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>Enter germanic forest
>it ain't me starts playing
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Did this nation really emerge from WW2 as a global superpower? Events before and during WW2 make me really skeptical of such a view.
>Have a feudal political system up until 19th century
>Industrialise much later than other established powers
>Lose most of your navy in the Russo-Japanese War
>Experience years of political turmoil
>Undergo a revolution
>Lose WW1
>Undergo a civil war
>Lose millions on the Eastern Front and have much of your infrastructure destroyed
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>>1082687
Nah. It was a meme to scare Americans into everything their powerful people wanted.
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People pretend like Russia pre-revolution was some kind of irrelevant backwater but that's pretty much just a meme. It was a top 5 great power easily.
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>>1082699
>It was a top 5 great power easily.
Based only on the sheer size of its army. Russia was way behind western Europe in just about every way.
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How can any reasonable person deny moral relativism?
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SHUT UP AND ACCEPT CHRISTIANITY
DON'T YOU KNOW THAT IT IS THE FOUNDATION OF OUR CULTURE??????
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Because its quite easy to think that all cultures/civilizations have the same basic goals and intentions which they consider good, its just that their means of acheiving said goals can be different as a result of a different set of facts or lack there of.
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>>1090405
They can't.
You'll notice their arguments against moral relativism tend to boil down to LOL WHY DONT I JUST RAPE YOUR MOM THEN NO MORALS NO LAWS
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Can we get a history of labor struggles thread?
Has there ever been a time where labor was treated with respect by capitalists? As far as I can tell, the history is mostly greedy capitalists forcing and manipulating people to suppress wages and keep themselves powerful.
I nominate the Ludlow massacre for the shittiest event in labor history.
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>>1094120
>I nominate the Ludlow massacre for the shittiest event in labor history.
I'll raise you Ludlow with Kronstadt.
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As much as I sympathize with labor, it seems like whenever laborers are given too much power, society collapses and all the stability the elites strove to maintain is erased. What's the deal with that? Can we not do that next time?
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>>1094156
Can you cite what you're talking about?
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What is a "language game"? Does Wittgenstein ever attempt to give a simple explanation?
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>>1093730
Do you know the builder/slab example from Philosophical Investigations?
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>>1093748
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I know it, but I feel like I'd have a really hard time explaining it to someone who doesn't get it.
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>>1093766
One of the builders says to the other:
"Please bring me a slab"
or he says
"Slab!"
Does the meaning of these two different utterances differ? An analytic philosophy autist could talk all day about how their syntactic forms differ, but Wittgenstein's claim is that the two don't differ in their meaning here because they have the same role in the language game between the two builders.
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>nobody died during the cold war, it was boring
Anybody else fall for thus highschool meme?
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>>1093635
Whats going on in this photo? Why are they fleeing?
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>>1093658
North korea had decided to go full gomie and invade the u.n. proxy. The south korean government detonated the bridge to make sure there would be no rapid advance, but there was still a capital full of loyalists. Thousands of people tried to cross the river and most died. Havnt read up on what happened to the citizens of the capital, but going off how the war played out I assume the people that tried to stay in the city where all hamburgers by the end of the war.
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>>1093635
Is this even a meme? Plenty of incidents over the years, especially if you include proxy states.
>Axe Murder Incident
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axe_murder_incident
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What do "we" know about her sexual lifestyle and activeness?
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Biggest slut East of the Mississippi
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>can you tell me when I can bite down on this kielbasa?
>I'll tell you, sweetheart, just keep softening it up
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>>1093363
>blind
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What's a plausible method of an administrative employee taking over a substantial mercantile business, either openly or covertly? Taking over in the sense of superseding their employer and owning the business themselves from that point onward. Are there any notable historical incidents that anyone could point me to where this occurs?
I figure even a family-owned company could be superseded from without if the employee in question marries into the family register and then successfully maneuvers themselves into the position of owner or inheritor of the company's assets.
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>>1093057
Go read the legal history of 19th century British corporations law.
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>>1093160
Noted. Got any suggestions in particular?
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>>1093270
Responsibility of the director, partnership, false companies, director sell-out to director controlled firm, etc.
Basically every rort that a capitalist could play upon another capitalist was played in British company law in the 19th century.
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Can anyone tell me about this hoplite statue?
I cannot seem to find any information or additional images of it
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>>1093045
Never seen it before, or any statues like it.
I am curious too.
