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Does anyone else want to create a philosophy that views all art as disposable media that serve as nothing but entertainment?
Why am I being held hostage and told that I'm not allowed to be a part of educated society unless I spend a lot my time reading fiction (and I've read many many more books than most people and they've almost all been fiction)? There are two other things that compound my feels. One, literature has become entwined with the publishing-media-academia industrial complex. /lit/ says that every book is shit unless it's endorsed by these institutions. They are unprepared to question them, even when they publish Tao Lin's tweets (not that I'm passing judgement, but we all know what lit's opinion would be if it was a self published person trying the same thing).
Secondly, so much literature is, let's be honest, the writers feels / narcissism self indulgently packaged in to a book. If people don't care about my feels then I don't see why I should care about their feels.
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>>494978
Is that the totality of your philosophical system? That art is worthless? I'm not sure philosophy is the word you're looking for. Unless you mean that as a cornerstone of a philosophy, as in "under anonism we care about things with inherent value that helps society and anything else (ie: art) has only entertainment value. Society should promote feats of engineering over that of art and museums that chronolog the development of improvements of design will replace all government funded art galleries."
That could work.
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>>494994
>instantly accuse me of being someone who insults writers for not building rockets
Why do I even bother
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>>494978
>Does anyone else want to create a philosophy that views all art as disposable media that serve as nothing but entertainment?
I'm probably with you anon at that point, but the rest is baffling. Care to elaborate?
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your opinion on this youtube channel is the information reliable? also where can i find good tier world history documentaries
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>>494884
Duck Duck Go
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>>494884
my wife's son really loves this channel
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>>495024
If you don't stop him he's going to grow up into a cůck
reminder that language isn't real
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>>494879
reminder that deez nuts are real
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reminder that language is real
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>>494879
Reminder that OP's pic can be found on a FB page called Nihilist Memes
Reminder that Pepe is dead and frog-posting in general is pure cancer
Does any other empire come close to that of the ancient Finns?
>protip, none do
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>>494833
>shit outside of /b/
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>>494844
>being this jealous
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mammi
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Is there such a thing as a necessary evil, fellow /his/torians? Honest answers please, I'm genuinely curious as to your opinions.
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>>494795
>evil
Spooky
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>>494807
Cruelty then? I don't wanna spoop you away.
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>>494817
Cruelty yes. Machiavellianism is a very effective way of achieving your goals
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What was the transition to firearms like? Was it swift? Any milestones in terms of battles won with firearms? Seems like an interesting time in military history that is often overlooked.
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This is a topic that I've studied a lot, but it's difficult to answer. Your question has a global scope, and depending on the country, the widespread adoption of firearms could have taken place over hundreds of years. How do you say when a country has transitioned to firearms? When they're first implemented into the army, when they make up a certain percentage of the soldiers, or when they've displaced every other individual weapon?
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>>494832
Good point. Perhaps limit my query to Europe and count "transition" as when combat began to be focused around firearms, like the rise of pike and shot formations. Really I'm just asking about how, why and when firearms took over European warfare.
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>>494791
>how, why and when firearms took over European warfare.
I would have loved to have been part of the companies deployed to sub-Saharan Africa with the first Maxim machine guns to deal with the local spear-chuckers.
Oh, the comedy...
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What kind of Christian are you?
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Explain why in the thread. Please provide more information than "makes the most sense" or "the other ones are retarded"
Btw this is a Christian thread, "other" would refer to non-fundamental forms of Christianity like Mormon or Jehova's Witness, not Atheism or Buddhism.
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>>494646
Mystic because everything makes much more sense that why.
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>>494646
Who did 9/11?
Vote http://strawpoll.me/6424469
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>>494695
Jews are space lizards you ninny.
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who is the best pharaoh in Egyptian history, and why is it Thutmose III?
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>Random nigger browse /his/ sees Thutmose III as "black" mummy
>WE WUZ KANG AN SHITZ
Lol, i love you OP
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>>494630
>giving the thumbs up sign, even in death
Now that's a positive attitude.
