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Eastern """""""""""Religions""" 2016-03-31 00:55:18 Post No.911215
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AKA babby's first philosophy. It's astounding how many people at my school (especially my philosophy class) take eastern religions seriously.
"omg, I love Zen! I'm totally going to try to make time for it in my life (but I'm so busy lol)!"
"omg, there's nothing you can criticize about Taoism!"
I can't stand it, why are eastern religions so pretentious? They're frankly illogical. Thought isn't inherently bad like they tend to proselytize , it's a piece of human consciousness - it makes us what we are. I understand their plea to live in the present and whatnot, but your past is who you are and many people like to reflect and think about the past. Your experiences are framed through your previous experiences, and I'm a firm believer it's impossible to detach yourself from that. Impossible to be completely objective as they claim.
To me, they seem frankly illogical. If life is suffering, why not kill yourself? (lol edgy!) Why waste it chasing for a enlightenment that may never come? Why waste time being a Taoist in a world that is irrefutably in-congruent with it? It's simply more snake oil to make you waste time to chase happiness, when happiness is in the eye of the beholder. Or, you could be of the camp that happiness (or contentedness) is a myth, but I'm not quite there yet.
I understand I came off like a fedora and I don't mean to, I enjoy philosophy for the most part but I can't stand eastern religions (inb4 western state of mind)
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>>911215
You don't like them because you don't get them. Truth hurts
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>>911215
I agree
>muh happiness
gay
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>>911215
Well remember that they were developed in ancient India, which was a pretty miserable place to be alive, so the natural sentiment is to dull your mind against nonstop suffering.
But if you are a pampered modern person you probably don't suffer at all and have no use for it.
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Was he French or German?
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The fact that Germans can't even pronounce his name should answer that question for you.
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>>911295
He was Germanic so neither. Learn your history.
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>>911295
African
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Did the french resistance do anything besides shave the heads of women after the war?
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Why?
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>>911200
misogyny.
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>>911200
They fugged Germans
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How were people tattooing themselves before tattoo machines were invented?
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>>910644
needles and dye, you can get them done like that today if it's your fantasy
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The famous poke and stick method. It's still done today. You need a needle and some ink or dye.
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>>910644
I imagine it caused some bad infections since sterilizing equipment would be minimal and not much thought of
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I wish I could be as great as Cortez, a conquer, explorer, and entrepreneur.
What is /his/ opinion of this man?
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Great man.
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>>911059
A sadistic,maniac,ambitious motherfucker, just like almost every man with power in that savage era. Conquer or be conquered.
He is probably still looking for that black gold somewhere in Argentina begging for a coin to a numismatic's collectionist
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>>911082
>A sadistic,maniac,ambitious motherfucker
Montezuma was little different. His capture by Cortez did expore a sort of naive innocence in him, though.
As for Cortez, his story is one of the most amazing in all of history, which he accomplished singlehandedly by his wits.
>The Roman Republic is no more
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Empire was much better.
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>tfw EB 2
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>republic
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Was he the most smart mastermind ever lived?
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I wouldn't say exactly smart, but crafty (or maybe both). But I can fucking guarantee you that Fidel Castro's luck stat was off the charts.
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>>910097
I hated him while reading The Three Musketeers.
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I heard they want to use his name for that Aircraft Carrier, but in the end they choose De Gaule
>tfw no Aircraft Carrier Richelieu
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>CHOOSE YOUR SUCCESSOR STATE
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>>909746
I wish he had survived just a few decades longer ( ._.)
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>>909746
>No Backtria
Imagine being the ultimate trading empire straddling east and west. You have greeks mingling with indians, scythians, persians and the odd chinese trader.
It probably would be the oddest thing to see in that time and era.
