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>>1218593
>We doesn't know with certain who is right and therefore should study all points of view.

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosticism

>>1218593
Most people choose a side of the fence. I feel as you do, and I support the human beings on both sides of the fence, but the idea I've chosen works best for me, so I'll believe that idea to be better and defend it.

>>1218593
Well, here's the issue. Some people are CERTAIN that a being such as God exist.
Some people are CERTAIN that there is no such being as God exists.

The conflict that springs from contrasting beliefs gives rise to the opposite of intellectual laziness.

There this one that's really good. Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told. You should definitely watch.

>>1218295
Nothing that gets aired on US TV.
Try BBC.

The rest of this thread will probably be delusional faggots linking tinfoil youtube videos.

>>1218305
Oh look the delusional tinfoiler beat me to it.

Why would it make me sad that I'm not unique? That is a very self centered point of view on life.

>>1218248
Edgetard

>>1218258
This.

Nietzsche wasn't an aristocrat, he wasn't qualified to judge them.
Plato, on the other hand...

He advocated that the German aristocracy - the 'Brandenburg class' - marry the Jewish elite of Germany.

Nietzsche is surely right: to the extent that anything like intellectual challenge, growth, and aesthetics will flourish, it will be among a very small minority of people. He never thought this was some recognized elite, the aristos or wealthy, just a minority, likely loathed and feared by the masses.

Ironically, he ends up pretty much where Christianity began: only the ascetic alone in his cave knows God.

Sadly, Nietzsche is wrong in that the nobility too are nonredeemable plebs. He failed to refute Schopenhauer and for that we all dwell in eternal nihilism until society collapses once more

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>>1217481
Dis dat boi
O shit waddup

>>1217501
o shit waddup

>>1217501
o shit waddup

>>1217399
Before anyone brings up the idea that he deserved it because he thought it was a good idea to request help from the Soviet Union, let it be known he asked for help from the US first, and they denied them. And then portrayed him as a communist when he, GASP, went to the other world power for support for his government that was having rebellion within the first year of existence.

>>1217416

I agree, it seemed a move out of pure pragmatism rather than ideological alignment. It's almost as if the US was just waiting for him to do it.

>>1217427
It is important to note that he was a living president for less than a year. Even though that short span of rule was caused by meddling foreign powers, it still really wasn't long enough to judge character. There is quite a larger amount of African leaders who said they would do good things, than the ones that actually did.

>>1217361
You don't describe the level your unit of study is targeted at. I assume pre-tertiary.

Oh I should point out that hegemony gold is a rts game specifically dealing with ancient greece.

Sorry about that.

>>1217366
Years 7-10 in ausfailia so middle school in murrika terms

>>1215124

A respectable profession that has contributed immeasurably to our understanding of ourselves and world history.

However, there is currently a significant issue with snobby and territorial archaeologists having knee-jerk dismissals of anything even slightly far-out that challenges their views or questions certain aspects of it. Anything suggested that even remotely goes against the mainstream view is attacked and ridiculed which is ridiculous because tons of major and influential discoveries in archaeology were only made in the past 50 years and there are undoubtedly way more major ones to be made in the future.

I'm not saying that mainstream archaeology needs to prostrate themselves and proclaim Graham Hancock as their lord and savior and I understand that its important for experts to speak up when people assert blatant untruths as facts but people need to be more open to respectfully discussing hypotheticals.

This whole shindig with Göbekli Tepe is an example though. Before it was discovered anyone who suggested that there might possibly have been any cultures that significantly predated the Sumerians/Egyptians that built structures/buildings/complexes was ridiculed and made to look like an idiot. People acted like the fact that there were no pot-shards or other stuff found from the culture ruled out the possibility of it existing while remaining up until recently completely unaware of Göbekli Tepe which was built in the 9000-7000 BC range.

Then suddenly they find out about Göbekli Tepe and decide that it was built by primitive nomadic hunter-gatherers despite excavating less then 5% of the site. There have been anatomically modern humans for about 200,000 years and yet people act like the thought of a culture more advanced then hunter-gather sometime before 10,000 is ludicrous.

I'm not asserting there was some Atlantis-like advanced civilization in antiquity but people need to be more open-minded.

A job that gets good after you leave the trainee zone of digging dirt from 6am to 1pm and instead just watch everybody breaking their backs while you watch any interesting finding.

>>1215303
Oh right I forgot, THERE ARE NO JOB OPPORTUNITIES ON ARCHEOLOGY

>>1213482
Jew

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>>1213482
Well, who is he?

>>1216603
Gen Brigadier Sarah Connor

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>>1213011

>I felt my way through the darkness toward the door to the machine shop, accompanied only by the sound of the air hissing into my helmet from the air hose trailing behind me.

>At the shop doorway I hesitated and drew my lifeline toward me. Then I got the eerie feeling again that I wasn’t alone. Something was near. I felt the body floating above me. Soon the overhead was filled with floating forms.

>Obviously, my movement through the water created a suction effect that drew the floating masses to me. Their skeletal fingers brushed across my copper helmet. The sound reminded me of the tinkle of oriental wind chimes.

>This time I did not panic. Instead, I gently pushed the bodies clear and moved through the compartment. I shuffled through the workshop area, threading my way around lathes, milling machines, and drill presses. I stopped and again found myself surrounded by ghostly bloated forms floating on the overhead, all without heads. This shop had been the damage control battle station for one hundred of the crew. The violent explosions from bombs and torpedoes, plus the forceful impact of water, must have thrown the sailors like rag dolls against bulkheads, breaking their necks and severing skulls from spines. Voracious scavenger crabs had finished the job.

>It was not something I wanted to think about, and I pushed it from my mind as I moved forward again. That is when I stumbled over what felt like a torpedo, the object I had come down here to find.

Read this in one night, interesting as fuck and only about 200 pages. Thought I'd share.

https://mega.nz/#!hcRHHbAB!p-esyI33F2zgivJhaUqu1yGhiL81dHu_q2pIn8qU_cc

Why was he down there?

>hey guys I read a book plz recognize me senpai

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Louis Pierre Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher, who strangled his wife to death.There were no witnesses, and the exact circumstances are debated, with some claiming it was deliberate, others accidental. In his posthumously published autobiography, he describes the murder in detail.

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Empedocles threw himself into the volcano to prove to his disciples that he was immortal; he believed he would come back as a god after being consumed by the fire.

>>1212479
did it work?

The works of William of Tyre

Islam and the Crusades

It's a Penguin Classic written by an Arab back during one if the crusades

The Fire of Islam

>>1204479
That's wrong but okay.

I thought Epictetus was the Western Equivalent of Buddha.

>>1204479

Only in the sense of religions coming to be founded in response to them but what they actually preached or taught could hardly be more different.

>>1195875
I've been told teh Amazons were based on Scythian warrior women. Is it truth or was it a meme?

>>1195875
>Joan of d'arc - armored cheerleader
You know how I can tell your British?

>>1195875
Scythians.

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>>1208791

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>>1208791
she looks more like my mom though, I'm not a brunette.