So /his/ was he a good president?
He saved us from those self-correcting classical economists. So yes
>>917326
He assuredly extended the Great Depression, so no.
>>917396
How? not doubting you or anything just curious.
How did statism came to be a thing, since, for all intents and purposes no one protested on more government throughout history?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O06acUXAOFQ
Agricultural revolution and subsequent specialization.
>hunter gatherers start farming
>but they are plagued by nomading raiders and wild animals
>shit we need to build a wall to protect ourselves
>we need to chop down a bunch of trees and turn them into a fortification
>now the walls need to be manned by people who will watch and fend off the invaders
>that means we have to train those guys too
>but who's going to pay for all this shit?
>I have an idea, this one strong influential chieftain will protect us and we will pay him in the food we make
>let's call the payments "taxes"
And that's how states got created.
>>916971
I prefer an alternative theory. While that could be true, it presupposes that the people would logically, or for any real reason willingly give up their hard worked harvest to some random chieftain. More likely, they were subjugated by hunter-gatherer/Shepherd tribes who took taxe as a form of yearly plunder, and eventually permanently settled.
>>916930
>for all intents and purposes no one protested on more government throughout history?
What did he mean by this?
Most overrated commander in history
Rommel.
>>916727
This
>>916727
Leave my husbando alone
So the american anthropologist Gail Silverman claims that after 35 years of research into the inca tokapus (also know as quelcas), has found irrefutable evidence that confirms that the incas in fact had writing.
So far she has found 30 roots, 10 suffixes, 6 affixes and 1 verb called "kutiy".
Scholars have always known that tocapus have some sort of meaning (we even know the meaning of some of them) and that the Incas didn't put them randomly, but there has always been skepticism that it was actual writing.
She stated that we need at least a hundred years to get where today the Maya studies are.
http://larazon.pe/espectaculos/culturales/64164-conocer-el-idioma-de-los-incas-nos-llevara-100-anos.html/
What does /his/ have to say about this?
>>916650
Hey guys, let's invent writing, but insted of writing on clay or on rocks like everybody else, let weave the fabric
>>916745
They also put them in clay though.
>>916745
Are you suggesting that's an invalid idea?
This man is about to be locked in a room with a philosopher of your choosing for a conversation. What is said and how does it end?
>>916568
Him and Diogenes get along. Although Diogenes thinks Karl is idiotic he respects his willingness to reject social conventions and materialism. As they leave the room they make plans to meet up next Tuesday.
>>916568
nietzche because nietzche always uses high-minded pie in the sky allegories that don't always pan out like the "will to power" karl would probably just something like "isn't that whole will to power thing just a dick move"
>>916981
Diogenes would at least know that Karl is 100 times smarter than his producers.
I don't know why but I'm in the mood for shit about romance. Post shit that melts your heart.
>The son of Afonso IV and his consort Beatriz of Castile, Peter was married in 1336 to Constanza of Castile; but she died in 1345, and Peter is chiefly remembered for his love for Inês de Castro, the lady-in-waiting of Constanza
>She was later killed by three men on orders of Afonso IV due to suspicions that the Portuguese court would fall into Castile hands
>The Portuguese king conducted a public trial of Pêro Coelho and Álvaro Gonçalves in 1381. After finding them guilty of Ines' murder, the king ripped their hearts out with his own hands, according to chronicler Fernão Lopes, because of what they had done to his own heart. Diogo Lopes Pacheco escaped to France and died in 1383
>According to legend, Peter later had Inês' body exhumed and placed upon a throne, dressed in rich robes and jewels, and required all of his vassals to kiss the hand of the deceased "queen". However, contemporary evidence that the event occurred is minimal; Peter did have Inês' body removed from her resting place in Coimbra and taken to Alcobaça where it was reburied in the royal monastery. Peter had two tombs constructed, one for each of them, so they would see each other when rising at the Last Judgment. The tombs show Peter and Inês facing each other, with the words "Até o fim do mundo..." ("Until the end of the world...") inscribed on the marble
>You will never love a woman so much that you go nuclear and rip out her killers' hearts with your own two hands
>>916479
Nobody has any stories? Damn.
>a young German princess and a Russian prince overcome the disapproval of their families, as well as the national and religious barriers between them, to be together
>have five beautiful children
>everyone gets shot in the basement by Communists
>>916479
Does a female love a man as a man loves a female? No; the female does not love the man; at best, the woman loves to be loved as well as adores to love to be loved. Most of the men love a woman such as most of the females loving their children, up to, for too many men, talking to the female in puerile manner in public; whereby most of the men completely failing to understand that a man must take a female with detachment, such as an owner loving his dog, such as the scientist towards his experimental subject. The lovers plays along, play her game precisely for he is not egotistic, but only narcissistic.
Her lack of reflexivity renders her the most untameable creature that so many men attempt, drawn by her, to domesticate only to perish faster than a moth on a night lamp, due to their innate failure to seek a reality outwards themselves, something that the inwards attention of the female prevents her to endure. Her nudity is the force of the woman : she makes her lack of apparent shield the most powerful one, so that the woman never lies to who takes the moment to observe her, yet without hesitating to crush every man whom she judges cruelly unworthy of her. So much power appears as beauty itself but, naturally, once that the higher man reaches her, he understands at the same instant her vacuity, or rather, the debilitation of his original quest.
Is there a historical precedent of backpackers?
>>916469
yeah, gypsies
well desu unless you were rich everyone would just pack up their shit and walk places, so yeah, everyone.
Ibn Battuta
Sort of, but it was much more restrictive before the 70s, because old fashioned tents were hella heavy. Modern tents are basically spinoffs of Bucky Fuller's tensegrity concept.
Was Voltaire based or just an edgy faggot?
