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You're too old when you're dead

It's too young

>>391285
Ghosts BTFO

>In 1901 a pharmaceutical salesman named Sidney Reilly set out of Tehran with a case of patent medicines. Charming and handsome, he swiftly became a regular face at the dances and cocktail parties of the city's various international locations, as well as an intimate of the Grand Vizier to the Shah. After staying for several months Reilly departed with a book for of medicine orders, all of which were subsequently fulfilled. it was only when Reilly's grateful clients tried to order medicines a second time that people began to scratch their heads.The man couldn't be traced. His company didn't exist. Nor, for that matter, did Reilly.

>Sydney Riley was a nomme de guerre of a Russian Jew called Georgi Rosenblum, who left Odessa in 1893. The man himself was a chameleon. At times he claimed to be the son of an Irish Seaman. At other times the son of a Catholic clergyman, and at yet others the son of a Russian Aristocrat. After spells as a roadmender, a brothel doorman, and a docker in Rio de Janeiro, he ended up working as a cook for a British intelligence expedition. This enigmatic man was paid as an informant by Scotland Yard's Special Branch, and in later life served as the clandestine head of the British Secret Service Bureau in Russia. His real mission in Tehran was to look into the activities of one William Darcy, an Australian gold miner who had obtained a £10,000 concession from the Shah of Persia to exploit the land putative oil resources.

>The British Government, appreciating the potential of this new fuel source and keen to protect it's own access to it, was nervous. Persia lay in the buffer zone between Russia and British India, who's ongoing cat & mouse struggles were dubbed "The Great Game" by Rudyard Kipling. For Britain the Middle East covered vital transit routes to the Eastern colonies of India and Malaya. For Russia it was an ambivalent and troublesome territory on the fringes of it's own (mostly Islamic) colonies.

>Both sides had pressing reasons to seek and keep the upper hand, and the presence of oil intensified them. With his Russian background Reilly was considered the perfect man to investigate. On returning to HQ he confirmed that discovery of oil was imminent. Russia, he proposed, could be bought off with Territory in Persia's Northern provinces. The two powers could effectively carve up the land between them.

>>391217
>18th centry
century, and you mean the 19th

>factory owners looked for ways to maximize production
that was very much the 19th century, and it was profit they were attempting to maximise, not output. Prior to the 19th century, factories, or manufactories, were sites in which slaves or prisoners did traditional handicrafts or commodity (as in "bulk good") production like sugar.

>which prompted engineers to look for more efficient ways of providing lighting
Engineering only really began in the 1830s, and even then, as a habit of unusual craftsmen and skilled workers in the ONLY THEN DEVELOPING mass wrought iron and steel industries.

I'd suggest that Robert Winston is a fucking mong.

You missed /k/ desu. Not disagreeing with you but you'll actually get replies there.

>>391170
I see. Will take thread there than.

>>391162

You forgot the 200+ kills he made with his Suomi submachine gun.

>taking it literally

>>390614
How do you interpret it then?

>>390609
>What does this mean for people who are born with horrible genetic defects or those who are in excruciating pain all their life? Eternal agony?

You're not quite getting it I think, your question is directed too narrowly. He's speaking in more of a cosmic sense. The event that sparked the universe itself is destined to repeat over and over again forever therefore the life you've lived now therefore is bound to recur again eternally so make it worth while. Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world, this is one of the keys to the Overman. We can only do what we can bring ourselves to do compassionately for those that suffer but we cannot deny life just because it's full of sorrow, that's a childish reaction in Nietzsche's opinion, we should be bolstered by the suffering and try to make things better for ourselves.
Though Nietzsche himself seemed to be a bit in horror at the same question you've posed but the path to the Overman was his only solution.

>>390512
>best ruled
>should

Fuck off to >>>/pol/

>>390512
Immediately force an ultimatum upon Turkestan: be my cavalry or die.

