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In the 18th century one of the huge debates going on was whether luxuries and "modern" convenience was turning modernites into effeminate weaklings obsessed to an unhealthy degree with frivolities and outward status.
Why, when these trends have only accelerated, does no one even talk about the negative implications of convenience and material wealth anymore?
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Because a life of comfort is better than one of discomfort
There's been countless tribes of primitives who championed "hard living" and they ALWAYS accepted their way of life sucked
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We've been talking about our descent into decadence and depravity since the Roman Republic. Despite growing constantly weaker, more vulnerable, and effete, since those days, as evidence by written testimony, we're taller and live longer than ever. Curious.
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>>1054168
is dave thomas/bernie sanders photoshopped in?
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Allahu ackbar, /his/, my name is Lawrence al-Mohammad.
I'm a 26-year old British fitra (that's Islamophile for you infidels.)
I train with my scimitar everyday, this superior weapon can cut clean through steel because it is blessed by Allah, and is vastly superior to any other weapon on earth. I earned my sword license two years ago, and I have been getting better every day.
I speak Arabic fluently, both Hashemite and Howeitat dialect, and I write fluently as well. I know everything about Islamic history and their Shahada, which I follow 100%
When I get my Arabic visa, I will visit Mecca to complete the Hajj to learn more about their magnificent culture. I hope I can become an advisor for Prince Faisal or even a Bedouin!
I own several thawbs, which I wear around the British headquarters. I want to get used to wearing them before I move to Arabia, so I can fit in easier. I slay all nonbelievers and pray to Allah and his prophet Mohammad as often as I can.
As-salamu alaykum!
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Lawrence of Arabia is so fucking cool.
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>>1053961
I know, it's such a great movie.
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Good luck Lawrence!
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Why is WW2 Japan retarded?
>our economu is in ruins
>we have shit production
>our forces are barely making it out in china
>heheheh lets attack USA for no reason
??????
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>>1053950
Look at the government of WWII Japan and you will see why it was retarded.
"A military is only as smart as the people and government in control of it." - George Washington
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>>1053963
Pretty much this.
Japan had to play catch up. Then they went to war with a much larger, more powerful country as a means to make a name for themselves.
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>>1053950
Why is Imperial Russia so retarded?
>our economu is in ruins
>we have shit production
>our forces barely made it out against japan
>heheheh lets enter WW1 for no reason
??????
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What exactly did they kill him for?
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He currupted the youth.
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Being smart and being a smartass about it.
His whole trial was "It's just a prank bro"
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>>1053818
Athens lost the Peloponesean war, and Sparta set up a puppet government of 30 oligarchs
They were
A) Quite repressive and brutal
B) Several of them were noted students of Socrates.
When they were eventually overthrown and Athens regained de facto independence, Socrates got blamed for a lot of their excesses.
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Post underrated historical badasses so we can all have new things to read. I'll start: here's Jan Zizka, Czech Hussite General who fought at Tannenberg, then defeated an entire crusade launched against his religious sect to the point that mercernaries would flee the moment they heard they had to fight him. Joan of Arc threatened to start a new crusade against his sect herself just before she was captured. He never lost a battle, was the first to use mass field artillery and peasant flails, slaughtered the fuck out of enemies of the hussites, and was so beloved by his men that when he died they started calling themselves 'the Orphans'.
And yet I never seem to hear about him.
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Götz "Iron Hand" von Berlichingen
Mercenary with a mechanical arm. Personal motto: "You can lick my ass."
Yeah, he was a fun guy.
Also the inspiration for Guts from Berserk.
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>>1053761
>Heretics
Literally who cares
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>>1053823
>One eyed monster wh never lost a battle
That's why.
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Why do protestants denounce the Old Testament when Jesus himself said, "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them." Isn't it a bit of a stretch to assume by "fulfill" he meant his followers would no longer need to abide by the old laws?
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>protestants
but this is the general interpretation of all modern christians thanks to Paul. I don't remember catholics ever refusing to eat pork.
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Catholics do it, too. It's because of St. Paul. Don't listen to Gnostic or Jewish lies about the validity of his testimony.
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Don't Christians in general denounce the Old Testament? Or at least disregard it
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What exactly leads Protestantism, especially the Fundimentalist Evangelical kinds, to fall to scrupulousness and do stuff like this:
http://www.landoverbaptist.net/showthread.php?t=6833
And considering that series involves a prophesied being of Light coming to drive out a great being of Darkness and who's characters champion virtues of Unity, Duty and Destiny (note Destiny doesn't alway entail "everything is predetermined and you have no say in the matter on it at all" and in this case is "here's a goal, goal will make you happy and feel fulfilled, but you can eschew goal and do your own thing but that's not really wise") which Christianity is a actually quite fond of.
Where did Protestantism go wrong where they hate everything and are so alert on anything that MIGHT be sinful and evil while Orthodox and Catholic Christians (and all smaller non-Protestant Churches like, say, Maronites, in communion with either of those big two) actuall can enjoy things without coming across as paranoid nutters who think everything is 100% Evil and enjoying it slightly is a "sin that cries out to heaven for vengeance?"
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>>1053607
"Lego is made in Denmark, a secular socialist rogue nation which legalized homosexual marriage more than a decade ago. Their toys reflect this anti-freedom, anti-family culture. The only good thing about Lego is that it was used to create the brick testament"
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>Yes, new things like cross-dressers (I have witnessed children putting male lego heads on female lego bodies, then putting on the legs backwards, so that their abomination bends over) and occulist symbols such as witches and dragons.
