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Stalin was a good person, his sole saving characteristic is that he wasnt into extravagence. His brutality, such as forcing people to confess to false crimes, was drawn from the american and french revolution.
In the american revolution, counter revolutionaries were sometimes dipped in molten tar and put through feathers as to mold the feathers into their flesh.
Stalin saw lots of ambitious enemies and wanted to avoid being yugoslavia 0.1, so he massacred many people in the name of unification.
Sadly all his plans were for naught, however people assume, incorrectly, that he could have applied todays federal police and anti corruption policies to deal with his enemies.
That being said, as he adhered to the revolution, he ignored improvements in things such as beaurocracy and consumer representation which could have earned him brownie points, so although i dont condemn him for killing his peers, i dont doubt that they wouldve been superior oligarches.
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I agree op
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I disagree.
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>Stalin was a ... person
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are we living in the most institutionalized era of modern history? Sure feels like it, but we don't have compulsory military.
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>>569461
Depends on the country kiddo.
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>>569491
oh sorry, i was thinking of the USA. I don't know if it matters to differentiate between western countries. Is there a difference between developed and undeveloped countries?
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>>569501
Red in the map shows Concription.
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Why is Caesar considered one of the Three Worthy Pagans, along with Lysander and Alexander? What exactly did he do that made him a moral exemplar for Christians to follow? For that matter, what did Lysander and Alexander do besides be good genrrals?
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>>569454
They had to be blessed by god, because their doings aren't within the realm of mortals, the reasoning is not important, the lord works in mysterious ways.
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Romans confirmed for manlets
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>>569532
everyone was a manlet compared to germans back then.
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"Frequently we imagine that we are behaving in a particular way because such behaviour accords with some abstract, lofty code of moral principles, when in reality all we are doing is obeying a deeply ingrained and long ‘forgotten’ set of purely imitative impressions.”
― Desmond Morris, The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study Of The Human Animal
"It must be stressed that there is nothing insulting about looking at people as animals. We are animals, after all. Homo sapiens is a species of primate, a biological phenomenon dominated by biological rules, like any other species. Human nature is no more than one particular kind of animal nature. Agreed, the human species is an extraordinary animal; but all other species are also extraordinary animals, each in their own way, and the scientific man-watcher can bring many fresh insights to the study of human affairs if he can retain this basic attitude of evolutionary humility."
Desmond Morris
Thoughts on evolutionary psychology, /his/? Is it mostly a pseudoscience? Are there legitimate things to learn from the discipline?
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A lot of it is pure speculation.
Same goes for anything philosophically related to Darwinism.
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The observer attributes to himself qualities of mind that he denies in those he observes, including this 'evolutionary humility'.
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>>569417
How can it be pure speculation if it is based on mountains of observations?
>http://homepage.smc.edu/zehr_david/desmond_morris.htm
The book in the OP examines human behavior extremely efficiently. It goes into great detail to show how well and alive the primitive urges are.
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How does this refute his observations of humans performing many primitive behaviors without being aware of them?
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Hi "friends". I have about 3 hours until a history project is due, and I need to know what immigrations occurred in Canada during the time period of 1850/1867.
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The indians came to Canada and buttraped everyone
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Nypa faggot
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Immigration in canada? I'm glad I don't live there so I don't have to write about stupid shit like that
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Does anyone think its possible to achieve transcendance through war? If anything, Ernst Jünger's experience is a glaring example. Evola also wrote of it.
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The /lit/his/ WAR STARTER PACK
The Iliad - Homer
The Peloponnesian War - Thucydides
Storm of Steel - Ernst Junger
Goodbye to All That - Robert Graves
The Raid, War and Peace - Tolstoy
Alcibiades I - Plato
The Bhagavad Gita
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TRANSCENDENCE —OF THE WORLD— CAN BE ACHIEVED EITHER VIA WAR, OR VIA PEACE, THE LATTER NECESSARILY ENTAILING THE FORMER, BUT THE FORMER NOT NECESSARILY RESOLVING IN THE LATTER.
WAR WITHOUT THE PURPOSE OF TRANSCENDENCE IS MERE BRUTISH BELLIGERENCE, RATHER MARTIAL STRUGGLE, AND PEACE WITHOUT THE PURPOSE OF TRANSCENDENCE IS MERE CONTENTED PACIFISM, RATHER THAN INTROSPECTIVE SERENITY, AND AS SUCH, WAR, AND PEACE, BECOME DEVICES FOR FURTHER IMMERSION IN THE WORLD, RATHER THAN MEDIA FOR TRANSCENDING IT.
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Ob fucking liga fucking tory
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What does /his/ think of Cornel West? I caught him on Bill Maher the other night, he seems like a pretty interesting dude.
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Garden variety race baiter and sophist.
A lack of responsibility is what has held us back. Taking agency away from ourselves and blaming every single fault and flaw on some all encompassing White boogeyman has done our people no good and continuing to do it will not fix anything. The man doesn't give a shit about African Americans, only his pocket book.
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He seems like a nice guy, but he's not much of a philosopher.
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>>568871
I like Thomas Sowell better
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>Tu eres muy frijolero
What did he mean by this?
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>>568790
"I am very cold, please fetch me a blanket."
