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>>905166
>How good is this article from the scholar's point of view? How thankful should I be about my taxes paid for this?

Oh, you don't have to pay an additional fee for a phone license? I heard that in the UK, you have to pay for a TV license in addition to buying your TV, and paying taxes that go to programming, so I thought maybe it applied to other electronics as well. I also heard that if you don't buy a license then goons will come to your house to harass you.

What does it even matter if a religion has been a part of your history if they mainly comes as merchants and diplomats?
I don't think you can say Nordic Paganism got a long history in France's history just because a lot of Nords traded and pillaged in France.

>>905239

The TV licence IS the tax to go to some of the programming.

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>you will never live in a time when sexuality isn't morally suppressed

Get dat christian boypussy, based romans.

I wonder if a Roman master ever stretched his Christian slave's boibussy? :3

>>903473
Philosophy isn't a list of opposed views.

>>903473
t. Philosophy undergrad currently contributing to the murder of modern philosophy

My bro Sextus fucked them all.

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Not a meme, a gene.

>>902221
What's a gene ?

>>902239
A meme.

>>904615
Didn't you get your Christmas presents? I think Santa does a fuckin great Job.

>>904617
lel

The fact that future politics will involve only materialists rip Europe

Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning is probably the most important book written on the Holocaust ever. It won't give you a complete picture of the holocaust apparatus, but focuses on the microcosm of a individual police battalion.

Ian Kershaw's Hitler biography is huge, but indespensible. It will tear down a bunch of myths before they can enter into your brain. He basically sorts through 60 years of historiagraphy and explains different works so you don't have to read them.

Well, I think one should realize that if the source is good it will be highly critical of Nazi Germany and its policies.
They were bad, either morally or economically, by and large. Lots of corruption and favorites playing, the inability of the average German to accept that they did wrong. The whole racism and warmongering thing.
Any good source will rightfully shit on Nazi Germany at least a little.

If you just want firsthand accounts that's as unbiased as you're really gonna get. In which case Max Hasting wrote The Battle for Germany 1944-1945 which is great and covers Germans and Russians mainly although not exclusively.
Not exactly a big picture kind of thing, but it covers how the war ended and the chaos that was Germany at that time.
Good read.

>>903399
>If you just want firsthand accounts that's as unbiased as you're really gonna get
stop perpetuating this meme. first hand accounts are by definition biased. historians trained to analyze sources do a good job analyzing differing sources and creating an accurate narrative.

>>902124
What problem is there to solve?

>>902124
I pull the lever. More people (the families and friends of the victims) would be pissed at me if I didn't.

I'm supposed to kill the single person to save the other five, right?

>>904877
Dawkins, Harris, Neil dGT, Cristopher Hitchens, Lawrence Krauss

all of them
people who focus on worshiping a single intellectual shouldn't be taken seriously

New Atheism/Neo-Atheism

>WE HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS

>>904403
Here's a very sloppy summary

- France is in a financial crisis due to debts and etc. Beyond this a number of other factors contribute to unrest and the coming Revolution.
- The Third Estate forms the National Assembly as a populist solution to the crisis France finds itself declaring itself a body of the people. An outpouring of support from across the country, the Parisian populace, and some of the clergy/nobility make it impossible to immediately crush the National Assembly.
- The King/Powers That Be attempts to politically maneuver to cut the National Assembly off and otherwise render it impotent, however this comes off as indicative of an impending violent crackdown to the people whether due to misunderstanding or otherwise.
- The people take the initiative and Storm the Bastille, the political power shifts to the National Assembly. Feudalism is abolished, the rights of man are declared, a constitution is drafted. France becomes a Constitutional Monarchy.
- The powers of Europe become incredibly frightened by this of course not the least because France is the foremost land power on the continent.

>>904446
- The National Assembly continues to solidify its hold on power as various actions by the nobility and King lead to popular support continually eroding from them the King attempting to flee the country being a big one.
- France invades the Austrian Netherlands after demanding the Austrians retreat from the border fearing a counter-revolutionary invasion. The Revolutionary Wars begin.
- Factions form in the National Assembly radicals on one side want to push the Revolution further, conservatives on the other say the Revolution has succeeded and the status quo is fine now. This and other factors lead to unrest continuing to grow as the legislative process fails to bring stability to the nation.
- Meanwhile the Revolutionary armies disintegrate on the field and German forces occupy a bit of France before declaring they intend to restore the French King to his full powers. The people take this as a sign the King is conspiring with foreign powers against his own people. Support for the king evaporates.
- Louis is executed. The radical wing of the Revolution gains a fever pitch of support and the Revolution turns to extreme measures which lead to the war turning slightly in the favor of the Revolution with minor gains made in Germany and Italy.
- The Jacobins under Robespierre take overall control of the country and unleash the Reign of Terror seeking to protect France from enemies within and without. Cue lots of minor revolts in France being crushed bloodily, cue war on every border of France seesawing back and forth but with France generally making gains such as conquering the Netherlands, cue lots of executions.

