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Shiggydiggydoo

>>524276
he wanted to prevent unrest, the jewish priesthood were more powerful than jesus, so he sided with them

without using the Gospels as a source in fear of it immediately being discarded, lets talk about peripheral provinces in the Roman Empire

Roman officials were told to do very little to seriously interrupt the daily lives of people, and respect local traditions to the extent that Roman Law allowed. So to say, the Romans did little to subjugate the population or force their culture or language, but rather just keep things peaceful, collect tax, and defend the region.

From what is known of Pontius Pilatus, his orders were to keep order in the province of Judea, and the Jewish demands to kill Jesus for his supposed crimes created a mob that threatened to escalate into full riots.

It's not unbelievable to say that Pilatus ordered his Crucifixion as an attempt to restore order at the price of just one unpopular man as collateral, rather than sparing him and have hundreds die in an uprising/military quelling.

If that was the case, Pilatus managed to hold the peace for about 40 years with that decision, until the uprising against Rome in 66ACE.

From what I've known over my studies of theology and history, Pilatus more than likely didn't believe Jesus was any kind of criminal, but ordered it anyway due to popular demand.

no, they didn't lead off with a javelin barrage

>>524053
javelins aside?

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>>524048
It looks staged tbhfam

>>523705

By controlling the likely avenues of movement.

Real life isn't like Risk, where anyone can go anywhere adjacent to them. Someone invading up through Siberia from the south would wander for weeks if not months before hitting any sort of settlement, and most likely starving and/or freezing along the way.

They watched the roads and the rivers, and that was enough. And if push came to shove, most of those settlements were fortified, and could last for several months on their own, more than long enough to get a relief force through if you're serious about helping them.

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>>523705

Russia wasn't particularly sparsely populated historically. It only expanded to the Pacific and Siberia relatively recently and the density subsequently plummeted because much of it is useless tundra.

For most of history "Russia" was pic related, where something like 75% of the population still live.

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>>523705
Fun fact: during much of Imperial Russia: most of the owned land just bowed to Russian Suzerainity. But are otherwise largely autonomous/subjects.

Just like how the old Khanates ruled over a lot of those people.

The Soviet Union was the first to actually control all that directly.

Pic related. Alim Khan. Emir of Bukhara. His people are Russian subjects, but he governs them under their own customs & laws.

>>523579

Part of the reason is that ancient states (generally) had lower standards of training and equippment for their soldiery than what you saw for a lot of late medieval onward in Europe. The Romans at Cannae and Magnesia were still using a militia system; a good chunk of Hannibal's troops at Cannae were local Goths yanked up and hired for the campaign. The Selucid troops were all part time soldiers.

Career soldiers are a significant investment of resources, and consequently, the army shrinks when you field them (See, post-Marian reforms, the armies of rome get smaller despite the polity getting bigger and wealthier)

But also, greater organization. It counts a lot more than even raw wealth when you don't have this feudal proliferation of authority and office and a complicated gaggle whenever you need to get anything done.

>>523599
Literally everything in this post is wrong.

Before the Marian reforms only land owners could serve in the army. Afterwards it opened up service to all citizens and their numbers swelled, peaking at 450,000 in the early 3rd century.

>>523657
>Implying that more than half of Rome's troops at Cannae weren't social state allies
>Implying social state allies provided professional soldiers.

>>523499
Yes he did, and the plan was brilliant*. His idea was investing largely in heavy industry to kickstart the economy, along with allowing for small cooperatives to supply people's basic demands state plan could not account for, and Glasnost (which is not even close to freedom of speech) to let off some steam.
Yet it was way too late, after Stagnation USSR could not be saved. However, there were new Union Treaty plans which would allow for the country to be reorganized into a "Union of Sovereign States", but then August Coup happened and everyone ran away.

*from a Marxist standpoint so it was possibly extremely fucking retarded

>>523499
One of the cornerstones of his policy was removing vodka.

And people wonder why he failed.

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>>523499

1/2

Consider the Soviet Union through the analogy of a construction project. Let's call this project Hotel Communism.

Lenin is the first director of this project. He rallies the workers and convinces them that even though much hard work lays ahead, generation from now the worker's children will be able to in this luxurious hotel.

Next, Stalin comes along. Stalin is determined to complete the construction project within his lifetime. To this end, he practically enslaves the workers and kills a great number. A lot of progress is made during Stalin's reign (he transformed a deeply backwards agricultural society into a spacefaring nuclear superpower).

