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Why are the historically significant activist groups always lead by people that stand to gain power from the proposed amendments/revolution?
I get that logically, you'd be more inclined to JOIN this sort of thing if you stand to gain, but what I don't understand is why this is seen as also morally or PR-wise better.
Surely someone that is driven solely by decency without any drive but justice is a nobler figurehead?
It's not a matter of convenience, all the big activism groups that actually had influence had supporters from both sides of the argument
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plz respond
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>>1178266
You mean like how MLK stood to gain the right to vote and shit if the civil rights movement succeeded?
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>>1178266
Because the oppressed want to be led by their own. Otherwise the oppressors will take credit for the liberation later on.
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Does free will exist /his/? I haven't found a good reason why it should yet.
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I think therefore I am. I dont fucking know
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>>1178175
honestly I don't understand how to differentiate between free will and determinism
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>>1178183
For regular people who are "being controlled" there isnt. FUCKING DESTINY AND SHIT
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How do I motivate myself to become extremely hard working when my massive brainpower allows me to clearly see the meaningless of everything, the impossibility of knowledge, and the triviality of all philosophies?
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If you were so smart you wouldnt need to ask such a dumb question.
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End yourself
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>>1178140
Antidepressants
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"A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined."
Have Christians ever been able to rebut Hume? It seems to me like he dealt them a deathblow and they haven't recovered since.
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>>1178073
That sure is a nice ought he derived from an is. Would be a shame if someone demonstrated there are no necessary logical connexions there.
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>>1178122
>That sure is a nice ought he derived from an is
Except it's not. It's a descriptive statement, not a normative statement.
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>>1178128
It is a statement that, based on prior experience, certain things SHOULD be impossible. But just because that is the case in the past, there is no reason to assume that would be the case in the present, or the future, or at other points prior.
Secondly, it ignores the fact that miracles are, themselves, sensory experiences. If 5 men witness the appearance of the Virgin Mary, or see a man turn into a fox, or what have you, why should they disregard their senses based on induction?
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Is Niccolò Machiavelli plebcore /his/?
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>>1177714
Yes and no.
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only the prince is
read discourses on livy if you want real machiavelli, it's his true magnum opus and not the prince
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It depends on whether you consider his work satire or not.
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Guys. What is the difference between good and bad things. I can't decide what is good and bad anymore. What did the Greeks think
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>>1177521
Something you gain is a good thing, something you lose is a bad thing. Something you gain and someone else loses and he/she is upset, then it's good/bad.
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>>1177521
If you are too broken to have any sense of ethics or morals, then just follow the law.
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Shitposting is bad.
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is the human life absurd ?
>all your achievements all your ideas and thaughts and memories are eternally lost
>dont even have consciousness to reflect upon the loss of everything
i honestly dont see the diffenrence between a life that ends with tremendous professional and familial success and a life that ends at age 20 by your own hands if every shadow of a jot of your awareness of your happiness is crushed forever
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>>1177487
>implying your memories don't stay with you when you die
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>>1177507
how could they ? why should i take something like an afterlife seriously ?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENZ2zRB-0AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9hEfR-cXc4
that is the beautiful thing man.
Boost.
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The Indo-Europeans literally invented everything
how?
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>>1177462
I believe they invented the first written language.
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>>1177474
You are correct. It later spread into Sumeria.
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>>1177474
Aren't the Jiahu symbols etc. older?
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post some /his/ related webms
HD/Color is always encouraged
requesting webms regarding the Vietnam war too
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>>1177357
Are those soldiers ten years old?
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Why modern united arab nation project failed?
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because arabs are neither united or modern nation.
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>>1177277
>Pan-THING$
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>>1177288
This. Arabs are very tribal and they don't have the infrastructure or economic development to make the union beneficial to regional interest.
Its crazy really. Europe has less in-common then most Arab states but money talks.
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Best historical borders thread. I'll start.
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>>1177222
Wyoming
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>>1177965
Colorado's borders are a million times better
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>>1177965
Why do we let Americans spread their autism everywhere
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You're in the club and these two walk up to you and slap your gf on her ass. What the fuck do you do?
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be spooked
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Would Stirner think Hume is spooked?
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>>1177364
Hume doesn't even believe in the ego. He would consider Stirner spooked.
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Did people in Mao's China have access to record players or go to live music shows? What kind of music did they listen to?
I'm interested in how music was/is regulated or experienced in communist states in general, but particularly Maoist China.
Obviously there is political music played at ceremonies and on television, but was pop music a thing for eastern Europeans in the 70s? My interest in this topic was piqued by reading about Shostokovich, the Soviet composer, and seeing people listening to western music on casette in a library in Pyongyang.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYdgKHa2KbI
https://www.discogs.com/label/15486-%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F
In the USSR, they had lots of pop musicians, (state owned) record labels, musical instruments, etc
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the most popular soviet russian pop songs come from movies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIyXiiaEzjg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrg0X9H6FGU
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whats the best book on wwi?
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>>1177035
All is Quiet on the Western Front and The Road Back
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a non american or non swede one unless you want battlefield 1 tier reading
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>>1177344
>battlefield 1 tier
I don't speak /v/.
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/his/, what makes you immediately disregard a post? 2016-05-22 17:39:55 Post No.1176804
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/his/, what makes you immediately disregard a post?
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>thinking your post should be taken seriously while using a slur like abos, niggers, chinks, or kike
I'm not disregarding that post because they have a negative opinion on a group of people, I'm disregarding that because they used an ad hominem while supposedly trying to have some serious thread. There's a reason no one does that in academia.
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>4chan is academia
toppest kek
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>>1176834
Well yeah, of course, but a lot of threads try to attempt it.
And there are certain embarrassing examples of that attempt where the OP just casually uses a slur as if it was some statement accepted among historians.
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>>1176804
When it says something that goes against my feelings.