When I think that the world is going to shit, is that just how everyone feels in all time periods, 100 years ago, did they think the world was going to shit, and a century or generation before that? Is this time any different then those other times where it turned out that the world did not actually go to shit?
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Like for instance, I don't like globalization, but is it even worth fighting against it? What is the point because history shows that progress will happen.. is it inevitable?
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>>1206130
Directly fighting it and denying it will happen is futile, but you can try and shape it to something more to your liking.
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>>1206124
>celebating readiness
>somehow the whole system failed on 9/11
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JUST
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BELISARIUS
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>>1205978
KEK
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>enemy transmits his orders in cleartext
>still view it as a major accomplishment to win
WW1 thread
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Wasn't there a contingent of Russian soldiers on the Western Front that had to vote on whether or not to keep fighting after Russia itself had already collapsed?
Can anyone tell me that story?
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>>1205948
>fail to train your sailors on the importance of keeping codebooks out of enemy hands
>the enemy captures your codes ONE MONTH into the war
>"it's fine, encryption is for faggots anyway, r-right?"
>all this does is even the playing field because your enemy is too backwards to have encryption knowledge
>and because all their generals fucking hate one another and won't cooperate or communicate anyway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Magdeburg
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Why is Hannibal Barca held in such higher regard than pic related?
Dispite his decisive victorys he failed to devise a conquering stratagem.
Who do you think is the greater general /his/? Discuss.
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Hannibal was a better tactician, a better commander. Scipio was the better strategist, the better general. Hannibal wins battles, Scipio wins wars.
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>>1205971
As to why Scipio isn't as famous as Hannibal, I can think of two reasons.
1) Everybody loves the tragic brilliant general. For all of Hannibal's victories, he lost in the end
2) The Romans perhaps purposefully overblew just how brilliant the guy was, to make having defeated him glorify Rome all the more
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>>1205971
If Scipio had faced Hannibal in Italy human history would have been written very differently. Scipio was just a roman cuck too afraid to face him. Hannibal did the unthinkable
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Is philosophy dead?
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>>1205895
It just changed into most of the academic subfields you see today. Getting a degree in philosophy is shit.
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>>1205895
Define philosophy.
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>>1206194
Teaching metaphorical bullshit to edgy teens searching for meaning outside their post-modern bubbles.
How many people do you think have dyed by someone running headfirst into them with one of these?
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Where would you keep the dye?
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>>1205740
Obviously at the tip. It would work like a pen.
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>>1205712
If I took the picklehaub off, would you dye?
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What was the worst odour to have ever been released in the history of man?
Please no fart jokes this is a place of serious academic discourse.
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>>1205625
Whoever discovered how to make Jenkem.
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>>1205625
I've the great Stink in London in head, but there's probably worst
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Probably piles of dead people that were being gathered in cities during summertime that died to the Black Death.
I imagine the smell must have been awful. Cities lacked proper hygiene except for a few rare cases. The summer caused bodies to rot faster and there were simply a lot of dead bodies to gather and bury.
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>be the most proliferous writer in the Spanish language
>write over 1500 plays
>rekt traditional theatre with new formula which is still currently used
>be the best writer of all time
>be nation-regarded soldier
>live in the most powerful capital of the most powerful empire during it's historical peak
>make Cervantes your bitch time and TIME again to the point that he avoided public live
>have Góngora and Quevedo, the biggest dicks in Spanish history, respect you
>be absolute womanizer that has several noblemen after your head
>being prayed together with God by everybody
>become cleric for God's sake, still continues being the absolute womanizer
>repeat
Name just one person in history that lived life to such extent as Lope de Fucking Vega.
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>>1205464
The Siglo de Oro Absolute Madman.
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Creo en Dios en el cielo y en Lope de Vega en la tierra.
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>>1205464
Anyone who's not a spic.
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what do you think about the singerian stance on abortion ?
i specifically mean the notion that birth is a arbitrary ponit to grant a baby human rights and that we should consider the possibility of "aborting " children even shortly after their birth
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If that isn't degeneracy, literal infanticide, then nothing is.
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>academic creates edgy version of an existing moral position
>people who are against existing moral position more generally publicize the academic heavily in an effort to conflate a position that nobody believes with a more moderate position that people do believe in
>academic thrives on the publicity and gets dat tenure and dat publicity
>moral guardians get to feel smug
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>>1205199
While abortion does make human life worthless and arbitrary to women and the State, I'd argue that once a child is born the State has a vested interest to keep a potential healthy and law abiding citizen alive even if the cunt mother doesn't want it.
>“... the old mechanisms had gone and the old habits of obedience and respect (for the British) had also gone because people had seen them run away (from the Japanese) ... they packed up.
Was seeing the Japanese drive the White man out of Asia the thing that ended colonialism? I guess seeing the white man get BTFO by the Japanese must have hurt colonial prestige really bad.
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>>1205194
>it's a /pol/ with dates thread
you said this wouldn't happen, Hiro You've forsaken us!
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>>1205194
No. More like Euronigs infrastructure in keeping these colonies bottled held them in Check.
Only a few people liked the Japanese back then. Particularly in Southeast Asia where they are memed as pirates & soulless Human-God-worshipping cunts by Muslims. I think only Indonesia and Vietnam was ever happy because the Dutch and French were truly dicks but they didn't come to like the Japs later on.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPLNmuDW7lE
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Is he right?