>Lego is made in Denmark, a secular socialist rogue nation which legalized homosexual marriage more than a decade ago. Their toys reflect this anti-freedom, anti-family culture. The only good thing about Lego is that it was used to create the brick testament.
>I have not heard of this Bionicle, could you show me some images?
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So I challenged my world histories teacher and now i am writing an 80 page Essay/Thesis to prove that i'm not an idiot. not sure if right thread but need help.
>How do we as the United States of America Prevent India and Pakistan from going to war AND relieve tensions between the countries.
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>How do we as the United States of America Prevent India and Pakistan from going to war
They'll never go to war. They both have nuclear arsenals pointed at each other. Mutually assured destruction. They don't need the US of all countries going in there and causing more chaos and upheaval (like they always do with their "humanitarian interventions")
>relieve tensions between the countries
1. Promote business and trade, etc
2. Take Pakistan to task for supporting insurgencies and terror-related activities in Poo-in-Loo land
3. Take the Poo-in-Loos to task for supporting insurgencies and terror-related activities in Pakistan (Balochistan specifically)
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>>1053872
>3. Take the Poo-in-Loos to task for supporting insurgencies and terror-related activities in Pakistan (Balochistan specifically)
No proof
T.RAW
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>>1053595
Nuke em both. When both countries are cinders, they won't be warring against anyone. And with no people, there will be no tensions.
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>tfw going for a Tuileries stroll with my wife's son.
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i get this, lel
nice one
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>>1053476
>Could have any women out of 70 million Europeans.
>Chooses to be sloppy seconds to an unfaithful widow.
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>>1053476
The most brilliant general in history is a culkold. We should all probably be cuckolds then.
I made this thread yesterday, but nothing got going, so I'll give it another shot.
Tell me about the Caucasus /his/. Its sheer diversity is fascinating. Also, it'd be nice if someone could give me some stuff to read on the history of the Caucasus. There's little out there, and whatever there is starts from the 1800s with the Russian conquest. Work on the medieval Caucasus especially would be appreciated.
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The Caucasus was considered the fringe of the world by the archaic Greeks, believing Colchis to be where the sun rose. Jason and the Argonauts traveled there because it was the ultimate long distance journey.
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>>1053282
>the Caucasus
I consider it where Russia ends, and the Middle East begins.
Armenia is there doing its best Israel impression, a small country hated by all its neighbors and trying to fight them all, supported by the big world power Russia.
Basically Russia, Iran and Turkey use it as a borderland between each other, power playing when they see a chance.
Historically I don't know if its relevant. I know a lot of armies came out of that area into the Mesopotamian region over the centuries, but I don't think the place itself was ever too relevant. Maybe during the Ottoman-Russian wars at some point?
The neocolonial dialectical hegemony disunites the subject from his unity, and the unity from the subject.
A consecutive aurora of differentials are produced in proportion to the misalignment of the dominant social relations to gender and class, arrayed in sociotemporal- historical sequence.
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getting a little spooky in here...
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totally indecipherable.
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Is he saying that when there's a monopoly on a topic it leads to misunderstanding?
t. pleb
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Hey, would /his/ be the right place to ask about global nuclear disarmament vs the stockpiling of nuclear arms in the interest of preserving peace between developed nations?
The topic came up at a friend's house earlier today and I'm been wrestling with it on the drive home. I will say, I've used the threat of atomic annihilation (in vidya) to ensure that my enemies/rivals think twice about going to war with me and have thought twice myself when I faced the same threat without countermeasures or the capacity for an equal response. Outside of video games the idea of a cold war scenario and the 11th hour decisions men like Vasili Arkipov may not be there to make compel me to lean towards disarmament...but then I think about the interests of a nation vs the interests of the world! What if I lived somewhere where my sovereignty in the face of encroachment by a larger nation (think NK or Ukraine) could only be guaranteed by nukes?
I don't know. What do you think? Sorry if my thoughts aren't very well developed.
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My thinking is.
>nukes trade a constant death toll from conventional conflicts for an unpredictable risk of a much larger death toll
>the less individual command structures there are that are capable of conducting a nuclear strike, the lower the odds of a nuclear strike
>collective defense allows one hegemon with a substantial nuclear arsenal to provide a nuclear umbrella for other countries, while reducing the risk of Dr. Strangelove happening
>it is still possible for treaty obligations to lead into a nuclear holocaust, but clearly defined military commitments reduce the risk of a strategic miscalculation
>negotiations between nuclear powers are essential to prevent an arms race
>nuclear proliferation is generally bad
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>>it is still possible for treaty obligations to lead into a nuclear holocaust, but clearly defined military commitments reduce the risk of a strategic miscalculation
Reminds me of WWI without the secrecy.
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Is the argument:
>The invention and stockpiling of nuclear weapons stopped large scale wars between global powers
True or common misinformation?
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>>1053005
Oh god what language is this? It's horrific
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Why do some argue that the Middle Ages were better than the Renaissance?
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>>1052892
Some people think contrary opinions make them seem smart and/or interesting.
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>>1052897
>Some people
4chan in general
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What the hell went wrong? How did the Muslim rulers of Iberia continuously lose more and more land to significantly smaller Christian states, who were often fighting with each other as well?
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>what went wrong
The mudshits getting there was the only thing that went wrong. Driving them out was the best thing to happen to Iberia.
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>>1052894
Thanks for the quality reply that really answered my question as to how the Christians managed to win.