Since morality is just a spook, doesn't that mean colonialists were not some great insidious evil as liberals claim but rather übermensch who would otherwise live a life of poverty seeking fortune?
>>938308
You can't risk yourself "for queen and country" and act like you aren't spooked.
>>938308
>Since morality is just a spook, doesn't that mean colonialists were not some great insidious evil as liberals claim
Correct. No one is evil.
>but rather übermensch
Now you are mixing Stirner with Nietzche which is very delicate and you need to be careful how you use words. There will also be multiple correct answers depending on whether you want a Nietzchian or Stirnenian answer
>who would otherwise live a life of poverty seeking fortune?
The Nietzchean answer is
1. No they were not Ubermench exactly since Ubermench is a very very rare thing
2. It does portray the correct actions though: risk and danger in pursuit of power
The Stirnenian is that if they colonized for egoistical reasons they were acting healthy. If they did it because they were spooked by nationalism or something they are just tools of the real egoists.
>>938308
Basicly
>The Poor who fought and died for the Rich in the name of "Nationalism" were spooked
>The Rich who benefited from it weren't
Anyone have that /fit/ screencap about how Socrates and all the greeks were super /fit/ and gay?
really need to see that shit can anyone else me out? Or just general information about greeks working out
>>938249
greek fit bump with marx
>>938249
Nope but i know the one you mean
>>938272
dammit. I really need that fucking screencap.
>"This is a more realistic depiction of war"
>"More gritty and realistic"
> More realistic = anti-war and anti-violence
Is this a Western Neoliberalism thing or what? I find the idea that war is an inherently negative or terrible thing is absurd. Furthermore, the idea that violence itself is an inherently bad or immoral thing is so bafflingly fucking retarded I don't even know where to begin.
How do we fix this?
I can't really name a just war off the top of my mind apart from WW2 so I suppose that would be why.
Usually when people talk about making depictions of war more realistic it's because a lot of war media depicts it as glorious, which it never really was.
You see this in any film presentation of Agincourt such as Henry V, but the reality was a bunch of english archers wracked with dysentry beating mud-stuck French nobility to death with mallets.
>>938193
War isn't pretty, usually.
It's dirty. People used to die more by infection outside combat than by combat. The runs could be as scary as a bayonet.
Even today, when you ask purported war heroes why they fought, the standard reply is "so other people wouldn't have to" or something along those lines.
Personally, I'd say war is a means and peace is a goal.
>>938193
Go to war, come back, then tell us that it's not an awful thing no one should ever have to go through.
What does /his/ think of Alan Watts?
I try not to
>>937774
I listen to him and Jiddu Krishnamurti.
It's relaxing.
>>938470
>Krishnamurti
Education & The Significance of Life is a great book.
I've been diagnosed with "major depression disorder". And, although currently I do take antidepressant(s) I am beginning to realize that for a long time now I've been suspect - if not fundamentally opposed - towards the psychiatric enterprise.
>>937713
To start off with, the idea that I have a bio-medical illness - a problem rooted within the physical makeup of my body (specifically the chemicals within my brain), seems utterly suspect. And it's not just that no test were performed - but that psychiatrists still do not even know what that test would look like - due to there being absolutely no feasible, or accepted physiological model of the 'illness'. That is to say, we don't even have a semblance of a working and accepted theory of the causal mechanism behind depression. Psychiatrists hand out all manner of drugs, using all kinds of reasoning's. There's drugs to decrease norephinrine, there's drugs to increase norephinerine. There's drugs to down regulate serotonin, there's drugs to upregulate serotonin. There's drugs to inhibit monomanine, there's tricyclic antidepressants, bupropion, mirtaipine tertracyclic, etc, etc, etc. Does it not strike anyone as odd, that if depression really is a proper biomedical illness, then two patients can be treated with exactly opposite drugs (one drug raise a specific transmitter, one drug lower it), and both patients achieve the same treatment outcome? Which incidentally is only a few percentage points greater than would be achieved using a placebo pill. And when you take into the publication bias, the unblinding effect, the agenda among clinical rials down by pharmaceutical companies - you reach the maddening situation we're in today.
>>937718
A situation in which literally MILLIONS of patients are taking completely innefective medications (which can have serious and lasting side effects -permanent brain damage in the case of ECT), to treat an 'illness' which is poorly defined and understood, to the point where the doctors prescribing the medications can't even describe in clinical terms the condition they're actually trying to treat. Does this not strike anyone else as complete fucking insanity?
