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>>946308
Actually mechanization caused slavery to entrench itself, as the cotton gin was what made it so profitable.

>>946308

1880 or so, which is probably how long it would take the north to lick it's wounds and attack again.

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>>946308
>>946322
>>946332

https://vine.co/v/ij2YmZQdYwn

https://vine.co/v/ijQEhV73Vvn

What if I want a ferrari when the government is giving away honda civics?

shitty forced 'art' that was comprehensively REKT by Bulgakov.
Next.

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Wow...
Calm down...

>>944521
A very based man, that Mengzi

>Giving help to the destitute is both unwise and unfair because it takes from the industrious and frugal and rewards the lazy and prodigal
Why were the Legalists so redpilled?

>>943790
Because Roman legions were superior and after the dumb germanic barbarians destroyed the roman military they just never really reinvented it

>>943790
Phalanx working only in perfectly flat terrain would be my guess.

>phalanxes
>resistant to missile fire

Spartans lived their philosophy, they didn't write anything because they didn't need to. Hence their "Laconic spirit".

If you understand that, you will get why virtually all of classical Greece from Plato, Thucydides,Xenophon, Aristotle to Plutarch admired them.

>>943124

>"After being invited to dine at a public table, the sophist Hecataeus was criticized for failing to utter a single word during the entire meal. Archidamidas answered in his defense, "He who knows how to speak, knows also when."

Sparta bringing the bants.

Still its shitty philosophy, so greatest spartan achievement were edgy one liners

>>942677
because humans aren't computers

Labour unions

The ruling class would never allow it

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/his/ is like 25% WW1/WW2 photos.

Jesus Christ.

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>>941427
German soldiers trying to save a Frenchman from drowning in a mudd hole.
Because of how the people that killed each other really didn't have any reasons to hate each other.

>>941437
that's touching

>>941320
>holy

>>941323
>ROMAN

>>941326
MEMES

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>>940755
This begs some questions: At the beginning of the 3rd C. Clement of Alexandria condemns the Carpocratians for their rites which he describes as excuses to indulge in gluttony and lust. A little while later Celsus accuses Origen of doing this shit, and he quickly points the finger at the Ophites. What's less known is that even the Gnostics were accusing each other of practicing this sort of thing: Pistis Sophia curses, even into the outer darkness, in the name of Christ, those who eat of a lentil dish made with semen and menstrual blood. Two Egyptian testimonies appear in the 3-4th C. that continue this motif, probably in the vein of Phibionite festive meals. The Book of Jesu condemns similar practices. Oddly, though someone then in turn accuses the Barbeloites (who consider the text Pistis Sophia as a core component of their faith, the one that condemns sexual practices) of “obscene rites:...Epiphanius (died. 403) makes this claim in Panarion 26. Irenaeus accuses some Gnostic sect of eating a lentil dish made from menstrual fluid and semen.

A lot of people like to paint the Gnostics writ large as this highly puritanical sort of ascetic group. The fact remains that SOMEONE out there was a dirty degenerate sexual heretic, and I wanna know who, goddamnit. They are probably singularly important for transmitting what few scraps of practice the West inherited.

Gnosticism is characterized by by complex theologies which were borrowed from Neoplatonism and modified according to emerging Christist religion and, to a lesser extent, from the last gasps of the Hekhalot/Merkavah traditions of Hebrew Mysticism. Different sects had different trajectories of practice. The Mandaeans town down the high philosophy in favor of a REJECTION of Christ in favor of John the Baptist and other mythical figures; they become more magick/mythic oriented than dwelling on the taxonomy of reality.

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>>940784
As mentioned, other groups have more complex cosmologies. Pic related is a diagram of the Ophite cosmos; with it's division of reality into strata. Above is the Kingdom of God as Father and Son, below being the realm of Life, Spirit, and Soul, ruled over by Sophia; manifesting as both Gnosis (Knowledge) and Synesis (Insight). The intersection is Sophia's subtle nature.

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>>940797
Still others are more complex, such as this diagram of the cosmological structure of the Secret Book of (Apocryphon) John.

Anyhow, the two most important texts I can think of are Kurt Rudolph's “Nature and History of Gnosticism” and “The Other Bible” edited by Willis Barnstone. With these texts one gets enough of a footing and understanding of Gnosticism as a whole to figure out which sects attract one's attention the most so one can focus on a particular sect or denomination that resonates with Self.

>>937574
>dude memes XD
Probably the navy seal depending on how much ammunition he had

>>937596
Shouldn't be possible for him to kill that many people at once.

>>937606
With a good distance between him and his opponents and several high capacity weapons? Well...if the scenario were such that each of these groups were unleashed into a varied terrain in which to do battle, I could see one highly skilled man hiding and foraging for a bit while larger groups fought. Occasionally putting down small groups before relocating.

What?

Economic stagnation
Nothing to do
Crime abounds

>>925899

ny was at the time, i guess

Jesus.

Jesus managed convince a bunch of cunts to (literally) eat his own body.

Muhammed was just a normal leader whose disciples were great conquerors.

neither, since I don't speak ancient goat herder language.

>>923522
That's Ali pbuh, not Muhammad pbuh.

Not our job.

>>958209

...only to be taken over by Islamists. Great job!

>>958231
The world's largest Orthodox country, Russia, have a population that's 15% Muslims.

>>957070
Why would that happen

I don't think we'll be gone, Just that we'll fuck up big time, and hopefully have a longer term perspective after.

>>957070

En annan Varld. Alfadern ar vor sol. Ulmodern ar vor jord. Skaparan ar ingen gud, skaparen ar vor volk pa vor jord.

>>956915
>where to start

WITH THE GREEKS

>>956915
I'm currently trying to get into it too, I've been making a list and this is the beginning of it

o Intro Books
 The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russel

o Background Books(not important in my opinion)
 Mythology
 The Odyssey
 The Iliad
 The Histories

o Pre-Socratic
 The First Philosophers ISBN-10: 019953909X

o Plato(428BC - 348BC)
 Meno
 Apology
 Crito
 Euthyphro
 Phaedo
 Symposium
 Timaeus
 Lysis
 Ion
 Republic
 Laws


o Aristotle(384BC – 322BC)
 Ethics
 Politics
 On Poetry
 The Organon
 Physics
 On the Soul
 Metaphysics
 Rhetoric

o Epicurus(341BC – 270BC)
 The Essential Epicurus ISBN: 0879758104
 On the Nature of Things ISBN: 9780674992009

>>956965
Thanks a lot man!