnecessary" ex. a pious person dying gruesomely in an accident, cutting short their perceived ability to spread piety
>Accordingly, it might be argued that given the evil in the world, it is improbable, even if not impossible, that God exists.

this itself isn't very supportive of atheism at all, and can be roundly debunked by long-extant christian theology, among others with simple rephrasing
>god is good
>evil/suffering is the lack of god
>therefore, anyone who is insufficiently godly is sufficiently suffering
>this is established through holy scriptures
>cosmically speaking africans dying of malaria is insignificant in comparison to the infinite reward godly behavior furnishes for the faithful
>the suffering of the pious is no different, and both of these scenarios are pieces of the (rightly) inscrutable divine will
yes, good work, HOWEVER,

appeals to such a moral system - "evil is straying from god's will (1), which you are free to do (2), because god gave you free will (3), because god wanted to give you free will (4), because 4 (5)", and the justification that it is indeed the proper moral system to stray from - "this is divine will because the divine told me it was the divine will" - are ultimately tautological without an irrational leap of faith - ex. I was visited directly by a spirit who confirmed this beyond reasonable doubt - and necessarily give more credence to the loose and relativistic morality of "evil" as simply deviation from the fallible morality of man, from which the cosmic significance is stolen, and deflated entirely, rather than deviation from the infallible and objective morality of the divine.

>>1403404
The issue for theists, not only Christians but judging from the OP they may be specifically included, is that their very definitions of what is "evil" and what is "good" are tautological, and rely on the mentioned leap of faith into an objective moral guideline to be credible. Why, for instance, does a Christian theist subscribe to Christian morality and not Hindu morality? They must, I claim, interject with an argument for the divinity of Christ, from which the validity of their scriptures, their moral system, and their argument descend, but given that these are tautological - Christ is divine because Christ is divine - they cannot hold more weight than the differing Hindu, who produces also their argument in a tautology, from on their own equally valid perceptions of divinity, and so on.

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>>1403330
Behold!
Bait!
Our daily dose of that dude's face (OP's pic) .

Conversely, to what extent does the probabilistic problem of Christianity support evil.
Religious folk kill a lot of people.
(Behold! More Bait!

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>true warrior culture

See: Jivaro, Scythians/Sarmatians

>>1403273
Where did they get the statistics from?

>>1403279

Can you not read the source