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>>494630
>"Its appearance does not answer to our ideal of the conqueror. His statues, though not representing him as a type of manly beauty, yet give him refined, intelligent features, but a comparison with the mummy shows that the artists have idealised their model. The forehead is abnormally low, the eyes deeply sunk, the jaw heavy, the lips thick, and the cheek-bones extremely prominent; the whole recalling the physiognomy of Thûtmosis II, though with a greater show of energy."
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Can we talk about this? More and more and more and more, sex and reproduction are being completely severed in public consciousness. Sex might not always have been about reproduction, but it was always associated with it in our minds. And all reproduction came from sex. But more and more and more sex and reproduction are seen as almost antagonistic, and things like artificial insemination are becoming more common. I think gay marriage is the big thing, since it completely destroys marriage as an institution and public symbol of sex as the source of family.
Are any of you familiar with The Dialectic of Sex? It's a feminist work from the 1970's, but one of its major ideas is that pregnancy has to be done away with for men and women to be equal, and all children should be artificially incubated once the technology is there. Does anyone worry about this eventually happening? All babies will be designed, natural babies will be frowned upon.
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I believe it's the natural progression of human evolution. If we have the means to create superior beings (which these designer children inevitably will be), someone will do so. Natural selection will do its work over a period of time, and soon sex and the genitals will be solely associated with pleasure.
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>>494491
What if that leads to a caste system? natural babies doing all the menial labor.
You've been duped into thinking evolution is Whig history.
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>>494439
>Does anyone worry about this eventually happening? All babies will be designed, natural babies will be frowned upon.
What would the Church's position on this be?
It sounds revolting but might not necessarily be 'sinful'
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Is there a single philosophy which isn't ultimately an appeal to emotion?
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Only religion, if you consider that philosophy.
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Scientism..... But there is a lot of bias in science, especially social science
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Why do /pol/ and /his/ discredit emotions? It almost seems like they're almost in denial of having them, despite the fact that emotions regulate and filter what information comes before the persons "logic" and "reason" kicks in.
I think these people associate themselves with the ideas in their minds, which are not their own. I think they're at least a tiny bit inauthentic.
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What did Enrique do to deserve these shitty stats?
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This belongs on /v/
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>>493925
Disregard that, I suck cocks.
I get it.
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>>493925
real talk
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ITT: Absolute Madmans
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ITT absolute faggots
>woah, everything looks phallic in these things!
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>>493916
Forgot pic
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"Pope Clement, I'm England"
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ITT: Post God-tier historical cities in your country.
Bonus if European, double bonus for gorgeous paintings
>Greifswald
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>>493700
Castletown, Isle of Man. The name is terrible but the place is lovely.
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>>493700
I always found ottoman istanbul so comfy looking especially te houses looked nice and blended so naturally into the background.
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>God tier
City upon a hill, Massachusetts Bay colony
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>there are people in this board RIGHT NOW that unironally believe that this braindamaged meme philosopher that was abused as a child wasn't just a crazy old man spitting out his thoughts
HAHAHAHAHA, what the fuck
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>>493657
>abused as a child
sauce
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>>493663
>i have a bachellor in philsophy but I can't use google
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Stirner#Biography Here. Not only he was abused as a child but also he had a very sad childhood in general which of course made him a lunatic. He literally believes in ghosts. There's no way this paranoid can be taken seriously and whoever buys into his philosophy probaly didn't get attention from daddy and momma
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>>493670
it doesn't say he was abused, only that his father died at his late thirties and his mother remarried to a pharmacist.
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Good movie or cringe worthy, from a historical point of view?
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It's not as bad and cringe-worthy as the likes of Gladiator or Braveheart or something along those lines, but it is pretty in-accurate historically.
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>>493393
Mel Gibson did nothing wrong.
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>>493385
Its an excuse to get tom cruise in an asian action movie. Nothing more.