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The earth is round
Salt water and fresh water don't mix

>>570455
You have to read the Qur'an, there isn't really a way to spiritually understand Islam without just reading it.

Historically you can analyze it or you can watch TV and watch it get ruined, but in order to truly be a Muslim you just have to sit down and begin reading the Qur'an.

>>570463
>reading the Qur'an
I'd say "studying the Qur'an". It's a very complex book, which is incredibly difficult to understand without deep linguistic and theological study. I've stopped reading the translations, I'd rather study Arabic and study the Qur'an as I go.

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>>570443
lots of "educated" guessing based on oversimplified models that make blatantly untrue assumptions.

t. econ major

>>570443
This book is mainstream (and good).

I approve. Of course there were other who also tried to teach people about economy. Make it easy to understand. Especially in countries that had no rich history of free market.
I applaud their effort.

>>570421
my wife is fucking HORRENDOUS and we both work in the same museum

i tell her my trips to taiwan are purely for researching the history of the natives but i'm really banging cheap 9 year old hookers

>>570446
The 9 year old hookers are in Thailand, not Taiwan.

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>>570421
Actually, it did. I got into a pretty good conversation about South American history with a Columbian who was in one of my classes.

>>570371
>Mongolean

Well you saw it in an unsourced image macro on 4chan, so it must be true, right?

>>570371
No one claims Nazis wanted to exterminate them, they were so few they were of no consideration. But now people who post that picture want to exterminate them anyways, so the point of the picture and the people who post it are stupid.

Yep.

"HURRRRR teh Nazis wanted to extermination everyone who wasn't white with blond eyes and blue hair!!!!!!!!!" is a massive over simplification of the Reichs racial policy.

Arab conquerors. By the time the Arabs showed up in Egypt no remnants, besides the monuments, of Ancient Egypt remained

>>570283
I must have missed that time the Ptolemies genocided all their Egyptian subjects.

>>570283
What happened to them?

>>570260
My god could beat up your god.

>>570260
The total lack of any indication god exists.

>>570260

Bow down to the Glourie of the Amazing Dildoni.

What further proof of divinity do you need than having a really big penis?

Selling yourself out.

>>570251
His eyes are so offset it irritates me

>>570251

worthless
useless
shitstain
bitch
faggot
reporting

>>570085

Over-regulated, overtaxed, crime-ridden, corrupt, shitty weather, and with few of the next big 21st century industries.

Great city, but pretty fucked desu

>>570085
What is that?

>>570085
That's a flag, not a city

>>570036
not much.

Both Shogunate and Imperialists were reform minded.

Maybe Japan ruled by a Junta as opposed to...using the Emperor as a puppet and rule indirectly

>>570036
Japan would still try to industrialize, but would take much longer because of the lessened European/American trade. So they don't become the dominant East Asian power in time for the two world wars, which means no Japanese hegemony in China. What would have happened to China in that scenario is a question more versed in the topic than I am. Anyway Japan would still probably fall to American influence at some point during the Cold War, and if not that, then Soviet influence, so it would basically become another pretty shitty Asian country considering how relatively poor it was.

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>>570036
Bump

Narcos

The Thick of it

British satire of third way politicians in office

Recomending the standard meme movies

Platoon
Das boot

>>569756
>Iran and Iraq:Persians
Mesopotamia (Iraq) was not, nor was it ever, Persian

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>>569784
yes it was. did the persians skip mesopotamia in their way to fight the greeks?

>>569756

Can Persians and Semites even be considered "races"?

I mean not to claim that my blasphemy nullifies what has been said. I merely explain why I do not repent to what I do not believe in. My next point of disagreement is much more crucial.
If cultivation of talents and forgetting oneself in work are not the ethical, how does duty provide an alternative? If one's duty and oneself are inseparable from tasks, how is this finding self in duty significantly different than losing oneself in work? Are not talents essential to these tasks? Yes the ethical life-view would believe they are; the aesthetic holds that they are essential for their own sake. A talent not yet applied to duty is not then essential and to this I shall return in my next reply. The point is that talents are essential for accomplishing tasks and are thus essential for their own sake.

Take two people who work and find themselves in relation to duty. For one the duty is external and this difficult, to the other internal. Both find themselves in their duty, both relish in the accomplishment. One is an ethicist, the other an asthete. How do the life-views change the meaning or beauty of the situation or are they the same?

My third objection is of equal importance to the previous and will show to what extent I am not a philosopher in any true capacity.
If an asthete despairs and devotes himself to the universal in his doing his duty, how is he to avoid the sorrow of failing to attain the universal? Vilhelm explains to us that one may set himself to the task of the ethical and fail to achieve it. His is a purgatory devoid of joy or possibility to escape. He admires the universal yet cannot enjoy it himself; it is forever external to him.
Back to this former asthete. Say he sees his duty as concrete tasks which will improve humanity either ethically or intellectually. He builds talents to achieve these goals. When he has these talents, he must find the tasks about which he must set himself. In this movement he is in infinite sorrow. The tasks are ahead, the aesthetic life behind, and he lies between. He has not fulfilled his duty yet, as such he has an infinite possibility of failure, or worse death before success.
Say he realizes his place is far away. He is a young man with little prospects to leave; he knows he has a place, yet he cannot be there. The asthete (who has not yet despaired) believes he has no place; when he finds uncomfortable situations, he has the comfort of saying "Ce n'est pas de ma faute." The reformed asthete has not this satisfaction. He can only suppose that while he was an asthete, he cheated himself out of the means to escape. Now he knows he has a place at which he cannot be and he repents to himself, yet cannot forgive himself.

This man may find his place, he may accomplish his duty; however, he has not, may not, and has chosen to give up the satisfaction of the aesthetic. How can this man find meaning or beauty in the ethical when it only promises him the pain of failing the universal?

>>569711
It's metaphysics, therefore meaningless :^)

Our great grandchildren will find out.

Well apparently he himself was ok with just being blinked away from existence.

His brother will be remembered as the last representant of old British values. Christopher was just a typical Trot with no historical impact whasoever.

Can you prove it didn't cause the fire? Yeah, that's what I thought fedora.

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Classic.

>>569608
Go tell reddit we are biggots so you shitheads can find a new place to suck eachother off in. And take our religious posters with you.

>>569388

Doing good or evil is up to the individual himself. Religion can not do good or evil on its own.

The only real problem with religion isn't even a problem with religion itself but rather a problem with human beings and their inability to be subjective, cosmopotilan creatures.

"It's different therefore I must kill it" and "They have more than I do therefore I must kill them" have been human traits since we were even human. Religion, in the hands of people who are this debased, will always end badly.

>>569405
but it influences the individual's choice, especially if you are raised as a religious person. People won't blow themselves up in the name of logic and science.