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>>3079761
>why would a human want to adopt a philosophy that privileges humans?

because they are human?

It's a reactionary stance to theism. It takes the better and makes it look worse.
>>3079779
Humanism does no such thing. Humanism dehumanizes.

>>3079673
The Turks won't allow it to be destroyed

>>3079673
>tfw Western Civilization will fall in your lifetime

>>3079673
They didn't do it when they controlled it

>>3079448
Popularity

>>3079448
Okay this one sold me on this meme.

>>3079448
Abuse and control of its members.

>>3079402
>Western Civilization started during renaissance Western Europe
Does that mean Rome also not part of western civilisation?

>>3079402
bait

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>>3079402
>Western Civilization started during renaissance Western Europe. Fully formulated in revolutionary France.

>>3079348
yeah if both of them were fascist

>>3079348
but they did

>>3079361
Its another OP is a complete moron thread

in modern day europe, sure

>>3079203
Nope.

In reality Polish piety is nonexistent. Polish religious beliefs boil down to rituals and declarations. In fact Polish actual beliefs are a hodgepodge of everything that could pop into mind. Most Polish catholics don't even know what the Trinity is, and really a big number of them believes in horoscopes and other stuff.

This reflects how in fact Poland was christianised. The Polish peasants were forced by a tip of the lance to declare themselves Christians, go to the mass and observe the lent. On the other hand no one given a fuck what said peasants actually believed in.

>>3079499

This. My grandma who lived in a sleepy village was very religious because they said her memorized prayers all the time and was every day on the mass. Yet, I think she didn't know that God and Mary were separate entities. She even referred to God in feminine form "Bozia".

>>3079088
they didn't manifest destiny like the USA did
they also started breeding with their chimpanzees so that probably didn't really help

>>3079088
Pedro II was literally the only good thing about Brazil that was keeping things moving. He leaves for a doctors appointment and his daughter mindlessly writes a decree that ends up with a military coup which has fucked over Brazil for centuries.

>>3079088
They're actually on the rise and projected to become a superpower. Or at the very least be on par with US, China and Russia.

>>3079036
what are the benefits of this ideology? before I permanently fuck up my mind

>>3079053
>implying truth is not intrinsically valuable

It's not about ideology its about truth. Follow the argument and you arrive at Idealism.

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Substance Dualism is laughed at nowadays.

The idea of a ghost in the machine absurd giving the interactions of mind and brain. Destroy a part of the brain and you destroy conscious mechanisms. If the mind were like a ghost piloting the machine then the ghost should remain intact whether the machine is damaged.

However, people take this to imply materialism/physicalism: that we are nothing more than our physical makeup and our mind is either housed in our brains (almost like dualism) or is identical to our brains and/or its functions. This is a non-sequitur. This only implies that substance dualism is false.

More to come on materialism/physicalism (from here on known as physicalism)

>>3078965
Like many of the old generals said "The young will feed off the old's success until they fall on the road and not know how to get back up."

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>>3078965
>Declare war on Germany in order to defend Poland
>Don't actually defend Poland
>Claim you'll help defend France who also said they'd help Poland and wouldn't
>Act like you'll help France but actually don't
>Hide on your Island getting bombed until America shows up
>Follow America around
>Bomb innocent women and children
>Make some Operation plans that go fucking awful
>America needs to take charge
>America and Russians win the war
>America makes you no longer a global power some years later
>Claim you did everything because you "fought" the longest

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>Let's launch an offensive across a river into a mountain range, it worked the previous 11 times

>>3078965
Eh, the theory of decisive battle hadn't really been disproven at that point, and the Japanese experience at Tsushima backed it up.

Stoicism is baby's first philosophy and not even a good one at that

>>3078959
its the only philosophy that I try subscribe to , its got to be one of the hardest

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it's /pol/-tier, whether that's a good thing is up to you

Britain has nukes, is a member of nato, and has a military budget literally 50 times larger than Ireland's.

>>3078937
if the Irish used civil disobedience instead of force then all of the British woman would have supported its independence

but no they had to form the IRA and started using car bombs

>>3078937
this >>3078948
but they went as far as making actual military plans for such an invasion, called exercise armageddon, during the troubles.

>>3078933
they had more trouble with the homoerotic Corinthian's than they did the Spartans , the Spartans didn't have any numbers

>>3078933
Sparta got BTFO by Thebes and their Sacred Band (an elite unit of 600 gays), and became a second tier power overnight.

By the times the Romans conquered Greece, Sparta was a small city. However, the city was rejuvenated by Romans who were interested in the history and mythos of old Sparta, and the natives basically wewuzzed themselves into something resembling prosperity by catering to the Romans.

>>3078933
no, the Spartan military system had already been destroyed by the time Rome took over Greece. It was only possible to have a class of full time warriors because they were supported by their helot slaves. But when Thebes defeated Sparta they forced them to free the helots which made their way of life no longer possible. Their numbers had also been so badly reduced that Sparta was little more than a village.

As the other anon said when Rome took over they had a huge interest in Sparta because of its history so paid for it to be rebuilt as something of a tourist site with Spartans making a living as what we might now consider to be historical reenactors. Later on they were even fully subsidized by Rome to rebuild their ancient traditions of the Spartan military system in return for fighting in the roman army. Caracalla even raised a unit solely of soldiers from Sparta and armed them with the traditional weapons and armor of Spartan Hoplites and put them in his vanguard against the Parthians. That might be the only time in history when military reenactors actually fought in war.

>>3078929
Why did Germany develop into a huge amount of tiny fiefdoms before unification? France, UK, never had anything like this.

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>>3078982

>France, UK, never had anything like this

>>3079030
This.
Flanders had a lot of wars with the French king and was basically independent from the start.

Stalin wasn't a dictator. Read J Arch Getty. He's a liberal historian from Louisiana, hardly sympathetic to Communism or Stalinism. Yet after thoroughly reading archival documents, he was forced to admit Stalin was not a dictator. In his analysis, the purges were a result of competing local officials turning on each other, and the central government being too weak to prevent them.

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>>3078889
Stalin and Lenin (towards the end) had popular support but were dictators, everyone after had below ~50% approval but was technically put in in place through a democratic process except Khrushchev who is just hated all around

>>3078914
Interesting. You got any excerpts?

>>3078887
Know your place, Ivan.

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>>3078887
>tfw America destroyed civilization

>>3078887
and America will turn Bolshevik , how ironic