>I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware. Nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself - we are creatures that should not exist by natural law... We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, that accretion of sensory experience and feelings, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody's nobody... I think the honorable thing for our species to do is to deny our programming. Stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction - one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.
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Only if you believe in evolution without a God.
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>Stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction
Wouldn't that be pursuing self-awareness to its logical extremity ?
If self-awareness is an illusion that we should deny, shouldn't we go back to our animal programming, fighting and fucking and fleeing death ?
If we are nobody, and do not exist in the past and future, isn't suicide pointless ?
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>>1205106
Did you even watch the final scene of the show ?
>Once there was only dark. Now if you ask me... The light's winning.
What caused the Enlightening?
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>>1205040
The massive influx of wealth, goods and knowledge into Europe from the rest of the world.
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>>1205043
How did money and stuff cause it? And what knowledge are you referring to?
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>>1205040
Development of a large french middle class
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History of the World
Here is a brief history of the world I wrote down. The idea was to keep it short and only count the main events. I didn't edit this so it's pretty raw. Post your ideas on what should be added or taken out and why.
In 6000 BC or so the first complex civilizations started like the Sumerians and Egyptians. Later the Israelites took over Canaan and made their own country. Later the Chinese started making empires. Then Israel was destroyed by Babylon in about 500 BC. Greek city states became successful in around 400 BC and brought with them a lot of philosophy and history and higher thinking. Socrates was the first famous philosopher. in 300BC. The Buddha was born and taught in India in 400BC. Then Rome came to power in Italy in about 200BC. In 1AD Jesus Christ was born, taught, and died on the cross, and Christianity was started. In 70AD the Temple at Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans. In 400AD Constantine came to power in Rome and made Christianity the state religion of Rome. Then in 431AD Alaric sacked Rome, which marked the end of the western Roman empire. There was still the eastern Roman empire of Byzantium until 1400 when it was destroyed. In the year 500AD Muhammad the Muslim prophet started Islam. From the years 700- 1400 are called the Middle Ages or Dark ages. Europe was ruled by Kings and Nobles. Islamic countries flourished during this time. Then in 1500 the Renaissance started and science became more popular. The printing press was invented. The Protestant Reformation happened. Columbus sailed to the Americas and Spain began conquering the central American civilizations like the Aztecs, Mayans, and Incas. Britain made a huge overseas empire, including in America. Africa was colonized and claimed by Europeans. In the 1600s the Glorious Revolution happened in England, and the political and economic system there became more inclusive. This was the catalyst for the Industrial Revolution of the 1700s and 1800s.
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In 1776 the United States of America was started. In 1865 the American Civil War ended and the slaves were freed. Then electricity became widespread before 1900. World War 1 happened, then the Great Depression, then World War 2 in 1945. Israel as a state was created in the middle east. The Bolshevik revolution happened in Russia and it became the communist USSR. The Television became popular in the 1950s. In the 1960s contraception became widespread and the Sexual Revolution started. Rock and Roll rose to widespread popularity in the 60s also. In the 90s the Internet became popular, and in the 2000s it became ubiquitous. In 2001 the Twin Towers were destroyed. In 2008 the market crashed. In 2007 the iPhone was released and smartphones became ubiquitous over the next few years. In 2009 internet memes got mainstream popularity.
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Include a bit more asiatic stuff like that confucius happened and islam taking over persia and beyond.
Also ghengis, napoleon and alexander may need a mention.
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>>1204978
>From the years 700- 1400 are called the Middle Ages or Dark ages
>In 2009 internet memes got mainstream popularity.
also needs less europe / more ROTW if you want a history of the world
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Guys, intellectually I'm all spooked out. I can't stand philosophy because of all the unfalsifiable garbage. Many fields like economics etc are just applied common sense and stamp collecting. I see novels as nothing but entertainment despite pretentious people claiming life / philosophical insights and tonnes of people will consider you a disgusting plebeian if you don't initially read shitloads of boring as fuck canon novels.
I think I am painfully adapting to the idea of the Internet age / information overload by abandoning any pretension that I can be an all rounder or even dilettante in everything. There are ten trillion books called "Introduction to [broad and important field]", even if you only have one of each field.
History is similar to novels. Shitloads of reading along with a shitload pretension thrown on top telling you that you truly cannot no nuthin unless you have an in depth understanding of the Greeks / Romans / Christianity / USA / WW1 / WW2 / financial systems / or shitloads of other topics I can't stand it. And then there's current events. I don't care about climate change, outer space, inequality, China, the EU, applied psychology, the education system, diversity, Russia, South America, refugees, nutrition, mental health, and more. Admitting just one of these would make me an iredeemable idiot, no doubt.
Has anyone else had similar thoughts? The spooks are powerful and must be removed but their removal leaves your mind in a promordial state that is more susceptible to spooks than before.
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I think I get what you mean.
My solution is to always be open minded and ready to learn more. It is true that with a good base of sciences, history, life experiences you can extrapolate a lot. I think the key is to never be so convinced you are right about anything that you are closed to new information.
The only way to survive the information age is to be a sea sponge. Let it flow in and out and try to piece things together.
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Mate, what are you doing to be happy?
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Why is this pasta?
is religion a practical necessity to regulate the apish desires of mankind ?
i mean for example to prevent people from cheating on their partner
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Jesus is Lord
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>>1204835
I'm Lord
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>>1204837
You're satan