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>i mean, i'm too educated to just accept it, but i dropped some acid at that festival and...

>I'm socially liberal, but fiscally conservative

>>3026302
Has this kind of opinion been around for a long time? Drug users in the 60s seemed to be a lot more articulate than modern drug users. What's the deal.

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>>3026266
If they were completely useless people wouldn't have bothered with them for hundreds of years. Bad ideas don't tend to last long if your military success and life depend on it.

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>>3026266
It's weaponized autism that worked nowhere else outside of northern africa.

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>>3026289
It worked find in southeast asia and India.

>>3026262
The people in the Darfur into Chad are related to some Nilotic kingdoms. The Sudanese are either Arabized Nubians or "troglodyte" descendants of the Medjay or some Kushites with the Beja and Afar possibly being the direct continuation to or relatives of them.

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>>3026346

>>3026199

From my understanding, Islam isn't an Arab superiority, but rather a religious despite book having to be in Arabic.

Turks and Persian nobility converted to Islam for political reasons after being conqured.

The Arabs really didn't go out of their way to genocide people (which is why there were still Christians in the middle east until ISIS got their hands on them), but rather made the convert or pay tax.

There is nothing in Islam that says you have to change your language to Arabic so the Persians and Turks kept speaking their language and their Imans and people generally interested in religion learned Arabic.

>>3026211
Arabic was made the official language of the Umayyad Caliphate though, and I am not saying that they genocided anyone.
however it's clear that the conquered populations were forced or encouraged(which is what i am trying to learn about) to adopt the arabic language. Prior to the spread of Islam Greek was spoken in, Latin in North Africa, Coptic in Egypt etc...

>>3026234
*greek in syria

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>>3026155
>God may be testing us from time to time to see if we follow the word of the bible, but could it be that "his" written word itself is the final test of morality that we must face?

"I believe in God."

"There hasn't been a single divine messenger for over 2000 years - I know because the Bible says so!"

You realize that book claims it is possible to commit an offense called "blasphemy" right? Think about it for a second.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf5lxaVrUgA

>>3026446
So /his/. Is it autism or schizophrenia?

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>>3026155
>God may be testing us from time to time to see if we follow the word of the bible, but could it be that "his" written word itself is the final test of morality that we must face?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmwADO-qPwQ

>>3026057
Well wonder women is not a myth but a superheroine from a comic book derived from actual Greek myth about Diana. I'm not sure I fully understand your question though.

>>3026080
He is saying how the Divine Comedy's depiction of Hell became assimilated into the popular conception Hell and is now essentially part of the Christians "mythos" (for lack of a better word), and he is asking if perhaps after hundreds of years Wonder Woman will become rolled into Greek mythology in a similar fashion.

To which I answer, maybe.

>>3026180
Oh. I skimmed the end of the second paragraph.
I don't think so since there aren't many people practicing Roman paganism like people still practiced and are currently practicing Christianity when the divine comedy's depiction of hell became viral.

>>3025842
life

>>3025842
The Republic

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>>3025842

;^)

Less power than any President of a liberal democracy, actually.

>>3025765
Every Kingdom was pretty much different.
Look at Brittan's Queen almost no power.
But most kings depended on loyalty of Most of the Nobility to maintain Power.

>>3025765
The power of an absolute monarch was rarely absolute. Even if they could theoretically do anything, they were constrained by tradition, etiquette, competing power blocks within the nobility, etc. In practice, if a monarch wanted anything done, he had to have allies at court.

>>3025682
>who were Mesopotamians?
The most semitic of Semites.

>>3025687
Semites originated in Ethiopia.

>>3025690
WE

>>3025640
Amazon?
JK but apparently lesbianism was never taken that seriously and was even allowed for the most part in non Christian societies. They saw it was a phase that would pass as soon as a woman got married. Besides "women just have sex to have babies" and if lesbian sex wont give them kids what's the point.

Reminder that in no society was same sex marriage ever legal so liberals who make the mistake of justifying same-sex married by referencing the Greeks or Romans are wasting their time and could be using better arguments.

Ironically enough, the women of the island of Lesbos were infamous throughout the Greek world for their superb blowjob skills.

Also, possibly Mary Read and Anne Bonnie

>>3025674
>implying you can't suck a woman's penis

>>3025627
That is something I didn't know about.
I can't answer your question but perhaps you can answer mine;
Why did they recline to eat? Surely it would give them stomach pains from the funny position?

>>3025627
Looks uncomfortable

When they stopped slicing the Achilles tendon of their women to immobilize them.

>>3025554

First off, criticisms.

1. He rambles faaar too much and is in a serious need of sticking to some freaking bullet points. I don't know if this holds true for his lectures (I've only really read his book), but he is scatterbrained as all hell, and you can't escape the notion that he feels the need to expand on every idea that he feels in impulse. For this reason, you feel that this series will only be good after someone takes the scissors and paste approach of JUST cutting out the bits where he interprets the lines. I get that he has to expand here and there, but its like every time he talks he has to lay out the entirety of Maps of Meaning.

2. You can tell the public attention is starting to get to his ego. He begins the Cain & Abel lecture by both comparing himself to Socrates and then reading a letter where some degenerate hippy chick called him a shaman. He's reveling in it and I hope this doesn't permanently alter his behavior.

3. His same tendencies toward BSing shit he doesn't know about (this really comes out in the Q&As at the end) tend to hurt the overall message

That said,

When he is illustrating the passages, I'm quite entranced. Ever since reading Tolstoy's Gospels in Brief where T. kinda does the same but with the New Testament, I've felt the impulse to read into the Bible in the same archetypal manner. But here already we have someone who has passionately read the work in a manner that for me feels like reading the stories for the first time. Gorgeous stuff, and honestly a takeaway I might find hard to top.

In essence:
"There's the Fall into history, and then there's the discovery of sacrifice as a medication of the Fall. And then there's a counterposition which is the emergence of malevolence as the enemy of sacrifice"

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they're really comfy desu

JP is Reddits guy. He even did an "AMA" on Reddit that I was linked to because I am not a Le Dditer.
I think you Reddit using fuckers need to shut up about your idol.

Monarchies in general just have weird rules. Don't think about it too much.

It had something to do with monarchs taking numbering from both Spain and the evil tumor of Germany

>>3025448
Roman empire had tradition of Emperor's titles in which Ferdinand V means Ferdinand during 5th term of reign.

>>3025382
It would be closer to wage slavery. The work sucks but you have to do it because all the money you make gets taken to pay for shit faster than you can make it. Some corporations aren't too bad to work for (Google) and some small businesses could be hell. It's like having a shitty job but you can't stop working cause they'll take your house and you can't move away because the roads are infested with bandits.

I worked in Allianz New Europe Holding GmbH. It's damned hell.

>>3025484

I tend to always preferred working for a small company, even though I was paid less, just because you are a human instead of just another cog in the machine. For all the corporate propaganda of "we're a team! and a family!" the only place I ever experience that was a liquor store I worked for when I was in college. Our boss even had his wife baby sit for the kids of a 18 year old girl that worked there whos parents were deadbeat drug addicts.

>>3025322
God died

Commodification, uniformization and atomization.

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Postmodernism