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Why does he look so disgruntled /his/?
>>335007
he realised he can't make it to Jerusalem on time
>wants an ennoblement, hereditary viceroyalty and admiralty over all lands discovered and a 10% commission on all trade crossing the Atlantic
>Portuguese turn him away because >lel
>Spanish hire him and send him West
>Japan was three times further than he thought because he sucks at calculations
>bumps into America, thinks its China
>sends an embassy to the "Emperor", Cubans are...
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>>335007
He was literally insane. Dude made a bunch of conjecture about the circumference of the earth and would have died in the middle of the ocean if it wasn't for the Americas.
Motherfucker thought he was gonna convert the entirety of China to Christianity, march on the Ottoman empire, and trigger the second coming of Christ by retaking Jerusalem.
>he doesn't meditate
>>334860
>he meditates
>>334860
>she doesn't lift
I started but I'm worried about what it actually does.
I have terrible anxiety, it really holds me back but I also am a bit hyper at times, which I like. I'd hate for meditation to make me become some dulled zombie though.
red pill me on kissinger
>>334756
he was an idealist :^)
>>334756
Literally worse than Hitler
A master of realpolitik.
Is racism the inevitable result of a capitalist society?
>racism
The world your looking for is classism. Capitalism's aim is to detract from this and redirect toward nonissues that feed on insecurities. Racism is the poster child of this side stepping.
>>334645
Replace capitalism with democracy
Alright /his/. I have an argumentative paper on East Asian history since 1800 coming up. What position, from an Asian perspective should I argue?
Nothing like "The Canton system was an effective method of containment in early Chinese history" or "The response to the atomic bombs in Nagasaki and Hiroshima by the Japanese was wrong". Something with substance. Any suggestions?
Mao did nothing wrong
You can do the Opium War and its effect on Asian society today.
>destabalize entire empire
>make SEA into a drug dependent/making region
Current day ramifications are very harsh penalties for drug offenders (death penalties)
>>334464
Was actually kind of thinking this. The prof didn't dip into it too much, and I might like to explore the actual situation at the time.
>Was said to be so religious he died a virgin
Is this true, or did he spend the entirety of his dictatorship holding satanic orgies in Lisbon?
>>334400
Documents from PIDE tell thathe was indeed a virgun,but has we all know PIDE isn't a trustwothy source.
He dedicated a lot of time to management in fact he was known to not sleep some nights to see how the number ofgold bars were coming thought.
>>334400
Quite possible.
Best 20th century statesman by the way, above Lee.
>>334400
Newton was also so religious he was probably a virgin when he died. At least, he never fucked any women. Like most really devout Christians, he had one big flaw like being a hardcore homosexual that made him be so devout to atone for his sin.
>obscurantism
Why do STEMlords and fedora-tippers love this word?
It's really challenging to read some philosophers because they're often grasping at ideas and formulations that have not yet been formulated. The idiots who call them obscurantists are actually presupposing that they already know the foreign use of language that the philosopher is attempting, that they "get" the ideas, they just want it expressed already in their own language. It's conceited as fuck.
Hegel is God general.
>>334202
why? fuck whatever usenet user attributed that to nietzsche
In 1996, Alan Sokal, a physicist, grew tired of the "Science Wars". Postmodernists would throw out dribble about how scientific discovery was inherently racist, and mathematics was created by the bourgeoise to oppress women. Finally, "academics" called for the restraining of scientific discovery such that it fit with proper political doctrine. Similar to Lysenko in Soviet Russia, these "academics" could spew out dribble (Because that's all it was) faster than actual scientists and thinkers could put out factual analysis.
So Sokal published...
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>>334311
Yes we know about this. And you know what. I've actually read a book by the guy that published it and he specifically says the publicity stunt should not be used to discredit philosophy as a whole or even discredited post-modernism as a whole.
But you not only fail to understand the point of the stunt you got extra stupid and think this retroactively invalidates Hegel, a man who was 100 years before Post-modernism even existed as a word.
STEMfags are fucking retarded.
Evola/Traditionalist thread all politics aside. Purely from a spiritual/metaphysical perspective. Any other traditionalists out there? Pic related
>>334088
I listen to varg does that count?
>>334206
Not really, no.
Why is Ebola associated with Christianity when he agreed with Nietzsche about the religion. He even borrows Nietzsche's vocabulary "aristocratic soul". Wasn't Evola's philosophy trying to take Nietzsche and put it into a pagan-spirtual form?
seriously, WTF happened? How did the Russians get BTFO so hard?
And what was Roosevelt's interest in putting a stop to it?
Russians are simply idiots.
>>334012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OixHRnubrIQ
What amount of truth is there behind the S.S. being full of bloodthirsty monsters, as opposed to the Wehrmacht who were ordinary and sometimes very honorable soldiers that is depicted occasionally in Hollywood?
>>333681
No. (Browning, Ordinary men)
BERLIN: A guilt-ridden account of an ordinary German soldier's experiences in World War two is countering a recent trend among historians to portray Germans as victims of the war.
Willy Peter Reese, an infantryman who fought on the Russian front and died in 1944 aged 23, kept a diary of how German soldiers killed scores of prisoners of war, committed rape, threw pregnant women and children out of their homes and stole food.
As the fighting wore on, indifference undermined the soldiers' discipline. ''Most numbed themselves with superficiality,...
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Obviously that is a simplistic characterisation, but some of the more imagination capturing, egregious cruelties such as Dirlewanger's were performed under the SS badge.
ITT: You have 15 seconds to prove to me that you exist.
>>333531
but i don't
>>333531
No, it's just you buddy.
>>333531
Pffft, like I need to prove anything to figments of my imagination.
Cool secret police practises thread. Pic related is a Stasi letter reglueing machine designed so that pre-read letters look undisturbed.
Man I wish I had something to add to this thread so it could live on. Perhaps your thread was too far ahead of its time. I hope I live to see the day when a thread like this grows to be epic bread
Stasi was GOAT at psychological terror, was there ever any organization that came even close to what they did? Everyone always seemed to use just physical torture.
I remember visiting one of their prisons/interrogation stations and the tour guide would tell us all kinds of stories, like how they'd intentionally make incomprehensible "bureaucratic" sounding nonsense as accusation so the accused didn't even understand what the fuck was going on and only get more confused/intimidated.
>>333280
Bridge of Spies made the East Germans look a lot more dickish than the Russians. The Russians in the movie did things, but they always had a point. The Stasi were just pointlessly cruel.
http://www.historyofmacedonia.org/AncientMacedonia/GreeceStealingMacedonianHistory.html
What are /his/ thoughts?
![disgust[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/XUt9NI0.jpg "disgust[1].jpg")
>>333263
>It is ironical
>>333263
>spoke Greek
>ruled Greeks
>Spread Greek culture
>Were in the Olympics
>not Greek
Nope, go back to your youtube comments balkan shit
>>333316
Alexander during a certain Greek's "trial" identified himself as Macedonian and not Greek.
Do you think people of very old times had developed advanced civilisations and destroyed themselves with wars thereby causing reboot of humanity?
>>333129
Yes, but the truth is contained within WS Burroughs Cities of the Red Night...
Of course not, fuck off.
>>333129
No, or we would find archaeological evidence.
If dinosaurs can fossilise and last 65 million+ years then an advanced human civilisation would have left behind shit loads.
>>333232
What if they used completely biodegradable materials?
>be me
>try to do some research on historical figures on google
>see this
Why is this allowed?
Fatebabbies ruin everything
This is now an anime thread
Post anime pink-haired girls
>>333140
