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Honestly, does it matter?

thank STEM

>>788694
This. When uni started to be about educating you for a niche profession.

>>788528
>reading Nietzsche wrong
Not that I dislike the idea, it's great.

Prove "you" exist.

>>788595
I can't at least not to you. But do you really think you don't exist. in any shape or form.

>>788545
You don't have to read something in order to become acquainted with an idea.

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>>788275


But i do.

It's complicated. I recently read a book by some woman who read through 30,000 English court documents from the middle ages. I don't want to do that myself.

>>788275
>primary sources
>implying you understand multiple classical or dead languages

Don't you realize translations are interpretations?

>>788206
We can thank the Comte de Gobineau for the best and best-known summary of this problem, and also for a masterly criticism of the main hypotheses about it. His solution on the basis of racial thought and racial purity also has much truth in it, but it needs to be expanded by a few observations concerning a higher order of things. For there have been many cases in which a culture has collapsed even when its race has remained pure, as is especially clear in certain groups that have suffered slow, inexorable extinction despite remaining as racially isolated as if they were islands. An example quite close at hand is the case of the Swedes and the Dutch. These people are in the same racial condition today as they were two centuries ago, but there is little to be found now of the heroic disposition and the racial awareness that they once possessed. Other great cultures seem merely to have remained standing in the condition of mummies: they have long been inwardly dead, so that it takes only the slightest push to knock them down. This was the case, for example, with ancient Peru, that giant solar empire which was annihilated by a few adventurers drawn from the worst rabble of Europe.

>>788207
If we look at the secret of degeneration from the exclusively traditional point of view, it becomes even harder to solve it completely. It is then a matter of the division of all cultures into two main types. On the one hand there are the traditional cultures, whose principle is identical and unchangeable, despite all the differences evident on the surface. The axis of these cultures and the summit of their hierarchical order consists of metaphysical, supra-individual powers and actions, which serve to inform and justify everything that is merely human, temporal, subject to becoming and to "history." On the other hand there is "modern culture," which is actually the anti-tradition and which exhausts itself in a construction of purely human and earthly conditions and in the total development of these, in pursuit of a life entirely detached from the "higher world."

From the standpoint of the latter, the whole of history is degeneration, because it shows the universal decline of earlier cultures of the traditional type, and the decisive and violent rise of a new universal civilization of the "modern" type.

>>788207
>>788210
So traditional cultures, even if they keep to their tradition, can't escape the Decline?

They haven't.

>>787941
>Why have Germany and Japan had such close ties for so much of the time they've been aware of each other?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-German_cooperation_until_1941

>>787941
They didn't. Germany just up and switched from backing China to backing Japan.

>last a thousand years
>entire thousand years is a linear descent downward

"Ancient Rome" = "Troy" = "Byzantium"

>>787892
That's not even true. The byzantines were literally the most powerful naval super power in the Mediterranean until the last few centuries of their existence. They reconquered lost land dozens of times.

>>787713

Quentin Meillassoux
Peter Sloterdijk

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>>787713

The only one you ever really need to listen to. Take the Black Pill.

*sniff*

Susan Wise Bauer's "Story of the World" books.

>>787620
A Chinese children's book which I forgot the name of about the history of ancient Greece.

There were ancient Greeks who used giant flying leather balloon weapons, gigantic mirror ray weapons and super catapults described in this book.

I thought ancient Greek inventors like Archimedes were basically evil geniuses and that's pretty awesome.

http://www.amazon.com/Castle-David-Macaulay/dp/0395329205

The late 1800s to the early 1900s

Neolithic agricultural revolution.

1900-1970

>>787418
>a Nestorian Christology

No

>almost monophysite perspective on the authorship of Scripture

I don't understand, monophysitism is about the nature of Christ


Most Protestants are not biblical literalists.

>>787418
>Nestorian
>Monophysite
Don't you have a stake you should be burning on, heretics?

>>787474
>No
Sure, any Protestant who says Mary is the Mother of the human Jesus but not the God Jesus.

>I don't understand, monophysitism is about the nature of Christ
It's the idea that Christ had no humanity, but was just divine. I think you understand what I mean when applying that conception to Scripture.

>Most Protestants are not biblical literalists.
Most that aren't super liberal are, yeah

Raskolnikov pls

>>787407

>is it wrong to kill someone?

Yes. There are circumstances when it can be permissible, but I won't tell you what those circumstances are, because the best way to avoid an unjust killing is to be unsure of yourself and not go through with it at all. If you need to kill someone no matter what, you'll do it no matter what I tell you.

>How much do ethics even matter?

The whole discussion is really fucking important but don't stress to much about the particulars of which ethical code is the right one and if you're a good person or not. You should only worry if you might kill someone, see the previous paragraph.

>Whats the point in life besides stimulating your immediate desires?

What's the point of having a point? If you're given some objective for life, and you complete that objective, you win some sort of prize? So what?

>>787407
>Is it wrong to kill someone?
In general, yes.

>How much do ethics even matter?
Quite a bit.

>Whats the point in life besides stimulating your immediate desires?
To worship God alone, and follow his commandments.

>>787341

It was Mexicans anon.

Mexicans made Poland Poland.

>muh commonwealth
>muh intellectuals
>muh decentralization
>muh constitutions
>muh partitions
>muh christ of europe

GRUNWALD
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>>787326
This pic is fucking aesthetic

Yugoslavia wasn't part of the Warsaw pact dude

>>787782
True, and after the 50's Hoxha steered Albania toward friendship with China instead of the SU.

You could look at a mirror

Yes, your life.

Proof?

>>786934
Japan fucking over Russia

>>786934


Yaoi fangirl slashfics are a universal constant.

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>>786934
Fucking with them nihon boys, you gon get fucked over