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>>977190
Who told this guy he should have that haircut?

>>977190
Definitely Finnish, they'll probably never fully recover from the Hyperwar.

The Greeks of today are barely Plato's Greeks. Mesopotamians have a good excuse, being overrun by Mongols and then dominated by Turks. Koreans were never formerly glorious.

So it's clearly the Latins or Egyptians. Egypt has fallen lower on an absolute scale, but there is clearly a greater gap between the greatness of Rome and the greatness of Italy than there is of the greatness of Egypt now and 2000 years ago.

So, Rome/Latins.

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>>976564
Because it was started by a German who liberated the North from its Latin yoke.

>why was overthrowing the power of the Catholic church so appealing to power-hungry German princes

>>976574
This. Who wouldn't rather get their religion from their own country men over an Italian months of travel away.

>>944391
Your instinct I agree with, having read most of Strauss's published writings, but also the transcripts of his lectures. My suspicion is that he's a Platonic skeptic, i.e., he thinks knowledge of the whole is improbable if not impossible, and that the fundamental questions are more knowable than the solutions and answers. This also means that politics is a bracketed subject, with respect to the question "What should be done?", since all that's maybe evident are the worst abuses and dangers.

Neo-con? No, though a few of his students probably were. The bigger influence on the neo-cons was Albert Wohlstetter, who also worked at Chicago, and while both of these men taught Paul Wolfowitz, it's the latter who really captured his attention and helped mold him.

The "Straussians" don't really agree with each other about how to take Strauss, besides that he's enigmatic, that his emphasis on close reading is important, and that the issues he pointed to (e.g., the Theological-Political Problem) are somehow the most basic issues of philosophy. Beyond that, no one can agree on whether, for example, he wrote esoterically himself or not.

Some entertaining polemics by his students aimed at Shadia Drury and Anne Norton on their books associating Strauss with Neo-Conservatism:

http://www.mmisi.org/pr/23_01/schaefer.pdf

http://www.interpretationjournal.com/IJ32_3CostopoulosNorton.pdf

http://www.interpretationjournal.com/IJ32_3SchaeferNorton.pdf

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>fuck the average person
>if a Tyrant would make a better environment for a philosopher, then we need a Tyranny

>>945329
>natural law
>universal
>moral
>political
>counter-enlightenment
>plato
Are Heidegger and Strauss the most beautiful (in a tragic, pitiful sense) instances of cognitive dissonance philosophy, in response to Nietzsche?

Pope says don't question it, so don't.

t. catholic cuck

>>978817
i'm not catholic

Adam and Eve had about 50 children in the end, they were genetically perfect so the usual danger of inbreeding wasn't there. Sibling relations were allowed out of necessity

It doesn't really matter since Genesis isn't supposed to be a literal historical account

the black soldiers were mostly an effect of love between black french occupation soldiers and local german galls, all of which were sterilized.

>>972164
>nazi considered colored people as subhuman
Not a myth

>nazi plan to exterminate all colored people
Is a myth

by 1943 they accepted any volunteers and actively conscripted anyone who could hold a gun and point it at russians

Pre-colonial Americans

>>980098
>has prospered without abusing the weak of their own nation

These are incredibly vague words. What counts as abuse? As weak?

>>980114
Abuse as in taking advantage of them economically and giving them no rights or voice in a legal setting.

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>>978039

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>>978050

Because the Finnish-Korean HYPERWAR wiped everyone's memories.

>>977776
get

>>977777
nice

>>977779
I'm glad that you like.Answer my question now!

They invested all their gold into pretty buildings and wars instead of building up their own production, getting an economy as diverse as the one of Russia.
The Eternal Frog also came around to screw up any chances to get things going with Austria.

>>975676
So, they just sort of sat on their empire instead of using it to get ahead of the other European powers?

>>975665
The Dutch Rebelling caused a lot of their colonies to rebel and they also blew far too much money in that war. They lost a war with the French who took a lot of their colonies too. Their empire was too outstretched to maintain on the limited funds that they had. France and UK overtook them.

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>Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Yeah, I can choose:
>Chetniks
>partisans
>forced conscription into the German army
>village militias (later Home guard)

Oh wait, I don't have a word in it, it's chosen for me.

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>Sweden
>Sit away in the forest while your country sells war materials to both sides as the world tears itself to pieces

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>America
>marines
>mfw I die on first deployment as I burn myself to death

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>H

>>972257
>Fuck
>Off

>>970386
the same as today

Ten thousand years? Probably not any different than we do now except we'd all be brown.

>>969019
Why is Stallman teaching about free source crops to those chink tourist's?

>>969019
I mean sure, if you like pederasty and human sacrifice

>you will never be part of a tropical island-hopping sea-faring culture
>you will never be the first people to ever land on an island and find all the strange animals that have evolved separately there

Just something about the climate, and the isolationist nature of those people that intrigues me, it's like they lived on Earth in their own little bubble away from all the continents and their wars.

>books you read with your yours

Fix that mistake and it's golden

>>968064
Books I read with my my eh? History of Philosophy without any gaps is pretty good

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Honestly lines up perfectly with my views on all the shows I listen to. Not bad OP, though you might wanna fix up the spelling errors for the audiobooks and History of the Crusades descriptions.

The friendly Jewish slaves did it as a way of making money

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>>959313
They were colourful too.

When the Nile floods it leaves clods of slit. When a seed is simply placed in these clods of silt it grows very well. This is how agriculture initially worked on the Nile and this is how they saw the source of all life. All life came from similar mounds of silt. When they wanted someone to go to the afterlife they created mounds to bury them in, to let the afterlife bloom.

The pharaohs supposedly were supposed to become gods upon death. Once gods they could help the people of Egypt, mainly by controlling the Nile's flooding so it didn't kill thousands of people. The great pyramids of Giza were therefore really really stupid attempts at damming the Nile.

It kind of makes me proud though that the Pyramids weren't simply monuments to the selfishness of singular men created by slaves but were instead the result of communities banning together to make the world a better place for themselves.