Here's a few sources. Check out their reference sections for further interest:
>http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0050045#s4
>https://www.power2u.org/downloads/1012-ReadBentallECT.pdf
>https://www.power2u.org/downloads/Richard-Bentall-Broken-Brain-Critique.pdf
Let's scrap all notion of depression as a bio-medical illness and start from the very beginning again. Here's the set of behaviors and subjective feeling states which must be present in a patient in order for a diagnoses of MDD to be given:
• Depressed mood or a loss of interest or pleasure in daily activities for more than two weeks.
• Mood represents a change from the person's baseline.
• Impaired function: social, occupational, educational.
• Specific symptoms, at least 5 of these 9, present nearly every day:
>1. Depressed mood or irritable most of the day, nearly every day, as indicated by either subjective report
(e.g., feels sad or empty) or observation made by others (e.g., appears tearful).
>2. Decreased interest or pleasure in most activities, most of each day
>3. Significant weight change (5%) or change in appetite
>4. Change in sleep: Insomnia or hypersomnia
>5. Change in activity: Psychomotor agitation or retardation
>6. Fatigue or loss of energy
>7. Guilt/worthlessness: Feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt
>8. Concentration: diminished ability to think or concentrate, or more indecisiveness
>9. Suicidality: Thoughts of death or suicide, or has suicide plan
Why Jews just... doesn't rebel against Nazi? Sure that was risky. But they were able to steal victory in The Great War from Wilhelm just decades ago, and if that isn't enough to participate in Holocaust doesn't seems to be much worse than a rebellion.
They did rebel. They failed.
>>937416
> they were able to steal victory in The Great War from Wilhelm
nice meme
>>/pol/
>>937416
How did they steal victory from Wilhelm? By dying in the trenches for him over his autistic feud because he;s a dumb spastic that didn't understand diplomacy?
Can we start a list of countries with retarded government traditions/procedures? Doesn't matter if they're contemporary or not.
Let's get this started with royal approbation in the UK:
>This video includes the door of the House of Commons being slammed on the face of Black Rod (the Queen's representative) to symbolise the independence of the elected House of Commons from the monarchy. This ritual is derived from what happened when the attempt by Charles I to arrest five MPs in 1642, in what was seen as a breach of privilege. After that incident, the House of Commons has maintained its right to question the right of the monarch's representative to enter their chamber, though they can not bar him from entering with lawful authority.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OpsqHCxZhw
I like the part where the BBC presenters get salty over a commoner carrying the mace.
I'm American. This wants me to move over to England and start a republican revolution because all of these procedures are bugfuck retarded.
>>937363
>The Woolsack is the seat of the Lord Speaker in the House of Lords, the Upper House of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. In the 14th century King Edward III (1327–1377) commanded that his Lord Chancellor whilst in council should sit on a wool bale, now known as "The Woolsack", in order to symbolise the central nature and huge importance of the wool trade to the economy of England in the Middle Ages.[1][2] Indeed, it was largely to protect the vital English wool trade routes with continental Europe that the Battle of Crécy was fought with the French in 1346.[3] From the Middle Ages until 2006, the presiding officer in the House of Lords was the Lord Chancellor and the Woolsack was usually mentioned in association with the office of Lord Chancellor. In July 2006, the function of Lord Speaker was split from that of Lord Chancellor pursuant to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005.[4]
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>>937258
There you go, senpai
When I become janitor Voltaire will be >>>Out
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>>937236
OP is Habsburg confirmed
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>>937236
I've heard that Mussolini helped modernize the state with industry and education is that true?
>>937146
Let's consult the Mussolini face building of truth
>SI SI SI SI SI
he has spoken
The trains run on time!
>>937146
It was probably the best at the time. He really didnt have any crazy murder league like Russia and Germany and he actually got shit done, unlike that goofy fucking austrian dictator who I cant remember
He was even smart enough to realize Hitler was a kook and was admired in America by italians and a lot of others. It wasnt until Ethiopia and joining the war that he went wrong.
he should have gone gone the franco route and remain neutral. He actually told the UK he would side with them over Germany if war ever broke out at first
How did left-handers fare throughout the history (and pre-history)?
Is left-handedness a genetic mutation?
It's a sign of being an emotionally unstable fucktard.
t. left-handed
>>936553
Well, I'm a moody person too, but I don't think left-handedness is a sign of it.
>>936543
Lefties are more likely to have certain personality flaws and metal illness, and I think certain kinds of cancer.
However historically they were way better at fighting so the more warlike a people the more lefties they had. Probably less of an issue now because guns are designed for righties and the handedness of combatants doesn't matter.
Lefties are supposed to have more interconnected brains which *may* lead to greater creativity so they might still have a special place it society.
Are there any particular transoceanic contact theories which you personally believe?
Norse and Polynesian contact are near universally agreed with enormous amounts of archaeological evidence.