Convert Buddhists and folk peoples in the south to Orthodox Christianity (that of Ukraine). Support Shia and Sufi Islam in favor of Sunni. Afterwards, make it clear that we Christians and Muslims descend from the same God. Fighting over it is useless.

Finally, unite the area based upon its steppe nomad history. Tell them they must relive the glory of their Scythian common ancestors. Basically, create a neo-Scythian nation-state.

Genocide all ethnic and religious minorities within my borders and declare war on all my neighbors.

>>390426
yes the party that believes everyone should have equal access of opportunities is more racist than the party that believes minorities cant do anything without the white man giving them a hand out.

>>390426
Basically during the 60's you had the Civil Rights movement kicking off. At that time, the Democratic and Republican parties weren't quite as solidly "liberal" and "conservative" as they are today: they both contained a mix. However, with FDR and subsequently LBJ rising to the presidency, the Democrats set a new agenda for championing the civil rights movement. This alienated many conservative Southern Democrats (Dixicrats) who proceeded to switch en masse to the Republicans. Subsequently, the liberals of the Republican party realized they had effectively no representation left in that party and likewise jumped ship. There would be some back and forth movement of policy and politicians until the Reagan era, where the Republicans took up the neoconservative stances they do today, and party lines have effectively remained at a status quo since then.

In terms of policy as well, at least for the Democrats, you had the slow absorption of the New Left into the party's coalition, which further exacerbated the movement towards pushing social reforms.

>>390426
there's plenty of minority republicans though

>>390286
>the changing of a dynasty in the Feudal era was irrelevant

>>390291
i know its relevant, but what specifically changed, in terms of public policy for example

>>390311
Technologies, arts, and language from mainland Europe began to flood into Britain, since it was relatively isolated before then. It also set up French history through the High/Late Middle Ages, as well as England, because it allowed there to basically be two French dynasties, and two French kingdoms to challenge each other.

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>>390244

Define "free will".

It's an illusion whether or not "everything" is determined. There's two possible states, causality, or true randomness. Neither constitutes for the "free will" we imagine. We can't even properly define free will, we just throw the term around like it means anything.

>Can Existentialism still exist in a Deterministic universe?
Albert Camus and Nietzsche didn't believe in free will. Only that idiot charlatan Sartre did. So yes, it obviously can.

>>390234
Through the power of Islam and determimation.

Christkeks are:
>Muh holy land

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by being very peaceful and likeable

>>390234
>putting a historical nation over modern borders

This always triggers me so much

>>390107
The definition for plebs is "muslim monks". A bit less pleb one is "muslim mystics".

It's not a branch like for example the sunnis, the shiites or the ibadis.

>>390122
What do they do?

Sufis are based as fuck, and I hate muslims

>>390006
Try Andrew Johnson, Hoover, Harding, Buchanan, and Grant.

>>390187
And Pierce... but yeah, this.

FDR

God ses no

Because it causes others grief.

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>>389866

Because it's your mother's job to kill you. Assbortion for the win!

Because people really don't care about us unless it suits their political agenda.

>>389856
It's because most people are not very interested in pre-historic history. As the name implies, it's not even really history. Humans weren't all that interesting until we started writing symphonies and building cathedrals. It doesn't really matter too much where we came from, except from a biological anthropological perspective.

>>389856
why would it deserve praise for that

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>>389825
>Majapahit
Moluccas showed up and started a pirate empire of Sorts
>Khmers
Double teamed by Thailand and Vietnam.
>Cham
Ded by 1400's. Due to Vietnamese State doing unto others what China did to them.

By 1500's, the new kids on the block was Burma (well, not really that new), Thailand, Vietnam, Moluccas, and the Bruneian Empire.

>>389825
>islam

jews

these same threads every day

don't you get bored? i do

Exaggerating braggart paramilitaries. Not nearly as effective as they claimed they were.

>>389808
Not everyone browses 4chan 24/7 like you