When Stalin dies, he is succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev. During Khrushchev's management, the general consensus is that although Stalin made a great deal of progress on the construction project, the human cost of doing so was far too great. Khrushchev lightens up on the workers a bit, at the cost of significantly slowing down the pace of construction of Hotel Communism.

After Khrushchev comes a series of mediocre managers; Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko. These are all old, tired men with little energy to rock the boat, so each more or less continues the policy of Khrushchev.

At last comes Gorbachev. At this point, the workers are exasperated. They have made hardly any progress in decades on the construction project, and yet they still live rather shitty lives, toiling away in bad working conditions. Gorbachev finally decides "fuck it", he puts the breaks on construction of Hotel Communism. From now on, all energies will be directed towards making the building site as comfy as possible. We may never build the hotel, but at least we won't live in utter shit.

Yes, if you want to be a subservient cuck.

It's not Epicureanism so no

>>523420
How are you being subservient when you literally dont need shit to live a good life?

>>523274
questions like this are pointless without specifying how it manages to survive in your fantasy timeline

25 year rule OP.

>>523280
That's part of the answer.
>>523283
The Soviet Union already existed more than 25 years ago.

>>523212

It had a room called the Holy of Holies where the Ark of the Covenant was allegedly kept and nobody except the High Priest on Yom Kippur was allowed in there.

The reason Jews aren't allowed onto the Temple Mount today is in case they accidentally tread on the ground where the Holy of Holies once was.

>>523212
It was supposed to be pretty cash senpai

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>>523212
It was where the Jews laid their eggs...luckily the Romans burned it down so no Jewish monsters arose

>>523122
She's holding down the wrong side of her skirt.

>>523133
>she

the united states didnt trust vietnam till they realized they were no longer allied with communist world during the cold war

also vietnam was a monarch before the cold war till it turned communist during the cold war so it only makes sense that the united states a capitalistic powerhouse trades with them once theyve hit over their peak in capitalism

>Does life have a meaning?
Yes, my life has a meaning, one i bear in my mind, and i consider it unshakeable.

What now?

>>523093
1st Yes Option: No comment

1st No Option's path: How do you jump from "we don't know" to 'rationality is the highest virtue'? Why not irrationality and passion?How do you even conclude that virtues are a thing?

This just seems like rambling.

2nds no option: Why do you immediently jump to Absurdism as the only alternative? That's not even the only type of nihilism that exists. Why do you assume the only choices are a pre-defined meaning vs nihilism? How can 'life' be insensitive to human existence when human existence is a part of life? If a living thing is sensitive to at least one other living than sensitivity is a part of being alive, and thus a part of life.

No even going to read the rest of the diagram because it's garbage. The entire stem of it is based on ignoring other philosophical positions.

2/10. The 2 points are for being arranged neatly arranged

>>523192

I actually didn't make this, took this from a forum

I think the 2nd no option just refers to how nature does not necessarily correlate with human ideals, whether someone lives or dies does not necessarily matter in the long run. I do want to know what other philosophical opinions its ignoring though, since I feel like I more or less agree with the diagram, with some exceptions, like the one you mentioned with the first option

bloody, very bloody.

>>523084
>>523095
Roman,very Roman

>>523084

Interesting theologically. Egypt and most of the Levant split from the churches of Rome and Constantinople after Chalcedon in 451 and there were some pretty grim civil wars between the Orthodox Byzantines and non-Chalcedonian Levantines/Egyptians.

I think the Coptic Church has only very recently (last year) agreed to re-enter communion with the Orthodox church after 1500 years of schism.

The discord is a key reason why invading Islamic armies were able to expand so quickly.

Most likely false liberal shit. Sources fucking needed.

>>522987

YOU ARE AN IGNORANT MORON.

>>522990
>>522991

Thanks for posting. I've been meaning to filter you for days but I couldn't see any of your posts.

Because they had power too.

>>522706
Pretty sure Korea was under chinese rule for a long time.

>>522800
?

>>522689
Its not even the greatest empire in East Asia

>>522695
t. chink

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Coming through, plebs.

>>522559
All you need is the golden rule. Fuck the rest.

>>522559
>What self imposed rules govern you and why?
I try not to involve myself in unnecessary threads because they waste my valuable time, energy, and perhaps would make me dumber.

>>522603

Silver rule is better to be honest family. It's more realistic and passive and I think thus more achievable.

I don't subscribe to any deontological rules or anything like that at all (Kant was a literal autist) but I also think utilitarianism is retarded.

Virtue ethics master race. Anyone requiring specific moral guidance for general everyday life probably lacks the capability to understand ethics.