>>904472
- The excess of the Reign of Terror eventually lead to an undercurrent movement rising against Robespierre in the Thermidorian Reaction. The Jacobins are mostly arrested and their politically more conservative rivals throughout the Revolution the Girondists take power. A minor White Terror occurs against the Jacobins.
- A new constitution is drafted and the Directory is formed as the new revolutionary government. The Directory turns toward dictatorship and forgoes democracy in many cases.
- On the war front France suffers some defeats but ends up keeping its conquest of Belgium and puppet state in the Netherlands, conquering Switzerland, and a good chunk of Italy with Napoleon winning particular glory there. The defeat in Italy shocks Austria into a peace treaty which gives temporary reprise in the war. Britain is the only nation still at war with France.
- France is unsurprisingly still hemorrhaging money at this point given the internal nation is a mess and wartime expenses, the country essentially supports itself by extracting resources from the locales it conquered throughout the war. With the land war quiet for not Napoleon is sent on expedition to Egypt to both disrupt British connection to their Indian colonies and establish French trade.

he was number one

Didn't he write that critical article on China in the Encyclopédie, while it was actually about France but he didn't want to be beheaded?

>Holy

>>904123
Negligible really. At it's height the TAST was taking place at a time when Jewish migrants to America were seeking religious freedom or a fresh start. Any Jews that had wealth or land in Europe had no reason to leave really. As far as Jewish slaveowners, some definitely did exist but like black slaveowners they were the exception not the rule

Jews and Judaism in the United States: A Documentary History (New York: Behrman House, Inc., Pub, 1983), pp. 14, 23-25.

"Jews also took an active part in the Dutch colonial slave trade; indeed, the bylaws of the Recife and Mauricia congregations (1648) included an imposta (Jewish tax) of five soldos for each Negro slave a Brazilian Jew purchased from the West Indies Company. Slave auctions were postponed if they fell on a Jewish holiday. In Curacao in the seventeenth century, as well as in the British colonies of Barbados and Jamaica in the eighteenth century, Jewish merchants played a major role in the slave trade. In fact, in all the American colonies, whether French (Martinique), British, or Dutch, Jewish merchants frequently dominated.

>>904150
>leave
One doesn't have to move to America to profit off of the slave trade. This doesn't really answer the question at all, I'm not asking about Jewish immigration.

>>903916
>>903916
help me :(

Read the fabric of the cosmos if you want a non-meme answer to the question. It deals with general relativity, quantum mechanics and superstrings.

>>903916
here is the bombshell: reflexivity permits us to see that the belief in rationality, induction/generalization/categorization, imagination, intellect, reason does not lead us to the good life.

animals are the most rational beings, but they lack reflexivity since they fail to see that the faith in abstraction to reach knowledge/truth/objectivity/reality/universality is sterile since it brings only conventions which are, by definition, always fluctuating through, at least, time and space... rationality brings is a deception and a disappointment.


the point of reflexivity is to notice the failure of rationalism, to embrace PURE empiricism, that is to say, to stop fantasizing about a collective reality, but rather to stick to personal phenomena in analyzing them.
the point of reflexivity is to make us wonder what do we want.

Do you want to create norms, conventions in order to claim that you create norms and that these norms are truths that you try to impose on others, until some people will come to you and claim that their conventions are the truths and yours are lies ?

>>903836
Subjective taste.

>>903836

Why would you assume there is such a thing? What one person finds aesthetically pleasing, another might find ugly. What sense is there to talk of an ideal when the base is all over the place?

>>903836
It can only be strived for.
Plus, what you talk about might not be a universal.
Like >>903878 said.

I'm curious about that, how did you trace ancestry ?

>>902763
well, there is a hundreds of year old village of japanese in Spain.
Maybe there?

>>902763
>>903632

That's noise. If you had southeast asian/East Asian ancestry along with South Asian and some west African ancestry I'd say you have a Malagasy ancestor like myself.

Oh and there were some Japanese slaves in Portugal and Spain way back when.

They got a letter saying that they had to join the army or they would be put in prison.

I don't think there is such a thing. People were drafted - simple as that. Sure there was a whole bulk of ideologically driven people, but my grandafther was a violinist and a musician, driven by artistic pursuits who probably could not care less about war on a ideological level.

>>900895
>>900899
You don't fight only because you have been drafted.