>>916442
He was a pompous presumptuous bitch but he did raise some good points. Candide is nice.
>>916442
He, Hume, Spinoza, & Pico della Mirandola are the primary men for smashing all of medevil philosophy. Make of that what you will.
>>916458
this
He was THAT GUY who always is so smug thinking he is always right
He just incidentaly was also pretty smart and born in the right place and time so he made some good points for the era
What do you think?
I think therefore I am
It's logical to assume souls could exist but impossible to prove.
I am alive.
Therefore I have physical and possibly spiritual needs.
If I meet my needs fully then I am physically and possibly spiritually satisfied.
Being physically satisfied might make you like a king.
Being spiritually satisfied might make you like a god.
For the sake of argument lets call complete satisfaction at any one point in time order.
In life one should constantly strive for order and eliminate entropy.
Perfect order all the time can only be achieved by functioning in such a way to assure satisfaction at all times.
The way one functions can be called a form.
To achieve the best form possible I follow these steps.
1. Write down needs.
2. Write down goals. You should pick goals based upon needs. If you achieve all goals you satisfy all needs.
3. Turn goals into actionable steps. All steps completed in order completes goals.
4. Write schedule to complete steps.
5. Follow schedule.
>>916429
except you deny the dynamic nature of your existence. achieving order is impossible even for the smallest amount of time because the world around you (including your body plus physical needs and the objects in the outside world needed to satisfy these needs) just like the world within you (including "spiritual" needs) are in constant change. The moment you write down needs they are out of date, the goals you pick refer to an image of the world that is no longer valid and the schedule you try to enforce upon your life can correctly be applied to a certain unique situation, one exactly like which will never again arise.
This is what happens when you forget to introduce the dimension of time to your schema.
>>916494
I define one of my needs as the need to reasses needs.
Goal to create the most accurate list of needs possible and reasses/make changes daily.
Of coarse you are right that I can't perfectly conceive of or codify needs, and they change so I will always have a certain amount of imprecision.
Perhaps I wouldn't even exist if I perfectly satisfied all needs. If i did exist in that state then perhaps I'd be god. I am alright being human so I'm alright with a little bit of imprecision.
>>916494
Perhaps you are wondering if I can't achieve order why do I strive for it?
To answer my own question:
Idk life seems pointless to me so I do what seems most logical.
If I cared I would probably a) be a theist b) make up some other reason to live.
c) commit suicide
But these all seem pointless and illogical so... meh
Why didn't Britain (or another European country) colonise China like they did India?
India was way more divided, China had a more advanced military, the costs would be too great, it's just a hellhole to administrate
>>916238
England did not "Colonize" India or conquer it at all. It bought the Zamindars using Bengal.
The East India Company lost the Sepoy Rebellion until The Battle Of Delhi brought the Marathas in.
>>916242
>India was way more divided
China would have put up a much fiercer resistance, the costs would not be worth the benefits in the short or long run.
Who was more successful in Afghanistan? The USSR or The US?
The United States. Either way, neither of them pacified the county and neither of them ever will. I
>>916108
Did the US control more Afghan territory than the USSR? Cause I cant find any maps that show how much both controlled.
I was say it was Soviet Russia because they simply failed to take down a political enemy.
The USA did that as well as build up the political enemy in the first place.
Will history look back fondly on Pope Benedict?
I already do compared to Francis
>>915748
Better one that cover up a dozen kiddy fiddlers than one that welcome a thousand.
>>915732
He wasnt the greatest, but he wasnt a bad pope either.
Most people give him shit because of palpatine
Should Asceticism be relevant for the modern world (practiced for non-religious reasons)?
In order to, say, focus on the higher meanings of life, aside from the worldly pleasures.
asceticism is just the other side of decadence
t. neechee
>>915454
Asceticism comes naturally from obsession. Those who are obsessed with so called higher meanings tend to be ascetics even if they don't know it.
>>915478
This. Both obsessive hedonism and aestheticism represent a society that is incapable of having a stable hierarchy of bodily needs. In one side they all go all out on the other side they completely reject their own bodily will, which is essentially a longing for death.
The idea of a wide-spread asceticism movement also directly harms the nation since the economic game is now done on a global scale. People need to have strong material desires in order to the better paying, more important, harder jobs.
Why the hell did none of the generals or Party members ever think of just arresting this bastard? I mean, when Stalin locked himself away after learning of Adolf Hitler's betrayal, he was worried the men that came for him would arrest him and remove him from power, so it's clear that they *could* do it if they wanted to.
I never understood that with despotic dictators. Why don't the Party and the people just turn against them when it's clear they're not doing any good for the nation?
>>915289
Have fun trying to arrest him and then the rest of your cheeky breeky friends get scared and jump to his aid instead. Or have fun trying to bring up the idea of arresting him and immediately getting sold out by one of your friends. Or have fun managing to arrest him and then being quickly disposed of as a rival for the reigns of power once he's gone.
It's like when one guy with a gun is holding up dozens of people. Obviously he can't kill them all if they bum rush him but in order for the move to be made someone has to be willing to take on a lot of risk. Even worse than that in the case of a dictator you can't necessarily trust the other people being threatened.
>>915289
Do you understand how paranoid people in such regimes are in high places? He was a hated man for sure. Same thing with Adolf, these both people feared for their life all the time. Stalin went full paranoid -mode in his old days as the Doctor's Plot proves (Stalin went full Jew conspiracy -mode )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_and_antisemitism
60 million people. It shall never be forgotten.
>The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
Well then where do they come from /his/? Where the hell do they come from?
Subjective experience and surrounding culture
>>914920
Divine revelation obvs
>>914920
Ideas are just higher, less intense impressions.
"Good" and "bad" come from our gut feelings, ethics just dress up this impressions.