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Can anyone recommend a good book about the Ottoman Balkans? I'm particularly interested in daily life and the interaction between different religions and ethnicities.
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>>1232133
I truly wish I could, this is an incredible topic that is almost never undertaken let alone considered in the west.
The only insight I could provide is not a book but to phenomenologically track the progression of the theology/mythology in the region, maybe start with Mircea Eliade, gl, give us updates if you find some interesting aspects.
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>>1232133
>different religions
Islam vs christianity?
Christians had to pay heavy taxes and generally were living under the darkness of a tyranny who could kill them just cause
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>>1232133
Django shitty knock off movie.
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Has anyone been able to rebut Bertrand Russell's famous argument In Marriage and Morals? Einstein even gave great praise to the work
>Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.
>The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with a serious affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.
>Even in civilised mankind faint traces of a monogamic instinct can sometimes be perceived.
>I should not hold it desirable that either a man or a woman should enter upon the serious business of a marriage intended to lead to children without having had previous sexual experience.
>Science enables us to realise our purposes, and if our purposes are evil, the result is disaster.
>Joy of life... depends upon a certain spontaneity in regard to sex. Where sex is repressed, only work remains, and a gospel of work for work's sake never produced any work worth doing.
>Gluttony is regarded by the Catholic Church as one of the seven deadly sins, and those who practise it are placed by Dante in one of the deeper circles of hell; but it is a somewhat vague sin, since it is hard to say where a legitimate interest in food ceases and guilt begins to be incurred. Is it wicked to eat anything that is not nourishing? If so, with every salted almond we risk damnation.
Russell's father allowed Russell's mother to sleep with Russell's tutor, and Betrand Russell grew up to be a genius and win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Russel is a cuck, stop spamming him or i'll smash your mothers pussy
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>>1230582
How about a reason-based argument instead of ad homs?
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Which one was more influential?
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>>1225216
Byzantium. Ottoman "Empire" did jack shit.
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>>1225216
are you fucking kidding me. Byzantine of course. the turks destroyed it and degenerated it to assfucking and kebabsucking.
If there is God, Constantinople will be free again.
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>>1225216
The Ottomans since we barely hear of Byzzies in the Western popular consciousness.
Meanwhile Ottos have Kebabs, Coffee, and the Coffeehouse.
What was Italian American sentiment during the Second World War?
To my knowledge, Americans of German heritage generally didn't feel too much connection to Germany, and their era of mass immigration (mostly) was decently earlier than that of the Italians in America, who came at the turn of the century. Therefore I wonder, since Americans of Italian heritage arrived later to the country, how their feelings were towards Italy's fascism/alliances/etc across the ocean. Watching Raging Bull made me curious, since the protagonists are Italian Americans and the year start of the film is 1941, and it goes through the rest of the 40s too.
Also on that note, is Italian American diaspora overwhelmingly Sicilian and southern Italian? It seems like common portrayal of Italian Americans that they're dark haired, tanned, and have that southern Italian accent. Most of my friends who are of Italian descent are southern Italian. I can only think of one or two who weren't southern Italian, and many who are and who look it too.
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Because after the "unification" of Italy, the Savoy plundered all the men and resources from the South to fuel the wars in the North so most southerners fled the country to start a new life in the USA.
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Northern Italy is richer so you would have little motivation to migrate in the first place, and apparently Northerners who were poor enough to consider migrating would prefer South America as a destination.
The rest is connections and communities, bringing more and more of their own families and former neighbors from Italy.
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>>1222756
Italian nationals were interned in camps much like the Japanese and German nationals, though they were usually let out much earlier.
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We haven't had one in a long time. Good ol fashioned Romaboo thread
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Hey bitches, this is now a Sulla thread
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Is the fact that under 18-year-old's are not allowed to vote justifiable within the philosophy of democracy? I think not.
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Why don't you vote on it?
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>Is the fact that under 10-year-old's are not allowed to vote justifiable within the philosophy of democracy? I think not.
