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What is the meaning of death?
To make way for new life.
Imagine if nothing died? We would be clogged up.
To die
All that begins must have an end.
Of which race(s) were the homeland Romans and ancient Italians?
>>1361889
Black.
>>1361889
thats a stupid question
South Italy was colonized by berbers at first when it was uninhabited, and migrants from the Fertile Crescent later. In central Italy there was Etruscans who were originate in Anatolia. Since Rome is in the middle of these, I guess there were not much different.
How should the understanding of free speech change when we realize that citizens have limitations on theie ability to recieve information?
There simply is no time and interest for most people to get really informed on a subject and it cannot be expected of them.
1)not all people can get informed enough on a subject to be able to reject false and dangerous ideas.
2)people have cognitive biases making them susepctible to certain persuasion tactics.
3)certain ideas, even when based on complete lies, can do and will cause certain idividuals to become violent and...
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In some sense the idea of completely free speech is akin to the idea of a completely unregulated market that will somehow sort itself out to the benefit of all.
The problem is that the final ideally sortned point of a market and the ideal point of a perfeclty informed citizenry never comes and the the road to this unreachable goal is full of fluctuations that endanger human life and property.
If that is your argument we should live the free market another look since unregulated speech is working out pretty well in the long term.
It's not practical to try to squelch free speech. Unless you have some omnipresent censor able instantly analyze and interpret the "value" of all speech everywhere, the most practical policy is to allow free speech except under certain explicit circumstances. Not to mention if your power in any way stems from the will of the people, and they resent heavy-handed censorship, you are taking a gamble they will put up with you. Now if your power doesn't stem from the will of the people, just prohibit all speech, I suppose.
>>1361912
Really? so isis spamming propoganda and persuading teens to go fight for it is ok? /pol/ neo nazi fabricated photographs and false quotes are ok?
This all results in violence.
In what sense is it working out? In the sense that we have not destroyed the human race?
I wanted to share a really neat essay connecting Stirner with Zen Buddhism. Let me know what you think!
http://www.sof-in-australia.org/Max%20Stirner%20and%20Zen.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTbzpSUUzLw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtXvDttcKgg
>>1361830
How did you come across this?
>>1362840
I did a Google search of "Stirner Buddhism" because I was curious.
So the eastern roman empire was basically latin/roman. Why did they become greek? Why didn't the greek start speaking latin instead?
The elites in Rome always spoke primarily Greek.
Greek held a lot more prestige in the eastern mediterranean
>>1361684
Because most of the Roman East was under Greek influence
Plus they considered Greek a noble language
A society's worth is ultimately determined by its ability to destroy other societies.
You know it's true.
>>1361639
>t. Benito Mussolini
No, it's generally determined by the qualify of their output in the humanities.
>>1361639
>society's worth
what do you mean?
What's your favorite aztec god?
>>1361562
Mictlantecuhtli, because he's metal as fuck
Fuck the aztecs, who /sevenmacawserialmurderers/ here
The goddess of literally hanging yourself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixtab
What if Kublai Khan's mongol invasions of Japan in either 1274 and 1281 weren't screwed over by a Typhoon and were successful in attacking the Japanese?
>>1361514
Kubilai was defeated in Burma, Vietnam and Indonesia without storms, so there's that.
>>1361718
But I'm pretty sure the Samurai that tried to fight them off barely survived their skirmish with Mongol invaders.
>>1361753
That was because silly nips were accustomed to dueling and calling out their opponents during war, not an all out melee free for all.
Did PTSD exist in ancient times? Kere there Aztec and Spartan and Persian warriors who witnessed the horrors of war, and just sort of became depressed and reclusive, or otherwise mentally messed up?
Woulda, for example, a warrior who was horrified at the sight of his comrades being chopped in half get a panic attack at the sight of a butcher slaughtering an animal? Just to make a sort of correlation to the picture here.
Or were warriors known for any kind of reclusion or depression after experiencing combat?
I would have to assume yes, since people werent...
