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>>1269828
We began to panic, unsure what was going on. We kept asking aloud, though not really /to/ one-another, "What is happening???!? What is this!?!?!" "...is this it!???? No way..." "Are we...are we dead?" (this one in sync, again).

We ran up the slope to get out of the park and back to 'reality'/life (to our home), but stopped, panic-stricken. We held one-another and said, "I don't know what to do...I can't believe we died at the same time...I can't believe...wait, is the world ours now?!?! THis is what we've always wanted!"

We thought everyone else in the world had disappeared, and that we were free to do anything our minds could think of. This is when things got really weird.

I kept thinking I had to let him go, and that our bodies and the physical world otherwise would soon diminish into...the next lair of existence? Didn't really know...really wanted to find out.

He was in awe at all of the possibilities running through his mind, and eventually he got to thinking he could fly. He refused to answer my questions in anything but jibberish, while laughing at my panicked attitude. Then he decided to jump down the slope.

ctd...

>>1269865
I couldn't believe wtf was happening...I thought at that point he (and everything around me) was just a figment of my imagination...my old 'self' trying to hang onto the memory of what I knew to be existence.

I ran after him, to see if he was hurt, and to figure out if he was real or not.

He said he was 'just fine' when I reached him, and that he didn't expect it to go that way--he was confused that he didn't fly, so he tried it again.

He looked like a rag doll...and I was so fucking scared.

He ended up with a few bumps on his head, and his whole self covered in dusty dirt.

I tried to pull him back home to get him showered, though he was being difficult. He kept refusing to answer my questions, and I was still unsure whether or not he was real.

When we got back home, we were both unsure whether or not we were dead--and we both assumed we probably were.

Things got really awkward between us, as we wanted things to go back to the way they had been, but found difficulty in believing they could. It felt as though we had to say goodbye, but neither of us wanted to. We were freaking out.

He kept pulling me into him, and along with him (into the shower, and into bed), but I was unsure still whether he was real or not. He was still refusing to answer my questions, and nothing he was saying was making sense.

>>1269894
I ended up getting dressed and leaving the house, to interact with other people and check to see whether I was really dead.

I went down to the store to buy something (the only way I thought I could get to interacting with others), and along the way I acted a fool...

There was a man standing at a bus stop, staring at his smartphone. (So you know, I hate smartphones, and mindless existence, and have considered doing just what I did many times before.) I thought to myself, "Here's the perfect opportunity to test whether or not I'm dead. I want to smack that phone right out of his hand." So as I walked by him, I attempted to grab his phone. He refused it, and got angry with me (understandably so), to which I responded with, "What?? Smartphones are so stupid! What are you doing with your life?!" Then laughed and kept walking. A couple blocks later, I thought to try eating to see if I could.

I saw a man in a car, attempting to make a left-turn onto a busy street. He was chowing down on a burger he had just picked up from McDonald's drive thru. I thought to myself, "I want to take a bite of that guy's burger, just to see if I can." So I knocked on his window to get his attention, then attempted to open the door. He looked angry and confused (again, understandable), so I motioned to him what my aim was there (I pointed at his burger, then my mouth, then down at the handle, and attempted to open the door once more), to which he responded, "No..." --his jaw dropped, and burger resting on its ledge.

>>1269787
Because they're mixed white mongrels with no specific heritage (though they love to point out how they're 1/4 german 1/8th french etc etc, as if it means anything genetically), so they need to find something unique to cling onto. Most white Americans aren't part native, but when they do a test to find out, and if they are, whats even funnier is the test comes back saying they're part Asian, as thats how it shows up on the more accessible dna testing sites, since natives are an extension of Asians. Then they get pissed at being part asian. Very funny. I used to hang around on DNA forums a lot and saw it happen.

Also occasionally one comes along spouting that the earth is 6000 years old so their dna results make no sense.

>>1269787
At least where I live used to be part of or near Cherokee territory, so it makes sense that it's part of my lineage. It's not always a meme, my great grandmother was full blooded Cherokee, which is relatively recent compared to others who claim it.

>>1269787

They were a relatively large, organized and developed tribe that had a much softer transition to European rule than most others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Civilized_Tribes

At least until gold was discovered on their land...

>>1269686
>The Japanese were isolated but still developed.
>being right next to china is isolated.

Japan was within spitting distance of one of the oldest civilizations on earth.

Subsaharan Africa was effectively as isolated from the rest of the world as Australia.

>a literal backwater of iron age animist savages who owe their ENTIRE semi-civilized way of life to the Chinese
>developed

They were in a perfect zone just far away from Asia to keep away invaders but close enough to leech off their culture

>>1269403
Yes.

Are there mods?

>>1269410
Proofs?

>>1269410
Why would there be life after our physical bodies died? If "souls" were capable of producing any affect on us at all then we would be able to detect them. And we havent. On the other hand, if souls indeed don't affect our bodies or actions in any way then they aren't even "me" to begin with.

no, reminder that Brazil and Mexico were empires

>>1269022
Pretty sure Latin Empire is.

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>>1269022
No

>>1268826
Lebanese and Armenians

>>1268826
I have a hypothesis:
The Ottomans wanted a homogeneous society.

>>1268844
why did he hate armenians and lebanese

England wanted to play civilized and take prisoners, France wanted to regroup and attack again like any other warmongerer of that period.

