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Because Mexicans doing labour do it trying to reach a goal that fulfills their lives, while Sisyphus is conscious of the meaningless of his life.

>>908335
How is being conscious of the meaningless of your life supposed to make you happy?

I dont think you understood the book, at all
Actually you didnt even read it, did you anon?

Some Orthodox authors of more recent times have used rational proofs of God's existence borrowed from Western scholasticism, in academia or for apologetic purposes, though such proofs were alien and unnecessary for the ancient theological intuition of the Eastern Church. Rejecting them or refraining from them, Orthodox tradition is based on the idea that rational acknowledgement of God's existence is not at all identical to faith in God, for faith is an experiential knowledge of God, and such an encounter is generally impossible by way of rational knowledge. Religious experience transcends reason, and its expression demands another means aside from utilizing philosophic discourse.
In Orthodox tradition the very understanding of " theology" is least of all linked to rational thought, and theology is not perceived as a science, as an abstract theorization. The theologians of the ancient Church were not men who sat behind a desk surrounded by books, dictionaries, reference books and academic textbooks. The overwhelming majority of Church Fathers were bishops or monks: they either actively studied Church functions or worked in a Monastery. Their theology was born from an inner mystical, enriching experience, coming into contact with the Church tradition through the liturgical services, prayer, the reading of Scripture, and relationships with the people of God. The classical formulation of Evagrius of Pontus (Fourth century), says: If you are a theologian, then you will pray sincerely, and if you pray sincerely, then you are a theologian". In this definition the border between theology and knowledge of God, between theology and prayerful experience, fades away completely: theology is not what is other, but like an experience of a mystical encounter with God in prayer, it is an experience of a relationship with God.

Concerning theology as an experiential encounter with the Living God, V. N. Lossky writes in his Mystical Theology of the Eastern Churches:
God is not a scientific subject, and theology differs from philosophical thought in radical forms: a theologian does not seek God as one researches any other subject, but God himself takes possession of the theologian, just as another's personality can seize control of us. This is exactly why God first found the theologian, exactly why God went out to meet him in his revelation, so that it would seem possible to seek God as we all search for our own existence, and consequently for our mind, for any kind of presence. The God of theology-this "you", is the Living God of the Bible. Of course, this is the Absolute, but a personal Absolute, whom we call " you" in prayer.

>>908117
>Latin church attempts to be intelligent about it
>Orthodox church on the other hand actually praises and endorses stupidity
oh ok lol

No.

the nazis dindu nuffin

they were both bad

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Here's a beauty

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Or a pole axe.

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Shieet

>>904972
>communism would have never been able to develop into fully-fledged political ideologies over the course of the 19th century?
That's a pretty big maybe. Disgruntled people like Marx would have arisen regardless, but the timeline might have been skewed. The effect in Russia, for example might well have been the same, due to the motivations of the revolutionaries.

>liberalism/masonry
Stop that silliness.

I'm just glad they were crushed as they were.

>In both cases you had a rural conservative farmer's population rising up against their liberal-leaning/enlightenment-type central government trying to impose its will and values on said rural population

I say this as a pretty big fan of the Jacobins;

There's a pretty big difference between rural peasants wanting to be left alone and wealthy slavers throwing a temper-tantrum about losing a democratic election fair and square, then proceeding to attack US government property, kickstart a massive war, and then whine for the next 150 years about MUH NORTHERN AGRESHUN and MUH STAETS RITES!

and then it got better

>>904679

Spain beats France, France beats Spain.

>>904679
So these Ottoman guys were like "We would like Constantinople" and the Byzantines were like "no man it's ours", so then the Ottoman guys invaded and took the city over, and promptly renamed it Istanbul because it sounds better.

What's the point? Everyone has fucking terrible taste. There's always the same stale, emotionless, 19th century shit.

>>908143

BUT DUDE, THE SKILL. THE SKILL INVOLVED!!

War only propagated to the whole world through the alliance network. No alliances, no world wars.

>>907799
>Kill Karl Marx
>Kill Princip
That was easy.

Cut Germany's balls off after ww1.
Maintain a strong military to deter German stupidity.
Make German pay denbts.

depends on what the end is.

>>907619
So you are saying yes, essentially?

Yes, but you have to think about the second order effects of "bad" behavior. Turns out if the Prince backstabs his way to the crown, he creates a norm where backstabbing is normal and then he himself is killed.

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Oswald Mosley shot a shark with a revolver while Franklin D. Roosevelt watched

Germans and Brits had a Christmas party in the noman's land between trenches during WWII.

Just makes you realize how absurd wars are.

>>901858
*WWI
fuck

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FILENAME DELENDA EST

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Not the best by any measure, but imagine it.

Pre-snackbar Muslim cities, all mystical and Aladdin and shit.

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CITY OF GOLD

I'm descended from poor farmers from the northern Indus Valley, so, dunno

Farming?

I come from WASPs.

My ancestors were busy being English noblemen.

Farming and fighting wars.

moslems

>>906485
Mughal Empire?

>>906475
BUILD TOILET

>>905071
They literally ate an entire tribe of pacifists

It was like a /pol/ joke

>hello new friends, would you like to be equals?
RAAAAWWWRRR

OM NOM NOM

>>905071
Hard cunts who were hated by everyone else but were just too damn good to be killed off. They were also one of the few indigenous peoples to really mount a proper resistance to English colonization and they had a remarkable amount of success at it.

They get along with kiwis much better than abos do with 'strayans.

a people who existed as long as the white man but in 50000 years only managed to invent the pineapple

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>>903626
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

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"It's blood all the way down"

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>>903626
>mfw people unironically believe this