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No
Mark Twain is better than Voltaire.

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I am pretty sure Augusut Strinderg counts as one.

>>1361495
that just really goes to show how immensely shit Voltaire was

>>1361445
>Doesn't anyone notice how the reason Rome fell was due to them allowing in millions of barbarian refugees

That's like saying the Soviet Union fell because journalistic freedom.

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>>1361445
>>1361469
I think sandniggers and all the rest should fuck out of Europe as much as the next guy but this is a stupid argument

The Visigothic "refugees" were treated by shit like the Romans. They were pushed to the brink of starvation, and then they were forced to sell themselves or their children into slavery in exchange for food. Not really comparable to how Europe treats refugees today.

>>1361469
Either out of ignorance or intellectual dishonesty you are outright ignoring all of the political instability, economic turmoil, internal discord & ruinous military adventures that lead up the point and reducing your conclusion to a single factor.

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History is a circle.

>>1361399
it sure is
"My name is ASAC Hank Schrader and you can go fuck yourself"

What Watterson fails to take into account is that there are always competing interpretations of history.

He might be right in regards to say... a public school textbook, where the agenda & message will change with the times, but all the primary sources remain unchanged.

>>1361366
Sorry for bad english in addvance

>>1361366

Less tiers and more generations. At least if you view something like the Theogony as a definitive view of Greek beliefs, then you have a notion that the original primal deities that created the universe are no longer in power and around, having been overthrown by their children, who were in turn overthrown by their children, and it's this third generation of deities who are in charge now. One of the big differences between Zeus and say, Cronos or Uranus is how he takes active steps to share power with the younger generation of Gods instead of relying on pure despotic force to prevent his own overthrow.

But the "Titans" were just an earlier generation of deities. Some of them still hang around in the Olympian pantheon.

Uranus and Gaia wets the first gods. Their children were the Titans, who overthrew them. The children of the chief Titan, Cronus, then overthrew the Titans. They are the Olympians, who are currently in charge, and rule from Mount Olympus.

>>1361353
Communism is a project to persecute any other faith and philosophy, so temple smashing was going to happen just as church demolitions happened in Russia.

Mao and his thugs were interested in Legalism:

http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/China/Mao%20on%20Shang%20Yang.htm

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People had to prove to others how much they loved Mao, otherwise they could be called reactionaries.

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Given that the cultural revolution was first and foremost an attempt by Mao to consolidate and shore up power, i don't think was any coordinated intention to destroy traditional culture like that. Rather, Mao encouraged and incited student movements to remove supposed bourgeois values that were still subverting the communist party, in any way they deemed fit. Traditional culture just happened to be collateral damage in Mao's play to retain ultimate control of the communist party.

If you're asking what were the student's individual motivations, your guess is as good as mine. Probably revolutionary fervor, a loss of faith in traditional culture (which given the way the Chinese were treated by the British and other Western forces, was understandable), and the feeling of emancipation from talking smack about your elders (which obviously they weren't allowed to previously).

>Morality, religion, metaphysics, all the rest of ideology and their corresponding forms of consciousness, thus no longer retain the semblance of independence. They have no history, no development; but men, developing their material production and their material intercourse, alter, along with this their real existence, their thinking and the products of their thinking.

>>1361309
Congratulations, you're stupid.

Don't worry your little head about this stuff and run off to somewhere else.

>>1361334
I'm sorry, I just need help on the whole materialism vs idealism thing.

What would dialectical idealism be?

Fire

>>1361247
The fire that the Romans started or the fire that the Christians started?

>>1361262
The one time Christians burned the Library it no longer had any books.
Also the only time the library itself was purposefully burned was during a Muslim invasion.

Yes.

>>1361229
Nope

>>1361511
Then who is?

>>1361177
He looks like an evil wizard.

>>1361181
kek

Don't you want wizard powers anon?

Listen to his stuff about TV coming to his town. I think it's still on YouTube.

>>1361164
EVERYTHING

>>1361164
California is only one out of 50 states.

>>1361164

Marginalist economics and general access to wealth.

This story is what made me renounce Islam, barbaric af. Anybody has more info on this dude?

it should be mentioned that Khidr is now and has been for quite sometime the poster child of Islamic mysticism. he is believed by many muslims to be timeless and immortal. he is said to eat like us but doesn't need to.

"Immortality" is exclusive to him and to Elijah in Muslim tradition. his wisdom and mystical nature also lead to him being adopted and heavily revered by many fringe sects in islam such as Sufis.

>>1361056

He sounds a lot like Utnapishtim, sometimes called "the Sumerian Noah", who was the sole survivor of the antediluvian world who knew the ancient ways of worship and taught them to Gilgamesh, allowing him to re-found the "true" religion on his return to Uruk. Even the fish part is mirrored in the Sumerian, it's one of the methods of achieving immortality that Utnapishtim teaches Gilgamesh.

Only leftist morons think of Napoleon as a 'Hitler' like figure. The know nothing of the man and quickly lump him in with the 'tyrants' because he claimed himself emperor.

>>1361088
>dem hitler dubs

People did think of him that way in the 19th century though

"Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the
Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war,
if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by
that Antichrist- I really believe he is Antichrist- I will have
nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer
my 'faithful slave,' as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see
I have frightened you- sit down and tell me all the news."

>>1361107

Just because he was an aggressive war monger. Compared to actual tyrants Napoleon isn't that bad at all. Napoleonic Code is considerable less drastic than the final solution and whatever the Mongols did.

He just wanted to unite Europe under one language [French] and it has practically happened anyway with English.

pls no

it would be all memes and edges

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>>1360734
Humans can't agree on what religion is right, the Universe is huge and people assume god would want anything to do with this planet. It's not really about religion though the real question is what happens after death, since we have limited time on this planet we want to do our best to get into a better life. Which is why people raised a certain religion won't ever question it because they want the best outcome after this life and questioning their belief is seen as bad because "have faith".

Polytheism is the best type

>>1360704

Austria is a small, mountainous shit-hole with little or no industry and a tiny population.

>>1360704
They persecuted the Slovene minority and thus never received the help of their meme magic.
Seriously though from the accounts I read Austrofascism is one of the comfiest fascism, if we ignore their failed economic policies.

They aren't a myth. They were real at one point, and would drain people of their blood.

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>>1360631
Sure thing, buddy.

>>1360646
Don't give me that look. The story of vampires persist to this day.