The following is a list of wars involving the United States of America:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jlkz3eIQ0dH4SwzfezuZJw7ypUQ3QyReIliePi91Acg/
Why do most American citizens, and the USA government (notably its education branch) refuse to acknowledge or discuss 90% of them?
>inb4 hurr durrr its not a real war, we just sent our navy to carry our army into a sovereign nation's land to kill their army and change their government
Not being rude either, it is a cold and honest question, any American posters can say if they even heard of half of these entries on the incomplete list of conflicts.
>>2990360
Blow it out your ass
>>2990360
>Why do most American citizens refuse
Brits and Russians act the exact same so IDK what the big deal is.
Because most of them don't fucking matter
Hello there, gentlemen
Do human races exist, /his/?
History teaches us that not all the countries acquired their freedom equally nor that technology or other things developed at the same time.
We're animals and like them, we all are not the same. Some birds are more intelligent than others but also dogs or monkeys.
What about us?
It is no provocation, i just want to know
In pic, the author of "An essay on the inequality of the human races"
>>2990126
Yes
>>2990126
In the sense that humans have slight genetic distinctions, yes race does exist. However, since its ultimately just taxonomy such a distinction is not a absolutely certain thing, and race as we view it tends to be more culturally influenced. For example, the concept of white or black has changed often historically and varies from region to region. Besides, writers like Gobineau have been disproven a long time ago.
>>2990126
Notice how you start with the premise of inferiority and then work backwards to justify your master morality based world view.
yfw jews, christians and muslims ruined Roma :(
Rome was Christian for longer than it was Pagan
>>2989702
Are you sure it was just them? Aren't you forgetting someone?
>>2989704
wut
I want to believe in God so fucking bad but I can't. Can any religious people convince me or point me in the direction of literature that can convince me?
Which God
>>2989053
Scrap the judeo-Christian interpretation of god, which is heavily contradictory.
Do research on Ik Onkar and Sikhism.
>>2989057
Any God. I don't care I just want to believe in a god or a supreme being.
>come from Germany
>Known as Pennsylvania Dutch
Dutch = Deutsch
>>2988957
And yet we call people from Netherlands dutch
>>2988961
Dutch are swamp Germs
Tell me about Zen.
How is it different from Chan?
I've been a Chan practioner for several years now and when we chant the heart sutra, its similar to this: https://youtu.be/RAcE8U8SWlo
Yet I came across this Zen variation of the heart sutra: https://youtu.be/De15EaR_irk , and I've noticed aside from the obvious, the language being different, that it's vastly different. Why is that? Apart from different rituals, are there any core beliefs that are different between the different schools?
>>2988710
I know there are two or three major sects of Zen in Japan and they tend to be very different in their methods.
Embrace white buddhism mate
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His first spiritual teacher, at the age of 12, was the question – Who Am I? – and for a few years, he immersed himself more deeply into this question.
He had the curiosity to explore further the essence of spirituality and ventured to many different countries, learning much about the various spiritual traditions and cultures, in a non-dualistic and open-minded way.
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>>2988710
Chan=Chinese
Zen=Japanese
Question of pronunciation.
Your video is in Mandarin Chinese.
Rituals vary lightly according to the schools involved, including by country. Chan/Zen are part of mainstream Buddhist monasticism and the outer trappings and rituals reflect that to a certain degree. Techniques vary somewhat too. But they all point to the same mind.
>The Chilean military still uses Horst Wessel Lied and Erika
Why?
mexican military uses star wars tune
Brazilian parachute brigade uses an old SS song.
>>2988558
>Horst Wessel Lied
Really? Just the melody or the text as well? How the fuck can they apply that to Chile of all places?
I really think that William McKinley is one of the most underrated Presidents. Not because of what he accomplished during his short tenure, but because of what it signaled and started. The Spanish-American war was (in a vacuum) a fairly minor conflict, but it was the first time the USA had waged a war against a *truly* foreign enemy.
While McKinley might have died early on in his presidency, the things he set in motion resulted in the current American Empire, and for that reason, it is him, and not Teddy Meme-sevelt, that I nominate for the title of Eternal Burger
>Discuss
>>2988463
>but it was the first time the USA had waged a war against a *truly* foreign enemy.
Good to know the Mexican-American war never happened. Thanks senpai.
He was a Freemason so of course everything he set in motion was diabolical in purpose
>>2988471
I put * around truly for a reason. Going to war against your next door neighbor is not and should not be considered a foreign war, every country in the history of mankind has done that shit, its just the human condition
Why isn't historiography discussed here?
Anybody talking about history is using a form of historiography.
>>2988379
I meant explicitly.
Everyone here is retarded and learns things only from memes.
How do I force myself to believe in God? I can't handle this nihilism anymore lads
You can't. Once you go black you never go back.
read pascal
>>2988350
Go to an Orthodox service
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tR7Ys_4cFig
God is experienced. You are his image, his reflection. When you live in his will, that reflection becomes clean, and you behold his radiance firsthand by turning inward
Watch "Ostrov" pn youtube. Read Laurus. Read The Way of a Pilgrim
With all of their technological innovations, I feel like Rome was on the brink of possibly discovering that steam could be used to power things. What would things look like if that had happened?
>>2988207
but rome did have steam power
>>2988207
Rome was not good for technological development, they were stagnant compared to ancient Greece.
>>2988207
>With all of their technological innovations
I think you mean technological copies
Why can't hardcore physical anthropology make a come back?
Because academics are no longer allowed to express objective facts about non-Western cultures, so anthropologists are left talking about things like the gendered dynamisms of pre-war Austrian flute marketers.
>>2988410
>factsI hope you aren't talking about pseudoscience tests and correlation statistics.
>>2988181
Perhaps because they realized people would laugh at their idiocy for eternity?
What does /his/ think about the whole Israel vs Palestine issue? Is there an even objective right or wrong answer?
The following facts are true
>The Palestinians will not accept any peace deal in which Israel will continue to exist in any form
>Israel will continue to steal Palestinians land for shits and giggles
>there will be no more large conventional wars because Israel has nukes, and because the US pays off Israel, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia to keep them from starting another wars
>the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is barely even in the top ten largest conflicts at any given time, but it gets all the media coverage because "man bites dog" is a more interesting headline than "dog bites dog"
Make of that what you will.
>>2988013
>tfw africa exists
>tfw the phonicians never colonized India
>>2988026
>>The Palestinians will not accept any peace deal in which Israel will continue to exist in any form
Which Palestinians? Which organizations? Do these organizations accurately match the opinions of actual Palestinians?
It's clear that these businesses profit directly from war.
But is it true that social welfare programs, in turn, profit from these businesses?
Is the welfare state funded by war?
>>2987949
Broken window fallacy.
>>2988230
Fallacy fallacy.
>>2988243
fallacy fallacy is saying you're right because someone else made a fallacy. correctly addressing your retarded argument is not a fallacy.
Why didn't Napoleon just march on St Petersburg?
>>2987941
Supply lines were already snapped, his men had to forage to survive and winter was incoming making that prospect unlikely. A march on st. Petersburg would have meant starvation or hypothermia.
>>2987945
Bullshit. he could've easily estabilshed supply lines from Vilnus. It was a shorter route and easier to defend.