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>>380516
Why did we stop sending men to the moon? Why haven't we put men on Mars? Money doesn't grow on trees. The Soviets were having a hard enough time keeping up so throwing away more money wasn't very appealing. Also it seems their lunar program seemed to be rife with problems.

>>380516
They didn't. Actually, they launched a robot to try to beat Apollo 11 to the moon and steal our thunder. It crashed.

But they kept on with other space projects. Our SpaceLab program was mostly a disaster. Their Mir program was largely successful.

And, hell, right now today we can't even get men into orbit without hitching a ride on their rockets. Seems like it's we who gave up, not the Russians.

>>380554
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>>380351
>Why were Muslims more secular than Christians during the Islamic Golden Age
Secular for the time period. By today's standards they were just as zealous as ever.

Which is the main point, Christianity managed to become secularized over the centuries while Islam either stagnated or got even more conservative.
>What led Christians to lose touch with all of the writings of the ancients while Muslims were translating everything into Arabic?
They didn't? Many of the writings we have on the ancients were written in Greek and originated from the ERE.

>>380351
>Muslims more secular than Christians
wut. Islam has no formal differentiation between religious authority and secular authority. At the very least, Europe always had that.

>What led Christians to lose touch with knowledge?
In the West, it was the decline of social institutions that led to a decline in certain kinds of professionals. Engineers, for example. Turns out you need to know about Roman infrastructure to maintain Roman infrastructure. The societal collapse also came with an exodus to the East, not unlike what we saw when the Byzantines started imploding and Greeks started showing up in Italy. Also the wars where Byzantium ravaged Italy didn't help.

The ERE maintained almost all of their knowledge the whole way through.

>>380351

Did the "Islamic Golden Age" even really happen? Or is it just Jihadist propaganda?

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possibly the worst modern war to be a veteran of

>most average in-combat fighting hours per infantryman of any war in the past century
>hot, humid jungle, always raining, bugs and animals everywhere getting in your shit, disease
>booby traps and a silent, hidden enemy that didn't want to fight in the open often

Basically the perfect recipe for a special brand of PTSD

and then you come home and have people spit in your face and go homeless

>>380164
>Suck in
The ROK was fucking EAGER to go at it.

>>380178
Commie gooks are wiped off while gook women love you long time amirite?

>>379730

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>>379730
Anyone who is on an island is up to now good.

Like the only reason you'd end up there is if you pissed everyone off so much that they forced you out on some piles of shit off the coast.

>>379730

The world would be a much better place if the british isles sank into the sea desu

meme-tier
favourite president of le modern gentlemen's blogger

Seemed like a legit guy. Yellowstone exists because of him and he made Latin America butthurt.

>>379719
Not only Yellowstone
The grand canyon park too

And pretty much every other national park

>Tikku Olam
How significant is this concept in your sect, in Zionist sects, and in pre-Zionist Judaism?

>>379680
Hey you already made this thread. Long live Israel :^)

>>379689
Tikkun*, sorry, I don't speak your liturgical tongue.

Given the level of artistry the statues possessed, its doubtful that they were given simplistic color palettes applied plainly.

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post painted ancient statues

terracotta warrior

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>>379573
>Are we sure that we aren't just finding a single pigment out of a really complex palette, like using the fill bucket to recolor a black and white photo?

I thought that was basically the idea, but maybe they were cartoonish. Who knows.

Some look good.

>>379416
MBTI is unscientific bullshit and only the E - I part has proven to have any relevance to psychology.

I took the test and I usually get ENTP but often get ESTP, INTP or INTJ. Doesn't mean anything.

>>379416
If you take these tests seriously you belong on reddit. This is to psychology as astrology is to astronomy.

I'm not sure why i was expecting anything more from this board lol

>>379252
Christianity is inherently universalist, so there will be substantial tension with nationalism.

Communism has been cjaracterized by Marx as a final form of chmristianity that has stripped off faith and become fully practical.

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>There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 3:28

>>379317
Not sure how that relates to communism.

It wasn't as technologically advanced as the nations in the Fertile Crescent or the Hittites, but it was much more stable and had a larger and more organized labor pool and the greatest ancient highway (the Nile). They didn't contribute as much to humanity as the Sumerians, but I'd certainly rather live in Memphis than Babylon or Nineveh.

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They weren't technologically or militarily very advanced compared to their neighbors. Egypt was a fairly small isolationist kingdom, while Mesopotamian civilization sprawled all over the Middle East and consisted of various interacting regions and peoples. Naturally, Mesopotamian (and later Mediterranean) civilization were far more dynamic. The Egyptians usually lagged behind the rest of the middle east in technology, which often only changed when technology was forced on them by their neighbors.

Egypt was more of a cultural superpower than anything else. Their architecture and art were the best on Earth for most of the bronze age, and other cultures tended to copy them. Greek sculpture was derived from Egypt, as are all modern writing systems outside of East Asia.

You gotta remember early cradle civilizations weren't at each other's borders. They were centered on fertile land.

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>>379114
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian_languages

I'll add to OPs question asking how the flying fuck this language family got so far and wide, and so long ago. Madagascar to Hawaii? Fucking ridiculous.

>>379131

They really were the most advanced non-advanced culture. Whats amazing is that it took humans 100 000 years and more than 10 000 miles of migrations to get to an island thats just a thousand miles away from the possible cradle of humanity.

Most people dont even know about Madagascar being first inhabited by Austronesians.

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>>379114
IIRC some hints of where to sail were the presence of certain bird species, and slight colour change on the horizon indicating the presence of an island

Also I find it amazing that the ancestors of Australian Aboriginals were able to cross at least 90km of ocean ~50,000 years ago

they are brothers in denial

I think there latinized to a point were the Germanic element of their language and culture is gone.

>>379091
>gauls
>germanic tribes
the same

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>>379045
/thread

>>379045
>>379053
Why?

>>379074
Because it's cool

>>378957
Aristocracy is basically greek for "Rule of Best People." Technically the upper class of any sort. Nobles are asitos but not all aristos are nobles.

>>378983
>>378957
I mean, take for example: Medieval Europe's aristocracy is the Nobility.

Meanwhile at around the same time, China didn't have nobles, but had an aristocracy in the form of the Scholar-Bureaucrat.

>>378983
>>378991

If the European Nobility was worthy of being aristocracy, what made them worthy of being the "Best People"? Was it a meritocracy or technocracy-like system?

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As long as we are lying about shit.

Sulla

>>378909
Wow, you've learned something yesterday. Are you going to improve these shitty OPs as we point out the obvious mistakes, you fucking kid?