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A giant mouth, filled with flames a demonstration to torment you.

>>449628

*flames and demons

why don't you read it and find out faggot

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>>448692
Waged a war of justice against the eternal anglo and the archaic ideas of monarchy.

I think Ney should get more of the fame, however.

>>448692
He was a righteous power hungry emperor spreading enlightenment values across Europe

>>448709
This. It's true he was a dictator, but he actually made some pretty great decisions (Lyceés or the Napoleonic Code, for example).

>>448478
And yet, whatever Nietzsche says, the ego is still an illusion.

Does he ever reflect on that, on the idea of self? I've only read Beyond Good and Evil.

>>448488
>Does he ever reflect on that, on the idea of self?
Absolutely he does. In The Gay Science.

>>448488
Nietzsche says in Ecce Homo too that the purely selfish and the purely selfless actions are both lies, which I think summarizes his type of view perfectly.

we wuz shogunz and shiet

>>440218
>Oda
If a bird doesnt sing, kill it
>Toyotomi
If a bird doesnt sing, make it
>Tokugawa
If a bird doesnt sing, wait for it

>>440218

A lot of it is just the way it happened to work out. Ieyasu's clan was actually the opposite of special. They were relatively small and weak and sandwiched between some powerful clans like the Imagawa and Oda. The local politics saw they allying with the Oda around the time the military genius Nobunaga made his big power play. They rode that wave until Nobunaga died, then managed to bide their time instead of fighting the genius statesman Hideyoshi. The reason they ended up in charge is because Hideyoshi died without a mature heir, basically leaving the actual power with the vassals, among whom the Tokugawa were the most powerful after sticking with that franchise for so long.

The main characteristic other than circumstance that puts the Tokugawa in charge is Ieyasu's cleverness, patience, and opportunism. As the old saying goes.
Nobunaga pounds the wheat.
Toyotomi bakes the bread.
Ieyasu eats the bread.

Sarcasm is a greek perversion.

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>MUH REPUBLIC
Republic has been dead for decades, Gracchii killed it, principiate was the only way out.

Augustus Caesar > Julius Caesar = Cicero > all other Roman politicians

>>456270
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/agnostic

>Full Definition of agnostic

>1: a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (as God) is unknown and probably unknowable; broadly : one who is not committed to believing in either the existence or the nonexistence of God or a god

>2: a person who is unwilling to commit to an opinion about something <political agnostics>

Just like atheism, agnostic has two definitions

Almost all atheists subscribe to
>a : a disbelief in the existence of deity

>>456278
>Almost all atheists subscribe to
>>a : a disbelief in the existence of deity
Yes, so what evidence would your provide to justify that disbelieve
Again, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

>>456270
Disbelief just means I don't believe in it. Of course there is the possibility that there is some sort of God, but if there is he doesn't seem to have a noticeable effect on your life except through the belief systems humans have created

It's more like the cousin of judaism, they both evolved from the same root.

They have a different understanding of God and different eschatology, so I'd say no, at least theologically.

>>456178
To say Christianity has no Jewish roots is false but to say it's a Jewish religion is equally ridiculous.

>>456126
You can't change your "belief", as a belief is not something you willingly choose.

You can however choose whether to make that belief known or not, e.g. when threatened with violence.

>>456141
What makes you think you do not choose your beliefs?

>>456126

Depends on the belief.

>I believe I won't shit my pants today.
>On the contrary, good sir, my ill will and loaded shotgun would have you believe otherwise.
>I... I stand corrected.

God shouldn't interfere with human matters in the first place.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Judaism/wiki/jesus

Looks to me like Jesus didn't fulfil very much, or anything at all desu senpai

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>>455969
>reddit
>>>/r/eddit

this is the worst paraphrasing i've ever read

>>455844
>greedy monarchs accrue mountains of wealth
>wage pointless wars that mean nothing to the people
>have them fight and die in them
>let them starve to the point of rebellion

Why are upper class people so stupid?

>>455861
>Pointless wars
Name one pointless war in history

There are maybe two sources describing the event less than fifty years after it supposedly happened, though only one has been found. That's the sum total of the evidence.

>>455540
skeptics BTFO

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>HOLY

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>ROMAN

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>EMPIRE

>>454898
I badly want to know more about the Sea Peoples.

>>454967
>Sea Peoples.
Everybody does, but no one knows, only rumors.

>>455021
Aryan (Indo-European) af though most likely, mi familia

My perfectly infallible brand of communism has never been tried before.

China hasn't imploded yet, which is more than what can be said to many others. That counts, right?

>>454656
It also isn't communist

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>Useless child who has done nothing for the dynasty
>General who is one of your best warriors and also your brother by blood

I'd toss that worthless piece of shit as well.

>>454477
Liu Bei invented bros before hoes.

did liu bei really do that