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It's a relic of the past to explain the otherwise unexplainable.
>DIP UR BEDORA HARDUR HARADICK :DDDDDDD

No, it's a way for people to 'experience' the sublime without having to take any risks, which is how you usually experience the sublime.

Basically, it's the alcohol-free beer of the human condition

>>536007
Kill yourself retard.

>99% of mankind has been wrong
>only recently in the 19th century did we get enlightened xD
>anyway im off to watch my pop-sci Bill Nye and Black Science Guy shows!

>>535671
Because you masturbated to too much Osprey.

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>>535704

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>>535704
I confess that even though I despise the Chinamen/Chinkaboo ''''''historians'''''' on /his/, my cock is fully erect for this.

>>535489
>like the Americans rebounded from Vietnam?
Malaise?

>>535489
>Why couldn't the Soviets rebound from Afghanistan
1991, a wonderful year.

>>535489
Because the Soviet Union collapsed while it was in Afghanistan

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>>535456

Even though the guy is a commie-pinko, if you want a full understanding of American history you ought to read his book, if only to see it from the other side's perspective.

>>535456
>it's the daily APHOTUS thread

>>535456
I just realized the title says "people's history of the UNITED STATES" and begins in 1492.

Why hasn't he bee drawn and quartered yet?

Thomas Aquinas - Someone had to get the ball rolling.

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>Hobbes
POWAAAAAHHHH
UNLIMITED PAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

Marx - People don't like the work they're often forced to do

Yeah
Europe was also shit until about 1500 years ago when the savages in the North adopted Mediterranean culture and the new Hyperborean era began
Now we live in a Kali Yuga, waiting for the desert-peoples to overwhelm the noble ice-lords of the North

there was a worldwide struggle that started in 3000 bc and ended in 1492, thats when the west solidified itself as the best.

>>535373
>>535387
Hard to argue that the Roman Empire was not preeminent at its time, or the Alexandrian empires and sequelae at their time.
Britain, on the other hand, was always a vassal and seldom even learned lessons from its masters.

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I planned each charted course
Each careful step along the byway
Oh, and more, much more than this
I did it my way
Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew
When I bit off more than I could chew
But through it all when there was doubt
I ate it up and spit it out
I faced it all and I stood tall
And did it my way

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I've loved, I've laughed and cried
I've had my fails, my share of losing
And now as tears subside
I find it all so amusing
To think I did all that
And may I say, not in a shy way
Oh, no, no not me
I did it my way
For what is a man, what has he got
If not himself, then he has not
To say the things he truly feels
And not the words he would reveal
The record shows I took the blows
And did it my way

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Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me
I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed
She was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb
In the shape of an "L" on her forehead

>>535077
No, he slimely abused the lowest tricks of rhetoric.

HOW
DARE
YOU

>>535211
This sounds like you have a problem with his debating method, you call it slimey, I'd call it appealing to the audience.

He was one of my favourite journalists, and I liked listening to him, maybe not the most well=spoken, but one of my favourites.

>>535077
He could remain impressively coherent even after 15 drinks of Johnny Black. I've moved on from him as a serious atheist thinker and journalist, but he had a way of illustrating the most salient objections.

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>>534739
Read the vulgate cover to cover along with Seneca and Cicero. Also, read online Catholic encyclials in Latin.
And she's probably a good one. Godspeed, OP.

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you're missing a great opportunity here OP

imagine all the things that could happen if you let her help you learn, assuming she's willing to teach you

me and my gf had fun learning linear algebra together before she moved away

Not Wheelock? OP's GF = pleb.

velocity x distance

>>534690
That depends on your metaphysics my friend. Either it's relational or substantial, depending on how one views the ontological status of spacetime. Relativity demonstrated that absolute time does not exist outside of an individual's reference frame, but it did not probe its structural nature. Presentism, Eternalism, or the block universe are all viable options.

>>534720
>presentism
>a viable option

BUMP

Why nobody want's to enter this thread?

What is the Norman theory?

>>534603
Reported to the dean for cheating. Enjoy your expulsion.

>>534246
What frontier

>>534252
North America after the Louisiana Purchase

>>534246
I just came back from watching The Revenant. I loved it. Every scene made me feel like I was there.

>>534154
Great? I'd argue that he was, if only for his more pragmatic approach of handling things. Tactically, he may have been lacking, but he was excellent at handling the strategic side of things, which is what really matters in a war.

Best? Definitely not.

>>534154

>Was General Zukov really a great general?

IMO yes. People go "lol zerg rush", but especially in 1941, the Red Army was in shambles. Poor training, poor doctrine, with peoples revolutionary spirit meant to compensate for a whole host of material deficiencies, and organziational bottlenecks.

Just look at various sections of the front before and after Zhukov showed up. He almost always stabilized things where they looked on the brink of collapse.

Furthermore, he had considerable organizational skills, something otherwise lacking in a lot of the Soviet military effort. He actually managed to make sure that his supplies got to his men, which wasn't a claim a lot of his contemporaries could make.

>Was he really the best in WWII?

Probably not. But at least in my opinion, judging only guys who commanded significant sections of fronts, (so like, no divisional or even single corps commanders) he'd be in the top 5.

I'd probably put Manstein as the best, or very maybe Kesselring.

>>534154
>Was General Zukov really a great general?

Yes.

>Was he really the best in WWII?

Probably not. The best was probably some undersung divisional commander on the Eastern or Chinese front.

Out of men operating at his level it is hard to make a comparison. I mean Ike was FAR less adept at managing the human resources issues he faced, probably helped him become a better president.

>Or did he just send a lot of men to their death and have a lot killed?

All generals do this. taco_girl.jpeg

the supreme knowledge conforming to reality

>>534078
Enlightenment is the overcoming of genetically inherited tendencies through the application of willpower. A simple example -- let's say a person is born to a couple who both have a strong addiction to alcohol. And let's say this person is descended from many generations of alcohol addicts. This person inherited the genetic factors that make them prone to alcoholism. A form of enlightenment for this person would be to understand all of this and through the application of willpower avoid becoming addicted to alcohol throughout their life.

>>534055
Any great man theory would have Jesus as one of the most important men in history.

Jesus wasn't advocating the 'weaponizing of passions'

>>534066
Isn't that exactly what he did? Passion, specifically love, was what all his values were engendered by, and he wrought destruction on the old values that were almost sensible (love your friends, hate your enemies).