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Yes.
Roman classical education + early Christian thought are the perfect combo.

>>1180746

But does that mean you can call the Confessions 'unprecedented'? It seems to me that in combining Neoplatonist thought (very candidly) with Christian scripture, Augustine is merely mashing two precedents together, rather than inventing something new.

Everything good about Christianity is not new; and what is new is not good. Alain de Benoist

>>1180699
>Do you admire war.
It's only natural humans admire war. It shows the best parts of them.

>Do you think there is meaning in the glory and valor attribute to war and warriors.
Valor, yes. Glory, that depends on what the end result is. Was it for the best of all, or the best of few?

>Is war to be admired
You already asked that in the beginning, faggot.

It is hilarious how people who warmongering for the World War I was a shit at the actual battle.

>>1180699
> Do you admire war?
I believe that there is nothing to admire in modern war because it decided by who can throw more of cash into an enemy or choose most dirty fighting methods. War without viable close combat is the dead and soulless war.

He was badass

He drank so much poison he was immune to it

>>1180633
Yeah but he was a total douchebag. He got buttmad that the Romans tried to put a lid on his tyrannical ruling.

>>1180633
I liked the part in Masters of Rome where his sister-wife tries to poison him and reks her.

I see your point, in a way, and there are better examples, like pottery Baghdad "batteries", but I don't think any are beyond reasonable explanation. It's like people want to say innovation is some kind of miracle, but it's not. It's exceptional, not unreasonable.

Know-how gaffes when it isn't used, which often coincides with civilizations in decline. I don't think any historian would dispute that, so I don't really know what you're talking about. What are "we unable to explain?"

>>1180579
>the Giza pyramid
much, much simpler than Roman architecture and same goes for all Greek and Egyptian buildings
>Archimedes’ Death Ray
a simple concept
>the Antikythera mechanism
an inaccurate toy

>mention that the Ancient Egyptians and the Ancient Greeks were more technologically advanced and had more scientific ingenuity than the populations of Imperial Rome and the Middle-Ages, and you see a modern historian frothing in the mouth.
it's arguable that the Greeks had more "scientific integrity" but the Egyptians absolutely not and neither were as advanced technologically as the Romans or medieval Europe
saying otherwise just betrays your lack of knowledge

>level of technological sophistication that we are unable to explain
complete nonsense

>>1180421
Fuck off, and learn to use search engines.

1948; After the holocaust the jewish people wanted a 'defined homeland' in the holy land and the allies wanted a friend in the middle east. Arabs waged a bunch of wars against it but got BTFO because of western support to Israel and lmao arab militaries

When brits gave the land they conquered to them after ww1

>>1180378
Yes.

It was a shithole and Chinese rule has only improve it.

Just another chapter in Humanity's tendancy towards Imperialism. Unfortunate, and worsened by the fact that communism is hard line atheist, and Tibet was a theocracy

>>1180378

no

He was hardly original. François Guizot said the exact same fucking thing 120~ years before him.

>>1180425
such as?

>>1180460
I'm on my phone so I can't quote easily. But google Guizot on power, it's from his essay on capital punishment.

>>1180223
You got it wrong: the military presence stopped, but not the Assistance.

Look up Vietnamization you noob.

>>1180223
The United States ended the military involvement in Vietnam with a signed cease fire agreement, contrary to public misconception the war was somehow "lost". The US president at the time made a promise if the North didn't follow the agreement, the US would return, but then we all know what happened to Nixon. After that, US foreign policy shifted in a dramatic fashion away from interests in SE Asia, and the north Vietnamese took advantage of the situation and re-invaded. Had the US gov't wanted to return to help, there was no possible way domestic US sentiment would rise to the occasion and it was kind of "let go". The north Vietnamese were successful and the US had no ties with the communist regime.

The thing about Vietnam is that none of it was ever really the "US's fault". France previously controlled the region as a colony, and their abrupt withdrawal created a power vacuum and political upheaval. When I read about it, watch documentaries, I constantly ask myself, "How much of this was really our problem?". I really don't know, because the Gulf of Tonkin incident was a complete and utter lie from the CIA. Of course, no one but them knew that at the time, but how could we blame tens of thousands at home for being against the military involvement, when images of hurt and killed American men were plastered all over TV and magazines every week, and we were fighting a war that wasn't really "ours" in the first place?

I don't know, I just don't have a real opinion on "what we should have done" after the Paris Peace Accords. The whole thing was just too bad.

Crashing this empire with no survivors

He was pretty deluded. There are still people as deluded as him in modern turkey. He just happened to be in the right place at the right time to be able to take action.

>>1180430
there is literally nothing wrong with pan-turkism

>asking people from a Vietnamese Painting Sweatshop on how to live a good life

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>>1180191

Well philosophy is a humanity and this board is called History & Humanities, so I want to see how the posters on this board lived their lives and I want to discuss what is the Ideal Life?

>>1180182
Eat your vegetables and wash behind your ears. There.

>>1180028
Those savages also happened to be the decisive land force in the Allied Victory of WWII.

You can mock them all you want, but they fought and died in droves so you could have the ability to shitpost about how they look 60+ years later.

>>1180052
>Those savages also happened to be the decisive land force in the Allied Victory of WWII.

Your point?

>>1180028
Honestly they look pretty good for people that had been fighting for literal years on end in hellish conditions. But yeah, a lot of them were deeply affected by their experiences and were pretty fucked up and bent on revenge by the time they reached Berlin, hence all the horrible that happened there (which the Germans did first to the Ruskies).

>>1180052
>butthurt vatnik/stalin apologist

Not entirely related, but I haven't spent euro coins in the last five years. I just love them way too much, especially commemorative 2€ coins

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>>1179953
>I just love them way too much, especially commemorative 2€ coins

Yeah commemorative coins are fucking awesome.

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Coin collector, I don't have all these but they're on my list one day. I love colonial coins, or ones from unusual historic periods.

First modern Saudi coins were US gold bullion.

Themselves

>I get a little bit Ghenhis Khan

genghis khan died

That depends on how you define the term reality. If you define it at as all that is material and noetic, then God is above reality. If you define reality as all that is material, noetic and divine, then it includes God.

>>1179405
Define divine and how can God be limited by something.

>>1179397
There is some sort of thing which basically is the word for "everything"


You can use whatever word you want to describe it: universe, reality, you can even make up your own word.

The point is that God would necessarily be in this, anything you could think of would be.

From than on you can divide the "everything" into categories. You can have one category be material, one be immaterial, one be supernatural, whatever man. God would be in some of these categories but not others.

This is going to hold true no matter what you names you give to these things.

This of course has the logical conclusion that God could not have created everything (since he himself is contained in "everything").

dude what would happen if we just killed everyone lmao

>>1179330
wouldnt there just be like more people lol its k

>high level of discourse