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LMAO'ing at your life right now

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>>501493
it's actually pretty cool being a NEET, I get NEETbux every month that I spend on booze and cigarettes, plus the government can't do shit about my loans now

i have a BA in history and i want to work in a gas station

>>501451
Because the Japanese state was centred on the home islands through the Great Yamato Cult of racism, so nuking Japanese Korea wouldn't have had any effect on the Emperor Cult government?

>>501451
as bloodthirsty as corporatocracy is, very few people have the balls to do it

>>501457
I think he means in the Korean War

>if you truly believe that you are your own god, will reality subjugate to fit in with your ideological fantasy?
Yes, this is true with any narrative you want to believe. If I chose to explain the world by believing a monkey dropped a "good day pill" or a "bad day pill" in my mouth every day before I woke my reality will shift to appropriate this world view if I want to believe it enough.

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>>501425
no

here is the bombshell: reflexivity permits us to see that the belief in rationality, induction/generalization/categorization, imagination, intellect, reason does not lead us to the good life.

animals are the most rational beings, but they lack reflexivity since they fail to see that the faith in abstraction to reach knowledge/truth/objectivity/reality/universality is sterile since it brings only conventions which are, by definition, always fluctuating through, at least, time and space... rationality brings is a deception and a disappointment.


the point of reflexivity is to notice the failure of rationalism, to embrace empiricism that is to say, to stop fantasizing about a collective reality, but rather to stick to personal phenomena in analyzing them.
the point of reflexivity is to make us wonder what do we want.

Do you want to create norms, conventions in order to claim that you create norms and that these norms are truths that you try to impose on others, until some people will come to you and claim that their conventions are the truths and yours are lies ?

>>501438

no one would believe in a monkey putting pills in their mouth

>>501425
God isn't in your head, he's outside of our primitive 3 dimensions and created the universe

>>501242
idk about that, but after spending a significant amount of time there I began to feel that its the closest thing that exists today to a modern day sparta

>>501252
Because of their military or mentality?

>>501242

Take your ignorant, ahistorical troll post and shove it up your arsehole.

You've asked a baited IR question, you know IR belongs on >>>/pol/ and you can fuck back off there.

>>501116

DEFINE "FREEDOM OF SPEECH".

>>501127
Search out Mosely speaking about the freedom of speech in east london. I really like mosely, as i do Mussolini. they are great speakers, but mosely resonates much harder with me as he speaks my mother tongue

>>501116
>Has there even been a dictatorship which allowed freedom of speech?
Roman Empire.
>What were the results?
Varied.

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one of the most developed cities in iraq by todays standards

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>>501049
I'm reading 'Babylon' by Paul Kriwaczek; according to him the excavation site is a bunch of successively larger temples built on top of one another, the oldest being a tiny, ten square foot chapel built of sun-dried bricks (significant because every other building would've been a reed hut) dating to ~5400 BCE.

Originally the site was on a freshwater lagoon or marsh with a nearby river and much closer to the ocean, and the abundance of delicious fish and mussels is probably what brought people to the place first. Enormous quantities of ashes and fish bones have been found in every layer of the site, suggesting ritualistic fish feasts were a big part of the culture.

The people called the marsh the 'Apsu' or Apzu, and considered it a literal upwelling of the primordial ocean upon which the world floats in Mesopotamian cosmology.

Today, it is a pile of sand.

One day, our cities too will be piles of sand.

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finally i have a reason to post this

>>500757
Your words are just some pixels dude lmao

>>500777
I'm not saying the chemicals aren't beautiful or that we'd be better of without them (It would be disastrous actually) I'm just asking is there anything beyond the physical?

>>500505
Twelve years a slave

>>500505
MY MOMMA WAS BORN IN THE ERA WHEN

>>500505
I can't think of any books about slavery without an agenda. Just read all of them.

>imperialist propagnda
It's a fucking part of Algonquin culture, not something made up by Westerners. The Algonquin peoples believed that eating human flesh gave you an insatiable hunger for more. This is even found in European myths.

It's a myth saying why cannibalism is bad. Once you break that taboo it's very easy to justify doing so again. It's very easy to run out of food in a hunter-gatherer society that's just getting into agriculture. Don't eat people, it's bad, you'll become a monster, and don't tolerate others eating people.

Wendigo psychosis predates European contact with the Americas m8

>>500534

That's not demonstrably true; the Algonquians had no writing system pre-contact. All evidence we have for Wendigo beliefs comes from post contact, when Europeans encountered the Algonquians and recorded it, or when contact with Europeans transmitted writing to the Alqonquians and they recorded it themselves.

In fact, a number of scholars have theorized that wendigo beliefs popped up as an indirect result of contact, with the natives creating it as a sort of unconscious coping mechanism, to deal with all the resulting epidemics and famines.

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>>500411
I think you are under the impression that anyone save for a small group of ultra-nationalists think like this.

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Because the overwhelming majority of studies have found again and again that modern Turkish people are overall the same as the neolithic farmers who first lived there?

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>>501191
>neolithic

>>499954

>What was the backup plan if D-day fails?

Try it again somewhere else (probably southern France) or throw everything at Italy

>>499954

How are you defining "failing"? Anzio was considered a failure, but the Anzio kind of failure at Normandy would likely just warrant more men being funneled in, more bombs being dropped.


And in any case, Dragoon is good to go like a month later, and good luck parrying that with what the Germans have in southern France.

>>499967
Could the allies assemble a force big like d day again in a shor time?

Capitalism collapses regularly from time to time.
>""""""""""""free"""""""""""" market

>>500079
Socialism collapses all the time

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>>500253
>>500079
>>499886
That leaves us with only one other Ideology.

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>>499500
this treaty shouldn't happen. I hope Hungbros will take their land back.

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>>499500
shit happens

>>499692
I always knew you were not a real Slav, good to have you with us bro.

>>499692
With what? We have no armed forces and hungarians are genrally retarded

Oh yeah, the point of this thread.
I want to ask: if we can't know what happened before everything then is it really unnecessary to speculate?

It doesn't make any more money for anyone or provide us with more physical comforts, so yes, it not only is unnecessary, it is even counter productive, because it is a threat to our comfort and causes pointless dissension.

>>499441
then such being the case, what's the deal with Dawkins and Co. that still try to prove a universe from nothing? wouldn't it be better to preach pure agnosticism?

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>>499413
>Why do you Sop/his/ts hate scientists so much?
This is untrue.

Nobody here hates scientists, where the hell did you get that from?

The only people visibly butthurt about science are some christian /pol/acks but there's only a few of them

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>>499423
what the fuck am i reading