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>>909754
>According to Plutarch, Bagoas won a dancing contest after the Macedonian crossing of the Gedrosian Desert. The Macedonian troops, with whom Bagoas was very popular, demanded that king Alexander should kiss Bagoas, and he did so. Athenaeus tells, that King Alexander also was madly devoted to boys. Dicaearchus, at any rate, in his book On the Sacrifice at Ilium, says that he was so overcome with love for the eunuch Bagoas that, in full view of the entire theatre, he, bending over, caressed Bagoas fondly, and when the audience clapped and shouted in applause, he, nothing loath, again bent over and kissed him deeply.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagoas_%28courtier%29
RIP, the absolute madman. No homo
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Catholicism V.S. Protestanism 2016-03-30 23:32:26 Post No.910910
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Catholicism V.S. Protestanism
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Any thoughts? Which do you believe is better for the common man, integrated into government, or anything else really, just opinions for or against one or the other.
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It's cosy knowing I am part of the Church that Jesus entrusted to his Apostles and not some barbaric heretic.
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It's cosy (sic) knowing I am part of the invisible church that Peter belongs to, and not to the Church of Peter.
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>>910910
I'm Eastern, but i'm gonna go with the guys that at least have apostolic succesion, are mentioned in the ancient texts, and have Holy Tradition.
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Here's a discussion question to get the ball rolling:
A study from last year found that 40% of economics experiments failed to replicate. Is this good, or bad news? What does this study mean for the debate on whether economics is a "hard science", "soft science", or a science at all?
Source: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/about-40-economics-experiments-fail-replication-survey
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>>910714
This is really a thread for /biz/, and I don't really think it has much effect on economics status as a science, social sciences have always been soft with difficult to reproduce results.
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I think this is good news. A 60% replication rate doesn't seem bad at all for a social science.
Also, it's useful to compare this to the same initiative taken for psychology. Psychology is a "harder" science than economics, but only had a 36% replication rate (http://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/6251/aac4716)
Overall, I just like that people are waking up, and these replication studies are very good and should improve the social sciences.
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>>910714
I don't think its good or bad within itself. But it shines a light on the limitations of economics as a science. There are many unknown variables at play in an economy that are simply impossible to isolate.
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What kind of medieval art do you like? I've become interested in art from Charlemagne's time, but I'm not finding much.
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>Medieval
>Art
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The Book of Kells is nice
>inb4 christfag
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>>910047
>being this pleb
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Is this man the Lee Kuan Yew of Rwanda?
Will he be remember as a brutal despot who ruthlessly exploited the Congo for financial gain or the man who led Rwanda to stability and growth after civil war and genocide?
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That depends if you're a Hutu nationalist or literally anyone else
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>>909032
>muh Hutu boogeyman
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he is like a nice version of lee kuan yew
>According to the most prevalent theory, the name Rus', like the Finnish name for Sweden (Ruotsi), is derived from an Old Norse term for "the men who row"
>theory
that's very fucking convincing I can totally believe Rus' were scandinavians now just look at how scandinavian Russians look like
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What are you talking about
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>>910519
there is not a single fucking proof that Rus' were scandinavian yet every tard here claims they were
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>>910530
Are you serious?
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What's the craziest, most god-defying shit humanity has ever done? I'm going with that one time we tried to terraform the steppe for the shittiest grain in the world
>Nikita "what the FUCK did you just say about corn?" Khrushchev decides to grow some ears in the USSR
>Ukraine is still too Holodomor'd to handle corn
>Blindly points at a map to decide where he should grow corn
>Central Asia
>Decides to go with it anyway and creates a plan to turn a desert waste into paradise
>By completely reversing the course of some of the longest fucking rivers on the planet
>By draining the Aral FUCKING Sea to make the water travel south instead of north
>Ecological disaster ensues
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea#Irrigation_canals
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Didn't most of the sea dissappear because of overuse of its water?
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>>908915
He, reminds me of California.
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Knights were dog shit
>rekt by sandniggers
>rekt by Mongols
>rekt by longbowmen
>rekt by commoners with pikes
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>Knights were dog shit
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>>910396
oi say at tew me face fooker en not online en see wot comes aboot