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>>855003
After the Black Death briefly.

There was a time after the Black Death when the value of labor increased and the bourgeoisie emerged from the Void

>>855014
Didn't the state try to keep prices down though?
Which lead to the peasant rebellions in England among others.

>>854208
Hoe de jonge vangst kanker

Auteur: Pim Fortuyn

Most Greeks.

Philosophy as a way of getting tenure by writing gibberish is a modern phenomenon.

>>854208
A lot of contemporary analytical philosophers are fairly easy to read. Any specific subject you're interested in? Or are you after some sort of introduction book?

>>853885
>100 years war
>English heretics
Que¿

>>853885
>to betray her at the end.

>french
What's next? Farting in my general direction?

>>853754
Why would muslims have red cross, when cross is a christian symbol, when they can just use red crescent?

Whatever that keeps them from going Allahu Akbar.

>>853900
Then how come other non-Christian nations like Japan or China also use the Red Cross?

muh Tyranny

The NSA would just need to give Jefferson a few terabytes of ebony porn to shut him up

Adams would like it because he's a cuck

>>852655
I would just like to make a simple observation. It is not verified that there is such a representation of your figure, that is made of gold or a material of equal or greater economical value.

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>>852655
>t:

>>852655
Gold is a very valuable commodity
t. Pure blooded irish king

So what was the deal with the whole cannibalism thing?

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>>852282
> It's a "Bohemond ruins everything" episode
> It's a "Raymond of Toulouse is a really petty guy" episode
> It's a "Godfrey was an overrated cunt who got his funding for the crusade from blackmailing jews" episode
> It's a "Count Emicho drops all pretense of fulfilling his vows and simply goes around murdering Jews" episode
> It's a "strip the local Christian's land of resources and murder the inhabitants because the commanders are incapable of controlling their forces, or they just don't care" episode
> It's a betray the Byzantine authorities after you vowed to hand over the eastern lands as protectorates, which is effectively a betrayal of the Christian ethos" episode
> It's a "don't even get me started on the People's Crusade" episode

I will say, however, that despite some moments of outright savagery Baldwin I comes out of this comparatively well

>>852381
I think there was more than one case

>and I dont know why but as I get older I keep thinking back about all those years in Sunday school, church, etc


Are you afraid to die?

>>851256

It honestly hasnt really hit me yet that with my lifestyle I am past middle age. Maybe subconsciously my lifestyle is telling me something, but consciously, I dont ever really think about death

>>851248
>Pope being the only one who is truly able to talk to god
That's not Catholic dogma.

Good morals, but is sometimes unrealistic in it's expectations of human willpower. A strong philosophy overall though.

>>850878
Whether you live by indulging the flesh, or restricting the flesh, you're only living by the flesh.

>>850923
Maybe that's all there is.

>>847552
Is it true that it was meant as a thank you for all pilots from many different countries who helped Britain before it was hijacked by the le lonely island myth?

I don't think people "believe" it as much as they don't think about it. Because the popular perception goes like this - Germany invades everyone, France surrenders, (maybe Battle of Britain), Barbarossa happens, Soviets get bloodied but then stop the Germans, then turn Back the Germans, then Americans land in Normandy (what do you mean half the troops were British/Commonwealth huh???), war ends.

Maybe add Pearl Harbor, Americans wrecking Japan, the bombs (what do you mean there was stuff in China and India etc. whoaaaa???).

Things like the North African campaign (oh yeah there was Rommel right he was a cool guy and the best general ever!!!), the air campaign, the war in the Atlantic, the Commonwealth contributions in the Pacific and like half the fighting on the western front/Italy don't really register.

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>>847564
No idea but Britain hasn't forgotten any foreign soldier that died for Britain we have war memorials for them everywhere. Pic related is the Polish air memorial in London and it see's big services

The longer I observed and questioned these concepts, though, I found myself becoming disenchanted with it all. The discovery of all these lower forms of life, the constant contributions to every scientific field, each proof and theory more valuable and exciting than the last, slowly led me down a path where I wondered why we were special. All this life exists here on this planet so perfectly, and our past has shown just how resilient life is. After constant flooding, fires, volcanos, and perhaps the odd asteroid collision, life has begun anew again, eventually progressing to where we are now. We've come a long way, wouldn't you say?

