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>already on page 3

Damn, board moves faster than I thought it would.

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>>80903
There is so much to unlearn that it's too bad they burned all the libraries.

He only looks smart in comparison to retards like Harris. Listen to him debate academic philosophers like Shelley and he gets destroyed

>>81009
Yeah harris is a retard. Did you know he has only writeen like 3 academic papers?

Also, I havn't seen that one. HIs academic work seems pretty good.

Literally /pol/ would be better for discussing this.

pistolgrip on an ak always looks pretty retarded desu

I always wondered how was the common house hold in the USSR?

What did it have? radios?
What kind of furniture did it have?

>>80547
Legitimately thought that was George Costanza

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Has Somalia ever not been a shithole?

>>80565
Somalia as a modern nation is a recent manifestation of European border making and nationalists attempting to unite all Somali language speaking people.

The real question is were there ever successful nations in what is now called Somalia and the answer of course is yes: Ajuran Sultanate was a naval trading power in the Indian Ocean.

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>>80565
They have some old cities. I think of Somalia's history to be somewhat similar to the history of Arabia

I know they traded with the Indians and Romans

UK

>>80340
Serious posts only please.

Literally all of them

Why does anything need justification?
Historically, people have fabricated excuses to do what they want, and generally people want more land.
Manifest Destiny was as justified as literally any other colonial or imperial action.

>>80222
>justified
nope

>good in the long run
yep

It was a good thing for the US but morally it wasn't justifiable just like any other colonial expansion.

We already know that consciousness can affect physical reality. We also know that we dream and essentially create our own realities within our minds. There is no reason to doubt that this can be taken to a further level. There is no evidence, philosophical or empirical, that physical reality can create something as complex and perfect as consciousness, but we already know that consciousness can create anything it wants within its own thoughts. This suggests that this physical reality is subjective to consciousness and is essentially a collective dream of all consciousness experiencing it. Consider also how perfect, how complex yet simple, consciousness is. If it was simply neurons, we would be artificial intelligence no different than an advanced computer, not truly conscious. Consider how perfect physical reality is. It cannot have occured by chance. Everything fits together far too well. It has to originate from consciousness. This leads to only one conclusion: Conscious creates physical reality. We do not exist within the Universe; rather, the Universe exists within us.

That realization answers what, to many people, are the biggest and most important two questions that can be asked: What is the purpose of the Universe? What is the purpose of life? The Universe is what consciousness creates for itself as an environment for experience. Life is what consciousness creates for itself as a means for experience.

This realization, however, leaves another, arguably more important question unanswered: What happens when we die? This question relies in large part on whether or not we, as conscious beings, exist forever. To answer these questions, one must consider what reality really is. Of course reality conists of physical reality and consciousness, but physical reality is subjective to consciousness. Objective reality, then, is essentially two things: Consciousness and time. However, time is not really a thing, so it might be more correct to say that objective reality is only consciousness. Time is simply something that passes. It is objective. That leaves consciousness. Each conscious entity is objective and can be seen as a quantum of consciousness.

Time is infinite. Your life is finite. It is only approximately one century out of eternity. One century out of eternity is a finite number out of infinity, or one out of infinity. One out of infinity is infinitesimally small--so small that most mathematicians would say that it is exactly equal to zero. Although that is not technically correct, the difference between a finite number out of infinity and zero is infinitely small. If your existence is finite, if you die when your body dies, then the chance that this moment in time happens to occur during your finite existence out of infinite time is one out of infinity. That is, if your existence is temporary, then the chance that you currently exist is zero. Yet you exist.

It could, of course, be argued that the above argument is invalid because there will always be someone who exists, and out of infinite possibilities, some extremely unlikely or even infinitely unlikely possibility will always exist. This is true. The current state of the Universe, down to every detail, is one out of an incomprehensibly large number of possibilities, yet here the Universe is, in its current state, despite the unliklihood. This moment in time is one out of infinite. However, it is guaranteed that the Universe exists in some state. It is guaranteed that we are currently in a finite moment in infinite time. Although the chance that the Universe exists in its current state is extremely low, and although the chance that we are currently in this exact moment out of infinite time is infinitely small, the current moment and the current state of the Universe were not chosen at random for this thought experiment; rather, they were chosen because we currently exist in this moment in time and the Universe currently exists in its current state.

I wanna believe that this thread was made with good intentions and that it won't get bogged down in /pol/ shit.

Bump for potential.
dis gonna be good

>>80168
lol

What's there to say other than Hindu/Buddhist kingdoms and Chinese vassalge

>>80078
How did Islam end up spreading there?

>>80117
Indian ocean trade

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>>80031

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>>80031

Assassins Creed 1 thru 9

>>79872
>>>/vg/gsg

>>79872
Pardox GSG's

M&B

Some Total War games

>implying there is economic misdistribution

>>79841
Have you ever sat down and tried epistemology?

>>79856
That would imply that I have a a house, a table, electricity, warmth and food to sustain my bodily functions while I read le Philosophy.

Nihilist was better than Entombed

>>79737
nitzche was one

>>79840
Wrong. Nietzsche viewed nihilism as an inevitable plague on society that must be fought.

>>79546
No

No. That's not how justice works. I don't think anyone would blame you if you wanted to, but you aren't obliged to.

>>79546
nope.