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>>568790
Tu->You
eres->are
muy->big
frijolero->faggot
"OP is a big faggot"
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>>568790
>>Tu eres muy frijolero
Para ti
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Before we start, I am new to this board, so if what I'm saying sounds stupid, please forgive me.
I am looking for a "complete" history book(if there is such one).
One that covers everything from the start of human kind until today.
I just feel that my history knowledge is trash and I want to learn more.
Do you have anything to suggest me?
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Uh book like that would be thousands and thousands of pages long.
First you need to know from which perspective you want to view the world. Generally you can divide it into the European perspective, the Middle-eastern or the Chinese (and maybe Japanese) perspective.
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The Bible.
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>>568467
To cover the entire history of humanity you would need at least three books to cover hunting and gathering to the agricultural revolution to civilization, globalisation and industrialization.
I'd recommend reading Guns, Germs and Steel.
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Who really settled America before Clovis?
I personally believe that the pre Clovis culture 50,000 BCE was probably part of the second wave out of Africa which first colonised Arabia, India, Southeast Asia and Australia. The group left Africa 60,000 years ago and rapidly reached Australia 40,000 years ago, so it's not much of a stretch to assume that one group travelled North along the Asian Pacific coast and across the Bering strait. We know that the group which colonised Australia had basic canoe technology because they colonised Australia. I would assume that the pre Clovis were displaced by the Clovis which colonised the Americas rapidly because they had the better technology which let them hunt megafauna. The Fuegians and Amazonian tribes could be isolated remnants of the pre Clovis.
>In before Solutrean hypothesis.
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No amateur anthropologists?
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>>568396
>We know that the group which colonised Australia had basic canoe technology because they colonised Australia.
Very basic then, because you could probably island-hop your way to Australia just by swimming back in those days.
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>>568460
It's extremely unlikely that anyone ever swum to Sahul, the distances between islands may look small on a map but in reality they are tens of kilometres across. It's more than likely they crossed either by tying up a load of bamboo to make a raft or created a dugout canoe from a log.
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What happened to the patrician families after the fall of Rome?
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>>567869
the fall of rome is a meme.
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>>567869
They have their economic bases damaged by the Vandalic conquest of Africa, bu at least a part of the Roman Aristocracy survived and focussed their wealth in Sicily and Italy herself.
Some went to Constantinople.
The ones who remained were fucked by the Gothic Wars.
Relevant noble families still existed around Rome, and Rome herself through the Middle Ages, some could have been related to the Old Roman Nobilitas.
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>>567869
They became slaves
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I cry every night
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>>567761
Protip: Just because the CIA is involved in a plot to overthrow a foreign leader, doesn't mean said foreign leader was a great guy.
See also Salvador Allende and Patrice Lumumba
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>>567777
Didn't Khomeini hate Mossadeq even more than the Shah?
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To be fair Iran under Islamic rule is stronger than it could have ever hoped to be under nationalistic socialism.
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Is the situation for male "losers" worse today in terms of access to resources and relationships than it was ~100 years ago? Or is it better than ever? If so what changed?
Or have male losers historically been losers in any time period?
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>>567452
I'd say dating sites made communication way easier and as such gave 'losers' better resources.
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>>567452
There's always been losers. Hell, the leader of the Taiping Rebellion was a a guy who failed a test that would have allowed him into esteemed society.
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>>567452
>Is the situation for male "losers" worse today in terms of access to resources and relationships than it was ~100 years ago? Or is it better than ever? If so what changed?
>Or have male losers historically been losers in any time period?
Given that this answer has nothing to do with the contents of history, and everything to do with your personal beliefs about what "better" and "worse" are, why don't you fuck off to a board which cares about your personal beliefs like >>>/r9k/
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Short version: the arabs were one of the advanced nations. Now they are not quite as advanced.
What happened?
A while ago i have listened to a podcast about the mongols in the Genghis the Khan era and one of the peoples the mongols fought and practically erased were the people of the islamic religion, i believe they were the arabs but i cant remember.
Then this question arose, what happaned to the arabs that led to this cultural descent?
Can any of you shed some light on this subject?
Sorry for bad english. Fucking third language
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>>567356
The Ottomans and Mamluks supressed Arab out of fear of them growing too strong
the Ottomans themselfs failed to keep Up With the European Industrial Revolution mainly due to policies during their golden age (mid 1500's/1600's )
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>>567372
I see. Now all that is left is the turkish and isis....
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>>567372
And even before that, the Mongols straight up fucked their shit up ruthlessly. Baghdad, former capital of the Islamic world, has not even come close to recovering even 1/8th of its former glory.
Why is this guy the poster child of psychology?
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>>567353
First attempt to scientifically systematize face to face counseling methods for patients with psychiatric disorders. Emphasis on unconscious mental processes being the cause of psychiatric problems. Eventually leads to cognitive behavioral therapy, which has helped countless patients around the world without resorting to medication or incarceration.
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Because he started psycho analysis. Most of his shit was wrong but much in the way of early philosophers, he gets a lot of credit for trying.
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>>567374
I heard his ideas had a longer and more useful lifespan in philosophy. Does anyone know if there's any veracity to this?