So, the thought presents itself: If we – we, not just being humans, but life on earth in general - can achieve all of this from nothing, why is it so unrealistic to think that there is not similar sequences happening all across the universe? When viewed from this angle, is intelligent life outside of our own really that surprising? That outlandish?

From there, I look down, to the microscopic life beneath our perception; that which lives and exists everywhere around us at all time. It's on the screen as you read this, on my hands as I type it. You need only to open your eyes, and you find life, even if you don't register it. This life is not intelligent, but it still exists. And, from there, we ascend from form to form. We have insects and arachnids, fish and amphibians, dogs and cats, bears and monkeys, birds and elephants. They all exist, and each gives hardly any thought to the former. The dog is not aware of the microbe's existence, and a bat eats a mosquito without thinking twice.

And we, humans, look down upon them all. We are certainly more complex creatures, but have the same basic pasterns as the rest. The same needs. Despite this, we consider ourselves better.


cont.

My thought is this: why do we assume that a higher form from us is celestial and all knowing, and not just a more complex concept of what I just described? We think of these microbes as stupid, inane creatures. Who is to say that we're not being looked down upon the same way? That we're not as insignificant; that we're not small, ourselves, and that we've given ourselves these concepts of souls and gods to make us feel like we have worth, when we really don't.
This has been a concept I've thought of for much of my youth. One of my favourite film director's is Woody Allen, who would often introduce these concepts into his films. As they're somewhat well known, I won't linger. I'd like to focus on a different aspect.

I'm now writing under the assumption that there is no god, we don't have souls, and that our consciousness, memories, experiences, and a certain degree of genetic inheritance makes up who we are.

What happens when we die?
There is no heaven or hell, no reincarnation of the soul. Our life as we know it is our consciousness. So what happens when our brain shuts down, stops functioning, and we're put in a box 6 feet in the ground, and that inactive brain begins to rot?

We cease to exist. That is the end of it all. Who we are disappears, completely, never to be resumed or recovered. That complex arrangement of information we've constructed and grown into, lived with our entire lives, WAS our entire lives, dies with us.


cont.

The thought of this frightens me beyond belief. As I write this, I am shivering. I am thinking, observing, looking around and interacting. I perceive the world through my senses, and I have original thoughts. I feel emotions, and have people I love and care about. And this just stops. I think about how comforting it was when I slept as a child; as I'd go to sleep, I'd dream and occupy myself while I was unconscious, but when I woke, it would feel instantaneous, and I'd seldom remember the dreams I had. I'd be excited, knowing that even if I struggle to fall asleep now, as soon as I do, it will suddenly be tomorrow, and I can continue with whatever I wanted to do.

I now think back, and think every night as I fall asleep how terrifying a concept that is when you apply it to death. You fall asleep, and never wake up. The next morning never arrives, you never continue with what you intended to do. I think about those seemingly dreamless nights, and how I'd just wake up with sudden sunshine, and that void in between now deeply disturbs me. The absence of any memory or thought, with the only respite being that I'll wake and it will resume.

Imagine not waking? That nonexistence of anything for you. Nothing is thought or perceived.
How do you deal with this concept, /his/?

>>855638
Protestants don't actually care about theology. All they care about is hating the Church because they think it makes them more relevant individually.

>>855638
>How do all the different Protestant churches reconcile their differences in theology?
They don't.

>Is there something I'm missing?
The point.

Protestantism means you start whatever cult you want and call the thing Christianity, and that there is no greater authority than you, for you are the pope of yourself.

>>855652
I think many of them also genuinely care about loving Jesus and giving large sums of money to preachers who aren't affiliated with the Catholic Church.

>>854953
Freud practically ended psychology. Every subsequent work on psychology has been either meme ranting on him or praising him, ever since.

nah

>>854980
lol r u gay?

>>854506
> Should I go to law school?

for your consideration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States_by_education

>>854521
Very interesting, thanks. I had no idea Wilson was the only president with a PhD.

Change your major to one of your more interesting interests, for one

Diomedes

>>854401
Rome.

>>854401
The Trojan, the whole war was just so Agamemnon could feel like a big dick and get rid of a rival