The prisoners were still on the battlefield, surrounded by fallen soldiers with swords and shit. If the French advanced again and even made a moderate dent against the English, the massive amount of prisoners could have just charged out towards weapons and fought back, even with the casualties it would have caused.

In the interest of safety, England needed to remove snails from the battlefield.

>>1268326
Daffyd Gam is the man 4 lyfe

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>>1268348
Fergot

>It turned out that the three women had succeeded in remaining hidden for about two years, until October, 1944, when an armed gang heard rumors of Jews hidden in the house. Assuming that all Jews had gold and money, the gang went to the house and demanded that the women turn over what they had, but they had nothing. The gang members then shot the three women. The villagers took Jozef to a site in the woods and pointed out shallow graves in which lay the remains of three bodies. By this time, a year after the killings, the bodies were unrecognizable, but clothing and hair identified them as the remains of his mother, his sister, and his niece.

>Jozef demanded that the villagers bring him the man who had led the gang of killers. Initially, they refused or professed ignorance. At that point, Jozef and his men rounded them all up and he told them, “If you don’t bring me the man within one hour, I will shoot every fourth person among you.” From the expression on Jozef’s face, the villagers saw that he meant it, and they brought him the man. Finally, Jozef stood face to face with the killer of his mother, sister, and niece, his gun loaded.

>But he found himself hesitating to shoot. His comrades understood his hesitation, and they told Jozef that he should leave the killer with them and they would shoot him. However, Jozef kept hearing in his mind the words “I’ve seen enough of people killing, and behaving like animals. I’ve done enough killing myself. This man behaved like an animal, but I don’t want to become an animal myself by shooting him.”

>One of Jozef’s closest friends in the platoon suggested that they could count on the new Polish government to administer justice, and that they should turn the man over to the police, so that he could be tried and punished. So it was that Jozef lowered his gun and brought the murderer to the police. He arranged for the remains of his mother, sister, and niece to be reburied in Kraków. The police imprisoned the murderer, investigated—and then, after about a year, released him. He was never punished beyond that relatively brief imprisonment.

>Jozef met and married a woman (my future mother-in-law) who was also a concentration-camp survivor, and, in 1948, they moved to Los Angeles. One day, he took out a sheaf of photographs and showed Marie a picture of three shallow excavations in a forest: the photo that he had taken of the graves of his mother, sister, and niece. Then, for the first time, he told Marie the story of how he discovered what had happened to them, and of his release of their killer. Once, when he was about ninety years old, he recounted the story to Marie and me together.

>On other occasions, he admitted to Marie, “Every day, still, before going to sleep, I think of my mother’s death, and of my having let her murderer go.” Until his own death, nearly sixty years after the murders of his parents and his release of his mother’s killer, Jozef remained tormented by regret and guilt—guilt that he had not been able to protect his parents, and regret that he had failed in his responsibility to take vengeance.

>We regularly ignore the fact that the thirst for vengeance is among the strongest of human emotions. It ranks with love, anger, grief, and fear, about which we talk incessantly. Modern state societies permit and encourage us to express our love, anger, grief, and fear, but not our thirst for vengeance. We grow up being taught that such feelings are primitive, something to be ashamed of and to transcend.

>>1268238
I've already resigned myself to the fact that if somebody harms my immediate family I'm absolutely killing the one responsible.

I'm not being fedora or anything, it's just what I would do. During my fedora/college phase I thought long and hard about it and thought I would let the person go. Now that I'm more mature I know I wouldnt. I simply can't abide the alternative, no matter what consequences I would face.

Culture in Britain isn't dying since the population there isn't dying.

British culture as in culture that is unique to Britain is dying, if it is, because of increased communications and population exchanges with the rest of the world.

I'm kicking down open doors and you can't stop me.

>>1268209
It is dying because the Eternal Anglo cannot fucking hack the banter.

The only relevant remnant of English culture recognized internationally is the English language, which is now near universal that it's land of origin is irrelevant. Plus British History is only mixed in heavily with overall European history so it's own specific history isn't that siginificant in the grand scheme of things.

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>>1268023

they're both shit t b h

Catch the prequel here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk

C + I +G ALL TOGETHER GETS TO Y

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>>1267961
Hayek.

Can't argue with tits bro.

It would be incredibly painful

>>1267618
It would be incredibly painful

>>1267905
He's a big guy.

Well most of them didn't have time to think about it too much. They also were told by people in power that it's 100% true that afterlife exists.

When people was thinking about it, they could be very scared as emperor Qin and his search for elixir of life.

>>1267578
yes because religion

>>1267578
Because death was much more common. Out of your brothers and sisters, chances were half of them would die. Your parents would die in their 30s.

I actually kind of regret that. People weren't pussies.

>>1267404
Wew

The documentary "The Act of Killing" goes into this topic a fair bit

>>1267404
I saw a talk about this. Apparently it was one of the most systematically thorough mass murders in recent history. It's something like three out of five of their target groups were killed, tho. the least conservative estimates put it as high as ten out of eleven. It's one of those touchy subjects that pro-American scholars really, really don't like to talk about, because the USA endorsed it, funded much of it, and carried out air-to-ground strikes during it. So when the neocons are having their daily circlejerk threads and you say "Indonesian purge" they're all "nah bruh never heard of it, obviously a Maoist conspiracy made up to tarnish our glorious nation's reputation."

No opinion.

>>1267340
Comletely destroyed his country and continent because he got some psychological issues