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>>1361505
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDNyU1TQUXg
Not ancient, but here's some relevant Shakespeare:
Hotspur’s wife, Kate, was complaining about her husband’s regular involvement in mortal combats and his consequent odd behaviour:
O, my good lord, why are you thus alone?
For what offence have I this fortnight been
A banish’d woman from my Harry’s bed?
Tell me, sweet lord, what is’t that takes from thee
Thy stomach, pleasure and thy golden sleep?
Why dost thou bend thine eyes upon the earth,
And start so often when thou sit’st alone?
Why hast thou...
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>>1361505
I'm sure they did. It would have probably been less of a shock to them though as:
A. There were no explosives, gunpowder etc. War was on a more perceptible/manageable scale for the human mind, usually 1on1 combat.
B. The average person probably grew up a lot more exposed to combat and danger in general, compared to your average Westerner.
I still reckon they had something of the sort though.
Is this even a real book?
>>1361485
seems correct, kill the poor
its aesthetic
>>1361485
what is this about?
Is Mark Twain just the American version of Voltaire?
Do other cultures have a similar figure?
No
Mark Twain is better than Voltaire.
I am pretty sure Augusut Strinderg counts as one.
>>1361495
that just really goes to show how immensely shit Voltaire was
Doesn't anyone notice how the reason Rome fell was due to them allowing in millions of barbarian refugees and pandering to their needs, yet we do the same today?
>>1361445
>Doesn't anyone notice how the reason Rome fell was due to them allowing in millions of barbarian refugees
That's like saying the Soviet Union fell because journalistic freedom.
>>1361445
>>1361469
I think sandniggers and all the rest should fuck out of Europe as much as the next guy but this is a stupid argument
The Visigothic "refugees" were treated by shit like the Romans. They were pushed to the brink of starvation, and then they were forced to sell themselves or their children into slavery in exchange for food. Not really comparable to how Europe treats refugees today.
>>1361469
Either out of ignorance or intellectual dishonesty you are outright ignoring all of the political instability, economic turmoil, internal discord & ruinous military adventures that lead up the point and reducing your conclusion to a single factor.
Do you believe History is valid?
History is a circle.
>>1361399
it sure is
"My name is ASAC Hank Schrader and you can go fuck yourself"
What Watterson fails to take into account is that there are always competing interpretations of history.
He might be right in regards to say... a public school textbook, where the agenda & message will change with the times, but all the primary sources remain unchanged.
Whats the differnce between olympians and titans, are there different tiers of greek gods pr something?
>>1361366
Sorry for bad english in addvance
>>1361366
Less tiers and more generations. At least if you view something like the Theogony as a definitive view of Greek beliefs, then you have a notion that the original primal deities that created the universe are no longer in power and around, having been overthrown by their children, who were in turn overthrown by their children, and it's this third generation of deities who are in charge now. One of the big differences between Zeus and say, Cronos or Uranus is how he takes active steps to share power with the...
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Uranus and Gaia wets the first gods. Their children were the Titans, who overthrew them. The children of the chief Titan, Cronus, then overthrew the Titans. They are the Olympians, who are currently in charge, and rule from Mount Olympus.
Why did the Chinese youth want to destroy China's traditional culture during the Cultural Revolution?
Didn't they like the ethos of filial piety, obedience to authority, fraternity, male superiority, male philopatry and agnatic solidarity that is at the heart of Chinese culture?
I think all of that is very beautiful.
>>1361353
Communism is a project to persecute any other faith and philosophy, so temple smashing was going to happen just as church demolitions happened in Russia.
Mao and his thugs were interested in Legalism:
http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/China/Mao%20on%20Shang%20Yang.htm
People had to prove to others how much they loved Mao, otherwise they could be called reactionaries.
Given that the cultural revolution was first and foremost an attempt by Mao to consolidate and shore up power, i don't think was any coordinated intention to destroy traditional culture like that. Rather, Mao encouraged and incited student movements to remove supposed bourgeois values that were still subverting the communist party, in any way they deemed fit. Traditional culture just happened to be collateral damage in Mao's play to retain ultimate control of the communist party.
If you're asking what were the student's individual motivations, your...
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