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>>1311521
Alexander did. Expected of him by Macedonian Tradition, and by the Greeks as per "Arete" values.

AFAIK Julius Caesar personally participated in combat during the Siege of Alesia, where he dismounted, grabbed a sword and a white shield, and fought.

>>1311521
Napoleon in the Italian Campaign earned the respect of his soldiers and would be at the front with his men at times and would come out grimy with gun smoke at the end of battles. Also he would do things men of lesser rank would do in that campaign. He earned the name The Little Corporal from his men.

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>>1311534
>>1311521

Addendum: Most of them did not fight the whole battle, but often led crucial moves or participated when the outcome is given. Most of the time they were commanding.

Julius Caesar, for example, in Alesia, fought during the attempted breach of Gallic relief forces through his siege lines. He donned his famous red cloak, and with his white shield and sword, fought alongside his men.

Julius Caesar is possibly responsible for he meme image of a red-wearing Roman general, since his red cloak was considered his "Che Guevara" look.

>>1310572
Anschluss was a mistake
-Hitler

OP is a faggot
-Anonymous

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>>1310572

>>1306894
No. They've had 2 centuries to themselves with out Spanish or Portuguese interference. If anything it's America and Russia that screwed up most of Latin America during the Cold War.

>>1306910
This.
Constant overthrow and government sponsored coups tend to wear down on a country.

>>1306910
thus liberal democracies

Antique philosophy is biggest meme ever.

>based tier
>no Diogenes of Sinope
Thought /his was serious, looks like it isn't

>>1304476
>No based Kant

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>>1308470
I agree.

>>1308470
As in move on towards discussion of these things without the obligatory "god is a fairytale!!", "stop living according to ancient myths of goat herders" etc...

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>>1308470

>4)we must also be critical of science.

It is against human nature.

>>1313019

Namely, that social truths, such as cultural practices, aesthetics, how you define a given social group, hell, even how you'd define an economic term such as 'utility' are not in fact objective and cannot be reduced to one right position and numerous deviations from that.

>>1313019
Ayn Rand.

they generally sold them into slavery

>>1311821
Examples?

>>1311800
The same as it can about waging war, it's too general a thing to draw any causal links between accepting refugees and something particular happening.

It has too many enemies to fuck around with faggy democracy. Continental Euros, Anglos, Turks, Jews, Steppe Muslims, Persians, and Chinese. The last two are sort of buddy-buddy with Russia now, but historically there have been issues.

>>1309080
maybe they like despotism

>>1309080
Should just have become a despotate.

Only if he wants to have it.

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If god can create everything he should be theoretically capable of creating a rock so heavy not even he could lift it up

But if he could not lift it up it also means that he's not omnipotent and not the ultimate master of the universe

So either he can't create the rock in the first place or he can create it but then can't lift it up afterwards because what he just created was too heavy

Judeo-christfags have never been able to resolve this dilemma kek

Free will is a meaningless term.

>>1308583
No

>Labour unions

>Mutual aid

In my society everyone will help everyone else. You cannot say that will not happen as it is true by definition of my society. Let's throw out the good but not great society we have now for the slight chance that we could reach my society. If it fails let's say we didn't try hard enough.

Neoliberalism killed syndicates.

>>1308583
Labor unions oppose anything that hurts them even if it will help other workers. Even though NAFTA has objectively added jobs, its been opposed by labor unions because it redistributes jobs. There is less of a notion of their own job security.

If anything its just tribalism.

Also enjoy never exploring the galaxy.

Nah the axis powers were genuinely evil and terrible nations

Totally deserved the entire destruction of its people

>>1307988
good and bad are abstractions that don't really reflect reality that way

>>1308019
>implying the communists weren't evil as well

>>1307556
i'm not such a nerd i watch anime but going from the pic
>UK
>Germany
>USA
>France

>Lenin
>Crusaders
>George Washington
>Hitler

>>1307568
>Korra
>Anime

firearms of that period were more effective than pikes and arrow, but not effective enough to stop using them in mass formation volley fire.

>>1314032
I'm not an expert, so I welcome correction, but I'd figure that in an era without radio and orders are given by drums, horns, and horseback couriers, it was easier to keep everybody's shit together if they were close like that.

>>1314032

To repel cavalry charges.

>>1313378

> It seems like the ideal form of government to me

Why? It seems like a terrible form of government to me. Just because someone is a gifted scientist/engineer/doctor/whatever, doesn't mean they'd be a good administrator, negotiator, or lawmaker. Plus, you'd think that you'd want to keep your top scientists and technology people doing science and tech development.

>>1313395
This.

We only usually know the best course of action in hindsight, just because people have fancy technical degrees does not mean that they have superior judgement.

>>1313395
Its the idea of those people being able to create very well polished and effective laws.
What these theories fail to realize are that anyone who is above a certain level of intelligence is an autistic and depressed piece of shit. Ive never been happy nor have I met someone my intellegence level or higher who is happy, nor functional in society for that matter.

You are entirely right, these need to stay out of government beause all hell will break lose when laws that do no take into account social contracts betweem demographics are put into place.

Hell if you where to change united states law to be completely egalitarian the dindus and gibsmedats would fucking destroy everything around them.

>>1313377
> devout Catholic
> what's the best argument for the existence of God

Aquinas. Check out Edward Feser for an explanation.

I was in a similar situation to you about a year ago.

Then I found this website is be started reading articles in the 1906 Catholic Encyclopedia, I started with the article about the etymology of the word "God": http://newadvent.org/cathen/06608x.htm

Then the article dedicated to arguing the existence of God: http://newadvent.org/cathen/06608b.htm

I was an agnostic, leaning towards atheism, but the article does make a reasonable logical argument for theism (it doesn't try to assert Catholicism or even Christianity, it just tries to argue for simple theism).

Be sure to read other articles in this encyclopedia too, you will see that Catholic scholars are actually very well balanced and are serious academics.

>>1313377
Look up the ontological proof.
The short version is that "God" is simply the greatest being that we can conceive of. This follows with Genesis, where the greatest being we know exists is Nature, and so the greatest being we can conceive of is the creator of Nature

There's some branch of philosophy that deals with this. Martin Heidegger focuses on it a fair amount. Do yourself a favor and follow the idea of "being" up from Descartes if you want to understand it. Don't work from wikipedia either, because they'll bring some master-level thesis at you in the introductory phases. Either take a class on it, or self-teach by reading their books and asking questions

My thoughts:
God is not a person like George Clooney or James Joyce is a person. "God" is simply the name we give to the greatest being, whatever that may be. As our knowledge of the universe expands and we become aware of things greater than Earth (i.e. Gaia i.e. Nature), what we call "God" also expands.
It's like if a peasant knows only the local lord, who we'll call Lord Joffery. Lord Joffery is not the greatest lord, he in fact owes allegiance to Lord Henry, and Lord Henry in turn owes loyalty to King George. As the peasant becomes more worldly, he may hear of these greater powers than his own Lord Joffery. King George of course, is not even the greatest power, only the greatest power of some small island or mountainous region. There are the greater Kings Mark, Matthew, and so on, who are owed loyalty by more Lords and control larger lands.

This does not mean that Joffery does not exist or does not hold power, it simply means that the "greatest being" the peasant is aware of is expanding, and he'll shift who he says the greatest being is based on how much he knows of the outside world.
Moreover, "God" as a title shifts from Joffery on up. That does not mean God is wrong or does not exist, but that our understanding of him was initially incorrect and has now been adjusted to be more correct.