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No takers?

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>>449272
>how would your worldview change under similar circumstances, but the aliens had a religion that was very similar to Christianity, but with people/locations changed to match their home world?

It wouldn't change. But it would be the first time in history the same religion popped up independently of each other in two places (one of the many reasons I think religions are false, but certainly not the top reason)

>>449509
That's because only one can be the chosen people anon

>>449218
If you're not really interested in going through academics: yes

t. history major.

Though desu with you, I took history because I have no idea what to do in life. My classmates went on to have office jobs in commercial companies anyway so meh, its not like its going to cage you into academics.

I just don't like office jobs.

Musuem curator historian history teacher idk , i was majoring before i left college because of this exact reasoning.

Major in what will get you work, minor in what you love.

I'm reading him after Plato and Aristotle.

>>448731
Yes, Plotinus has one of the best arguments I have read on what the infinite might be, given that it is more abstract and easier defined than most other attempts I have read on it.

His works use less loaded or emotive language when doing so, IMO a problem later introduced by monotheists and Gnostics, attempting to explain either a benevolent or malevolent focal point for created existence (Valentinian Gnostics being the exception).

His views on materialism do need to be handled with care, he could be argued as being anti-materialistic, when he saw the material world as a limited imitation of the divine or the infinite.

>>448731
I am.

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Listening to picrel, reading Livy's History Of Rome in parallel with A Critical History of Early Rome.

>>448730
I've only ever read Livys account of the Punic Wars, do you recommend the rest? Heard it's more than somewhat unreliable for times before the Gallic Sack

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>>448700
Listening: pic related

Reading: Over the Top: Great Battles of the First World War, Martin Marix Evans

>>448647
What about our rights should only apply to humans? What property about them leaves them human only?

>>448656
Not OP but I think animals should have less rights then humans. obviously they should have someone, torturing animals for fun should be illegal, certain practices in the meat industry should be banned, but giving them rights equal to humans is silly

>>448647
No, the reason humans are where they are today is because we've dominated & controlled every other species on the planet. Humans are worth more than animals because we control them; if we give them rights we admit we are equal to them, which we are not.

>>447397
Nietzsche said alcohol and Christianity were the two greatest vices of Europe.

> Europe entered the Renaissance,
> and people stopped drinking alcohol

Weren't a lot of them drinking mead, because it was safer/cleaner. So basically beer all day.

>>447397
>How important do you believe that drugs were in the course of history?

Extremely.

OP here, also on what drugs do you think each religion was created on?
I recently saw a documentary about the roots of hinduism, and the man there said, that there were scripts, about a drug(probably something like mushroom tea) that was made and then drug, making you hallucinate, seeing visions about Gods.
This, at first, was only taken by samans, for only spiritual reasons, but then people started abusing it, and then, anything about it was lost, so that people would stop taking it for recreational reasons.
Christianity obviously is based on alcohol, especially wine, and I also 100% agree on what >>447405 said.
What do you think about weed as well? Ancient Greeks used to smoke it, but only to see visions of the future and only a few people were allowed to it.
What do you also think about other drugs? What about coca leaves?

Didn't understand economy.

>be rich in gold
>WE NEED MORE GOLD!
>mine so much gold it causes inflation and becomes worthless, making you poor

>>447033

>14th largest economy in the world
>A rotting carcass

I think you may have fallen for the maymays.

>>447046
When was it #14, during Franco's time? That was the last time it wasn't a rotting carcass.

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not WWII but WWI but still pretty neat...
supposedly it claims that not all is lost if you get maimed since you will get prosthetic limbs to keep on living (probably bullshit; specially since we're talking about hungria)

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>>446446
>cybernetic slavs

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We, the “have-nots...”

46 million Britains control over 40 million square kilometers of land — stolen by brute force in every part of the world! That is more than a quarter of all the inhabitable space on earth!

86 million Germans on the other hand must earn their daily bread from 600,000 square kilometers, and should even have to ask the London plutocratic clique for permission to do that!

We, the German “have-nots” fight for our food — and what about the British exploiter caste? — They fight for dividends at the cost of the blood of the peoples — but for the last time !!!

>>445655
Think of it this way.

There are civilized countries, and there are nomadic countries. Civilized countries are obviously focused on building prosperous cities and having an actual economy and shit. Nomadic countries, or peoples rather, who live in tents and don't know how to farm or write, have absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain by nigging out and invading their much more prosperous but much more peace-loving neighbors who are just minding their own business. Steppe nomads are like intercity youths who do nothing but play basketball all day err day, to make it big in the NBA someday, because that's the only way out of the hood for them. The same deal with the nomads. Invading countries is like basketball for them, and China is like the mansions, and lobster dinners, and the blonde-haired white women that comes with the fame and money of being an NBA superstar. So as long as nomadic fucks exist, they're going to constantly be invading China because they have absolutely nothing else going on for them.

>>445655
The music stopped

>>445714
They always have western silk trade cities and then good ol' Persia. China has suffered the nomads, but it's experiences fades before the suffering of poor Persia.

You don't have to choose between them, some faggots edited some clips of them saying dismissive, inflated, or false things about each other and it became a meme that they're absolute opposites whose differences can't be reconciled. Ultimately Chomsky is an analytic and Zizek is a continental philosopher. There isn't much between them other than the divide.

>>445573
I would reccomend that you fucking kill yourself, you piece of hippy trash.

>>444853
Celtic. Scots exists because Anglo-Saxons ruled over southern Scotland for a while, thus the existing Scottish population likewise adopted the language. As such things tend to go, it eventually drifted enough to be considered its own language.

Just a simple case of acculturation. The British have a pretty extensive history of that sort of thing.

>>444853
Celts whos speak a Germanic influenced language due to prolonged exposure and interbreeding with the Germanics living to the south. The Irish were ethnically very similar but linguistically retained their Celtic roots because they were separated by the Irish Sea

>>444853
Not even remotely true. Scottish Gaelic is most closely related to q-Celtic languages such as Irish and Manx. It's not even in the same sub family. English is a North Germanic language.

No.

Western basically means Europe and North America

>>441996
So Brazil isnt western? South Africa and Australia arent western?
Doesnt seem sensible to me.

>>441487
Germany

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>>441487

France because they started WW2

How could He know life after death exists when He hadn't died yet?

>>439741
Because He is God and knows everything?

Either that or he is just a fallible human and his teachings shouldn't be followed

the creator of the universe chooses to become corporeal and suffer with and for his children. it's like how soldiers will have infinitely more respect for the general that charges with them than the one comfy in his tent scribbling battle plans in his tent while the real fight's going on

i don't really believe it but it's an extremely beautiful and evocative idea

>>428458
>Is it just a special rulebook?
Yes.
>Do precedents even matter, or do judges look to the book every time?
Precedent doesnt matter, it's the attorney who argue their case based to their interpretation of book. Judges rule based on what presented before them and their own understanding of the book.
>Do governments constantly update their laws?
Depends on their need.

>>428458
It's simple. If the law is misinterpreted, then Napoleon will rise from his tomb and strike down the offender with a great mass of artillery.

>>428458
1 ) yeah , but there is other codes ,68 of them
2 ) they somewhat do, sometimes rules a created from precedents
3 ) if it's needed yes