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>>1093045
Huh you know I've only ever seen That statue from that picture
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>>1093045
Just a shot in the dark, but is that supposed to be Pericles?
What is the difference between "Grecian", and "Hellenic"?
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It's like the difference between coca-cola and soda.
Grecian is pertaining to all of ancient Greece. Hellenic refers to a particular time of Ancient Greece. Specifically after the death of Alexander the Great.
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>>1092737
That's Hellenistic you fucking mong.
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>>1092595
A reach around, iirc.
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As someone who wasn't born into a religious environment, how do I find a religion or a style of spirituality that fits my personality? I've always been an atheist and consider myself too intelligent to simply believe in a sky wizard, but somehow I feel I'm lacking something to believe in or to give meaning to my life.
I tried reading the bible and the quran but I quickly got bored and put them away again. Same with some philosophers I started reading. I also attempted to build a purely scientific world view by studying quantum physics and learning how nature works, and even though it was interesting, I felt like it was missing something. Maybe a spiritual or philosophical component. Something giving me direction in life.
Has anyone here felt the same? How did you proceed? I'd be grateful if you shared your insights and advice.
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Join the church of Stirner. We're doing great.
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>>1092488
>Has anyone here felt the same?
Somewhat. I was raised in a similar environment with the same feeling of superiority over the religious.
>How did you proceed?
Slowly. With patience and an open mind. You won't become a man with purpose overnight, it could take years.
I didn't just read religious scripture, I read books and listened to talks by people who follow and live the scripture. I can't say that I doubtlessly believe in God, but I can say I've gained the faith and determination that will take me to that point.
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>>1092488
Why do you need purpose?
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Which one was right?
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Collins obviously
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the one played by liam neeson obviously
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Can someone please explain to me why Collins is loved more than De Valera, other than the fact that Collins looks like an absolute alpha, and Valera looks like a slimy fuck?
I mean, Collins supported the treaty that let Britain keep Ulster. Was this just the only practical solution, and De Valera was a foolish idealist?
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″Humanity has often wept over the fate of the aborigines of this country and philanthropy has long been busily employed in devising means to avert it, but its progress has never for a moment been arrested, and one by one have many powerful tribes disappeared from the earth. … But true philanthropy reconciles the mind to these vicissitudes as it does to the extinction of one generation to make room for another. ... Philanthropy could not wish to see this continent restored to the condition in which it was found by our forefathers. What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute, occupied by more than 12,000,000 happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion?″
Was the Indian Removal Act inevitable, as Jackson seems to think, or was there an element of willful malevolence in it on his part? He was a life-long Indian fighter and had fought the Five Civilized Tribes several times, seizing land from them with each engagement. Does this single event tarnish his legacy as President?
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>>1091298
I don't care about what Jackson did to the Indians.
I care that he made and violated treaties with the Indians in order to do what he did. Absolute terrible precedent, and diminished our country.
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>>1091298
>Was the Indian Removal Act inevitable, as Jackson seems to think
Yes. If we didn't do it then, we would have done something similar (but not necessarily as heavy handed as Jackson did it) later. Or some other power would have taken the land.
>or was there an element of willful malevolence in it on his part?
Of course. Jackson had spent his life fighting Indians. Seeing them get their shit pushed in was what he'd wanted for ages. That's not to say he hated Indians, but he certainly wanted to see an end to their nations as entities.
>Does this single event tarnish his legacy as President?
No.
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Jackson was a douche. That was his legacy. So no, this didn't diminish it. It was a part of it.
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Why didn't the Japanese get sick when Europeans started coming to Japan?
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they were immunized against the plague because they descended from asia
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Nippon stronk
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Because they weren't entirely isolated from Europe for any of their history. Nothing in the old world was, except maybe Australia and other isolated Oceanian loci.
Trade had been occurring indirectly between Japan and Europe for who knows how long. The Bubonic Plague, for example, came from somewhere in northern Asia.
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Is it bullshit? How do you even go about arguing against this?
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>Where is the ‘emptiness’ which precedes this empty cup?
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Theory of Evolution sent the theory of forms straight to the trash can.
If rabbits are not static, then there is no rabbit-ness form from which they are derived.
Accept Aristotle as the one true philosophy and Aquinas as his messenger
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>>1091163
I heard that Aristotle talks more shit than Plato does. When reading the Greeks, what should I take from them? The reasoning etc. Even if their arguments and up being proven wrong by history?