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>>1240219
If the majority voted for women not being allowed to vote, would this be allowed within the philosophy of democracy?
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>be Catholic
>Burn someone to death for reading the Bible
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>>1239471
>Be Protestant.
>Sola Scriptura
>Remove books from the bible.
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>Be Protestant
>Burn half your town for potentially being witches
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>>1239471
Excellent point OP.
This is one of many reasons why Catholics are going to burn in Hell.
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What was this story supposed to mean /his/
As God confused the speech of men, and scattered them throughout the earth, does this mean that human unity is bad
or was it just a one off thing, God scattered mankind just so they couldn't build the tower, and thus the separation should be overcome
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>>1238705
It's about pride.
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Its about bronze age desert tribe trying to understand world around it
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>>1238705
Not much of a story really. Only a couple of lines if I'm not mistaken.
I'm pretty sure it was just an attempt to explain why there are so many languages and new people keep showing up no matter how far people look.
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Top 5 worst events in European history?
In my opinion:
1. Fall of the Roman Empire
2. Premature death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC
3. French Revolution
4. Napoleon losing at Waterloo
5. France and Britain declaring war on Nazi Germany
Honorable mention:
Black death, Spanish Flu, Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Not quite European, but still dreadful for Europe:
Bolshevik Revolution, Burning of the library at Alexandria
How about you guys?
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Everything relating to China after 1800.
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Nigga black death and Spanish flu probably killed more people proportionally than WWII. "Honorable mention" my ass.
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Is there a man more romanticized than Napoleon?
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Jesus
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>>1236705
Kim Jong Il.
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>>1236708
Jesus is God.
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How come commies wear berets, fascists wear epaulets, and libertarians wear bowties?
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Because lolbertarians are fags, Nazis enjoy a show of strength to hide their flaccid cuck cocks, and Commies just get a lot of hot pussy and berets makes women wet.
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which one are you
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Berets were the *wink wink* of the French Resistance against the Nazis, which commies were very involved in.
Fascists don't wear epaulets so much, they wore modernist uniforms.
Libertarians wear bowties because Rothbard did in order to make his rather revolting views on race, sex and children seem more friendly.
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Who was the best nazi? I pick Hermann Göring because he was a badass ex-fighter pilot who got pussy and had swag.
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They were all equally losers
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>>1235433
>fucked over the sixth army
He's garbage
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herring
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So, who is (was) it?
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>>1234873
there's only ever been Rome and those influenced by her tb h
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>>1234873
Poland
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Moscow
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What are the best arguments against Antinatalism?
I've pretty much bought into it, but I would prefer to hold a more positive view of human life.
Why should conscious life perpetuate itself if suffering caused by consciousness will never be eradicated?
How can a parent morally have a child without being able to guarantee a net-positive life for it?
Why is humanity trying to 'progress'? What end-point are we trying to reach if even post-scarcity societies will still face conflicts and sadness?
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Suffering is not caused by consciousness. Suffering is caused by the wrong kind of consciousness which is cultivated by society for its own sake. In order to truly overcome suffering without devaluing life itself one must learn to appreciate his own suffering as not something to be escaped but rather to be embraced and endured.
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>>1234140
The best argument is to just go on living and reproducing and let the annoying, depressive, Schopenhauer cucks with weak psychologies whine.
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The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.
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Educate me on the Aztecs /his/.
They had the wheel and built huge civilizations. Why did they collapse? Was it just the human sacrifice thing, or something else?
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They only had the wheel on toys, it wasn't useful in any practical capacity compared to beats of burden.
They collapsed because they were dicks ti their vassals, who sided with the Spanish.
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>people come over looking for delicious gold and delicious slaves
>these people have firearms
>these people have smallpox
>these people have horses and plate armor
>everyone in the region hates you because of the whole "demanding sacrificial victims as tribute" thing
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>>1222427
This. But also flu.
Azteks would have probably eventually killed the initial waves of conquistadores, had it not been for flu going loose on their cities.