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All truth is objective
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The Ottomans should have invaded Italy and conquered Rome
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>All truth is objective
>An undeniable fact
Isn't this a bit circular my friend? You say the truth is objective, which means it is composed of facts. You say it is an undeniable fact that the truth is composed of facts. One cannot deny the truth.
Why is the truth objective? Because it is composed of facts. Why can't we deny facts? Because it is the truth. Why is it the truth? Because the truth is composed of facts. And so on.
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>>579516
>fact
Sounds like a definition.
"Jewry is the principle of destruction. It is what is destructive in the overturning of the completion of metaphysics--i.e., of Hegel's metaphysics by Marx."
--Heidegger, Anmerkungen I, 29 (from the "Black Notebooks")
How can you say this guy's not racist?
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Judaism isn't a race
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>o-oh no mommy!!! w-wacism!!!
Pussy faggot
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>>579289
Jewry is an ethnoreligious identity which forms its own distinguishable genetic cluster that does not necessitate direct adherence to Jewish religion.
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Robespierre did nothing wrong.
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>>579035
No mercy should be shown for counter-revolutionaries and traitors.
He did nothing wrong.
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Just picked this up for 3 quid. Is this decent or a piece of shit?
Also, what the fuck happened in the War of the Roses?
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>>578972
England had low stability and the king had no heir
so lots of rebel units started appearing all over the country and would take over all the land until the king gives into their demands
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Looks poppy
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>>578984
For 80 years straight?
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How did Germany lose WWI if they were deep in France when the war ended?
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The United States, savior of the planet, came to bring freedom and justice to its father continent.
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>>578973
This, but also the long term attrition game favored the entente.
That and the British figured out how to punch through German lines at will.
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>>578968
Look up "The Turnip WInter"
Their army may have been dug into France but the civil society that supported that army was in full collapse mode.
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What would our world look like now if Genghis Khan never existed?
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Islam expanding further North, East and West much earlier.
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>>578706
Not much. Maybe gunpowder would take a long ass time to reach Europe.
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>>578721
By the time of Genghis conquests the Islam had stopped expanding.
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>Contemplation is spontaneous awe at the sacredness of life . . . It is gratitude for life, for awareness and for being. It is is a vivid realization of the fact that life and being proceed from an invisible, transcendent, and infinitely abundant Source.
>mfw dead inside fedoralords will never get this, can only shriek "proof?" "evidence?" "proof?" like autismo-trons on the fritz ad nauseaum
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>intellectual rigor means you're a dorky supernerd
This is how low religionfags have fallen
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>>578560
>needing a fucking empirical study done before the big science man says it's OK to feel gratitude for the miracle of life and consciousness
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Based Merton
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What caused it?
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Americans.
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>>578479
Greed and stupidity
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>>578479
A completly unhealthy economy. Uncontrolled growth, too many goods for too few buyers.
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What's your favourite special forces operation?
Can be anything, from WW2 to modern day wars.
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>>578291
Scaling of the cliffs at Point du Hoc
>tfw you hear that the men of the 2nd ranger battalion made a pact to not cry out if they fell so as to avoid compromising the operation.
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i find this operation to be very interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_raid_on_Larnaca_International_Airport
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>>578291
those dudes on the left are like 5'3
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What is the most successful empire that used war elephants?
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>>578219
guptas or the mauryas desu
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What was that one that ruled most of the world?
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Finno-Mongols
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These two structures were built during roughly the same timeframe. Both were vastly wealthy nations, yet there are many examples of very complex designs in France during that time period, whereas relatively simpler structures like the Djenne mosque were fewer in number.
What is the reason for this? Lack of materials? Inspiration? I don't want the answer to be racist.
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>>578193
>I don't want the answer to be racist.
bait.
Also, probably just the aesthetic sensibilities of the cultures.
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>>578193
Different t areas developed at differ we rates
One issue is that if a system works for a culture they tend to keep it and not improve - eg Polynesians never developed higher level tech but were able to colonise thousands of islands, China never took gunpowder to the next level and so on
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Because there was no reason for Africans to build something like thing like that.
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Why are so many treaties signed in Paris?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris
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Relevant country m8
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Its the land of "b'awww let's come to an agreement"
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Nice city, fuckton of hotels, in the middle of where ids habbening, close to many European capitals and Brussels and Strasbourg, can provide logistics and security, French was/is an important diplomatic language ....
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Wasn't Rome technically an empire as early as after the second punic war, long before Augustus?
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When will people learn that empire is just a name and nothing else
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>>578094
Client kingdoms with the land owned by Romans, but not Rome. That's an important distinction, most of all for Romans themselves.
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Rome was an empire at least 100 years before it was de jure an empire m9.
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What does a person who isn't particularly interested in seriously studying economics need to know (or read) in order to have an informed viewpoint on economic policy?
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You'd have to ignore that you aren't partially interested in it and study anyway.
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>>578088
get some basic concepts and understandings of Keynesianism, Post-Keynesianism, Monetarism, neoclassical economics and Austrian School
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>pull a random item from digital archives
>post
From http://publicdomain.nypl.org/pd-visualization/
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. "La traversée." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1874 - 1888. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-42b2-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
>Among the most original prints made in France during the last quarter of the nineteenth century are those by Félix Buhot. Along with artists like Charles Jacque, Louis Monziès and Félix Bracquemond, he is credited with reviving seventeenth-century etching techniques in late nineteenth-century art. However, he was highly experimental and regularly employed technical variables and regularly combined multiple processes to produce a single print. He used traditional techniques of etching, drypoint, and aquatint along with modern methods such as photomechanical reproduction. Buhot’s most notable contribution to the history of printmaking is a device he termed "marges symphoniques" (symphonic margins). Inspired by the marginal decorations of medieval manuscripts and eighteenth-century French book illustrations, Buhot developed two types of margins, etching the first on the same plate as the central subject and printing the second, called a “false margin,” from a separate plate.
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Dumping some archive.org links to some kind of interresting books. Also /r/ing an English translation of Anti-Machiavel.
>Gomme, George Laurence. 1880. Primitive Folk-Moots and open air assemblies in Britain.
London: Sampson Low, marston, Searle & Rivington.
http://archive.org/stream/cu31924030429389
Lobingier, Charles Sumner. 1909. The People's Law or Popular Participation in Law-making: from
ancient folk-moot to modern referendum; a study in the evolution of democracy and direct
legislation. New York: MacMillan company.
http://archive.org/stream/peopleslaworpop00lobigoog
>Libermann, F. 1913. The National Assembly in the Anglo-Saxon Period. Halle A.S: Max Niemeyer.
http://archive.org/stream/cu31924031473899
History of English parliament:
1773: http://archive.org/stream/parliamentaryhi05parlgoog
1765-71: http://archive.org/stream/parliamentaryhi02parlgoog
1066-1625: http://archive.org/stream/parliamentaryhi01unkngoog
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>>578085
I have way more, but sadly I only have QR codes not actual links.
I think I'll post them. I just need to think about how to do it, so it's at least somewhat readable, and doesn't take too much place.
Meanwhile here's one of my favourite political philosophy books of late 17th century:
>John Wise. 1860 (4. edition). A Vindication of the Government of New England Churches
https://archive.org/stream/vindicationofgo00wise
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>>578105
Fuck it, even though this thread is just me and OP, I'm sharing my links. Maybe someone will find them useful.