I personally believe the Japanese-Ecuadorian theory is highly possible. The pottery of Valdivia is very similar to Jomon style pottery. There's also a genetic link between the tribes in the area with the Japanese as well as many Asian characteristics distinct from the surrounding tribes. An STD which originated in Southeastern Japan is also found in mummies in the area. The current theory is that an eruption which occurred around 3000 BCE lead to Jomon peoples following a coastal migration route across the North Pacific into America. Even ocean currents suggest that this was entirely possible.
>inb4 Jews discovered America
>>936439
That's interesting, I've never actually heard that theory before. Something similar to this was a small Native American tribe in Southern California and Arizona was discovered to have a language with an absurd amount of commonalities to Classical Japanese.
>>936449
Yeah, I'd heard that, it's fascinating. The thing that gets me the most is the fact that there is only contact in certain areas. The fact that they made one journey and stayed makes sense, but the fact that Southern California and Ecuador are literally thousands of miles away rather than several hundred if the contact was in the Northwest is really amazing if true.
>>936522
It's 3 am right now, I apologise for how much I fucked up that paragraph.
Where can i get a bird like that?
>>935886
By boning your sister.
>>935934
Man now you're just making me jealous of people who have sisters.
There seems to be very little information about Slavic mythology online; I have recently gotten a job as a writer, for a video game (but that is less relevant), and everything needs to be related to the ancient Slavic culture (especially the gods/religion) and, ofcourse, I want to inform myself before delving in too deep, but history isn't exactly my forte; so I come to you s/his/tas, seeking guidance and help.
>ancient slavic culture
man dig hole, man live in hole.
But shitposting aside, if you want to know about Slavic mythology look into the primary chronicles, it's more of a historical document but it has some mythology and old traditions in it.
>>935704
For two major reasons we have next to nothing on celtic and slavic mythologies. (The reasons being a lack of literacy and overzealous christians doing their best to fuck shit up)
Thankfully slavic mythology and religion are tied into the older indo european religion and share many common traits, so the best way to try and find an appropriate reconstruction is to go have a look at norse, greek and baltic myths (all of which survived in a better state than the slavic and celtic mythologies) and find some similar themes that you like the look of.
General features of the mythos tend to involve the head of the pantheon getting into a fight and slaying some monstrous creature, a sun god that rides in a chariot, a flood myth, and a pair of brothers sacrificing something (generally a cow) to create the world.
Lifestyle wise, have a look at the Tengri religion, which is believed to be related to the original indo-european religion but wasnt killed off. In particular there is a complex and varied notion of superstition surrounding various numbers along with acts such as knocking on wood.
Overall, ancient Slavic religion seems to be fairly local and cultic in nature, with gods and beliefs varying from tribe to tribe. Historic sources show that each Slavic tribe worshipped its own gods, possibly even had its own pantheon. Some scholars believed that Slavs' religion actually was focused on daemons and spirits, with the organised pantheon appearing only under foreign pressure. Others have claimed that while there was a single general pantheon, various regions held different gods in high regard. However, through cultural comparisons, linguistic research, and critical analysis of the written sources, it is generally assumed that there was a single Proto-Slavic pantheon from which pantheons of various Slavic tribes originated.
The Slavic religion had semi-nomadic steppe origins, where each geographical direction had a color of its own. Thus, Belarus actually means "the Western Rus", because the West was linked to the color white. (Compare to Byelobog, "the white god", and Belgrade, "the white city".) It appears that it was built upon the dualism personified by two gods, Perun and Veles. Perun was a "dry" sky god, commandeering fire, wind, and lightning (his name means simply "lightning" in Slavic languages). Veles was a serpentine, cthonic, "wet" ruler of earth, water, and magic. To whom the rain belonged was pretty much the "whose is the apple tree on the fence" problem. In some stories, Perun creates the world and Veles accidentally helps him by trying to interfere. Whatever the reason, they constantly fight each other, lightning strikes marking Perun's attempts to kill his foe from the sky. However, despite the easy analogies, Veles was not really a bad guy, as he was also a patron of cattle. (It should also be noted that Veles had a nasty habit of stealing Perun's possessions — up to and including his wife and children — so Perun's rage is perfectly understandable.)
Whoa, guys. Are like textbooks really different from the Bible? I mean, you crazy dudes have your own opinions on what really happened, man. You know what I mean? Like is history pretty much the same as religion?
History is based on facts. Religion is based on usurping the populace for political and monetary control.
>>935656
this, tho christeaboos on this board will argue otherwise
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>>935656
>JESUS WAS JUST IN IT FOR THE DOSH GUISE!1!11